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Sunday streak least of O's concerns
No, Brian Roberts said, looking perplexed at the question. This loss today at Camden Yards, which came with a near-tidal wave of negatives that all but washed out the positives, was not going to be the start of the Orioles' same old summertime routine....Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Texas Rangers, New York Rangers, Brian Roberts, Major League Baseball
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Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'
AP National WriterEven folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive:...Tags: Natural Disasters, Vehicles, Corporate Crime, Prices, Passenger Cars
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Paris show takes a bold look to the future
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHIS SEASON'S sartorial tale of two cities may have started with slump-chested pessimism in Milan, where the answer to the sorry state of the world was to throw in the towel, stay home from the office and protest in your pj's. But it ended in Paris last...Tags: Hobbies, Barack Obama, Vehicles, Gary Numan, Book
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Reviews: 'Serve the People,' 'Binu,' 'I Love Dollars'
Chicago TribuneSERVE THE PEOPLE! by Yan Lianke, translated by Julia Lovell. Grove/Black Cat, 217 pp., $14 paperback. When is a love story not really about love? In Yan Lianke's cleverly amusing, almost epigrammatic novel "Serve the People!" about a Chinese soldier...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Book
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Let's make our nationalist roots continue to grow
Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University. His new book is "Leading from the Center: Why Moderates Make the Best Presidents."The Democrats' dilemma, namely how to blast President George W. Bush without being accused of bashing America, prompted Sen. Barack Obama to affirm his patriotism in Independence, Mo., last week. Obama correctly insisted that "no party or political...Tags: John Winthrop, Government, National Government, Barack Obama, Political Candidates
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In a small world, his dome is still big
Chicago Tribune correspondentNEW YORK — Broke and despondent over his prospects, the young New Englander who had moved to Chicago stared out at Lake Michigan and thought about suicide. But instead, he decided to dedicate his life to helping humanity. That, at least, is one...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Whitney Museum, Vehicles, Marshall Field, Margaret Fuller
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Americans Mark Unhappy Birthday
Associated PressEven folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive:...Tags: Fourth of July, Consumer Confidence, Homes, Economic Policy, Corporate Crime
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'House of Wits: An Intimate Portrait of the James Family' by Paul Fisher
House of Wits
An Intimate Portrait of the James Family
Paul Fisher
Henry Holt: 694 pp., $35
The father, Henry James Sr., was the fifth of 11 children of one of the richest men in the state of New York. As a teenager, his leg was burned and amputated....Tags: Diseases, Health and Safety at School, Henry James, Family, Henry Holt
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'Ark of the Liberties' by Ted Widmer
Ark of the Liberties
America and the World
Ted Widmer
Hill & Wang:
380 pp., $25
Woodrow Wilson is a tip-of-the-tongue name in foreign policy circles these days, largely because the members of the Bush administration are seen as revamped Wilsonians....Tags: John Winthrop, National Government, Slavery, Ulysses S Grant, Heads of State
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How their roots intertwine
Special to The TimesASPECIAL energy was crackling among the ladies refreshing their ikebana arrangements in the strikingly unusual exhibition "Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art" at the Japanese American National Museum. In two days, the crown prince of Japan was...Tags: Sculpture, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Mapplethorpe, National or Ethnic Minorities, Little Tokyo
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