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Cuba Visit Is Like A Trip Back In Time
Special to The CourantWe spent more than a week rattling around this odd old city and its countryside riding in a 1958 Volkswagen that popped and wheezed and lurched but got us from here to there when the odds didn't look good that we'd make it. Not to overburden that...Tags: Monuments and Heritage Sites, Sculpture, Vehicles, John Lennon, Culture
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Marriage And Murder at Cinestudio
Marriage And Murder Charlie Chaplin was a cinema icon, but that didn't stop the movie world powers-that-be from giving him a hard time about the content of his 1947 film "Monsieur Verdoux." The movie about a modern Bluebeard, whose working title was "A...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Photography, Katharine Hepburn, Booth Tarkington, Murder
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Bringing Up Baby
Young Bristol Palin threatened to take the spotlight off her mother, Sarah Palin, this past week with the announcement that the teenage daughter of the GOP's vice presidential choice was pregnant but unwed. We asked feminist scholar Gina Barreca and...Tags: Reproduction, New York Times, Mass Media, Thanksgiving, Government
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Rival candidates plan to appear at Ground Zero
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama said Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at Ground Zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, in a statement,...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Air and Space Accidents, Political Candidates, Ceremonies, Elections
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Thousands of our kids may lose health care
247-7470Genia Jones was handing out fliers to her first-grade students when the realization hit her. "It was talking about people like us," Jones said. The flier — for the state's Family Access to Medical Insurance Security plan, or FAMIS —...Tags: Healthcare Policies, Hampton Roads, Political Candidates, Colleges and Universities, Elections
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Flag Flap Clouds Nominees' Ground Zero Unity Accord
McClatchy NewspapersOn the same day that John McCain and Barack Obama pledged to put political differences aside and appear together at ground zero for the seventh anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, the two campaigns were engaged Saturday in a flap over the...Tags: Political Candidates, Ceremonies, Government, National Government, Elections
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Life goes on, but fears remain at NIU campus
Associated Press WriterFreshman Miraynda Castro was reminded during her first week at Northern Illinois University that she didn't begin her college career at just any campus. Castro's philosophy teacher asked students for a show of hands: Did they want the classroom door...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Northern Illinois University, Sociology, West Palm Beach, Colleges and Universities
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Lourdes, France, through the centuries
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer1844: Bernarde-Marie, called Bernadette, daughter of François and Louise Soubirous, is born at Boly Mill near Lourdes in southwestern France. 1854: Pope Pius IX proclaims that the Virgin Mary was conceived without original sin. In Lourdes, Bernadette...Tags: Benedict XVI, Fires, Cults and Sects, Pope, Ceremonies
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The author of 'Cryptonomicon' and the Baroque Cycle offers a ripping good yarn about philosophy.
WHEN C.P. Snow delivered his famous lecture on the "Two Cultures" in 1959, he pointed out that the sciences and the humanities seemed to be running along increasingly disconnected tracks. But what if these two cultures were separated not just by...Tags: Fiction, Mathematics, Culture, Genetics, Clubs and Associations
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Urban Indian women experience backlash
The Washington PostNEW DELHI — Every morning, Gitanjali Chaudhry, 17, walks to her high school through a labyrinth of temples and vegetable markets. Along with her books, she carries an Indian version of Mace—a bag of chili powder and a pouch of safety pins &#...Tags: Minority Groups, Rape, Sexual Assault, Family
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Activist pursued equality in housing over career
Chicago Tribune reporterEdward L. Holmgren championed fair housing policies during a career with government and nonprofit agencies that began with a stint as a resident manager of veterans housing after World War II. Mr. Holmgren, 85, of Glenview died of a heart ailment Sunday,...Tags: Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Armed Forces, Chicago Housing Authority, Andersonville
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Palm Beach County funding agencies send list of business guidelines to nonprofits
Special CorrespondentThe head of a Delray Beach child center thought her financial backers were joking when they sent her a thick binder with pages of challenging business practices and asked her to adopt them. "It sucked the breath out of my lungs," said Nancy Hurd, chief...Tags: Boynton Beach, Beach Vacations, Delray Beach, Corporate Officers, Hurricane Preparedness
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