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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Oh, I believe in yesterday
MAYBERRY, N.C. -- Former sheriff Andy Taylor died here last week. Mayberry is in mourning. Sheriff Taylor was one of the last links to another, simpler time. Before there was a traffic light or drive-through banking here, before we got our first...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, LSD, Malcolm X, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Minority Groups
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: On facts, lies and Sarah Palin
"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,'...
Tags: Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Planned Parenthood, Down Syndrome, Jon Kyl
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Palin doesn't get what journalists do
In 2005, when their city drowned, the staff of the New Orleans Times-Picayune stayed in it longer than common sense and simple prudence would dictate. People who had lost homes, loved ones, and their city itself concentrated on gathering the news and...
Tags: Sarah Palin, New York City, Newspaper and Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Matt Drudge
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Leonard Pitts Jr.: Tribute to the TV remote control
We are gathered here today to memorialize a man who revolutionized our lives. So what did Eugene J. Polley do? What was the nature of his great leap forward? Did he invent the PC? Did he invent the cellphone? Did he invent the Internet? No. Eugene J....
Tags: NBC (tv network), CBS Corp., ABC (tv network), Pneumonia, Television Industry
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A shameful response to a nonexistent problem
Bill Internicola had to show his papers. He received a letter last month from the Broward County, Fla., supervisor of elections informing him the office had "information from the state of Florida that you are not a United States citizen; however, you are...
Tags: New York University, Rick Scott, Democratic Party, World War II (1939-1945), Elections
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Anne Arundel envoy Centrowitz is just one part of an Oregon distance tradition
EUGENE, Ore. - Tracktown USA has always been an incubator of running talent. Tradition, pine-lined trails and cool rain make this a haven where endurance athletes thrive. Bill Bowerman, the legendary University of Oregon coach, invented the waffle...Tags: Road Running, Track and Field, Running, Ryan Hall, Trials
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Monday Meltdown: 'God of War,' 'Sniper Elite V2' and a high school for gamers
News Roundup •••• Some extremely juicy details about the exciting “God of War: Ascension” have surfaced, with some nuts and bolts of how the new multiplayer mode will function. Add this to your list of “reasons I own...
Tags: Miami International Airport Fire (2011), Gaming, Xbox 360, USA Today, PlayStation 3
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Trayvon Martin: What if George Zimmerman had been black?
I don't care about George Zimmerman's MySpace page. Granted, it was gratifying to read recently in The Miami Herald about his crude animus toward Mexicans ("soft a-- wannabe thugs") and his reference to a former girlfriend as an "ex-hoe." Given the way...
Tags: George Zimmerman, Music, Trayvon Martin, MySpace
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In North Carolina gay marriage vote, a step backward from progress
So apparently, Barack Obamais finally done evolving. That, you will recall, was the president's word for the process of reconsidering his opposition to same-sex marriage. Last week, after being publicly and inadvertently (?) prodded by his vice...
Tags: Republican Party, Same-Sex Marriage, Family, Gays and Lesbians, Marriage
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A Titanic reminder of how small we are
There is a single shot, just seconds long, in James Cameron's newly re-released movie, "Titanic," that says it all with poignant eloquence. Up to this point in the narrative, the director has emphasized the great ship's size and grandeur. She sweeps over...
Tags: Lady Gaga, James Cameron
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Justice comes slowly: Remembering the L.A. riots in the time of Trayvon Martin
Twenty years ago today, my hometown burned. I had moved to Miami the year before and there is, let me tell you, something surreal about watching on television from a continent away as places you've been and streets you know are smashed and burned. The...
Tags: Reginald Denny
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Snow White is sooo yesterday
"Someday, my prince will come." -- Snow White, 1937 In a hotel in Canada hangs this picture, someone's mischievous take on Snow White a few years after happily ever after. She is posed in an anonymous suburban den. Behind her, Prince Charming slouches in...
Tags: Celebrities, Ryan Gosling, Sandra Bullock, Television Industry, Brad Pitt
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