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Review: 'A Fierce Green Fire' recounts environmental struggle
A kind of crash course in 50-plus years of environmentalism, the documentary "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet," adapted from the book by Philip Shabecoff, proves a worthy reminder of how much has been done to help heal our planet's...
Tags: Greenpeace, Earth Day, Ashley Judd, Entertainment, Meryl Streep
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Letters: Watergate says a lot about Nixon
Re "Dueling over Watergate," Postscript, March 9 Few people touch on the single element of the Watergate scandal that I consider the most serious. Though I doubt that Richard Nixon knew about the break-in beforehand, his White House fostered an...Tags: Theft, Abraham Lincoln
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Garry Wills: a devout critic
A political conservative turned liberal, lifelong Roman Catholic and world-class curmudgeon, Garry Wills has called President Barack Obama a disappointment and Pope Benedict XVI irrelevant — and that was before the pontiff announced his resignation....
Tags: Christianity, Religious Education, G.K. Chesterton, John Wayne, Journalism
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Romney inadvertently shows why he lost
Defeated presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who helped do himself in with his closed-door characterization of nearly half of all Americans as content to live off federal handouts, wasted no time doubling down on the theory. He did so in a conference call...Tags: Government, Republican Governors Association, Bobby Jindal, Republican Party, Elections
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Zhuang Zedong dies at 72; helped get 'pingpong diplomacy' rolling
It might have been a chance meeting or a cunning act of propaganda, but the encounter more than 40 years ago between two pingpong champions — one Chinese, the other American — launched what President Nixon would call "the week that changed the...Tags: Table Tennis, Communist Party of China, Newspaper and Magazine, Sports, Arts and Culture
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Congress stacked the deck against the Post Office
Recent news coverage of the U.S. Postal Service's proposal to end Saturday mail deliveries has focused mainly on the public's reaction to the change ("For mail carriers, Saturday routes roll on — for now," Feb. 10). What has scarcely been...Tags: Employees, George W. Bush, Politics, Career and Workplace, U.S. Postal Service
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Documentary spotlights civil rights pioneer
When we hear the name Whitney Young, most Chicagoans probably think of the city's Whitney M. Young Magnet High School, rather than the man after whom it was named. But filmmaker Bonnie Boswell, Young's niece, hopes her new documentary about the civil...
Tags: Sociology, Martin Luther King Jr., Unrest, Conflicts and War, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Lyndon B. Johnson
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Vietnam, 50 years on
HANOI, Vietnam -- It has been 50 years since President John F. Kennedy ordered U.S. "advisers" to South Vietnam to help battle the communist North and 37 years since the end of that divisive war and the country's unification under Communism. Today,...Tags: Missing in Action, Vietnam, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hanoi (Vietnam), Petroleum Industry
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The process behind Obama's State of the Union address
WASHINGTON -- The spotlight may be on President Obama tonight as he delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term, but his remarks mark the culmination of countless laborious hours spent fine-tuning his every word. With former head...
Tags: Jon Favreau, Tea Party Movement, Unions, White House, Republican Party
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Jan. 28 in History: Hostility over garbage collection rate increase
>> 50 Years Ago — A standing room only audience, including several high school students and out-of-town visitors, witnessed a spectacle Wednesday night. However, it did not take long for the obvious hostility between Mayor Herb Koenig, the city...Tags: Marketing, Prisons, U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Why does Obama keep his cabinet all-stars on the bench?
As his second term begins, President Barack Obama is in his comfort zone, surrounded by loyal lieutenants. What a contrast to the captivating candidate of 2008, who told Time Magazine's Joe Klein that as president he would be surrounded "by people who...Tags: Denis R. McDonough, Government, Arne Duncan, Shaun Donovan, National Economic Council
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Don't expect much — good or bad — from Obama's second term
A week after he won re-election, President Barack Obama said he was more than familiar with what the "literature" — the very use of the term cheered academics like me — says about re-elected presidents who over-reach during their second terms....Tags: Republican Party, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Monica Lewinsky, Elections, Ronald Reagan
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