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'Star Wars' today: What would Reagan do?
President Reagan stunned fellow citizens and the world 30 years ago this month with a dramatic announcement that the United States would develop and deploy a system capable of intercepting and destroying strategic ballistic missiles. Like President...
Tags: Moscow (Russia), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, Missile Systems, North Korea
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Young woman helps bring chess to new Chicago audiences
For RedEyeCheckmate, Chicago. Thanks in part to the daughter of Russian immigrants, bar theme nights and the rise of nerd culture, chess is shedding its image as a game for old men in the park or geeky social outcasts. "I think already with this generation, we'...Tags: Social Issues, Immigration, Game Playing, Rogers Park, Chess Playing
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Van Cliburn dies at 78; pianist who gave U.S. a Cold War victory
After a tense decade of air raid sirens, duck-and-cover drills and fears of Soviet superiority, hope for America came in an unlikely form in the late 1950s: a lanky, 23-year-old Texan with a head full of curls and huge hands that ranged across a piano...
Tags: Justice System, Moscow (Russia), Entertainment, Music, Heroism
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Van Cliburn, pianist 'who conquered Russia,' dies at 78
Van Cliburn, a little-known pianist who in 1958 dazzled the music world by winning an international piano competition in Moscow, died Wednesday of bone cancer at his home in Fort Worth, Texas, said his publicist, Mary Lou Falcone. A child prodigy,...
Tags: Moscow (Russia), Entertainment, Music, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Elvis Presley
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Van Cliburn was a Cold War cultural ambassador
Van Cliburn, the lanky Texan pianist who died Wednesday at 78, was an unofficial cultural ambassador for the United States during much of the Cold War. His win at the 1958 International Tchaikovsky competition in Moscow made him a beloved musical figure...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Moscow (Russia), Entertainment, Music, Ronald Reagan
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Nagorno-Karabakh: Old conflict is neither gone nor forgotten
Sporadic sniper fire over sandbagged trenches that separate Armenians and Azerbaijanis across the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh has been a routine feature of daily life throughout the 19 years that the two sides have grudgingly observed a cease-...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, Azerbaijan, Wars and Interventions, Turkey
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Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after...
Tags: Entertainment, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Music, PBS (tv network), World War II (1939-1945)
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Dave Brubeck: A jazz icon who reached a massive audience
Dave Brubeck changed the sound of jazz in profound ways, unexpectedly becoming something of a pop star in the process. Starting in the mid-1950s, in fact, he emerged as a symbol of jazz in America, and well beyond, gracing the cover of Time magazine...
Tags: Entertainment, Duke Ellington, Ornette Coleman, Religion and Belief, Minority Groups
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Gorbachev, railing against capitalism, sounds a lot like Obama
Less than a week before the U.S. election, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev berated America and all but endorsed the sitting president and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner at an event I attended in Houston. Speaking last Thursday from a...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, Nobel Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Annual wreath-laying ceremony focuses on the 'forgotten war'
julieg@herald-mail.comSpeaking about the war often referred to as the “forgotten war,” Hagerstown-area resident Les Bishop said the Korean War was one of the most significant events of the previous century and deeply affected the communist movement. Bishop was the...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Nations, National Security Agency, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Political Systems
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The Crowd: A Russian night for Beckstrand Cancer Foundation
She did it again. Lil Spitzer, executive director of the Beckstrand Cancer Foundation, produced what many called "the party of the year" Oct. 13 in the Hangar at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Spitzer joined forces with community...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Daniela Ruah, The Bold and the Beautiful (tv program) , Entertainment, Moscow (Russia)
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Founder of Unification Church Rev. Sun Myung Moon dies
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass weddings -- died early Monday in South Korea, the church...
Tags: Japan, London School of Economics, U.S. Department of State, Diseases and Illnesses, Religion and Belief
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