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QUICK VIEWS: 'Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather'
WHEN|WHERE Part 1, tonight at 10 on WNET/13; parts 2 and 3 air July 28 and Aug. 4. THE DEAL Winston Churchill's granddaughter Celia Sandys explores the places and people the legendary British prime minister encountered in his travels. Washington, Cairo,... -
On this day in history
On July 19, 1553, Lady Jane Grey, 15, was deposed after nine days as Queen of England, and King Henry VIII's daughter Mary was proclaimed queen. In 1814 Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver, was born in Hartford, Conn. In 1848 a women's rights...Tags: Government, Space Programs, National Government, Minority Groups, Samuel Colt
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Shows to watch
'Wanna Bet?' 8 p.m., WLS-Ch. 7 Celebrities attempt to win money for charity by betting on the outcomes of stunts and mental feats performed by ordinary folks. They include skiing over 2,000 eggs, memorizing 32 strangers' names and solving Rubik's Cube...Tags: Holly Hunter, Scott Hamilton, Prostitution
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A Granddaughter Retraces The Steps Of Winston Churchill
Celia Sandys takes a personal journey in "Chasing Churchill: In Search of My Grandfather" (CPTV, 10 p.m.), a quest to rediscover Winston Churchill, the towering historic figure who was also her kin. It's quite a travelogue, as she retraces his first...Tags: Perez Hilton, Jerry Rice, Craig Ferguson, Patricia Heaton, Dancing
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Monarchists Are Seeing Red, Communists Are Royally Peeved
Ninety years after he was executed by a Bolshevik firing squad, Czar Nicholas II is leading a tight race to be named the greatest Russian in history. His closest competitors? Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Jazz Music, Diahann Carroll, David Hasselhoff, Rock and Roll Music
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Manly maneuvers
Please bow your heads in recognition of the passing of the ancient and venerable handshake.
In frail health for years and mostly seen at formal occasions or when thanking bank managers for loans, the old grip-and-grin guru finally succumbed last month...Tags: Government, Howie Mandel, National Government, Building Material, Metal and Mineral
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'Ark of the Liberties' by Ted Widmer
Ark of the Liberties
America and the World
Ted Widmer
Hill & Wang:
380 pp., $25
Woodrow Wilson is a tip-of-the-tongue name in foreign policy circles these days, largely because the members of the Bush administration are seen as revamped Wilsonians....Tags: Government, Ulysses S Grant, National Government, Christianity, Civil Unrest
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Denial won't solve our energy shortfall
Republicans seeking to gain political advantage during an election year by blaming Democrats and environmentalists for a squeeze in oil supplies seem to assume that the Earth is a huge jelly doughnut filled with an infinite supply of oil ("Fast ways to...Tags: Government, Petroleum Industry, Barack Obama, National Government, Wildlife
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Shaq's bad rap
Full disclosure: When the first snippets surfaced of Shaquille O'Neal dogging Kobe Bryant onstage at a New York club, I laughed. The more I heard, the funnier and more absurd it got. That reaction lasted a couple of minutes. It was just an instinctive...Tags: National Basketball Association, Superman, Bill Russell, Kobe Bryant, Phoenix Suns
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Raising taxes in a recession
The very worst thing the government can do during a recession is to raise taxes - but that's what Obama and the Democrats intend to do. Obama intends to "raise taxes on the rich." Taxing the rich is taxing the economy. When tax rates for the rich are...Tags: State Budgets
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