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Cardin to meet with family of Russian lawyer
Sen. Ben Cardin is scheduled to meet Thursday with the family of a Russian lawyer whose death sparked an international outcry over human rights in that country, renewing focus on a controversy that has complicated U.S.-Russian relations at a sensitive...
Tags: Human Rights, U.S. Department of State, Government, Civil Rights, Harvard University
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Internet sales tax is good for Md. business
Imagine you are a benevolent monarch and you have the power to institute a sales tax. (Even benevolent government has to be financed, after all.) Would you set one up that gave preference to sellers located outside your kingdom and penalized your own...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Amazon.com Inc., Government, Tea Party Movement, Business Enterprises
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W. Kennedy Cromwell III, foreign service officer
W. Kennedy Cromwell III, a retired foreign service officer who spent the majority of his 32-year career in Africa, died Dec. 13 from complications of a stroke at the Fairhaven retirement community in Sykesville.
The former Washington and Annapolis...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Weaponry, Idi Amin, Government, U.S. Army
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History Matters: Sports results from 100 years ago
100 years ago Base ball: Alphonians 4 - Criterions 0' "The fourth meeting of the Criterion Seconds of Baltimore and the crack Alphonians at Woodstock, resulted in a fourth victory for the local lads. The winners bunched enough hits in the first,...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Government, Germany
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Judy Agnew, vice president's wife and Md. first lady
Elinor Isabel "Judy" Agnew, who as the wife of former Baltimore County Executive, Maryland Gov. and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew preferred quiet domesticity to that of the political limelight, died June 20 in Rancho Mirage, Calif. She was 91.
"She...Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Government, Feminism, Timonium
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Egypt can hold Mubarak accountable for his crimes; why can't we try George Bush?
Egypt has sought and found accountability for Hosni Mubarak's many crimes ("Life sentence against Egypt's Mubarak caps fall from war hero to convict," June 2). While this is cause for celebration in Egypt, it raises a disturbing contrast with how we...Tags: Egypt, Punishment, Hosni Mubarak, Government, George W. Bush
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UMBC president named among world's most influential leaders
Freeman A. Hrabowski III, the longtime president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County whose trailblazing work in educating minority students in the sciences has catapulted the university onto the national stage, has been recognized as one of the...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Coppin State University, Newspaper and Magazine, Teaching and Learning
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What will the U.S. response be to Syria's crimes against humanity?
The Syrian government's increasingly brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters is putting the Obama administration's revamped Middle East policy to its first real test. It's one thing to say U.S. policy toward the region should spring from America's core...Tags: Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Bashar Assad, Syria, Government
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Emails show O'Malley's close ties to Perdue lawyer
A series of emails between Gov. Martin O'Malley and Perdue's corporate lawyer shows what an environmental group calls a "cozy relationship" between the two law school classmates as Maryland's chief executive weighs farm pollution regulations of concern to...Tags: Inner Harbor, Worcester County, Solar Energy, Agriculture, Republican Governors Association
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Protesters, police prep for G-8 summit at Camp David
In the little town of Thurmont (population not quite 6,200), the recession has taken a heavy toll on Main Street, but things are picking up as residents prepare for next month's G8 Summit at nearby Camp David. The Cozy Country Inn has been busy booking...Tags: Italy, Frederick County (Virginia), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Government, White House
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Outside G-8 summit, few protesters
— A high-profile meeting of world leaders at Camp David drew only sparse protests Friday despite extensive security preparations by local officials. Frederick County closed public schools Friday and police said they felt obligated to "prepare for...Tags: G8, Europe, Frederick County (Virginia), Government, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Good fences made for good neighbors in 1912
100 Years Ago Of-fensive neighbors In the Howard County courthouse column: "After the completion of the criminal docket, the civil docket was taken up and the first case on it was the one of Curtis vs. Thompson. This grew out of a dispute over a...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Electrical Appliance, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Robert Frost, Government
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