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Faulty handoffs doom U.S.' 400 relays
The Associated PressTyson Gay reached back to grab the baton "and there was nothing." He's not the only American track favorite who will leave Beijing empty-handed. The American men's and women's 400-meter relay teams both misconnected on the final handoffs in their...Tags: 5K Run, David Oliver, Multi-Sport Events, Awards and Prizes, Allyson Felix
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Now on the Hallmark aisle: Gay marriage cards
The Associated PressPORTLAND, Ore. -- Most states don't recognize gay marriage -- but now Hallmark does. The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards -- featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes...Tags: Greeting Cards, Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Elections
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American relay teams drop baton, fail to qualify
Tyson Gay stuck his left hand behind him, waiting to feel the red baton's cool metal make contact. Still waiting, Gay looked ahead and began to take off. Now accelerating, he glanced back at Darvis Patton, his U.S. teammate in a 400-meter relay...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Metal and Mineral, Multi-Sport Events
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Heartbreak among relay teams as they botch baton passes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBEIJING -- Torri Edwards' screeching expression said it all on a night of rain-soaked relay calamity on the Olympic track Thursday. Think about the famous Edvard Munch painting, "The Scream," and you get the general idea of back-to-back disasters...Tags: 5K Run, Disasters, Edvard Munch, Athletics, Track and Field
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King speech to Obama speech: A dream realized?
AP National WriterThe dreamer in him envisioned a day when "Whites Only" signs would no longer hang in restaurant windows. A time when everyone's desire to vote would be respected. A time when blacks and whites would work, pray and live together. He spoke of an America...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Private Health Care, Don Imus, Ceremonies, Civil Rights
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Museums focus on immigration issue
Tribune correspondentNEW YORK — As the ferry from Manhattan sidles up to the dock at Ellis Island, the imposing arches and grand towers of the main building make it almost impossible for visitors not to feel like they are among the huddled masses who passed through here...Tags: Immigration, Gardens and Parks, Field Museum of Natural History, Demographics, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Respect called key to school safety
Sun reporterAfter several well-publicized violent incidents last school year, Baltimore's teachers got a lesson on how building stronger relationships with their students reduces the chance of classroom disruption and increases achievement. "When students have...Tags: Morgan State University, National or Ethnic Minorities, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, Sheila Dixon
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Fine Arts
Fine Art Museums American Visionary Art Museum800 Key Highway / 410-244-1900. Hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesdays-Sundays. •Permanent exhibits: Rotating selections from museum archives. •Through Aug. 31:All Faiths Beautiful. Baltimore Museum...Tags: Karen Johnson, Libraries and Museums, National or Ethnic Minorities, Walters Art Museum, Photography
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Violence threatens progress in Uptown
Chicago Tribune reporterUpdating Uptown was no easy feat. It took a generation of house-to-house rehabs, a fight to save affordable housing, and exacting police work that for years steadily knocked down crime in the diverse North Side neighborhood. Then came daylight...Tags: Murder, Landforms, Volcanoes, Government, Social Services
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Review: 'The Cho Show'
Times Television CriticWe have come to the time when starring in a reality show no longer means you have exhausted all the other options -- that you, the star, might represent a reasonably well-functioning, otherwise successful human being rather than the sort of train wreck...Tags: Anna Nicole Smith, National or Ethnic Minorities, Television Industry
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Bolt first to break 100, 200 track records
Tribune Olympic BureauTo those who know track and field, to those who have watched Usain Bolt grow up, the most significant step he made did not occur in the last three months, when the Jamaican jumped from sprinting's elite into a class of his own. The key stride came when...Tags: Carl Lewis, Jesse Owens, 5K Run, NBC, Multi-Sport Events
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Margaret Cho Gives TV Another Try, This Time With Reality Series
An outspoken, sometimes shocking comedian with docile parents and a colorful inner circle, with bumps along her stand-up career? It could be "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List," but this time it's a new VH1 show about Margaret Cho. The Korean American...Tags: Randy Jackson, Will Ferrell, Family, Chicago Fire, David Letterman
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