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Russert: One of TV news' Top 10
The Swampby Michael Tackett and Mark Silva With the sudden passing of Tim Russert, chief of the Washington bureau for NBC News and longtime host of Meet the Press, television journalism has lost one of its all-time greats. Russert, 58, was,......Tags: Tim Russert, Walter Cronkite, White House, David Brinkley, Social Issues
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Bush lawyer: Obama was 'honest broker'
The Swampby James Oliphant Bradford Berenson is a former White House lawyer in the Bush administration who also served with Barack Obama on the Harvard Law Review in 1991, when Obama was president of that publication. His comments for the PBS......Tags: National or Ethnic Minorities, White House, Social Issues, Philosophy, Arts and Culture
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PBS Just Gave You...Everything
The TV ZoneThis you have to see, and I suggest that you see it right now: Pbs.org. And click on video. Or, if you prefer, go here... Pretty much the entire visible universe of the Public Broadcasting Service has just been......Tags: Public Relations, Lost (tv program)
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'Snitch,' starring Dwayne Johnson, is capably noirish ★★★
Large, in charge and nobody's little Margie: Dwayne Johnson takes on the drug kingpins in "Snitch." Place your bets! "Snitch" comes from a story told in a "Frontline" documentary about the post-Reagan-era injustice of mandatory minimum sentencing for...
Tags: Benjamin Bratt, Jon Bernthal, Dwayne Johnson, Susan Sarandon, LSD
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A new GOP, or just a cosmetic touchup?
Maybe the party is finally over. Meaning not simply the Grand Old Party, but more specifically the bacchanal of the bizarre and carnival of crazy to which it has lately devolved. So obvious has this devolution become that even Republican stalwarts...
Tags: Karl Rove, Elections, Sarah Palin, Philosophy, Herman Cain
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Reckoning With Emotions' Powerful Political Pull
The Hartford CourantDuring Wednesday's debate on new gun laws, Sen. John Kissel rose and began a lengthy set of remarks with two anecdotes. First, the Enfield Republican spoke movingly of hugging his youngest son, Tristan, on the day of the Newtown massacre, one day before...Tags: West Hartford, Michael A. McLachlan, Al Gore, National Rifle Association of America, Interior Policy
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Rahm Emanuel, Laws, Garry McCarthy, Interior Policy
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Faces, some masked, of Anonymous
Two years ago in December, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal cut off all financial services to WikiLeaks. This left the controversial website blocked off from accepting online donations — a state of affairs that did not sit well with members of the...
Tags: Chevy Chase, Fiction, Justice System, National Geographic Channel (tv network), Arts and Culture
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Mediators try to make streets a little less mean
![In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national political level.This is why every member of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the White House and the tea party, let alone anybody simply interested in meeting some complicated and remarkable Chicagoans, should see the film. It chronicles genuine conflict resolution that appears to get results — politically savvy, consensus-building results — one difficult day at a time.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-08/63912592-11211439.jpg "In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters\" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national political level.This is why every member of the U.S. House, the U.S. Senate, the White House and the tea party, let alone anybody simply interested in meeting some complicated and remarkable Chicagoans, should see the film. It chronicles genuine conflict resolution that appears to get results — politically savvy, consensus-building results — one difficult day at a time.")
In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national political level....Tags: Cholera, Drug Trafficking, Abusive Behavior, Hoop Dreams (movie), Social Issues
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Goldberg: Obama, abroad, is adrift
Since President Obama has been having a rough time lately, let me belatedly congratulate him on his apparently successful policy of regime change in Libya. Initially, I favored a more robust and decisive intervention when Obama seemed to dither, and then...Tags: NATO, Terrorism, Massacres, Libya, PBS (tv network)
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Daum: Sept. 11 and the impulse to pay tribute
![Not that you needed reminding, but Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Around the world, memorials will be held, prayers said, tears shed. President Obama has called on the nation to "reaffirm the strength of our nation with acts of service and charity." Mozart's Requiem will be performed in countless venues.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-09/64564261-07180405-187104.jpg "Not that you needed reminding, but Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Around the world, memorials will be held, prayers said, tears shed. President Obama has called on the nation to "reaffirm the strength of our nation with acts of service and charity.\" Mozart's Requiem will be performed in countless venues.")
Not that you needed reminding, but Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Around the world, memorials will be held, prayers said, tears shed. President Obama has called on the nation to "reaffirm the strength of our nation with...Tags: Human Interest, Long Island, World War II (1939-1945), Michael Jackson, CNN (tv network)
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Obama's border blues and 2012
It may not rank high in polls of voters' priorities compared to jobs and the economy, yet immigration has taken on a central role in the 2012 presidential campaign drama. Republican presidential debates have been a contest to see who can sound more...Tags: Prisoners and Detainees, Drug Trafficking, Clarence Page, Migration, Social Media
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