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Playing 'Mind' games
LA Times StaffFor the last few months, Universal Pictures has been juggling a live grenade, hoping it won't go off. In the public eye, the studio's Ron Howard-directed film, "A Beautiful Mind," has been viewed as one of the favorites for this year's best picture Oscar....Tags: Periodicals, Natural Disasters, Hurricane Damage, News Media, The New York Times
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Md. official on board of company regulated by his department
Sun StaffAn official at the state Department of Human Resources has close ties to a company that is regulated by the department and receives millions of dollars from it to operate group homes. Elisha B. Pulivarti serves on the board of Evershine Residential...Tags: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Republican Party, Democratic Party, Prince George's County
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High tension at the table, media circus in the House
Sun StaffWASHINGTON - The line started to form at 6 a.m. outside the hearing room at the Rayburn Office Building, reaffirming the drawing power of Major League Baseball, even in one of its darkest hours. There were fans and Capitol Hill interns and visiting...Tags: Major League Baseball, Sports Illustrated, Boston Red Sox, Baseball, Sammy Sosa
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A Lion in Winter
Sun movie criticPart I An American hero -- and antiheroBeyond anything else, Marlon Brando is the towering original who came out of the Midwest 58 years ago and electrified Broadway and then Hollywood with the visceral excitement and veracity of his acting. He exploded...Tags: Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Nick Nolte, John Huston, Civil Unrest
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Culture shock
Sun StaffSEATTLE -- You might think John Waters has seen it all. But the Prince of Puke, the Pope of Trash -- or as he prefers to think of himself these days, "Filth Elder" -- remains amazed by the world around him. It's downright amazing how often the word...Tags: Comedy (genre), Museum of Modern Art, Festive Events, Screen Actors Guild, Arts
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The famous dead yield only murky diagnoses
Sun StaffThe claims are everywhere: on posters and T-shirts, on the Internet and in books, even sometimes headlining the national news. Thomas Jefferson's eccentricities were actually a form of autism. Albert Einstein's genius flourished despite a learning...Tags: Albert Einstein, American Medical Association, Health and Safety at School, Migraine, Hospitals and Clinics
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Agents search homes of bioterror expert
Staff And Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - The mystery of who sent deadly anthrax through the mail in the fall of 2001 took a new turn yesterday when federal investigators searched homes belonging to a doctor who founded an anti-terrorism organization and who once predicted an anthrax...Tags: Defense, Police Investigations, Sam Nunn, San Francisco, Hospitals and Clinics
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An outpouring of Maryland books
Special to the SunHere is the first half of the annual attempt at a census of books written by Marylanders or related to Maryland. The second half is scheduled for next Sunday. Art, Architecture The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone, by Mary...Tags: Ralph Ellison, Frederick County (Maryland), Society, Patapsco, Heart Attack
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Pakistan chief 'on horns of dilemma'
Sun Foreign StaffWhen Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, met U.S. demands yesterday and urged Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden, the military strongman was rewarded with a flurry of flag burnings and protests at home. This is Musharraf's political...Tags: Defense, Karachi (Pakistan), Colin Powell, National Security, Civil Unrest
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Pupils paint a picture of the cost of conflict
Sun StaffIn selecting a portrait subject, Lauren Dennis found herself drawn to Army Staff Sgt. James L. Pettaway Jr. of Glen Burnie after learning about a son he left behind. Taylor Hahn picked Army Spc. George A. Mitchell of Western Maryland because she...Tags: Defense, Washington, DC, Teaching and Learning, Arts, Glen Burnie
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A Legend Unshackled
Sun StaffAlmost every schoolchild knows the fabled Harriet Tubman -- "The Moses of Her People," "Conductor of the Underground Railroad" -- and most adults probably know what every schoolchild knows. Children's stories, but little more. Amazingly, until this...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, African Americans, Health and Safety at School, Fiction, Civil Rights
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And the Golden Hatchet goes to ...
There’s a certain joy that comes with reading a great literary takedown, the kind of mean but intelligent and precise review that eviscerates the pretensions and the sloppiness of a truly awful book. Over in Britain, they think of a good pan as...
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