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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Firearms, U.S. Senate, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Psychology
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Terrorists and the Constitution
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., proposes that if and when Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is captured, he be held as an "enemy combatant" so he can be interrogated without the constitutional protections afforded to criminal suspects. He's talking about an American...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Criminals
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Future bride says "I don't" to Pastor-Dad
Dear Amy: I am getting married next summer to a wonderful man. During the planning it has come to my attention that my fiance would very much like his father, a minister, to officiate our wedding. I am opposed to this because I would like his father to be...
Tags: Wedding Products and Services, Family, Peru, Services and Shopping, Human Interest
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On A Trip Abroad, Finding A Bridge Back
The Hartford CourantA letter to the Irish Times Wednesday was headlined "Name for the new Liffey bridge" The body of the letter consists of "Sir — The suspension is killing me. — Yours, etc. Tom Gilsenan." Bravo, Tom. You've done your duty as an Irishman. You'...Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin (Ireland), Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Google Inc.
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VA trying to move faster on benefits claims
Our government historically has armed soldiers with the technology necessary to succeed on the battlefield, enabling them to topple targets like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Washington finally is recognizing the importance of technology on the home...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Electronics, Science and Technology, Eric Shinseki, Northampton County (Pennsylvania)
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How the unassimilated are transformed into terrorists
If you're the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it's like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, Islam
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Rachel Patron: GOP having real trouble recognizing real world
The GOP agonistes. It's a Greek word portraying someone's agonizing journey to find themselves. Last week Rush Limbaugh said — I paraphrase — this country is conservative. More people in the United States espouse conservative...Tags: Elections, John McCain, U.S. Army, Government, Executive Branch
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From Afghanistan to Montana: War vets find solace fly-fishing in a new documentary
In the affecting new documentary "Not Yet Begun to Fight," a sound engineer is caught on film asking for a cigarette from one of the film's subjects, a Marine corporal from Evansville, Ind., named Erik Goodge, who lost an eye when he was wounded in...
Tags: The Hurt Locker (movie), Science and Technology, Smash (tv program), Injuries and Wounds, Circumstance (movie)
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A war veteran comes home to a strange world
An intensely conceptual play like "Luther" (not the John Osborne play, nor the BBC America thriller, but a new work from New York by Ethan Lipton) relies on an audience buying its central metaphor. In this instance, that metaphor takes the form of a...
Tags: BBC, Arts and Culture
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Arundel follies, Dwyer's drinking, Ravens on the wrist
All the world's a stage, especially Anne Arundel County. It has produced, far and away, the best shows of the season: a County Council member sent to prison, followed by a long squabble over his replacement; a congenial county executive charged with being...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage, Maryland General Assembly, Republican Party
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Irish task at hand: Forget history, focus on present
Before quarterback Carlyle Holiday took two steps into the campus bookstore that Monday morning 10 years ago after a big road victory made his team 8-0, he realized this would be no ordinary week. Not at Notre Dame, where almost everybody majors in...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Florida State University, Holidays, Sports, Football
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'Tent to Tent': Homeless veterans' stories may play out on stage
About one in five homeless Central Floridians once wore our country's colors. Vets such as Loretta White. She's among the 62,000 or so vets who pray the Obama administration's bid to end homelessness by 2015 is a more unequivocal win than the Iraq and...
Tags: Winter Springs, Sanford, Abusive Behavior, Social Issues, Seminole State College
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Feb 7, 2013
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Jan 16, 2013
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Nov 1, 2012
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May 6, 2013
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