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Nation prepares tributes to Reagan
From Tribune Wire ServicesSANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Former President Ronald Reagan will be honored with five days of memorial services, culminating Friday with a funeral at the Washington National Cathedral and a sunset burial at his presidential library in California, Reagan's...Tags: Pacific Ocean, Government, Medical Services, Merv Griffin, Nancy Reagan
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State funeral is bound by rules and tradition
From Wire ReportsWASHINGTON - Former President Ronald Reagan will be memorialized at the first presidential state funeral in more than three decades, a ritual rich in traditions from the country's earliest days. Presidents, former presidents and presidents-elect are...Tags: Government, Henry Clay, History, Richard Nixon, Mount Vernon
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Timeline: Thurgood Marshall
July 2, 1908: Born in West Baltimore. Later attends Samuel Coleridge Taylor Elementary School and Booker T. Washington Junior High. 1921-1925: Attends Colored High and Training School (which became Frederick Douglass High School in 1923). 1929:...Tags: Booker T. Washington, Government, Schools, Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court
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Shock and grief echo Challenger disaster, Sept. 11
Sun StaffFew people even knew that the space shuttle Columbia had taken off two weeks ago, a routine launch that failed to capture the hearts and imaginations of Americans who once held their breath at every takeoff and landing. But as a morning of shock slid...Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Real Estate Agents, Alan Cohen, Starbucks Corp., Maryland
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Solemn vote ends 'year of agony'
Sun ReporterSuspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...Tags: Fred Upton, History, Television Industry, Henry J Hyde, Arlen Specter
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Congress endorses the use of force
Sun National StaffWASHINGTON - Voting overwhelmingly, Congress gave President Bush sweeping powers yesterday to use military force to avenge Tuesday's terrorist attacks. But it stopped short of granting the president open-ended authority to prevent future attacks. The...Tags: Gordon Smith, Defense, Richard A. Gephardt, Barbara Lee, Elections
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U.N., Iraqi officials to meet today on inspectors' return
Associated PressUNITED NATIONS - U.N. weapons inspectors, who will lay down demands to Iraq today about getting back into the country, may not get the unfettered access demanded by the United States unless the Security Council alters a deal made in 1998. The...Tags: Jim McDermott, Weaponry, Government, Vietnam War (1955-1975), John McCain
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'Columbia is lost'
Sun StaffIn a tragic echo of the Challenger disaster, the seven astronauts on the space shuttle Columbia died yesterday when the spacecraft broke apart over Texas just moments before its scheduled landing and disappeared in a trail of fire, smoke and debris....Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Metal and Mineral, Employees, Rocketry, Maryland
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Other actors in office
Sun StaffLong before Governor Terminator, before Congressman Gopher and Congressman Cooter, even before Governor Gipper, there was Governor Pappy. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, host of a popular daily music program on Texas radio, swept into the Texas governor's...Tags: Grandy, Biscuits, Television Industry, CBS Corp., Richard Nixon
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Mfume might be glad to go, but the NAACP will miss him
KWEISI MFUME had that "Lyndon Johnson" gleam in his eye. The man whose name means "conquering son of kings" strode yesterday into the press room of the NAACP's national headquarters to a welcome fit for, well, a conquering son of kings. The assembled...Tags: Civil Unrest, Government, Bill Clinton, Internal Revenue Service, Julian Bond
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