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Cronkite
The TV Zone(AP) Back, gang, to sober news: The death of an old and cherished acquaintance. Sorry for this late post, but due to circumstances beyond my immediate control - I have been away and the good people at Newsday.com are......Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, NASA, Ted Turner, Television Industry, Walter Cronkite
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Tom Ridge: 'Security or politics?'
The Swampby Mark Silva Tom Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, a post and bureaucracy created under the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11, says in a forthcoming book that other members of the former president's Cabinet pressured him......Tags: George W. Bush, International Military Interventions, Heads of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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Mary (Peter and Paul) Travers, Bitter End
The Swampby Mark Silva Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee, Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy......Tags: Family, Noel Stookey, International Military Interventions, The Associated Press, Music
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'Silent majority:' Health care coming
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been quite some time since we heard from "the silent majority.'' It was then-President Richard Nixon who maintained, 40 years ago, that there were a lot of Americans who did not sympathize with all the protests......Tags: International Military Interventions, Government Health Care, Richard Nixon, Wars and Interventions, Government
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'Kerry Principle:' Obama's non-fatal flaw?
The Swampby Mark Silva This afternoon, President Barack Obama will walk onto a TV set in New York for a taping of the Late Show with David Letterman, the first appearance of a sitting president on Letterman's late-night show and the......Tags: New York, Heads of State, White House, Medicare, John Kerry
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Nobel Peace Prize: Gandhi never won it
The Swampby Mark Jacob With a Chicagoan -- President Barack Obama -- winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, it's fitting to take a deeper look at the world's most famous awards for peaceful human achievement. The fact that they were founded......Tags: University of Chicago, Applied Science, Cancer, Nobel Prize Awards, Medical Research
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Afghanistan another Vietnam?
The Swampby Mark Silva "This is not Vietnam in many respects," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a reported interview during his latest trip to Afghanistan. "We are here in Afghanistan because people attacked us here in the most significant attack......Tags: International Military Interventions, Opinion Research Corporation, White House, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama: Vietnam's lessons true today
The Swampby Mark Silva They're still talking about the lessons of Vietnam at the White House, where President Barack Obama today awarded a Presidential Unit Citation to Alpha Troop, First Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry. At the White House, where......Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Family, White House, Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Fort Hood 'terrorist act:' Max Cleland
The Swampby Mark Silva While various members of Congress attempt to sort out whether the mass murder at Ft. Hood, Texas, was an act of terrorism or madness, former Sen. Max Cleland, an extremely wounded and decorated veteran of the Vietnam......Tags: Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Los Angeles, John Kerry
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Massachusetts meltdown: Blame game
The Swampby Mark Silva "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts.'' For years, that was the bumper-sticker boast of the Bay State, the only state that voted for Democrat George McGovern for president in 1972, the year when Richard Nixon was swept......Tags: Parties and Movements, Richard Nixon, Wars and Interventions, Los Angeles Times, Democratic Party
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Flight (movie), Human Interest, Amelia (movie), Teaching and Learning, Music
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Ruritan Scholarship winners announced
The Maugansville Ruritan Club announced its scholarship winners from local high schools. Each winner attended a dinner at the club with their parents on April 17 and were presented $1,000 scholarships from Tom Ingram, scholarship chairman. Allison...
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Mar 3, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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