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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: Entertainment Events, Fiction, Interior Policy, The Washington Post, Personal Weapon Control
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Book review: Stephen King's thrilling "11/22/63"
"The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change." The past is also a dangerous, fickle place — and woe to anyone who dares alter it. That's the mantra coursing through "11/22/63."
Stephen King's mammoth, generous and thrilling novel is about a...Tags: Google Inc., Stephen King, Literature, Trips and Vacations, Book
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Rather built a hard-news, but folksy image
Sun StaffHe was always a hard-news guy, an old-style, old-school reporter who once told Larry King that "danger is my business." Aggressive, intense, confrontational, folksy and sometimes wacky - that's been the image of Dan Rather for more than 40 years. His...Tags: Dallas, Connie Chung, Iran, Al Gore, Richard M. Daley
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Art Callaham: O'Reilly's book on Kennedy a good read
I was never a “Kennedyphile” — lifelong southern conservative Republicans usually are not. Sure, I was a starry-eyed 15-year-old who understood “Camelot,” liked the pictures of bikini clad Jackie-O (as she was later to be...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Assassinations, Central Intelligence Agency, Interior Policy, Fidel Castro
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Police: Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in undisclosed tomb
NewsdayThe body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried at an undisclosed location outside Worcester, police of the central Massachusetts city said Thursday. In a news release, Worcester police said a "courageous and...Tags: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Deval Patrick, Adam Lanza
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Respect Boston's pain, bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev somewhere else
What kind of power do the living have over the dead? It’s a question that a Massachusetts town answered Sunday, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy said he would not allow Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the Boston Marathon...Tags: Islam, Values, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, The Boston Globe, Timothy McVeigh
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LETTER: Who Voted Against Background Checks
The list of senators who voted against or for expanded background checks can be found on DemandAction.org/ShameOnYou. This is in response to letter writer Richard Brass [April 19, "Don't Let Gun Violence Accomplices Forget"]. People like Lee Harvey... -
Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...
Tags: Philosophy, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Abraham Lincoln, Assassinations, Gays and Lesbians
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Reading for mental health, but not 'self-help'
A good book is like good medicine. This is the message that comes to us from assorted British health professionals, and reiterated last week by the U.K.’s leading librarians. Why take a pill when you can pop open a metaphor? Why sit in line at...
Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Literature, Fiction, Mental Health, Bill Bryson
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Gun Control Letters
Blogging with Bill WhiteI got quite a bit of response to my gun columns (here and here), so I thought I would share excerpts from some of those emails. If you’ve been following our letters to the editor, you’ve seen many of these...... -
Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia
The Hartford CourantDeb Sokolow's 'Some Concerns About the Candidate' 'Something about this doesn't feel right." These are the words of an anonymous narrator, who's keeping a journal about participating in a political campaign. Within weeks of enthusiastically joining...Tags: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Paranoia, John F. Kennedy, Elections, Sleep Deprivation
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