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BWI airport becomes art gallery to celebrate human rights
Some of the bravest people in the world can be found at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport.
Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic. Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. The Dalai Lama.
These and many other figures are featured in a photo exhibit organized to...Tags: Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, Arts and Culture, Robert F. Kennedy, Military Equipment, Biography (genre)
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Putin returns, and so does a Cold War mentality
Now that Vladimir Putin is Russia's president once again, the result of still another fraudulent election, we should expect ever more hostile relations with Moscow. Mr. Putin, a vain and vulgar man, was born and bred to despise the United States. And...
Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Moscow (Russia), François Hollande, Television Industry
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For the Record
August Wilson: The May 18 story “South Coast's ‘Jitney' starts 4-week run Friday” incorrectly said August Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for “Jitney.” The playwright did win two Pulitzer awards in his lifetime, but none for...Tags: August Wilson, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes
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R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel
Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, around Hyde Park, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering...
Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, University of Chicago, Facebook
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Tough on crime, tough on justice
So the people got sick of it, all those criminals being coddled by all those bleeding heart liberal judges with all their soft-headed concern for rights and rehabilitation. And a wave swept this country in the Reagan years, a wave ridden by pundits and...
Tags: Aspirin (drug), Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Theft, The Miami Herald, Entertainment Events
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Mike McGrady, journalist behind sexy bestselling hoax, dies at 78
In the summer of 1966, Newsday columnist Mike McGrady threw down the gauntlet to a trusted coterie of fellow journalists: Produce a novel so poorly written and relentlessly focused on sex that it would fly off bookstore shelves. Two dozen colleagues,...Tags: Journalism, CBS Corp., Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, New York City, U.S. Army
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Philip Roth to headline National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Federal judge blocks National Defense Authorization Act provision
In a stunning turnaround for an act of Congress, a judge ruled Wednesday that a counterterrorism provision of the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual defense appropriations bill, is unconstitutional. Federal district Judge Katherine B. Forrest...
Tags: Defense, Laws, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, National Defense Authorization Act
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Swift donates $4 million
Swift donates $4 million Taylor Swift, the country superstar who became a professional songwriter at 14 and released her first album at 16, is kicking in $4 million toward the creation of a new education center that will bear her name at the Country...Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Entertainment, Murray Cook, Arts and Culture, Classical Music (genre)
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Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th... -
Bookmark: Cover hides what's really inside
Her publisher surely meant well, but the cover of Anne Tyler's new novel "The Beginner's Goodbye" (Knopf) is all wrong. The cover — a pair of elegant cups and saucers displayed against a doily-white background — might reasonably be...Tags: Fiction, William Hurt, Demi Moore, William Trevor, Arts and Culture
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Best-sellers
HARDCOVER FICTION 1. "11th Hour" by James Patterson & Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown, $27.99). In the newest "Women's Murder Club" book, Lindsay Boxer must figure out who is burying bodiless heads in the garden of a famous actor. Last week: — 2....Tags: John Irving, Korean War (1950-1953), Toni Morrison, Madeleine Albright, Lyndon B. Johnson
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