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OCT. 12 "The Clean Up Woman" JD Lawrence's new stage play and dramedy, The Clean Up Woman, stars Jackee Harry, Telma Hopkins, Christopher Williams and George Wilborn. 8 p.m. at Morgan State University, Murphy Fine Arts Center, 2201 Argonne Drive. $39....Tags: Halle Berry, Anthony Hamilton, Minority Groups, Hip Hop, Hippodrome Theatre
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What Obama means to me
Special to The Baltimore SunFor a community advocate and businessman, a redefining of hurtful stereotypes. For a single mother, a better opportunity to educate her son --and herself. For civil rightsera survivors, a reminder of how far we have come. Indeed, the presidential...Tags: Minority Groups, Polls, Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic National Conventions, Baptist
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Learning to tell the tale
There's more to a good ghost story than its words.
The dozen people in Havre de Grace who have signed on to give tours and tell stories about the quaint, historic town have learned that it's all about the presentation.
"You have to be able to grab the...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Fiction, American Legion, Halloween, Water Supply
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Healing 'Broken' pieces
Special to The Baltimore SunFinding Beauty in a Broken World by Terry Tempest Williams Pantheon Books / $26 / 416 pages Renaissance art, endangered prairie dogs and Rwandan genocide are the compelling triptych in Terry Tempest Williams' quest to piece together the shards of a...Tags: Museum of Natural History, Animals, Genocide, Massacres
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Chief Hideout
Special to The Baltimore SunGeorge Wireman called this town the Gateway to the Mountains when he wrote a local history of it in 1969, and it seems like ever since then, that's what everyone here has called it. "If you stand anywhere on Main Street and look west," Wireman, now 87,...Tags: Dwight David Eisenhower, Laura Bush, Peace Negotiations, Trinity United Church of Christ, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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A pioneer in teaching Russian to high schoolers
Earlier this week, I wrote about the death of Joseph Glus, 84, a longtime Charles Village resident who was hired as the first Russian-language teacher by Baltimore County's public schools in 1959. Mr. Glus, who was the son of immigrant parents from the...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Family, Charles Village, Oakland (Alameda, California), Colleges and Universities
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History repeats
I am turning 79 and whaddaya know, my natal day is marked just as it was 79 years ago by failing banks, a stock market crash, loss of people's savings, unrestrained capitalism running amok on Wall Street, an ever-widening income gap between the wealthy...Tags: George Santayana, Northbrook
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Beckett Has Lost Some Of His Zip
That chilly night at Yankee Stadium, the sixth game of the 2003 World Series, man, he was the toughest guy in the Bronx. A young gun with the Florida Marlins, Josh Beckett stared down a dynasty. But on this Saturday night, Beckett got nothing but...Tags: Major League Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Terry Francona, Josh Beckett, Florida Marlins
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1890s Pullman porters' role in start of black middle class
Sentinel Staff WriterVibert White came to the University of Central Florida in 2003 to head up UCF's public history program, a blend of archaeology, anthropology, oral history and the collection of everyday artifacts. The program was subsequently discontinued, but White has...Tags: Minority Groups, Book, NAACP, University of Central Florida, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Scene of grisly mob slaying has haunted past
Associated Press WriterIt is a fitting backdrop for a ghost story: An old mansion on a secluded hilltop sits empty, save for a caretaker who lives in an upstairs quarters. A no-trespassing sign is staked near the locked metal gates, and the stately grounds are covered in...Tags: Murder, Fiction, Metal and Mineral, Halloween, Family
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Florida back in the hunt for SEC and BCS titles
A season tilted here Saturday night.
You could feel it in the quaking beneath your feet, in gravity's hard lean Florida's way with every score igniting celebrations amid the sellout crowd at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.
The No. 11 Gators' 51-21 victory...Tags: Florida Gators, Urban Meyer, Penn State Nittany Lions, Ohio State University, Percy Harvin
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BOOKENDS: DISCOVERIES
Los Angeles TimesTHE ELEGANCE OF THE HEDGEHOG, by Muriel Barbery, translated from the French by Alison Anderson. Europa Editions, 336 pp., $15 paper. Apartment-building novels are their own genre. In each apartment, a different story line, a daily drama. Each character...Tags: Venice, Colleges and Universities, Family, Cartoons, New York Times
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