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Student loan debt: The overvalue (and underuse) of higher education
Young people face a cruel irony. Most can't land a decent job without a college education, yet many graduates are locked into poorly paying positions that don't permit repayment of student loans. For two generations, college price tags have risen much...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Technology, Colleges and Universities, Students, Separation of Church and State
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How The Sun traced the Election Night robocalls
The number was untraceable - almost. On Election Night in 2010, The Baltimore Sun's switchboard lit up with reports of a suspicious "robocall": it told voters to relax, that President Obama and Gov.Martin O'Malley had been successful, and that there...
Tags: Republican Party, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Online Media Industry, Political Candidates, Parties and Movements
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Elkridge: St. Augustine Knights of Columbus to host annual bull and oyster roast Feb. 18
Wow ... can you believe that we are halfway through February already? And, it's been such a mild winter that my jonquils are already 4 inches out of the ground. I guess they're just as eager for spring as any of us. However, the word from "Puxatawney...Tags: Facebook, Dance, Dance, Foods and Beverages, Entertainment Events
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Elkridge: Help Elkridge Elementary fight cystic fibrosis at Hop/Shoot/Jump-a-thon
There's still time to support the Elkridge Elementary School Hop/Shoot/Jump-a-thon for Cystic Fibrosis. This fundraising event will be held Wednesday, Feb. 15 for K-second grade and Thursday, Feb. 16 for third, fourth an fifth grades. The 2012 HOP theme...Tags: Dance, Anne Arundel County, Family, Charity, Music
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Angelou: Memorial quote makes MLK sound like 'arrogant twit'
Poet Maya Angelou is taking issue with a paraphrased version of a quotation inscribed in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, saying it makes the civil rights leader sound like an "arrogant twit" because it's out of context. The words...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Washington, DC, The Washington Post
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Weiner loud in his defense of Dixon
Hours after Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon was indicted on charges of theft, perjury and misuse of office, she headed to the industrial-chic offices of her lead defense attorney, where dozens of reporters and photographers had gathered.
Instead of...Tags: Theft, Regional Authority, University of Maryland, College Park, Baltimore Orioles, Oprah Winfrey
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Maybe we guessed wrong about Dixon
No surprise that the prosecutor who's been dogging Sheila Dixon for years thinks she's corrupt. The real shocker, if her indictment is to be believed, is that Sheila Dixon thinks Sheila Dixon is corrupt. Dixon might have looked dirty to most of us for...Tags: Giorgio Armani, Preakness Stakes, Corporate Crime, Credit and Debt, Corruption
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At Akwaaba B&B, curl up with writers
Sun StaffAuthor Walter Mosley's room is dark and mysterious with midnight-blue walls, black velvet drapes and lamps that shine interrogationlike spotlights across the walls. It's a room befitting the popular creator of a series of detective novels. Toni Morrison'...Tags: Ghana, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Arts, Langston Hughes, Cape May (Cape May, New Jersey)
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LOVE the poet
Sun ReporterHometown: Baltimore Current members: Michelle "LOVE" Nelson Founded in: 2001 Style: performance poetry Influenced by: Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, Maya Angelou Notable: On her two albums, "LOVE's Journey ... It Begins" and "LOVE's Journey ... The Middle...Tags: Lauryn Hill
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List of 2003 Grammy Award winners
The Associated PressAlbum of the year: "Come Away With Me," Norah Jones. New artist: Norah Jones. Record of the year: "Don't Know Why," Norah Jones. Song of the year: "Don't Know Why," Jesse Harris (performed by Norah Jones). Hard rock performance: "All My Life," Foo...Tags: Herbie Hancock, Mary J. Blige, Johnny Cash, Eminem, Theater
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Word power
Earlier this year, when Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a 100-book required reading list for his compatriots, it provoked anxiety, rekindling memories of Soviet-era censorship. The furor underscored an important point: that literature plays a...
Tags: Yasunari Kawabata, Emily Dickinson, Carlos Fuentes, Sherman Alexie, Bruno Schulz
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Java: Maya Angelou Bringing Her Message To Hartford
Maya Angelou is one of the most well-known American authors and poets of this generation. A civil rights activist who has worked with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, she is one of the most decorated writers with over 30 honorary degrees and dozens of...
Tags: Malcolm X, Euripides
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