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Manuel M. Nicolaides, attorney
Manuel M. Nicolaides, an attorney who served for many years on the Baltimore County property tax appeals board, died of congestive heart failure Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital. The Timonium resident was 92. "Manny served with distinction for many...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Hospitals and Clinics, Baltimore County, Christian Orthodoxy, Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Brown to launch campaign for governor
Seeking to emerge from the long shadow of Gov. Martin O'Malley, Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown will make official Friday what everyone in Maryland politics has known for a long time: He's running for governor. Brown, 51, will announce his candidacy in his...
Tags: University of Baltimore, Douglas F. Gansler, Karmen Walker, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Martin O'Malley
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F-35's manufacturers put civilians in 'cockpit'
Rep. Donna F. Edwards slipped into the F-35 cockpit — a stationary demonstration model — and gave the jet a simulated spin, trying out the controls, shooting down enemy aircraft over the Chesapeake Bay and executing a celebratory roll. "This...
Tags: Public Officials, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Prince George's County, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Franklin W. Littleton Jr., decorated World War II veteran
Franklin W. Littleton Jr., a retired career Air Force officer and a businessman who was a big-band and Dixieland music aficionado, died April 20 of complications from dementia at Nichols Eldercare, an Edgewood assisted-living facility. The Bel Air...
Tags: University of Baltimore, Concerts, Alzheimer's Disease, Johns Hopkins University, Armed Forces
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Korean powder keg
North Korea's recent threats to target South Korean and American cities with atomic destruction have the shrill belligerence of a 6-year-old's temper tantrum. But while few analysts believe North Korea has the means to carry out its threats, U.S. and...Tags: Defense, South Korea, Korean War (1950-1953), Missile Systems, United Nations
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Time to re-think U.S. use of drones
Drones over Syria? Hold on! ("CIA eyes drone strikes in Syria," March 16). The whole business of drone strikes on nations with whom we are not at war gets murkier and more distasteful daily — and cries out for transparency from the Obama...
Tags: Al-Qaeda, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Central Intelligence Agency
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Carroll County native killed in Afghanistan helicopter crash
Sara Knutson Cullen was as comfortable in a dress and stiletto heels as she was smoking cigars and flying Black Hawk helicopters in Afghanistan — a driven and level-headed 27-year-old whose dreams stretched far beyond her roots in Carroll County,...
Tags: Accidental Death, West Point, Sykesville, United States Naval Academy, Ellicott City
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What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?
Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...
Tags: Diving, Heart Failure, Engineering, Explosions, Weaponry
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Sequester reveals military excess
If there is anything positive to come out of sequestration, maybe it will motivate us to take a good long look at what we spend on our military. Sixty percent of the 2013 discretionary budget proposed by President Barack Obama goes to the military...
Tags: Russia, Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, Weaponry, U.S. Navy
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Md. military bases brace for reductions
Midshipmen at the Naval Academy could spend less time training at sea, some gates into Fort Meade could be shut down and routine maintenance at military installations across the state could be delayed under federal budget cuts set to begin Friday....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Hospitals and Clinics, Unemployment, John Boehner, United States Naval Academy
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Obama the decider
A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to oust dictator...
Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, John McCain, Leon Panetta, Muammar Gaddafi, Diane Sawyer
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Obama returns to arms control -- just in time
President Barack Obama's call during the State of the Union address to reduce the threat of nuclear war could not have been more timely. The day before the president spoke, North Korea tested a primitive nuclear device, and the following day reports...
Tags: Nuclear Policy, Ronald Reagan, Treaties, Entertainment Events, Vladimir Putin
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