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Pakistan coming apart at the seams
Distracted by the deadly violence in Mali and Algeria, no one seems to be paying adequate attention to the tragicomedy under way in Pakistan. This matters because recent events demonstrate without equivocation that Pakistan is an utterly failed state --...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Taliban, Entertainment Events, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, National Government
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Taylor Branch distills Pulitzer-winning trilogy for students
The math is daunting: More than 2,300 pages of prose winnowed down to 190, including photographs and the occasional blank sheet that signals chapter breaks. Yet, that's exactly the challenge that author and historian Taylor Branch tackled when he...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Colleges and Universities, Book, National Government, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Republicans will be last to admit it, but they won the fiscal cliff showdown
With all the moaning coming from the Tea Party Express and their loyalists in the House Republican Caucus, you would think conservatives had lost everything, including their virtue, in the fiscal cliff parlay with President Barack Obama because taxes...
Tags: Government Debt, Entertainment Events, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party
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In books, Baltimore beats Denver
As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down. The East Coast city had...
Tags: Zora Neale Hurston, Entertainment Events, Dashiell Hammett, Awards and Prizes, Baltimore Book Festival
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Richard Ben Cramer's genius: books from politics to baseball
Richard Ben Cramer had the gift of a great writer: an agile mind that generated entertaining books and magazine articles in topics as disparate as Middle East politics and baseball. The Chestertown, Md., resident, who died Monday at age 62, "had raw...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Chestertown, Joe DiMaggio, William Donald Schaefer, The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Theater season in Anne Arundel opens with a triple play
Theatergoers in search of a dark comedy, a musical or an adventure told in imaginative stage action will find all three in productions now showing at nearby venues. The Children's Theatre of Annapolis is beginning its 53rd year — and its fourth...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Reese Witherspoon, Awards and Prizes, Alzheimer's Disease, Abusive Behavior
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Bob Lee Swagger and the truth about JFK
In his new thriller, "The Third Bullet," novelist Stephen Hunter sets his sights on an American tragedy that's also the most famous gun mystery of all time — the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The questions surrounding the shooting as...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Fiction, Entertainment Events, Middletown
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Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 62
Richard Ben Cramer, a former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author chronicling the lives of politicians and legendary sports figures, died Monday of...
Tags: Joe Biden, Sports Illustrated, Biography (genre), The Philadelphia Inquirer, Graduation
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Memorial service planned Sunday for Richard Ben Cramer
A memorial service for Richard Ben Cramer, 62, a former Baltimore Sun reporter, Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent and acclaimed biographer who died Jan. 7, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Washington College's Gibson Center for the Arts in...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Journalism, Martin O'Malley, Annapolis
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Everyman opens new theater with 'August: Osage County'
Families that flay together can't stay together for long. That's just one of life's painful little lessons conveyed to searing effect in "August: Osage County," the 2008 Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play by Tracy Letts now receiving its...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Everyman Theatre, Awards and Prizes, Linda Thorson, The Avengers (tv program)
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South Laurel/Montpelier: Keep active with South Laurel Rec classes
Let's not become couch potatoes this winter. To help keep up with our New Year's resolutions, the South Laurel Recreation Council is now accepting registrations for a variety of interesting classes that begin this month. Classes include chess, which...Tags: Entertainment Events, To Kill a Mockingbird (movie), Awards and Prizes, Authors, Gregory Peck
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Who will be our next profiles in courage?
One of the great works in politics and political rhetoric is John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. Courage has always been important to the Kennedys, who created a Profile in Courage Award a generation ago, and the awards, although...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Entertainment Events, Andrew Johnson, Awards and Prizes, Values
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