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Christopher Van Hollen Sr., ambassador
Christopher Van Hollen Sr., a retired Foreign Service officer and ambassador to Sri Lanka, died of Alzheimer's disease complications Jan. 30 at the Washington Home and Hospice. The former Baltimore resident was 90. Born in Baltimore and raised in...
Tags: Henry Kissinger, NATO, Richard Nixon, Central Intelligence Agency, Sri Lanka
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Local pizzeria expects Super Bowl boost
Growing up in the industrial city of Gujrat in Pakistan, Khawar Ghafoor played cricket but knew little about American football.
But in recent weeks Ghafoor, the owner of a Towson pizzeria, has been captivated by the Baltimore Ravens' run to the Super...Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl XLVII, Halloween, Peyton Manning, Denver Broncos
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UMBC mathematician Manil Suri publishes his third novel
In one way or another, Manil Suri has spent his entire life charting what happens when polar opposites are brought together in unexpected and at times startling juxtapositions. Suri, 53, is an acclaimed novelist, and a career mathematician who teaches...
Tags: Mumbai (India), Islam, India, Catonsville, Book
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Chris Cuomo leaves ABC for morning job at CNN
The Baltimore SunChris Cuomo is leaving ABC to join CNN, where he will have a "major role in a new CNN morning show," the cable channel announced Tuesday. Cuomo, who has served as co-anchor of "20/20" and chief law and justice correspondent for ABC, will also anchor and...Tags: Jerry Sandusky, Jeff Zucker, ABC (tv network), Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), 20 (tv program)
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Pakistan coming apart at the seams
Distracted by the deadly violence in Mali and Algeria, no one seems to be paying adequate attention to the tragicomedy under way in Pakistan. This matters because recent events demonstrate without equivocation that Pakistan is an utterly failed state --...
Tags: Asif Ali Zardari, Islam, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Government Ministers, National Government
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Fake vaccine and Kardashian pregnant, shame on us
Is it any wonder America is distrusted and held in contempt around the world? I was unaware my tax dollars were paying for fake polio vaccination programs in Pakistan (and no doubt elsewhere). What a dreadful way to "win the hearts and minds" of a...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Vaccines, Kanye West, Polio, Kim Kardashian
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CIA's outrageous fake vaccination plot
The CIA is probably smug and triumphant about its duplicitous vaccination drive in Abbotabad, a mission hatched to catch and kill Osama bin Laden ("A tainted polio program," Jan. 7). As a doctor, I cringe to think of this unscrupulous use of medicine...Tags: Vaccines, Polio, Chemical Industry, Whooping Cough, Diseases and Illnesses
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CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio
The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...
Tags: Health Organizations, Family, Diseases and Illnesses, Central Intelligence Agency, Osama bin Laden
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Books offer a picture of Chuck Hagel
Now that Chuck Hagel has been nominated by President Obama as defense secretary, his record is sure to be intensely scrutinized -- even more than it was when he was a senator. His past remarks on Israel and a gay man have already triggered some criticism....
Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Chuck Hagel, China, John McCain, Republican Party
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Don't rush out of Afghanistan
With Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his top advisers visiting Washington this week, huge questions about the future of the NATO mission there consume Afghan and American minds. How fast can we draw down our current total of 68,000 U.S. troops (and...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, U.S. Elections, John Allen, Hamid Karzai, NATO
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The shameful treatment of foreign children in U.S. custody
The State Department revealed this month that the United States has detained more than 200 children at its military prison in Afghanistan. I represent one of them, a boy who left his parents' home in Karachi, Pakistan in July 2008, when he was 14, on a...Tags: Prisons, Justice System, U.S. Military, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions
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Giant eagle snatches baby, attention away from the Person of the Year, the Voice
Did you hear Time has named its Person of the Year and The Voice has a new winner? Bored? Not impressed? Well, what if I told you I had a video of a GOLDEN EAGLE snatching a BABY!!!!! YouTube and Reddit are buzzing this morning with a video purportedly...
Tags: Feminism, YouTube, Auto Trends, Holidays, Google Inc.
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