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Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia
The Hartford CourantDeb Sokolow's 'Some Concerns About the Candidate' 'Something about this doesn't feel right." These are the words of an anonymous narrator, who's keeping a journal about participating in a political campaign. Within weeks of enthusiastically joining...Tags: Politics, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Northwestern University, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald
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Recuerdos de Ronald Biggs
En la década de 1980, el periodista uruguayo Homero Alsina Thevenet escribió dos libros llamados "Una Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles" y "Segunda Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles". En ellos recopilaba miles de datos, contaba historias con un estilo mordaz y,...Tags: Charles Manson, Interpol, Sex Pistols (music group)
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Feeling the stress of the job
Flat-screen monitors cast soft light on work consoles as casually dressed staffers fielded calls on a recent afternoon at Tri-Com Central Dispatch, the 911 call center serving central Kane County. Inside the single-story center in west suburbanSt....
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Skittles joins food brands at center of tragedy
NEW YORK (AP) — It could've been Starbursts, Twizzlers or Sour Patch Kids. But when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, he happened to be carrying a bag of Skittles. The 17-year-old's death at the hands of a neighborhood watchman in February ignited...Tags: University of Notre Dame, Harvey Milk, U.S. Military, George Zimmerman, Mars, Inc.
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Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, reporter and editor
![Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2011-12/66471849-02113423-200250.jpg "Anthony O'Neill "Tony\" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.")
Baltimore Sun reporterAnthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Ellicott City, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Health, Loyola University Chicago, Diseases and Illnesses
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Anthony O'Neill 'Tony' Miller, reporter and editor
![Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66467955-02112517.jpg "Anthony O'Neill "Tony\" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.")
Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Ellicott City, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Health, Loyola University Chicago, John Steinbeck
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Barack's ready
SO WHY not Barack Obama? On his swing through New Hampshire last weekend, Obama drew rapturous crowds. But many pundits continue to assume that he'll be just a flash in the pan, sharing the fate of Howard Dean, the one-time Democratic hottie who flamed...Tags: Politics, Social Issues, Health, National Government, Upper House
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Daum: Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid'
Drunk any Kool-Aid lately? Or maybe you accused someone else of doing it? If so, congratulations, you're right in step with one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends. A snappy, fruit-flavored way of referring to someone who unquestioningly...Tags: Massacres, Valium (drug), Kim Kardashian, Ken Kesey, Cults and Sects
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Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad
Hacienda admits it made a mistake.
For the first time in the history of the South Bend-based restaurant company, billboards are being removed less than two weeks after Hacienda launched a new advertising campaign.
Hacienda has instructed a local...Tags: Politics, Human Interest, Periodicals, Cults and Sects, Education
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Don't 'go postal' over 'drinking the Kool-Aid' [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.Don't "drink the Kool-Aid," writes Meghan Daum in an Op-Ed column that urges readers to "ease up on a figure of speech arising from 1978's Jonestown massacre." She writes: [A]pparently unbeknown to just about everyone who uses the expression, "drinking...... -
Archive: Hell's Echo: The Jonestown Mass Suicide
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEditor's note: Nov. 18 marks the 30th anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy in which 913 people died in a ritual of mass suicide and murder at a cult compound in Guyana. This story was first published on the 25th anniversary of the massacre. OAKLAND -- On...Tags: Politics, Health, Drugs and Medicines, Cults and Sects, Defense
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Nearly 200 gather to dedicate Jonestown memorial in California
![<span style="font-size: small;">OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A new memorial has been dedicated to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-05/242715780-29231044.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A new memorial has been dedicated to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.</span>")
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A new memorial has been dedicated to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
The dedication came after a judge last week denied a motion seeking to block further use of the monument at the...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Crimes, California, Human Interest
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