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A birth in Havana
The new father lit yet another cigarette with the still smoldering butt of his last one. Two more crushed smokes lay near his feet. "I'm so nervous right now," Jarniel, 27, said outside the maternity hospital where his first son was born early Monday....Tags: Baby Products, Economy, Business and Finance, Baby Products, Services and Shopping, Metal and Mineral
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'Prayers' just won't do
It's been a particularly grim and bloody month on one of the world's great killing fields -- the United States of America. On Friday, Los Angeles paused for the largest police funeral in its history when it buried Officer Randal Simmons, a 51-year-old...Tags: Ohio, Kentucky, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois University
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Tribune Co. chief Sam Zell interviewed by federal prosecutors in criminal probe of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Tribune reportersTribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell hired well-known defense lawyer Anton Valukas and was interviewed in January by federal prosecutors as a "potential witness" in the criminal investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the company...Tags: Baseball, Lawyers, Chicago Cubs, John F. Harris, Wrigley Field
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Hybrid showdown: 2010 Toyota Prius vs. 2010 Honda Insight
Among the handful of people who might actually enjoy seeing gasoline return to $4 a gallon, let's include marketing managers for the 2010 Honda Insight and 2010 Toyota Prius, a pair of all-new hybrids set to do battle this spring. They'll be successful...Tags: Honda, Car Engine Repair, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Vehicles, Politics
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Here's a look at movies coming out in 2009
Sentinel movie criticBy ROGER MOORE Sentinel movie critic Here's a look at films with scheduled 2009 release dates -- all dates are subject to change without notice. Feb. 6 Coraline (Focus) The latest animation from Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas) concerns a...Tags: Billy Crudup, Michael Landon, Megan Fox, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Vampires (supernatural entitiess)
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Food, Fuel, Famine
The Swampby Stephen J. Hedges U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, who travels to a world food security conference in Rome next week, laid out the Bush administration's strategy today for meeting the current worldwide crisis of rising food costs and shortages......Tags: Environmental Issues, Health, Agriculture, White House, Economy, Business and Finance
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Cheney: Tax cuts, security, game plan
The Swampby Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney - the "magic man'' of the Bush administration, in the words of the now-renowned Scott McClellan - stirred up the Republican faithful last night in New York, scene of the party convention that......Tags: Civil Unrest, Religion and Belief, Religious Conflicts, Parties and Movements, Manhattan (New York City)
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Rice's Rules of Engagement
The SwampBy Bay Fang Despite diligently ignoring each other at a United Nations-led conference on Iraq in Stockholm, Sweden, Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could not avoid getting into a bit of a public spat. At the meeting,......Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Politics, Political Systems, United Nations
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Clinton and sexism -- Not 'death knell'
The Swampby Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice......Tags: Social Issues, Virginia, Texas, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Bush: (Welcome) American in Paris
The Swampby Marc Silva There have been, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy gently put it today, a few "hiccups'' along the way in that long history of Franco-American relations. Must have been the "Freedom Fries.'' But you wouldn't have known that......Tags: Diplomacy, The New York Times, Death, Social Issues, National Government
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Obama: We need City Hall, not McCain
The Swampby John McCormick, updated with McCain response Sen. Barack Obama told a conference of mayors Saturday in Miami that he knows he will need to listen to them if he makes it to the White House, otherwise the snow in......Tags: Thomas Jefferson, White House, Barack Obama, John McCain, Richard M. Daley
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Black terror comments: 'Inappropriate'
The Swampby Jill Zuckman After telling Fortune magazine that a terror attack on the United States would be "a big advantage" for Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign, senior adviser Charles R. Black, Jr. was forced to recant the sentiment......Tags: Osama bin Laden, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Barack Obama, John McCain
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