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Ashley Dupre: From prostitute-to-politicians to, uh, paid journalist
Top of the TicketEliot Spitzer's high-paid gal pal now writes advice for the New York Post, founded by Alexander Hamilton.... -
New York Film Critics Circle members respond to Mo'Nique's snub
Gold DerbyMembers of the New York Film Critics Circle are responding on the record to news that Mo'Nique will not attend their awards ceremony on Jan. 11 to accept her supporting-actress prize for "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire." On Friday, one... -
'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: French Literature, New York, Parties and Movements, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Death
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Kentucky's archaic dueling law suggests a solution for modern gridlock in Obama's Washington
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Michael Hiltzik: The real fraud in 'waste, fraud and abuse'
Money & CompanyTelevision isn't the only thing to blame for our reliance on slogans to make political campaign points -- the deceptive sound bite is at least as old as Alexander Hamilton. What's different today, especially in a state like California where...... -
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![<span class="dropcap_large">T</span>he day Andrés Alonso dreaded came the Friday before Thanksgiving.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-02/44979346-10142858.jpg "<span class="dropcap_large\">T</span>he day Andrés Alonso dreaded came the Friday before Thanksgiving.")
The day Andrés Alonso dreaded came the Friday before Thanksgiving.
For his first year and a half as Baltimore schools chief, the system was showing unprecedented progress. Four decades of enrollment decline ended. Test scores were their best since the...Tags: Family, Crimes, Booker T. Washington, Gloria Estefan, PTA
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UPDATE: Board Votes to Close Kentwood School
Staff reporterThe Kentwood Public School Board has approved a plan to save the district money by closing Alexander Hamilton Elementary School. The vote was unanimous at Monday night's board meeting. The decision means 152 positions are expected to be eliminated; 58 of...Tags: Elections, Paul Doyle
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HBO Inaugurates 'John Adams' in March
Zap2It.comThe long-awaited "John Adams" miniseries has a premiere date at HBO. The seven-part miniseries will debut Sunday, March 16, a week after the series finale of "The Wire." Parts one and two will air back-to-back, with subsequent installments debuting on...Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Thomas Jefferson, Rufus Sewell, Elizabeth I
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'The Lincoln Highway' by Michael Wallis and Michael S. Williamson
Special to The TimesTHE road trip is an essential American experience that has inspired books, movies and television programs, including "The Grapes of Wrath," "Route 66" and "Thelma & Louise." More than a decade before the building of the Mother Road — Route 66, which...Tags: Restaurants, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Dining and Drinking, Ohio, Passenger Cars
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Presidents -- the good and the bad
We tend to lionize or demonize our presidents. It would be tough to find many Abraham Lincoln detractors -- or, for that matter, many Warren G. Harding fans. But even our greatest heroes occasionally failed, and the worst presidents could boast of some...Tags: African Americans, Thomas Jefferson, William McKinley, Richard Nixon, Constitutional Issues
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Transcript of Republican presidential debate in Simi Valley
This is a Rush transcript. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: And welcome to the Ronald Reagan presidential library in Simi Valley, California, here from the majestic Air Force One Pavilion. I'm...Tags: Consumer Confidence, Connecticut Economic Development, Foreclosures, Political Candidates, National Security
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The long history of 'loyalty oaths'
As Geoffrey R. Stone described in his March 11 Op-Ed article, "Loyalty oaths fail the test of democracy," Marianne Kearney-Brown, a California public school teacher and a Quaker, was fired over her objection to California's requirement that all public...Tags: Employees, Crimes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Coup d'Etat, Thurgood Marshall
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