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Garcetti has a side commitment: the U.S. Naval Reserve
If he manages to get elected, Eric Garcetti may be the first mayor of Los Angeles who slips away for a little clandestine activity at a secret locale — and doesn't mind if his constituents find out about it. The city councilman and mayoral...Tags: International Military Interventions, U.S. Congress, World War I (1914-1918), Wars and Interventions, Jeff Gorell
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Jury duty and the inconvenience of being a citizen
Nothing, besides the approach of a snowstorm or a rush-hour fender-bender on the Beltway, elicits more groans from Baltimoreans than the summons to jury duty, and I'm not sure why, except that we like to bellyache about stuff. When you think about it,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, University of the District of Columbia
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More than 200 attend gun rally in Chambersburg
roxann.miller@herald-mail.comStanding below the steps of the Franklin County Courthouse at courthouse plaza, 250 people rallied in support of their right to bear arms at Saturday’s Second Amendment Freedom Rally in Chambersburg. Some held “Don’t Tread on Me”...Tags: Franklin (New London, Connecticut), Daniel Bongino, Justice and Rights, Franklin County (Pennsylvania), Rentals
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Building bridges between Mexican and Mexican American art
Mexican art and Mexican American art often have treated each other more like strangers or distant cousins than like the fraternal twins they really are. In the United States, apart from in California and the Southwest, many museums and art professionals...Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Fine Artists, Standards
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Authors, Bashar Assad, Iran
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This weekend: 'Mad Men' returns; Melissa McCarthy hosts 'SNL'
Staff writerThe Final Four will be the biggest sporting event this weekend, but the entertainment industry has some big events, too: 1. Has Don Draper lost his mojo? "Mad Men" sets off that alarm when season six starts at 9 p.m. Sunday on AMC. The advertising drama...Tags: Lady Antebellum (music group), Eric Church, CBS Corp., Michael Feinstein, Mad Men (tv program)
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Forget the revolution, there's a home game
I grew up in the 1950s in a sports-deprived area of southeast Georgia. Except for a not-so-close and generally unnoticed Georgia Florida league baseball farm team, there was no major league baseball, football or basketball. Sports meant cow pasture...
Tags: Rentals, Johns Hopkins University, Sociology, Sports, Martin Luther King Jr.
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What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?
Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...
Tags: Weaponry, Lakes and Ponds, Wars and Interventions, Heart Failure, Physiology
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Sequester vs. social justice: What would RFK do?
With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago, when I was an intern in his Senate office. The nation was going through a difficult time in 1967. America was deeply split over civil rights and the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
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Hagel suggests thinning the top ranks
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel was taking questions at Fort McNair on Wednesday after his first major speech as defense secretary when a man rose to ask about his recent comments on North Korea. "I was misquoted again," Hagel blurted out, without saying what...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Military Equipment, Iran's Nuclear Program, North Korea
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George R. Bartles, 82
George Richard Bartles, 82, of Hagerstown, Md., died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Golden Living Center. Born March 12, 1931, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Herman S. and Mary Catherine Hamby Bartles. He was preceded in death by his first wife,...Tags: International Military Interventions, American Legion, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Korean War (1950-1953)
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'Gatekeepers' a powerful film about terrorism
“The Gatekeepers” offers an informative yet impassioned look at the tensions that have made the two-state solution — in which Israelis and Palestinians would live as neighbors, not adversaries — an elusive goal. Director Dror...Tags: Palestine, Errol Morris, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Movies, Wars and Interventions
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