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Obama names former CRS head ambassador to the Vatican
President Barack Obama has nominated Ken Hackett, the humanitarian who served as president of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services for 18 years, as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The announcement, made Friday, means Hackett will become the...
Tags: Vatican City, Catholic Relief Services, Christianity, Barack Obama, Haiti Earthquake (2010)
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St. Mary's stumbled but it's still a great school
As I read Anne D. Neal's recent attack on St. Mary's College of Maryland, I immediately knew she had an agenda even before learning its source ("Cautionary campus tale," May 30). My daughter graduated from St. Mary's in 2011 with a major in English...Tags: Graduation, Students, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Peace Corps opens door for same-sex couples to serve together
The U.S. Peace Corps will begin accepting applications from same-sex couples who wish to serve overseas together for the first time next month, the agency announced Tuesday. The move follows a broader shift by the Obama administration toward publicly...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Gays and Lesbians, John F. Kennedy
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Nibbling, sipping part of Gramercy Mansion's 'Spring Has Sprung' tour
They came. They sniffed. They smiled. They sipped. They left — still smiling. That pretty much describes the behavior of guests at last weekend's Spring Has Sprung Tea and Garden Tour at Gramercy Mansion in Stevenson. The nearly 50...
Tags: Tourism and Leisure
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Roland Park Country School students walk to raise money
Roland Park Country School graduate Jocelyn Young-Hyman, who is now a Peace Corps volunteer, has big plans for the money raised Thursday by her alma mater in its annual All-School Walk. Young-Hyman, a 2007graduate of the all-girls school on Roland...
Tags: Gardens and Parks, Students, Tourism and Leisure, Teaching and Learning, Roland Park
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Joseph A. Miklasz, attorney
Joseph A. Miklasz, a trial attorney who practiced in Glen Burnie and was a wine collector, died of cancer Sunday at Stella Maris Hospice. He was 71 and lived in Crownsville. Born in Baltimore, he was raised in Severn and in East Baltimore, where he...
Tags: Catonsville, Toll Brothers Inc, University of Miami, Farms, Butchers Hill
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Living on the bay and loving it
Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Fiction, Land Price, Baltimore County, Building Material
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Peace Corps Week a time of reflection for former volunteers
Sally Foster worked in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as a health educator in the early 1960s. Mike McQuestion was stationed in the Philippines in the mid-1970s, trying to teach basic preventive medicine to mountain villagers. Chris Carneal...
Tags: Brazil, Health and Safety at School, Roland Park, AIDS, Central African Republic
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CIA deception threatens global effort to eradicate polio
The news that the Central Intelligence Agency had been running a fake vaccination program in Pakistan first surfaced in 2011 and quickly ignited fears that the covert operation could compromise the global campaign to eradicate polio. Late last month, a...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Health and Safety at Work, Communicable Diseases, Pakistan, Polio
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O'Malley sharply critical of GOP at convention
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley offered pointed criticism of Republicans in an address to the Democratic convention on Tuesday, arguing that President Barack Obama is best suited to right the U.S. economy while GOP nominee Mitt Romney's policies would...Tags: Government, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Parties and Movements, Long Island, Baltimore County
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Young adults on a mission to improve lives of others
As a volunteer with Notre Dame Mission Volunteers, Sarah Kennedy, 23, works full-time for Alternative Directions, a Baltimore nonprofit that helps people who are in prison or leaving prison. She runs a program called CHIP, which mentors children of...
Tags: Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania), Prisons, Fells Point
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