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Second Amendment is not the only problem with the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is full of mischief. Bad guys often beat the rap, religious zealots can run amok, and citizens can deny entry to authorities who are only trying to find out what's being hidden. Worst of all, people are allowed to be self-reliant...Tags: Interior Policy, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Patrick J. Toomey, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Anne Frank and Emmett Till meet in AAPACT play
Staff WriterShe was not thinking of writing a play about Anne Frank and Emmett Till. Janet Langhart Cohen was just enjoying her life in Washington D.C.’s social whirl as the wife of former Secretary of Defense and U.S. Senator William S. Cohen. But she did,...Tags: Kensington, Langston Hughes, Anne Frank, Judaism, Emmett Till
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'Django Unchained' pays homage to Wagner's 'Siegfried'
When Los Angeles Opera presented its new production of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" a few years ago at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the packed house included the usual assortment of donors and local opera buffs. Nestled somewhere in the orchestra...
Tags: Kill Bill (movie), Django Unchained (movie), Melancholia (movie), Kerry Washington, Christoph Waltz
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The decline of terrorism
Our era is known as the Age of Terror, and no wonder. Twelve years ago, the United States suffered its worst terrorist attack ever, and since then, we have lived under the shadow of atrocities designed to frighten as well as kill. The bombs that went...
Tags: Timothy McVeigh, U.S. Congress, Bombings, Terrorism, Religion and Belief
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Part 2: History, grown locally
Historical societies perform a balancing act between preserving a community's past while connecting the threads to the current social fabric. This is the second in our two-part series on historical societies in Chicago and the suburbs. Ridge...
Tags: Washington Heights (Chicago, Illinois), Liposuction, Interior Policy, Arts and Culture, Ernest Hemingway
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Not so nice - Mike Rice
Finally, someone has agreed that it's not a good thing to have an adult coach belittle, verbally abuse, and denigrate his players by screaming explicative's, throwing balls at their heads and faces, and using homophobic slurs to describe their...Tags: National Basketball Association, Abusive Behavior, ESPN (tv network)
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Lakers' Week 17 in review
The week opened with the sad news that Lakers owner Jerry Buss had passed away. The NBA world responded with an outpouring of appreciation for Buss and his legacy. Jerry West said he was "blessed" to work for Buss. The Lakers will wear a commemorative...
Tags: Mitch Kupchak, National Basketball Association, Jerry Buss, Staples Center, Jordan Hill
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Birmingham 50 years later
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Carolyn McKinstry longed to visit the zoo. All Wash Booker wanted was a banana split from the lunch counter. In 1963, they were teenagers attending different high schools — black schools — in Birmingham....
Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Prisons, Religion and Belief, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning
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Hockey fans shown wearing KKK-style hoods to state semifinal
Officials are investigating a report that three high school hockey fans wore Ku Klux Klan-style hoods to a North Dakota state tournament semifinal game. A college student attending Friday night's game between Davies High of Fargo and Red River High at...
Tags: Winnipeg Jets, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Crime, Law and Justice, Calgary Flames, Ice Hockey
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Kardashians talk Amanda Bynes on their 'Chelsea Lately' takeover
Los Angeles TimesIn a bizarre twist of fate, the Kardashians are weighing in on Amanda Bynes' latest shenanigans. The reality TV family — mom Kris Jenner and Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian — took over E!'s late-night reality show "Chelsea Lately"...Tags: Khloe Kardashian, Amanda Bynes, Nickelodeon (tv network), All That (tv program) , Kim Kardashian
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Dodger great Carl Erskine: Pitching equality
Jackie Robinson changed baseball and the nation that loves it on April 15, 1947, when he became the first black player to walk onto a major league ball field. He changed Carl Erskine's life in March 1948, when Robinson, by then a Brooklyn Dodgers star,...
Tags: Court Preliminary, World Series, Cultural Development, Martin Luther King Jr., Crime, Law and Justice
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Don't play into a paranoid conservative narrative
Are Roman Catholics, evangelical Christians and “ultra-Orthodox” Jews religious extremists comparable to the Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda? Yes, according to a PowerPoint slide that was apparently used by the U.S. Army Reserve in a training...
Tags: Hamas, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Religion and Belief, Belief and Faith, Arts and Culture
Apr 20, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| SFL
Apr 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 18, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 12, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Apr 16, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Feb 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 9, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 24, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 9, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Apr 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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