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From Sun Magazine: 'My Donald'
July 22, 2011
He was 49 and on his way to political greatness. She was 22 and picketing City Hall mostly for the fun of it.
It took hot pants to bring them together.
Paired with white go-go boots and Jeanne Bell's lithe young physique, the red short-...Tags: Heart Attack, William Donald Schaefer, Local Elections, Executive Branch, Marriage
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Pair tried to steal historical documents worth millions, police say
Barry H. Landau has rubbed elbows with presidents, helped plan inaugurations, and claims one of the largest collections of Oval Office memorabilia outside museums and presidential libraries. His Manhattan apartment includes a collection of china from...Tags: Court Preliminary, Police Investigations, White House, Television, Frank Sinatra
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Lawyers say gun ruling likely to withstand appeal
Constitutional lawyers said Tuesday that a recent federal court decision overturning a portion of Maryland's gun-control law will likely be upheld on appeal and called the ruling groundbreaking given the liberalism of the state from which it came.
The...Tags: Washington, DC, Civil Rights, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Maryland, College Park, Trials
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Drop the 'two-war' plan
As defense strategists at the Pentagon carry out their review of how to make roughly $400 billion in cuts over 10 years, and Congress considers the possibility of reductions twice as large as required by the supercommittee's failure to reach agreement,...Tags: Armed Forces, Wars and Interventions, Defense, The Pentagon, Rebellions
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Demise of a centrist nominee dream
That pop you may or may not have heard the other day was the bursting pipedream of a centrist presidential candidate outside the establishment parties. The organizers of a group calling itself Americans Elect decided to close shop after failing to find...
Tags: Joe Biden, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Political Candidates, Executive Branch, U.S. Electoral College
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What Santorum wants, what Romney needs
In the spring of 1980, the race for the Republican presidential nomination got nasty. The front-runner, Ronald Reagan, said his main challenger,George H.W. Bush, wasn't a real conservative. Mr. Bush went on the attack, accusing Mr. Reagan of peddling...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Ron Paul, Political Candidates, NBC (tv network)
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Wanted: The second best man or woman for the job
With his nomination as the Republican candidate for president all but wrapped up, Mitt Romney now faces the challenging task of selecting a running mate. What was once a fairly ho-hum matter (the running gag in the 1931 Gershwin musical lampooning...
Tags: Executive Branch, John Edwards, Walter Mondale, George W. Bush, Regional Authority
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Carjacking murder of Pam Basu subject of former county cop's book
No one who lived in Howard County 20 years ago is likely to have forgotten the horrendous carjacking and murder of Pam Basu. On Sept. 8, 1992, the Savage mother was taking her 2-year-old daughter to her first day of nursery school when two men pulled...
Tags: Murder, Safety of Citizens, Book, Health and Safety at School, Government
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The case for Romney
Years ago, a friend told me a story from her days living in South America. The movie "Wayne's World" had come out, and she went to see it. She spoke English, but it was interesting to read the Spanish subtitles.
For instance, early in the film, Wayne...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Movies, Barack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney
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Is the GOP handing the election to Obama?
The last time a Republican candidate for president defeated an incumbent Democrat running for reelection, the primary returns were a lopsided affair. Ronald Reagan won convincingly in New Hampshire and South Carolina (after George H.W. Bush took Iowa) and...Tags: White House, Jimmy Carter, Ron Paul, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich
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Lessons learned in Iraq, Rwanda
Letter writer Paul R. Schlitz Jr. can't seem to grasp the fact that an acknowledgment of Iraq's potential to harbor weapons of mass destruction doesn't necessarily indicate current agreement with the decision to invade, nor does it require someone to...Tags: Rwanda, Wars and Interventions, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Ron Paul, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Influential Harford Community College leader O'Connell dies
Considering the influence he had on Harford County's only institution of higher learning, Alfred C. O'Connell's death last month drew little notice in a community where he lived for many years and left a huge imprint, according to a longtime colleague and...Tags: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Washington, DC, Health and Safety at School, Trinity College, Colleges and Universities
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