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Joel Brinkley: UN Human Rights Council is irredeemable
You should probably sit down before you read this. Syria has put its name up for membership on the United Nations Human Rights Council, and it will most likely win a seat. Yes, Syria, the state that has slaughtered close to 15,000 of its own people over...
Tags: China, United Nations, Pol Pot, International Organizations, Joel Brinkley
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War everywhere but on the campaign trail
Here's an important fact you haven't heard much about in the presidential campaign: The armed forces of the United States are at war in at least four countries, and that number could increase any day. About 87,000 Americans are still fighting in...
Tags: Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Afghanistan, Armed Conflicts, Democratic Party, Republican Party
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Cynthia Earl Kerman, Villa Julie professor
Cynthia Earl Kerman, a retired Villa Julie College faculty member who wrote biographies of a Quaker economist and a Harlem Renaissance writer, died of pneumonia July 22 at the Glen Meadows retirement community. She was 89 and had lived in Lauraville....Tags: Islamabad (Pakistan), Photography, Colleges and Universities, World War II (1939-1945), Authors
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Masters World Cup puts Muzammal Malik on international stage at last
Athletes tend to dread their 40th birthdays. They view the milestone as an expiration date, as a final signal to end their playing careers and transition into something more sedentary. Muzammal Malik never got that memo. Now, at 45 years old, the...
Tags: Field Hockey, Summer Olympics, Olympic Games, England
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Amid the tragedy of the Sikh temple shooting, a triumph of American values
Sunday's mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin carried a depressing familiarity. Every few weeks in America, people somewhere are shot en masse, a gunman is captured or killed, and the debate over gun control flourishes on opinion pages. But this...
Tags: Islam, Personal Weapon Control, Shootings, Minority Groups, Interior Policy
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Baltimore: No drone zone?
Any American who believes putting drones into the hands of the police is a good idea must be out of their minds ("Drones tested for increased domestic use," Aug. 6). Before a municipality buys its first drone, citizens need to take a long, hard look at...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Engaged: Louann Magi and Zach Shariff
Wedding Day: September 8, 2012 Her story: Louann Magi, 45, grew up in Bedford, Pennsylvania. She is an interior designer and owner of L'Image Design Studio and lives in Glenwood. His story: Zack Shariff, 56, grew up in Pakistan and moved to Maryland...
Tags: Howard County, Family, House and Home, Arts, Italy
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Is there room for compassion in the American empire?
Beyond the spectacle of the presidential race, the Washington consensus pursues business as usual. This is the season in which I wonder, with an ever-intensifying sense of urgency, what it would take to turn our political system into a democracy. "And...
Tags: Elections, Culture, The Pentagon, Somalia, Sociology
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Lutherville-Timonium youngsters embrace cricket in summer league
On fields where baseball has been played for decades, young athletes last Saturday were unpacking bats and balls for a friendly game on the diamond. But it wasn't America's pastime. Youngsters in the Lutherville-Timonium Recreation Council were...
Tags: New York Yankees, Cricket, FIFA World Cup, Baseball, England
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A turning point in terror prosecutions
The conviction of a former Baltimore County man in a deadly hotel bombing in Indonesia is seen as a turning point in the long-delayed prosecution of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay.
Majid Shoukat Khan, who on Wednesday admitted to conspiring with Osama...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Yale University, University of Maryland, College Park, Emergency Incidents, Trials
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From Owings Mills High School to a cell at Guantanamo
A studious young man with an aptitude for computers, Majid Shoukat Khan was working as a database administrator in a high-rise office building in Tysons Corner, Va., on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.
After American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the...Tags: Trials, Police Investigations, Southeast Asia, Karachi (Pakistan), Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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9/11 defendants refuse to participate in arraignment
Before self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was brought into court Saturday, Carole Reuben of Potomac said his arraignment would mark "the beginning of the end of the process." Her son, Todd Hayes Reuben, was a passenger on American...Tags: Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Eric Holder, Fort Meade (military base), Trials, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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