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"The House I Live In" Explores the Toll Of Drugs and Harsh Sentencing
The House I Live In At Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St., Hartford, realartways.org, from Friday, March 15 through Thursday, March 21. Eugene Jarecki's wrenching documentary on our failed national War on Drugs, "The House I Live In," in some senses...
Tags: Judges, Substance Abuse, Real Art Ways, The House I Live In (movie), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments
Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...
Tags: Towson, World War II (1939-1945), Timothy Leary, St. Joseph Medical Center, Armed Forces
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Helen Hannah Campbell dies at 97; women's league baseball chaperon
As the chaperon of Michigan's Muskegon Lassies in the 1940s, Helen Hannah Campbell made sure the professional baseball players wore lipstick and properly modest uniform skirts in the "girls league" founded to keep ballparks filled while men were away at...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), Sports, Baseball, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, New York Yankees
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Shakespeare's Coriolanus is a man most at home on a battlefield
If the truculent titular warrior in Shakespeare's "Coriolanus" has a parallel in American politics, it might be Richard Nixon — he who, in 1962, growled "you won't have Nixon to kick around anymore" after losing a bruising fight for the California...
Tags: Coriolanus (movie)
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Goldberg: What 'the Iron Lady' forged
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...Tags: Politics, Social Sciences, United Kingdom, Republican Party, Sociology
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McManus: Following Rove's muddy path
President Obama owes Karl Rove a thank-you note. During last year's election campaign, Rove and other Republicans showed how federal tax law could be stretched to turn a political committee into a "social welfare" organization. These nonprofit...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Politics, George W. Bush, Parties and Movements, Organizing for Action
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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...
Tags: John D. Rockefeller IV, Government, Politics, Parties and Movements, George W. Bush
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Margaret Thatcher: The politician British pop music loved to hate
Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady, was one of God's gifts to music. In the history of popular music, there probably never has been a head of state more reviled in song than the former Conservative Party British prime minister, who died today at...Tags: England, Government, The Clash (music group), Politics, Music Industry
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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...Tags: Government, Memorial Day, World War II (1939-1945), Politics, Germany
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The right honey pot can be worth a pot of gold
Honey has a history going back to 2100 B.C. It is mentioned in some Babylonian writings. It was used for sweetening food, for medicine, for religious ceremonies and even as a form of money. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a special serving dish and...Tags: Major League Baseball, Tennis, Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants
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Dueling over Watergate
In his March 1 Op-Ed article UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener criticized the Nixon Library's "Patriot, President, Peacemaker" exhibit for glossing over Watergate, which prompted former library docent Paul Carter to write in a letter published Wednesday:...Tags: Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, Hugo Chavez, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Barack Obama
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Is Baltimore in love with the Orioles?
The Baltimore Orioles are back in town for their home opener on Friday, and this is the moment when newspaper editorialists generally wax poetic about baseball in spring, fathers and sons, the uncertain state of the national pastime and hope springing...
Tags: Stephen Strasburg, Baltimore Orioles, Ottawa Senators, Durham Bulls, World Series
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