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FROM ABBOTTABAD TO FULBRIGHT: Big things expected of Centre grad Jadoon
tkleffman@amnews.comWhen Ibby Jadoon receives his diploma today, Centre College will be saying goodbye to one of its best and brightest. Jadoon is a bonafide Big Man on Campus (Academic Division), having earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship and being chosen by his...Tags: Malaysia, Financial Aid, Osama bin Laden, Drugs and Medicines, Islam
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TV review: 'Manhunt' keeps Bin Laden hunt as real as possible
How many films about the search for and killing of Osama bin Laden can the market bear? The answer appears to be three — a bad one, a good one and now, a messy but provocative one. National Geographic Channel's docudrama "Seal Team Six" was...
Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Terrorism, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Osama bin Laden
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After Boston explosions, people rush to Twitter for breaking news
SAN FRANCISCO -- In an age of near instant communication, Twitter again became the world's town square as traffic to the service spiked minutes after the deadly Boston Marathon explosions. People rushed to Twitter for real-time information on fatalities...Tags: Hudson River, Media Industry, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., Entertainment
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Navy SEAL killed in training accident is identified
A Navy SEAL who died in a free-fall parachuting accident this week during training exercises in Arizona was identified as Brett David Shadle of Elizabethville, Pa. The accident happened on Thursday near the Pinal Airpark in Marana, Ariz., where military...Tags: Iraq, Jan Brewer, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Awards and Prizes
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'Zero Dark Thirty' a first draft of history ★★★★
To consider what director Kathryn Bigelow has accomplished in "Zero Dark Thirty," imagine the events depicted by the story if they'd been given the "Argo" treatment. Not to take anything away from that rousing true (-ish) story of hostages freed and...
Tags: Argo (movie), Central Intelligence Agency, Jennifer Ehle, Chris Pratt, Osama bin Laden
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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer: Torture 'clearly part' of finding Bin Laden
In some of his most expansive comments since his movie touched off a Washington firestorm, the screenwriter of "Zero Dark Thirty" defended his film as depicting torture accurately and said that a pending Senate investigation brought him "a chill." "We&...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Osama bin Laden, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Stephen Colbert, Entertainment
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Report: SEAL who killed Bin Laden is struggling in civilian life
The American raid to kill Osama bin Laden may be the most famous top-secret mission of all time, and the latest petal of secrecy was peeled away by Bin Laden's killer himself. On Monday, Esquire and the Center for Investigative Reporting co-released a...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Veterans Affairs, Osama bin Laden, Pension and Welfare, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Confusion swirls around Esquire story on Osama bin Laden's killer
The fog of Abbottabad strikes again. On Tuesday, confusion continued to swirl around Esquire magazine's cover story about the Navy SEAL who killed Osama bin Laden during the instantly legendary May 2011 raid on the terrorist leader's compound in...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Veterans Affairs, Osama bin Laden, Periodicals, Entertainment
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Land mine blast kills 2 polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A land mine blast killed two polio vaccination workers in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, the latest in a recent wave of violence involving healthcare teams trying to eradicate the disease in the South Asian nation. The blast...Tags: Explosions, Central Intelligence Agency, Islamabad (Pakistan), Islam, Diseases and Illnesses
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Richard M. Walden, Operation USA's charity buccaneer
Almost on impulse, almost 35 years ago, Richard M. Walden and a friend rounded up six tons of relief supplies and a jet to ferry them to Vietnamese boat people in Malaysia. Thus was Operation California — now Operation USA — born. A Times...
Tags: Relief and Aid Organizations, U.S. Department of State, Malaysia, Social Media, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011)
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Gunmen kill 5 anti-polio workers in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Five female anti-polio workers in Pakistan were slain Tuesday by gunmen on motorcycles, police said, on the second day of a three-day national immunization campaign. Four of the women were killed in Karachi, the nation's largest...
Tags: Karachi (Pakistan), Health Organizations, Jacob Zuma, Central Intelligence Agency, Islamabad (Pakistan)
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'Zero Dark Thirty' writer brings firsthand accounts to big screen
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.Watching the first scene of "Zero Dark Thirty" is a jarring experience. Sort of like having a bag pulled off your head to find yourself in a windowless room, surrounded by very serious people. "It's a controversial subject, to put it lightly. But nobody...Tags: Republican Party, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Academy Awards, Kathryn Bigelow, Central Intelligence Agency
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