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Bill Cosby: Obama has Bush to thank
The Swampby Mark Silva As The Cosby Show celebrates its 25th anniversary this coming Sunday, star Bill Cosby is posed the question: Did the black family that he presented to the American television-viewing audience in the 1980s pave the way for......Tags: James Crowley, Michelle Obama, Dick Cheney, The Washington Post, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Michelle Obama's Roots: Gates' way
The Swampby Mark Silva The genealogic discovery of a white great-great-great grandfather in the family tree of First Lady Michelle Obama is a quintessential American coda to a year of living divisively. The genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who spent several months in....Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Michelle Obama, Celebrity Parents, National Basketball Association, Culture
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Obama: Energy 'naysayers marginalized'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, citing a global competition for development of clean-energy alternatives to oil, insisted today that the United States must win that race and called on Congress to enact legislation also intended to curb climate...Tags: Renewable Energy, Jon Corzine, Global Warming, Linda McMahon, Christopher Dodd
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Blue moon rising, good decade coming
The Swampby Mark Silva Once in a blue moon -- and we're not talking about the designer (really corporate) beer that the Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant ordered up for that "beer summit'' at the White House -- something really good happens.......Tags: Jimi Hendrix, Alcoholic Beverages, Roger Federer, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Facebook
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Obama: Massachusetts, agenda on line
The Swampby James Oliphant and Mark Z. Barabak BOSTON -- President Obama made a rare campaign-style visit today in a last-ditch effort to salvage the flagging Senate bid of Democratic candidate Martha Coakley and preserve the Democrats' decisive 60-vote majority...Tags: Northeastern University, White House, Boston, Curt Schilling, Republican Party
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Elena Kagan: Money in the bank?
The SwampWhite House staffers deliver Elena Kagan's questionnaire responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. (AP/Harry Hamburg) by David G. Savage Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan says she has $1.76 million in assets -- mostly in bank accounts and...Tags: Justice System, John Paul Stevens, Bill Clinton, Local Government, White House
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Obama's deficit-cutters: Lineup named
The Swampby Mark Silva The lineup for the deficit-cutting commission that President Barack Obama has created is starting to take shape. The president's front line includes David Cote, CEO of Honeywell International, and Alice Rivlin, a fomer White House Office of....Tags: Dick Durbin, University of Pennsylvania, Budgets and Budgeting, Congressional Budget Office, Colleges and Universities
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Diane Lane embraces age and 'Youth'
When Diane Lane first arrived at the Goodman Theatre to begin rehearsals for David Cromer's much-anticipated fall production of Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," someone handed the famous actress — star of such movies as "Rumble Fish,"...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Secretariat (movie) , Man of Steel (movie), Celebrities, Superman (fictional character)
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'Fish Men' is at its best when chess is front and center
Oxymoronic as the whole notion may seem, chess hustlers are one of the pleasures of urban life. I've watched naive amateur players get taken for hard cash by well-masked intellectual killers in Washington Square Park in New York, Harvard Square in...
Tags: Goodman Theatre, Michigan Avenue, Chess Playing, Social Sciences, Game Playing
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The offal truth about animal parts
As Halloween approaches, we're reminded that while eye of newt and wing of bat may not have invaded the nation's restaurant menus, neck of lamb and ear of pig most certainly have. It's commonplace to find pig ears, head cheese and pig's feet on menus....
Tags: Salads, Cheddar Cheese, Halloween, Dining and Drinking, Atwood Cafe
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A novel about an outsider
"The Woman Upstairs" by Claire Messud, Knopf, 264 pages, $25.95. Nora Eldridge, an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Mass., is a reliable neighbor who has always lived on the fringe of other people's lives. She wanted to become an artist. A new...Tags: Taiwan
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Do job titles mean anything anymore?
There was a time when job titles were simple. You were either "the boss" or "not the boss." That has changed dramatically now that we have fancy things such as workers rights and business cards and egos. Some companies are staffed by small armies of...
Tags: Employment, Women's Health, Rex Huppke, Media Industry, Labor Legislation
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