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COLUMN: Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
 Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that’s how he remembers it.  Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn’t go so bad...Tags: Minority Groups, Students, Entertainment Events, Coca-Cola Co., Parties and Movements
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Lloyd Waters: Jane Fonda says, 'get a life' - many can't
Mr. Harold Nichols, a gentleman from Mercersburg, Pa., took exception to my column, “No Political Apathy in Ohio, Baltimore or D.C.” He has the impression that I was a Mitt Romney supporter, and suggested that I should “get over the...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Brunswick (Frederick, Maryland), Hanoi (Vietnam), Mitt Romney
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Doris B. Glessner
janeth@herald-mail.comDoris “Doey” Glessner was known for her spunk and style. Her zest for life was contagious, and she shared her life lessons with others by example. Youngest son Neal Glessner of Hagerstown said an appropriate epitaph for his mother would be,...Tags: The Herald-Mail, Colleges and Universities, Stroke, Chemotherapy, Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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War, and a warning, at L.A. Times book awards
The darkly comic tale of soldiers spending Thanksgiving leave at a Dallas Cowboys game and a warning of the environmental threats to the female body were among the winners Friday at the annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. The awards to Ben Fountain in...
Tags: Authors, French Literature, Literature, Fiction, Book
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33rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes to be presented tonight
The 33rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be presented in a public ceremony Friday night at USC’s Bovard Auditorium. The awards are given in 10 categories, including biography, current interest, first fiction and adult literature. In...
Tags: Authors, Michael Chabon, Saudi Arabia, Literature, Fiction
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It's A Gray Area: Government is meddling in health care
Since my last column about health care appeared in this space, the system has continued to gallop toward disaster. Today, under the federal government's "leadership," we often pay several times more in the United States for the same prescription drugs...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Peace Corps, Insurance, Government, National Government
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Michael Steele, Richard Nixon, Parties and Movements, Rachel Maddow, NAACP
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OPINION: Good at campaigning, bad at governing
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewCHALK HILL, Pa. The old house leans unnaturally westward along a back road, as if chasing the setting sun into a surrounding meadow. Wildflowers splinter its wooden porch planks; a lonely patch of red paint marks an exterior long ago bleached by weather...Tags: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Personal Weapon Control, Pittsburgh, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Presidential alumni an elite (and small) club
At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...Tags: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Franklin Pierce, Government, Abraham Lincoln
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Bush library should be nonpartisan
— In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon's presidential materials from the Washington, D.C., area, where they had been kept as federal property...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Iraq, Wars and Interventions, George W. Bush, Richard Nixon
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Viola McFerren fought, won Fayette County civil rights battles
Commercial AppealViola Harris McFerren emerged as a powerful advocate for black residents of Fayette County, Tenn., in 1960, helping organize voter registration drives for them and eventually helping inspire President John F. Kennedy to intervene on their behalf when they...Tags: Head Start, Minority Groups, John F. Kennedy, Justice System, Somerville
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Head Start facing cuts
The Evening News and the Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind.The federal sequestration will slash classes and programs designed for impoverished and working-class residents and children in Southern Indiana unless Congress approves a budget soon. Officials with Community Action of Southern Indiana confirmed that...Tags: Head Start, Housing and Urban Planning, Public Housing, Section 8 (housing), Interior Policy
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