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McManus: Republican 'autopsy' reveals a divide in the party
It's never too early to start thinking about the next presidential race — especially if you're a political party that has managed to lose the popular vote in five of the last six elections, as the Republican Party has. Hence the remarkable...
Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Government, Elections, Immigration
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Olympia Dukakis, John Douglas Thompson Star In 'Mother Courage'
Hartford CourantOver at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. the main stage shows presented in repertory are: Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “Richard II” and Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her...Tags: Olympia Dukakis, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre
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'Hog butcher for the world'
![The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68200893-18153110-187105.JPG "The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world.\" That came a year earlier, when \"hog alley\" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.")
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: The New York Times, Democratic Convention (1968), Livestock Farming, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Thomas Pynchon
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Christa Wolf relives a public scandal in the novel 'City of Angels'
-------------------- City of Angels Or, The Overcoat of Dr. Freud A Novel Christa Wolf Translated from the German by Damion Searls Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 316 pp., $27 -------------------- Christa Wolf's final book, "City of Angels, or, The...
Tags: Literature, Health and Medical Professionals, Arts and Culture, Psychologists, Germany
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Questions of motherhood, and class, in 'Chalk Circle'
"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" Long before legal and ethical complications surrounding surrogacy and adoption, not to mention the thorny class implications of paid child care, entered the picture, playwright Bertolt Brecht took a wide-lens shot of the...
Tags: Politics, Government, Arts and Culture, World War II (1939-1945), Executive Branch
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Student news
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Catherine Wolf of Hagerstown was named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at Lynn University. Wolf is a senior in the College of Education. She is the daughter of Bruce and Kristin Wolf of Hagerstown. SEARCY, ARK. ...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Education, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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What's Coming in 2013 at the Yale Cabaret
The Yale Cabaret has announced its spring season. The fall semester was a wallop of fresh styles, intense performances and surprising script choices (especially in the case of the stylistically provocative Iranian piece White Rabbit, Red Rabbit, where...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Arts and Culture, Yale Cabaret
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Olympia Dukakis To Star In "Mother Courage" This Summer
Hartford CourantOlympia Dukakis was a smash in the title role of “The Tempest” last summer at Shakespeare & Company at Lenox, Mass. in the Berkshires. This summer the actress will star in Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage and Her Children.”...Tags: Olympia Dukakis, Celebrities, Angela Lansbury, Estelle Parsons, James Earl Jones
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Grammy, Pulitzer winners, TV star among highlights of upcoming Zoellner season
Lehigh Valley MusicA Grammy Award-winning trumpeter, the world premiere of a song cycle based on poems by Carl Reiner’s daughter, dazzling international dance ensembles, circus arts and perhaps America’s premier storyteller will highlight the 16th season of... -
Album review: Fiona Apple's 'The Idler Wheel ...'
Pop & HissYou learn a lot about Fiona Apple by what she chooses to reveal in the lyrics to her new album, “The idler wheel is wiser than the driver of the screw and whipping cords will serve you more than ropes...... -
Yale Grad Bryce Pinkham Plays The Bad Guy In 'Ghost'
The Hartford CourantDa'Vine Joy Randolph isn't the only recent Yale School of Drama grad in the spotlight in the Broadway musical,"Ghost," based in the 1990 hit film. Bryce Pinkham, who graduated in 2008 just as Randolph was entering the three-year program, is cast in the...Tags: To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Celebrities, Arts and Culture, Concerts, Hartford Stage
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