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What if Baltimore had landed the Olympics?
A little more than a decade ago, a group of business executives and civic leaders envisioned a moment when the world's eyes would be riveted by events in the Baltimore-Washington area: the lighting of a cauldron followed by two weeks of elite athletic...Tags: 2010 Winter Olympic Games, 2012 Summer Olympics, Field Hockey, Bank of America Corp., University of Baltimore
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Whether it's the economy or the Colorado shooting, the left and right view the world in predictable ways
The gulf between the American left and right continues to widen against a backdrop of high unemployment, weak growth and high octane cultural battles. I got to thinking about this growing divide in the aftermath of the Colorado movie theater shooting...
Tags: Chuck Schumer, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Frank Lautenberg, Barack Obama, Mortgages
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Violence against Sikhs stems from ignorance and fear
We do not yet know for certain what motivated a gunman to open fire on a Sikh temple in Wisconsin Sunday, killing six and wounding many others. But we do know that the Sikh community in America — for no reason other than its members' appearance...
Tags: Islam, Discrimination, Barack Obama, Parenting, Minority Groups
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Reapers and hellfire: Drones and the slide into perpetual war
The poison seeps slowly into the future. No one notices. "The Obama administration," the Wall Street Journal informs us, "plans to arm Italy's fleet of Reaper drone aircraft, a move that could open the door for sales of advanced hunter-killer drone...
Tags: U.S. Military, Media Industry, Italy, Newspaper and Magazine, Pakistan
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Tornadoes, derecho meant a whirlwind start to job for MEMA director Mallette
One afternoon in early June, Ken Mallette was in Jacksonville driving from a funeral when he got a text message about severe storms striking Maryland. One of the storms' 11 tornadoes had just ravaged nearby Fallston.
In his second week as executive...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Hurricane Katrina (2005), Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, 2016 Olympic Games
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Victims of 1998 Africa bombing still seeking compensation
Fourteen years after a truck bomb ripped through the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya, the families of 12 Americans killed in the attack are still fighting for federal compensation that has been granted to other terrorism victims — a struggle that has...Tags: Barbara A. Mikulski, U.S. Department of State, Roy Blunt, Lobbying, Al-Qaeda
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Baltimore filmmaker shines light on Islamic art
Matters of faith continue to divide people in dreadful ways, but there has always been at least one thing that religions have in common — the urge to express belief through art. That's a point driven home in a sumptuous 90-minute documentary by...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Susan Sarandon, Islam, Walters Art Museum, Roland Park
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TLC's 'On the Fly' has plenty of Baltimore's BWI
The Baltimore SunThe description at the TLC website for "On the Fly" gives a pretty good sense of the up-with-Southwest-Airlines tone that permeates this reality TV series premiering at 9 p.m. Thursday. "On the Fly gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the large-...Tags: Consumers, Southwest Airlines Co., Sex Crimes, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Amusement and Theme Parks
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Motivational speaker will appear at meeting of Hearing Loss Association
Now hear this, all you with hearing loss or family and friends of same. The Frederick Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America (which includes Howard County) will meet June 2 in the Community Room of the Manor House at Edenton Retirement...Tags: Students, Cancer, Charity, Genesis (music group), Special Olympics World Games
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Monsignor James Vincent Hobbs
Monsignor James Vincent Hobbs, former rector of the Basilica of the Assumption who during his tenure oversaw a two-year, $32 million restoration of the 200-year-old structure, died Monday of cardiac arrest at his Thurmont home.
He was 81.
James...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Heart Failure, Basilica of the Assumption, Colleges and Universities, Roland Park
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On Flag Day, inspiration abounds
For the better part of a decade, Jill Crowther-Peters has portrayed the widowed seamstress who stitched the Star-Spangled Banner, but on Thursday she had the chance to really feel what it was like to be her.
Crowther-Peters, dressed as 19th-century...Tags: Annapolis, Anthony G. Brown, Barack Obama, Francis Scott Key, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Obama's big gaffe
One of the saving graces of politics is that all practitioners, regardless of party or ideology, have equal opportunity to shoot themselves in the foot, and many take it. After months of Republican Mitt Romney repeatedly committing acts of self-...Tags: Joe Biden, White House, Mitt Romney, Scott Walker, National Government
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