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Palin's Big Oil infatuation
I was water-skiing with my children in a light drizzle off Hyannis, Mass., last month when a sudden, fierce storm plunged us into a melee of towering waves, raking rain, painful hail and midday darkness broken by blinding flashes of lightning. As I...Tags: Natural Resources, Government, Petroleum Industry, National Government, Long Island Sound
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1906 book sheds light on today's political jungle
Special to the SentinelSome things never change. Here's a bit from Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle: The main character, a Lithuanian immigrant working in the Chicago stockyards, "learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form...Tags: Nicole Kidman, Saturday Night Live, Maitland Art Center, Tina Fey, Jane Addams
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Miss Elizabeth Gilman stayed true to her causes
It's a name you don't hear mentioned around Baltimore much these days but when Elizabeth Gilman died in 1950, The Evening Sun said in her obituary that for many years she was in the "forefront of social reform in Baltimore and Maryland. Her energy was...Tags: Society, Anglican, Government, Philosophy, Tourism and Leisure
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The little guy's first day of kindergarten
Man of the HouseSO WE SAY O WE SAY an Ave Maria and send the little guy off to school for the very first time. Kindergarten . . . the bunny lair of lower education. "Always keep your receipts," I tell him. "OK, Dad." "And save 10% of everything you earn," I say. "OK,...Tags: Harry S Truman, Alyssa Milano, George Carlin, Vehicles, Nike Incorporated
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Museums focus on immigration issue
Chicago 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: Migration, Jane Addams, Tourism and Leisure, Immigration, Culture
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"Democracy's Prisoner," by Ernest Freeberg
Chicago Tribune NewspapersIt all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and a dubious law to restrict liberties at home. Add to that scenario vast inequalities in wealth, high Immigration rates, scant regard for...Tags: Family, Democracy, Wars and Interventions, Newspapers, Prisons
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No gay weddings in Kern County
Afew years ago, I heard writer Gerald Haslam explain his struggle to describe the difference between the Kern County burg of Bakersfield and the Bay Area city of Mill Valley, both of which are settings for his novel, "Straight White Male." "Then it...Tags: Family, Ronald Reagan, Government, Marriage, James Gregory
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'I Am Death' by Gary Amdahl
I Am Death
Two Novellas
Gary Amdahl
Milkweed Editions: 170 pp., $15 paper
Gary Amdahl has observed office politics up close. He reads the Wall Street Journal and the Nation. He's a fan of C-SPAN. He's read Barthelme, Bulgakov, Melville and Swift --...Tags: Book, Fiction
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'Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent' by Ernest Freeberg
Democracy's Prisoner
Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent
Ernest Freeberg
Harvard University Press: 380 pp., $29.95
It all sounds so familiar: a foreign war, an unpopular president, high-minded vows to spread democracy abroad and...Tags: Family, Democracy, Wars and Interventions, Government, Prisons
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Two timeless, Depression-era novels from Edward Anderson
Edward Anderson had a strange and sad career. He was born in Texas in 1905 and grew up in Oklahoma, serving his apprenticeship as a journalist on a small paper in Ardmore, Okla. Restless, he worked as a deckhand on a freighter, plied his fists as a...Tags: Philip Roth, Murder, Health and Safety at School, Naguib Mahfouz, Rex Stout
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'There Will Be Blood' fails to strike it rich
Sun Movie Critic(C-) More oil and sweat than passion and ideas course through There Will Be Blood, a film about the California petroleum boom of the early 20th century that is as anemic as it is ambitious. Writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson has crafted a rise-and-...Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Celebrity, Daniel Day-Lewis, Paramount, John Huston
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'There will be' a critics' fave
"There Will be Blood," Paul Thomas Anderson's epic tale of oil, power and greed, was named best picture of 2007 on Saturday by the National Society of Film Critics. The ambitious adaptation of Upton Sinclair's "Oil!" also won best director for Anderson,...Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Ethan Coen
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