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Canavan is the right choice [Editorial]
The selection of Barbara Canavan to be the interim superintendent of Harford County Public Schools was a very good choice. In some ways, it's perhaps a brilliant choice. Time, as it always does, will say for sure, but it certainly seems that Canavan is...Tags: Middle Schools, Schools, Public Schools
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National tour of 'American Idiot' hits Baltimore
“American Idiot,” the 2010 Broadway hit musical — the first punk rock opera, really — now at the Hippodrome, paints a searing portrait of restless, reckless youth, with all the sex, drugs and violence you’d expect from a...
Tags: Music Theater, Heroin, Music, Broadway Theater, Billie Joe Armstrong
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Md. National Guard preparing for final Afghan deployment
As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history. More than a decade of deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other battlegrounds since Sept. 11,...Tags: Iraq, Barack Obama, Armed Forces, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Department of Defense
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Cummings a disgrace in Benghazi hearings
The other day I sat down to watch some of the coverage of the Benghazi hearings and almost spit out my drink in utter dismay at the ignorance and incompetence of Rep. Elijah Cummings ("U.S. diplomat details attack in Benghazi," May 9). Now, mind you...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Elijah E. Cummings, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Congress, Benghazi
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Homeland security is pretty insecure
There are 875,000 on the terrorist watch list ("U.S. launches internal review," May 1). Unbelievable! This speaks out against the effectiveness of our immigration screening system and homeland security apparatus. Do I feel unsafe as I travel about my...
Tags: Personal Data Collection, Interior Policy
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Maybe Majid Khan rates a stateside prison cell
As a teenager in the mid-1990s, he moved with his parents to the United States from Pakistan. The family sought and received political asylum. They settled in Baltimore County and operated a gas station. The boy attended Owings Mills High School. His...
Tags: Barack Obama, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Al-Qaeda, Litigation, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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In Watch Center, an urgent search for man in danger
On a recent Friday night in the Baltimore Police Department's high-tech Watch Center, an urgent but vague tip came in — a murder witness was in danger. The tipster had overheard a conversation but knew only the nickname of the witness and had a...
Tags: Baltimore Police Department, Blackmail and Extortion, Witnesses, Murder, Conservation
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Whose side is the NRA on?
Terrorism, whether practiced in the U.S. or overseas, can be defined as a deliberate act of violence to instill fear in a target audience. We fight terrorism when we stay calm but resolute; we abet terrorists when our response is to panic or try to foment...
Tags: George W. Bush, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Firearms
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Gilman, St. Frances to take part in inaugural Brothers In Arms Football Classic
The Baltimore SunTwo defending champions from the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association will participate in the inaugural Under Armour Brothers In Arms Classic high school football event this fall. Gilman, which has won the past two MIAA A Conference...Tags: United States Naval Academy, Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, USA Today, Under Armour Inc., ESPN (tv network)
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Start snitching: the public's role in fighting terrorism
The arrest of three friends of the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing reminds us of the consequences of withholding information from investigators, lying or being an accessory after the fact for a friend or loved one. In other words, if...
Tags: FBI, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Times Square, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism
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The Bush library and the willing suspension of disbelief
To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior last week at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The honoree's father,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Elections, 2012 Republican National Convention
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Obama treats Boston bomber with kid gloves
One of the consequences of abandoning a standard by which right and wrong can be judged is our increasing inability to mete out punishment that fits the crime. In fact, too often we weigh extenuating circumstances rather than guilty actions. In the case...
Tags: Punishment, National Government, Barack Obama, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Israel
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