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Bill Cosby: Obama has Bush to thank
The Swampby Mark Silva As The Cosby Show celebrates its 25th anniversary this coming Sunday, star Bill Cosby is posed the question: Did the black family that he presented to the American television-viewing audience in the 1980s pave the way for......Tags: Minority Groups, Government, Bill Cosby, Jimmy Carter, National Government
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Michelle Obama's Roots: Gates' way
The Swampby Mark Silva The genealogic discovery of a white great-great-great grandfather in the family tree of First Lady Michelle Obama is a quintessential American coda to a year of living divisively. The genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who spent several months in....Tags: Europe, Genes and Chromosomes, Minority Groups, Kansas, Hawaii
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Obama: Energy 'naysayers marginalized'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, citing a global competition for development of clean-energy alternatives to oil, insisted today that the United States must win that race and called on Congress to enact legislation also intended to curb climate...Tags: New Jersey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Government, Renewable Energy, National Government
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Blue moon rising, good decade coming
The Swampby Mark Silva Once in a blue moon -- and we're not talking about the designer (really corporate) beer that the Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant ordered up for that "beer summit'' at the White House -- something really good happens.......Tags: White House, Susan Boyle, Minority Groups, Jimi Hendrix, Facebook
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Obama: Massachusetts, agenda on line
The Swampby James Oliphant and Mark Z. Barabak BOSTON -- President Obama made a rare campaign-style visit today in a last-ditch effort to salvage the flagging Senate bid of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley and preserve the Democrats' decisive 60-vote majority...Tags: White House, Republican Party, Doug Flutie, New Jersey, Democratic Party
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Elena Kagan: Money in the bank?
The SwampWhite House staffers deliver Elena Kagan's questionnaire responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. (AP/Harry Hamburg) by David G. Savage Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says she has $1.76 million in assets -- mostly in bank accounts and...Tags: White House, Finance, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Justice System, Career and Workplace
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Obama's deficit-cutters: Lineup named
The Swampby Mark Silva The lineup for the deficit-cutting commission that President Barack Obama has created is starting to take shape. The president's front line includes David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International, and Alice Rivlin, a fomer White House Office of....Tags: Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Federal Reserve, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Government
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The offal truth about animal parts
As Halloween approaches, we're reminded that while eye of newt and wing of bat may not have invaded the nation's restaurant menus, neck of lamb and ear of pig most certainly have. It's commonplace to find pig ears, head cheese and pig's feet on menus....
Tags: Atwood Cafe, Washington, DC, Restaurants, Stephanie Izard, Foods and Beverages
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A novel about an outsider
"The Woman Upstairs" by Claire Messud, Knopf, 264 pages, $25.95. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass., is a reliable neighbor who has always lived on the fringe of other people's lives. She wanted to become an artist. A new...Tags: Taiwan
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Do job titles mean anything anymore?
There was a time when job titles were simple. You were either "the boss" or "not the boss." That has changed dramatically now that we have fancy things such as workers rights and business cards and egos. Some companies are staffed by small armies of...Tags: Twitter, Inc., Employment, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Media Industry
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Community Table's Joel Viehland Nominated By Food & Wine Magazine as "People's Best New Chef"
Once again, Joel Viehland of Washington's Community Table has been nominated in Food & Wine Magazine's "The People's Best New Chef" contest, in the New England category. Viehland, who's committed to sustainable cooking, was honored for his work with...
Tags: West Hartford, Wines, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Fish Men' is at its best when chess is front and center
Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in Washington Square Park in New York, Harvard Square in...
Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, Goodman Theatre, Michigan Avenue, Chess Playing
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