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When well-educated politicians cry 'snob'
With the Republican presidential nomination contest in high gear, Marylanders might be forgiven for smiling. The word "snob" has returned with full force to presidential politics after a four-decade hiatus. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (Penn State University...Tags: Civil Rights, Regional Authority, Teachers, Barack Obama, Robert F. Kennedy
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Marjorie G. Gilbert, jewelry store owner
Marjorie G. Gilbert, a retired certified public accountant who co-owned a Baltimore County jewelry business, died of pneumonia complications Feb. 13 at Sinai Hospital. She was 88 and lived in Owings Mills.
Born Marjorie Gross in Newark, N.J., she was a...Tags: Mickey Mantle, Imogen Cunningham, Restaurants, World War II (1939-1945), Barack Obama
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Herman Cain: Scandals just don't kill a candidacy like they used to
Once again, temporarily at least, scandal has mesmerized American politics. This time the target is Herman Cain, the up-from-nowhere restaurant executive who is battling back against the latest sexual harassment or misconduct allegations that have...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Richard Nixon, White House, Sex Crimes, Elections
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Powell to offer array of evidence
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin L. Powell will make a compelling case to the United Nations Security Council next week when he outlines the evidence against Iraq, but he is unlikely to produce a "smoking gun" or re-create what has come to be...Tags: National Government, Military Equipment, Armed Conflicts, Russia, Saddam Hussein
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Blix tells U.N. Iraq refuses to comply on disarmament
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The chief U.N. weapons inspector told the United Nations Security Council yesterday that Iraq has not accepted the need to disarm, even to avoid war, and could possess thousands of chemical weapons, thousands of gallons of a germ warfare...Tags: Osama bin Laden, Military Equipment, Armed Conflicts, Saddam Hussein, Bioterrorism
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U.S. threatens nuclear force in warning to Iraq
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - The White House chief of staff refused yesterday to rule out the possibility of using nuclear weapons during a war with Iraq to prevent what he called a "holocaust" caused by the possible use of weapons of mass destruction by Baghdad....Tags: CBS Corp., Osama bin Laden, Military Equipment, Armed Conflicts, Russia
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Massachusetts amateur hour
Bill PressSomewhere, Newt Gingrich is laughing. Sure, we made fun of him during the primaries. And we cheered when Mitt Romney poured in the big bucks and crushed him like a bug. But today Newt's got the last laugh. Because all those questions he raised about Mitt...Tags: Political Candidates, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Companies and Corporations, Haley Barbour
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Lit Fest holds on to that printed feeling
As obvious as this may sound at first, the 28th annual Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, which concluded Sunday afternoon and drew an estimated 130,000 attendees and 200 authors to the South Loop on a sweltering, cloudless weekend, was not the kind...
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The American idea
Paul GreenbergThe role of great men in history is often noted, but they may exercise little influence compared to great ideas. John Maynard Keynes, who was not an historian or a statesman but an economist, noted that ideas, "both when they are right and when they are...Tags: Walt Whitman, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783)
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By George, ‘Leighton Courthouse’ shows how to play the naming game
Change of SubjectGeorge N. Leighton, 6/29/2012. Tribune photo by Terence Antonio James In a startling break with tradition, Cook County has just named its central courthouse after former Judge George N. Leighton. The tradition I’m referring to isn’t the long-... -
There he goes again, or: A primer on Obamanomics
Paul GreenbergFor some four years now, Barack Obama has been telling us that the dramatic tax cuts that George W. Bush got passed in order to encourage investment, rev up the economy, create jobs, and generally let Americans keep more of their own money were really a...Tags: Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Bankruptcy, Elections, Business
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It's over -- it's been over
Paul GreenbergThe race for the Republican presidential nomination has been over for some time, and now Rick Santorum has finally admitted it -- and let it be over. At last. He's run a strong race, and is to be congratulated on it. He just ran too long. Now this losing...Tags: Political Candidates, Mitt Romney, Elections, Republican National Conventions, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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