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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...
Tags: Democratic Party, Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Dwayne Johnson
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Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion
He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...
Tags: Comcast Center (arena), Nelson Mandela, Awards and Prizes, Executive Branch, Roman Catholicism
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A new day for U.S. manufacturing
Remember the 1980s? It was to be the decade of Japanese dominance. A post-Jimmy Carter America would be unable to compete with the efficient Japanese jobs machine. Aging technology, lazy management and high-cost labor would ensure America's rapid demise...
Tags: Plant Openings, Microsoft Corporation, Dow Chemical Co., Computing and Information Technology Industry, China
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The Bush library and the willing suspension of disbelief
To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior last week at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The honoree's father,...
Tags: 2012 Republican National Convention, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Elections, George W. Bush
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Time editors discuss new book about presidents at McDaniel College
The four-story brownstone near Washington's Lafayette Park is one of the most exclusive hotels in the world. There's a fireplace in the master bathroom, and the thread counts on the sheets is high enough to rival the Four Seasons. And only four people...
Tags: Presidents of the United States, Newspaper and Magazine, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Habitat for Humanity International
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The lady was a champ
MANCHESTER, England -- There is a story about Margaret Thatcher that is probably apocryphal but speaks volumes about the strength of Britain's first female prime minister, who died Monday at age 87. Following her election in 1979, the story goes that...
Tags: Conservative Party (UK), Elizabeth II, United Kingdom, David Cameron, Periodicals
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Out of the White House and onto the dole
In this era of huge federal debt and fiscal dysfunction, it's less than heartening to learn from the Congressional Research Service that the nation's four living former chief executives got a total of $3.7 million in pensions and operating expenses last...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Pension and Welfare, Interior Policy, Bill Clinton, Gerald Ford
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Lawrence W. "Larry" Simns Sr., bay advocate
Lawrence W. "Larry" Simns Sr., a fourth-generation waterman and longtime advocate for the Chesapeake Bay and those who make their living from its waters, died Thursday of bone cancer at his Rock Hall home. He was 75. "Larry stood sentry for the...
Tags: Conservation, Aquaculture, Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Congress, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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Helen B. Wolfe, advocate of women's rights
Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79.
With a head of thick...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Feminism, State University of New York, Cornell University, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Argo, Lincoln and the politics of Hollywood
The Oscar for best picture was won by "Argo," the true tale of a secret rescue mission in Iran during the Carter administration. It beat out "Lincoln," the story of how black Americans were rescued from slavery. Does this mean Jimmy Carter's stock is on...
Tags: Ben Affleck, Argo (movie), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency
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Jerry Brown, a survivor at the top of his game
It's said in politics that timing is everything, that success depends on picking the right time to make one's move. When Barack Obama decided in early 2007 to launch a presidential bid as a freshman U.S. senator at age 45, the naysayers wondered why he...
Tags: Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Regional Authority
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Francis Scott Key basketball team now among leaders in Carroll County
Jimmy Carter was the newly-inaugurated President and Reggie Jackson had yet to take a swing with the New York Yankees when the Francis Scott Key boys' basketball team last made an appearance in the state semifinals. The Eagles have seen plenty of lean...Tags: New York Yankees, Comcast Center (arena), Francis Scott Key, Reggie Jackson, Basketball
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