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Fair representation for all
The battle over legislative redistricting in Maryland provides only the latest evidence of the failure of winner-take-all congressional elections in single-member districts. In these districts huge numbers of people will, by design, vote regularly for...Tags: Montgomery County (Maryland), Republican Party, African Americans, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Lucretia Fisher, city preservationist
Lucretia Billings Fisher, the leader of an early effort to save Fells Point and Federal Hill from a 1960s interstate highway, died of renal failure Friday at her Ruxton home. She was 98.
"Lu Fisher was way ahead of her time," said former Judge Thomas...Tags: Harborplace, Literature, Judges, Highway Transportation, National Aquarium Baltimore
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Awards: Scholarship recipients announced
The following students have been named as recipients of the Gloria Washington-Wallace Young Leaders Scholarship for the 2010-2011 academic year: Derek Altema, a graduate of Oakland Mills High School, will attend Georgetown University, in Washington, in...Tags: Georgetown University, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes
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Charles Erwin Brookes, CEO of Davison Chemical
Baltimore Sun reporterCharles Erwin Brookes, the retired chief of W.R. Grace's Davison Chemical division, died of a heart attack Nov. 1 at the Bay Medical Center in Panama City, Fla. The former Gibson Island resident was 86. Known as Charlie, he was born in Orange, N.J. His...Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Yale University, International Travel, Corporate Officers, Engineering
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Former Laurel resident and Roosevelt High grad earns doctorate from Harvard
James Daniel Whitfield, a 2002 graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School and a 2006 graduate of Morehouse College, in Atlanta, received his doctorate from Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He completed all requirements for his doctorate in chemical...Tags: Columbia University, Harvard University, Morehouse College, Prince George's County, Eleanor Roosevelt
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Rev. James A. Devereux, Jesuit provincial
The Rev. James Ashton Devereux, a Jesuit priest who served as provincial of Maryland Province, died of Parkinson's disease Dec. 19 at Manresa Hall in Merion Station, Pa. He was 83.
Born in Philadelphia, he was a 1945 graduate of St. Joseph's...Tags: Georgetown University, Baltimore County, Parkinson's Disease, Colleges and Universities, Charlotte
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Two men, one vision
Sun Architecture Critic"What obstacles will you overcome today?" The spirit and mission of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture - as well as its sometimes difficult journey toward a June 25 opening - are neatly encapsulated in a...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Howard University, Teaching and Learning, Druid Hill
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Southwest offers bonuses to lure baggage handlers
Sun StaffJohn Cooper Jr. is a cog in a 32,000-person wheel, but every time a Southwest plane lands he feels the satisfaction of knowing that without him the company doesn't fly. Cooper is a baggage handler, called a ramp agent, for Southwest Airlines at...Tags: LECG Corporation, Dundalk, U.S. Airways, Scott Williams, Employees
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Obscure Mass. law prohibits some same-sex marriages
Los Angeles TimesBOSTON - Their plan was to fly here May 17 and take out a marriage license. After the required three-day waiting period, Matt Foreman and Francisco de Leon intended to exchange wedding vows in Cambridge, then head home to New York. But Gov. Mitt Romney...Tags: Mitt Romney, Lawyers, Thomas M. Finneran, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage
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High-water mark
Sun Architecture CriticArchitect Peter Chermayeff was 38 when he got a phone call about the possibility of designing an aquarium for Baltimore's waterfront. Housing commissioner Robert C. Embry Jr. had visited Boston's popular New England Aquarium, which opened in 1969, and...Tags: Portugal, Forests, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Movies, Renzo Piano
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For some, small is the only way to go
Special to SunSpotThousands of Baltimore-area shoppers hit the megamalls and superstores in search of holiday gifts this past weekend, but Ruth Levy wasn't one of them. Instead, the city resident shopped for toys for her grandchildren at Barstons Child's Play, a small...Tags: Catonsville, September 11, 2001 Attacks, San Marcos, Holidays, Consumers
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