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President to president
"You will be our president when you read this note," George Herbert Walker Bush wrote to Bill Clinton, the man who defeated him in the 1992 campaign, denying Mr. Bush the provisional vindication that reelection provides until history has its chance to...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, George H.W. Bush, The New York Times, George Bush, Richard Nixon
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Students' link to Pickersgill residents is written across generations
Kim Kern, a senior at Loch Raven High School and member of the school's English Honor Society, braced herself for the worse when she was told of the assignment to interview residents at Towson's Pickersgill Retirement Community and write their life...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), John Wayne, American Airlines, Inc., Students, Food Network (tv network)
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'Skip' Amass leads the charge for Westminster's 145th Memorial Day observance
Not long after the sun comes up on Memorial Day, and hours before Westminster's 145th Memorial Day parade kicks off at 9:30 a.m., Arnold "Skip" Amass will be on site, helping set up the TV cameras and tying up last-minute loose ends. Most of all, he'll...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), World War II (1939-1945), Memorial Day, Cancer, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Government can spur a slumping economy by rebuilding the nation's infrastructure
America is at its best when our guiding principles of free enterprise and giving people a helping hand work together. The free enterprise system created our national wealth and employment opportunities. However, free enterprise also eliminated 3 million...Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Employment Opportunities
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Doctors group says no junk food for the Obamas
First Lady Michelle Obama is on a mission to get our kids to eat healthy, but every now and then she is known to indulge on a cheeseburger or other food that is not so good for the body. A few years ago she made a lunch run with staff to a Five Guys...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Drugs and Medicines, Joe Biden, Healthy Diet, Hot Dogs
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Romney: The ideal foil for Democrats' class warfare campaign
It was going to happen anyway, but Mitt Romney's wealth and history as a healer of troubled corporations doubly assures that this year's presidential campaign will see a return in spades to good old "class warfare." David Axelrod, President Obama's chief...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Lyndon B. Johnson, Theodore Roosevelt, Joe Biden, Occupy Wall Street
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The curse of Mitt's millions
Although Mitt Romneyis now on the brink of nomination as the 2012 Republican presidential standard-bearer, the question remains as to why so much doubt lingers about him. A central concern seems to be that he's just too rich to understand the problems...
Tags: Mitt Romney, John F. Kennedy, Political Candidates, Thomas Jefferson, Republican Party
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Effort under way to restore New Deal murals in Ellicott City
As a 5-year-old who adored her father, Shirley Bossom contentedly tagged along with him 70 years ago on daily errands that often included business in the granite-clad Ellicott City Post Office on Main Street.
The lifelong Ellicott City resident recalls...Tags: Painting, Ellicott City, Davy Crockett, Howard County, Arts
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Thief may have sold more historic documents
Document thief Barry Landau may have sold more of the national treasures he stole from museums — including the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, where his scheme unraveled — than previously thought, according to the National Archives...Tags: Lawyers, Prosecution, Punishment, Abraham Lincoln, John Hancock
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A distinctively American dictionary
The Baltimore SunI was not around for the conception of the Dictionary of American Regional English and was only generally aware of its long gestation. And though I was not present for the accouchement, I did get to attend the christening yesterday. The National...Tags: Harvard University
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What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean by 'conservative'?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburglikes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony Kennedy, G.K. Chesterton, Antonin Scalia
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Obama and judicial review
Conservatives took great relish this week in attacking President Barack Obama for some ill-considered observations regarding the Supreme Court and its role in reviewing the administration's health care reform law. One would think that the nation's highest...
Tags: Mitt Romney, U.S. Department of Justice, Judges, Health Care Reform (2009), Laws
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