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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: The New York Times, White House, Anwar al-Awlaki, Crime, Law and Justice, Eric Holder
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PASSINGS: Magic Slim, Cleotha Staples, Lou Myers, Donald Rutledge
Magic Slim Singer of Chicago blues Magic Slim, 75, whose ragged voice and punchy guitar riffs made him a symbol of Chicago blues, died Thursday in Philadelphia after surgery for a bleeding ulcer, according to his family. A younger contemporary of...
Tags: Christianity, Alzheimer's Disease, Lisa Bonet, Chicago Tribune, Muddy Waters
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Facebook gets more in your face
It's hard not to detect a whiff of desperation in Facebook's new please-don't-go interface, which is determined to keep people within the social network as long as it can. Facebook Home is intended to dominate Android smartphones, making Facebook your...Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Media Industry, Google Inc., Marketing, Glenn Close
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Standing up for Magic Johnson's gay son: Kobe Bryant's class act
In a week when the Rutgers men’s basketball coach was fired for, among other things, hurling gay epithets at his cowed players, how refreshing to see the professional basketball world, not always known for its tolerance, come a step closer to...
Tags: Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), HIV, Dodger Stadium
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Scoreboard: March 1
|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL| |Region 6A at Gettysburg| Championship, Chamberlain (20-1) vs. Cheyenne-Eagle Butte (13-8), 7 p.m. |Region 1B at Milbank| Championship, Summit (21-1) vs. Warner (21-1), 7 p.m. |HIGH SCHOOL BOYS&...Tags: Miami Heat, Adam Grant, Brian McGrattan, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Central Division (NHL)
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First Muslim congressman speaks at Arab organization fundraiser on April 20
Congressman Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to congress, and NYU's University Chaplain Imam Khalid Latif will be guest speakers at Emerge USA's Inspiring a New Generation benefit dinner at 6:30 p.m., April 20, at The Double Tree, 10100...
Tags: International Drive, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Five nostalgic books on baseball
My father, Bill Guilfoile, was a baseball executive for 40 years with the New York Yankees, the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Baseball Hall of Fame. He was also a compulsive reader, and it's no surprise that his favorite subject was the game that has...Tags: Lou Gehrig, Alzheimer's Disease, Pittsburgh Pirates, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Red Smith
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Report challenges tie between housing vouchers, crime
Renters' use of housing choice vouchers, more commonly known as Section 8 vouchers, long has worried communities that the arrival of voucher-holding tenants in a neighborhood will lead to crime and, eventually, lower property values. That's not true,...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Income, Public Housing
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'Happy Endings' star Casey Wilson hopes for more happy, no ending
Casey Wilson, one-sixth of the cast of ABC's unlucky-in-prime-time "Happy Endings," was in between shots on the show's Paramount lot last December when she started talking that charming yet depressing "our show is on the brink of cancellation and I'm...Tags: Casey Wilson, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Angelina Jolie, Sundance Film Festival, Entertainment
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Baseball books cover the bases
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...Tags: Bud Selig, Antitrust Issues, University of Oxford, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
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Horse-slaughter jobs embraced even in state where cowboys roam
ROSWELL, N.M. - Tim Sappington is ready to buy horses for Valley Meat Co., which is seeking to open the first U.S. horse slaughterhouse since 2007. Right now he's the only paid employee, and he puts his money where his mouth is. He eats horse meat....Tags: U.S. Congress, Russia, Dismemberment, Politics, Kentucky Derby
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Melody A. Cronin, attorney
Melody A. Cronin, a Baltimore attorney who was known for her pro bono work with the Wills for Heroes Foundation, died Sunday of acute myelocytic leukemia at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The Fells Point resident was 35.
"Mel was a quick-witted,...Tags: Timonium, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Ocean City
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