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One more vote for Marvin Miller for the Hall of Fame
The Baltimore SunSince the news broke that baseball union pioneer Marvin Miller passed away this week, there has been a growing media chorus advocating his induction in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It certainly is long overdue. Miller changed baseball for the...Tags: Babe Ruth, Baseball, Jackie Robinson, Arbitration, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
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Orioles ownership applauds Duquette, Showalter for moves they didn't make
The Baltimore SunOrioles executive vice president Dan Duquette, newly locked in along with manager Buck Showalter until 2018, said Thursday that he has fielded “umpteen” trade proposals from other teams desiring the Orioles’ top young players. But...Tags: Baseball, Spring Training, Buck Showalter, National League, Cy Young Award
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Who will be our next profiles in courage?
One of the great works in politics and political rhetoric is John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize-winning Profiles in Courage. Courage has always been important to the Kennedys, who created a Profile in Courage Award a generation ago, and the awards, although...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Democratic Party, Public Officials, Towson University, Andrew Johnson
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Albert H. Ford, rose grower
Albert H. Ford, a retired Bendix Field Engineering Corp. executive who was a noted Maryland rosarian, died Jan. 3 of pneumonia at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center. He was 90.
The son of a newspaperman and a homemaker, Albert Henry...Tags: Psychology, Judges, Justice System, Medical Specialization, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Open house builds interest in new Davenport Preschool
Anticipation is on the rise over plans for a new preschool in Hampton. Although it might have taken some imagination during Saturday's open house to picture the finished interior of the new Davenport Preschool in the small, plain rooms of its new home,...
Tags: Schools, Christianity, Preschools, Early Learning
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That pesky Second Amendment
The Baltimore SunBack in 2008 I put up a short post on the grammar of the Second Amendment, pointing out that the introductory absolute puts the right of bearing arms in the context of the establishment of a militia. It would have been interesting to expand on that in...Tags: Firearms, Wars and Interventions, Freedom of the Press
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Experts weigh in on battle of emotions in Ravens-Colts matchup
For obvious reasons, the Ravens will be totally psyched to join Ray Lewis on his "last ride" when they take the field at M&T Bank Stadium in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs on Sunday. The Indianapolis Colts also will show up with hearts afire...
Tags: Psychology, Chuck Pagano, Medical Specialization, Ray Lewis, Football
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Helaman Ferguson's sculpture blends the artistic, mathematic
The marriage of two disciplines, mathematics and art, may seem an unlikely union given an artist’s innate desire for free expression. Meet Helaman Ferguson, whose sculpture is known for its root in mathematical design. Ferguson, of North Laurel,...
Tags: Artists, Fine Artists, Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, University of Washington
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Orioles feel optimism of fans looking forward to next season
In his seven years in an Orioles uniform, right fielder Nick Markakis couldn't talk about the upcoming season as optimistically as he did on Tuesday. Surely, every offseason comes with its share of hopefulness. But this one, coming off the Orioles first...
Tags: J.J. Hardy, Nate McLouth, Baseball, Spring Training, C.C. Sabathia
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Connecting the social and the spatial
Amy Lynne Shelton has a closet full of toys at the Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychology lab: Wooden human figures with movable joints, Lego and model train buildings, toy cameras and wooden triangular blocks — some with eyes, some without....Tags: Psychology, Behavioral Conditions, Medical Specialization, Colleges and Universities, Trials
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Leonard Pitts: Better to lose with grace than to win with deceit
One guy was among the greatest losers in the history of politics, the other, one of the biggest winners in all of sports. They were unalike men who shared little except recent headlines. But there was, in that brief juxtaposition, an object lesson for...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Republican Party, Lance Armstrong, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Tour de France
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Conservatives long for the sad days of yesteryear
Well, I sure got that one wrong. Four years ago, on the eve of the last presidential election, I wrote in this space of how the country has spent much of the last three decades "re-litigating" the 1960s, arguing over the changes wrought in that decade....
Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Labor Legislation, Elections, The Miami Herald
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