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Bolt races into Olympics history
LONDON — Moments after providing track and field's enduring snapshot of the 2012 Olympics, Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt grabbed a news photographer's camera in the middle of his victory lap. The same lens had just been trained on Bolt as he...
Tags: Beijing Games, Elizabeth II, 2016 Olympic Games, Track and Field, Usain Bolt
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Caribbean odyssey a harrowing and humorous tale
"Jamaica, Farewell" a show title with a judiciously placed comma but very little in the way of a set or other trappings, is one woman's first-person story of her determination to leave the Caribbean island of her birth and find her way to a new life in...
Tags: Immigration, Government, Caribbean Islands, Politics, Joel Zwick
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Opening ceremony jolly good show
LONDON — In one of thousands of pubs across London, where surely tears mixed with laughter Friday night, they might say I was gobsmacked by the Olympic opening ceremony. In a more proper English teahouse, they might say I quite fancied that. All...Tags: England, Elizabeth II, Devin Hester, Usain Bolt, Chicago Bears
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Fabulous prizes promised in Allentown, but first fork over $333
Jane Shroads has written 11 books, has traveled quite a bit, was a journalist in Rochester, and taught English as a second language for 20 years in Florida. Her husband, Jim, is a pilot and was one of the aeronautical engineers who helped put men on the...Tags: Credit and Debt, Allentown, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)
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Scholars fix gaze on changing racial landscape
Laura Kina, 39, is half Asian-American and half white. Her husband is Jewish, and her stepdaughter is half Hispanic. Her family, including her fair-skinned, blue-eyed biological daughter, lives near Devon Avenue in the heart of Chicago's Indian and...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, World War II (1939-1945), Teachers, DePaul University, Religion and Belief
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He is (almost) legend
LONDON — We want him to be Superman. We knew him that way four years ago, when Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt emerged on the global sports stage and took world records and gold medals away from the Beijing Olympics with an ease that suggested he did...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Awards and Prizes, Justin Gatlin, Track and Field, Usain Bolt
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Clearing hurdles no obstacle for Riley
Andrew Riley agreed with a laugh that any race that needs more than the straightaway might as well be a marathon as far as he is concerned. That's why the University of Illinois 110-meter high hurdles champion never has tried the 400 hurdles. "I don't...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Wisconsin Badgers, College Sports, Education, Track and Field
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Jamaican icon gets a fitting doc tribute in 'Marley' ✭✭✭ 1/2
The musical and documentary vibes are very, very good in "Marley," director Kevin Macdonald's portrait of the reggae revolutionary born Robert Nesta Marley in Jamaica in 1945. Documentaries fully authorized by the subject's surviving family members are...
Tags: The Wailers (music group), Entertainment, Cancer, Marley (movie), Movies
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Did Yohan Blake just make it seem dopey to watch track?
Dare I say that Yohan Blake would have won the world title in the 100 meters last month even if Jamaican compatriot and defending champion and world record-holder Usain Bolt had not been disqualified for a false start?
That doesn't seem like such a risky...Tags: Daegu (South Korea), Track and Field
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Aerobics class planned Saturday
Zion Baptist Church’s Health and Fitness Ministry is sponsoring Move of God, Building God’s Kingdom with low-impact aerobics Saturday in the church’s parking lot starting at 8:30 a.m. The church is at 61 Bethel St. in Hagerstown. The...Tags: Health, Politics, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Clubs and Associations, Walnuts
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Honduras vs Mexico 2013 World Cup qualifier March 22 on Telemundo
Channel Guide MagazineSan Pedro Sula's Olympic Stadium in Honduras is the site for the World Cup qualifying match of Honduras vs Mexico on Friday, March 22, live at 4pm ET on Telemundo‘s Rumbo al Mundial. Andrés Cantor will call the play-by-play action, with analysis by....
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