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America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants
Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, Passover Seder, Slavery
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Back Story: Red wine with papal ties
"Men are like wine — some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." — Pope John Paul XXIII Nelson Carey, the genial publican at Belvedere Square's Grand Cru wine bar, is naturally filled with interesting and offbeat wine, beer and...
Tags: The Pope, Wines, Italy, Bars and Clubs, Francis I
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A 'reformed' Catholic hopes Francis can heal the church
By coincidence, last Easter I was in St. Peter's Square in Rome as Pope Benedict XVI delivered what turned out to be his final Easter Mass as head of the Catholic Church. A week from Sunday, the new pope will deliver his first. Expectations for Pope...
Tags: Benedict XVI, Christianity, Roman Catholicism, Francis I, Vatican City
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Center Stage gives world premiere of 'Mud Blue Sky'
Center Stage seems to have a thing for public accommodations these days. The company’s last play was set in a nondescript motel room. The current one is set in a nondescript hotel room. The deja vu feeling is intensified since both productions have...
Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Everyman Theatre, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
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Novelist Taiye Selasi, hailed as next big literary star, visits Baltimore
Taiye Selasi's debut novel has been in publication for less than a week. But even before a single copy was sold, the glamorous 33-year-old was being hailed as the newest star of the literary world. Selasi's publisher, The Penguin Group, is promoting...
Tags: Yale University, Ghana, The New York Times, Johns Hopkins University, Literature
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Prayers of the faithful in Harford may have more effect than would seem obvious [Editorial]
In the grand scheme of things, most of the issues that seem important to a particular generation fade with time, even as the things that are truly important remain so throughout the ages. Thus, it isn't much of a surprise that people in Harford County...
Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Christianity, Roman Catholicism
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Back Story: Cardinals who visited Baltimore later became pope
As 11 American Roman Catholic cardinals join with their colleagues in Rome to elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, it is interesting to note that three cardinals who visited Baltimore during the last century were eventually elected pope. The first...
Tags: Benedict XVI, Fells Point, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Christianity, Roland Park
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The mortal pope and eternal Rome
Growing up in Rome, not far from Saint Peter's Basilica (whose dome I could see from my parents' bedroom) I did not think much of my circumstance. I thought it was just normal to drive my scooter by the Vatican walls and to see the Swiss guards...
Tags: The Pope, Religious Leaders, Vatican City, Elections, Italy
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Catonsville couple found love in the sky in 1955
"In the air," she said. "In the clouds," was his answer. These were the responses when Catonsville residents Rosemarie Walsmann, 85, and her husband Manfred Walsmann, 83, were asked how they met nearly 60 years ago. He was 25. She was 27. He was going...
Tags: Africa, South Africa, Germany, Catonsville, Air France-KLM
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'American Horror Story Asylum' recap, 'The Coat Hanger'
What is it about guys named Morgan turning into serial killers? First there was Dexter Morgan and now Johnny Morgan, the modern-day Bloody Face, played by Dylan McDermott. At least Dexter saves his dark passenger for deserving victims. As Johnny tells...
Tags: Abortion, Psychiatry, Dylan McDermott, Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatrists
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The time is right for USNA Masqueraders' 'Titus Andronicus'
Showing her knack for timing, director Christy Stanlake has announced the U.S. Naval Academy Masqueraders will bookend Halloween with weekend performances of "Titus Andronicus" — "Shakespeare's first and bloodiest play" is the way she describes it...
Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Halloween, United States Naval Academy, Holidays, Ethics
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Happy 'Kanye West Presents Cruel Summer' leak day
In recent years, album release dates haven't mattered as much as "leak" days have. That trend continued when the compilation album from Kanye West and his G.O.O.D. Music clique — "Cruel Summer," an odd name for a record that will hit stores on...
Tags: R. Kelly, Thievery Corporation (music group), Google Inc., Apple iTunes, Ghostface Killah
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