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Hallmark Introduces Gay Marriage Cards
Associated PressLOS ANGELES -- Most states don't recognize gay marriage - but 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 inside....Tags: Beverly Hills, Gays and Lesbians, Gay Rights, Regional Authority, Family
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Baton fumbles plague U.S. track squad again
Tribune Olympic BureauTorri Edwards' screeching expression said it all on a night of rain-soaked relay calamity on the track at the Olympics here on Thursday. Think about that famous painting, The Scream, and you get the general idea of back-to-back disasters unfolding for...Tags: Disasters, Multi-Sport Events
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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: Allyson Felix, Athletics, Track and Field, Awards and Prizes, David Oliver, 5K Run
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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: Gays and Lesbians, Greeting Cards, Family, Elections, American Greetings Corporation
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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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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: Martin Luther King Jr., Prisons, Laws, Retirement, Barack Obama
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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, Lower East Side, Jane Addams, History, Statue of Liberty
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Heartbreak among relay teams as they botch baton passes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTorri 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 unfolding for...Tags: Edvard Munch, Disasters, Athletics, Track and Field, 5K Run
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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, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Sheila Dixon, National or Ethnic Minorities
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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: Colleges and Universities, American Visionary Art Museum, Libraries and Museums, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art
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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: Public Officials, Social Services, McDonald's, Uptown, Murder
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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: Television Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities, Anna Nicole Smith
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