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The Sun Remembers: April 14-20
April 20, 2002: The Ravens select Miami safety Ed Reed with their No. 1 pick (24th overall) in the NFL draft. It's the first time the club has failed to get a college player ranked among its top 15 choices. April 20, 1985: The Skipjacks, Baltimore's...
Tags: New York Knicks, Lacrosse, National Basketball Association, Cy Young Award, Memorial Stadium
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Rand Paul, MSNBC (tv network), Republican Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Theater review: 'Frost/Nixon' from Empty Spaces Theatre Co(llaboration)
If the political machinations of the Nixon administration had been as smartly executed as the Orlando production of Broadway play "Frost/Nixon," history well could have taken a very different course. Empty Spaces Theatre Co(llaboration) opened the first...
Tags: Celebrities, Frost Nixon (movie), Peter Morgan, Arts and Culture
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Jerry Brown's first day in Shanghai is heavy on ceremony
SHANGHAI, China -- Gov. Jerry Brown officially launched California's new trade and investment office here Friday, the first such office to open since the state shuttered a dozen outposts around the globe a decade ago. To celebrate the opening, and...
Tags: Entertainment, Jerry Brown, Shanghai (China), Government, Music Industry
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What 'the Iron Lady' forged
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television -- and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...
Tags: Google Inc., Sociology, Politics, Margaret Thatcher, Parties and Movements
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"The House I Live In" Explores the Toll Of Drugs and Harsh Sentencing
The House I Live In At Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, realartways.org, from Friday, March 15 through Thursday, March 21. Eugene Jarecki's wrenching documentary on our failed national War on Drugs, "The House I Live In," in some senses...
Tags: Justice System, Real Art Ways, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments
Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Armed Forces, Hospitals and Clinics, Staten Island (New York City), U.S. Army
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Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a man most at home on a battlefield
If the truculent titular warrior in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" has a parallel in American politics, it might be Richard Nixon — he who, in 1962, growled "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" after losing a bruising fight for the California...
Tags: Coriolanus (movie)
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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...
Tags: Susan Collins, George W. Bush, Sociology, Government, Olympia J. Snowe
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McManus: Following Rove's muddy path
President Obama owes Karl Rove a thank-you note. During last year's election campaign, Rove and other Republicans showed how federal tax law could be stretched to turn a political committee into a "social welfare" organization. These nonprofit...
Tags: George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Politics, Organizing for Action, Pension and Welfare
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Helen Hannah Campbell dies at 97; women's league baseball chaperon
As the chaperon of Michigan's Muskegon Lassies in the 1940s, Helen Hannah Campbell made sure the professional baseball players wore lipstick and properly modest uniform skirts in the "girls league" founded to keep ballparks filled while men were away at...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs, Sports
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Dueling over Watergate
In his March 1 Op-Ed article UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener criticized the Nixon Library's "Patriot, President, Peacemaker" exhibit for glossing over Watergate, which prompted former library docent Paul Carter to write in a letter published Wednesday:...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Libraries
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