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Baltimore native Jamie McCourt was sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco at the White House on Monday, a White House official said.

Jamie McCourt, a Baltimore native, will appear Wednesday before a Senate committee considering her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to France.

Late in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film "Pulp Fiction," Marsellus Wallace — a criminal boss played by Ving Rhames — banishes prizefighter Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) from Southern California, telling him "You lost all your L.A. privileges."

Congratulations to Magic Johnson, Stan Kasten and the rest of the new ownership group that just bought the Los Angeles Dodgers from Frank McCourt for a reported $2 billion. They will bring the Dodgers out of bankruptcy and restore some stability to the organization, but the price tag leaves room to wonder if they'll be able to keep the team competitive.

It take so long to say the name of the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society that one can be thankful that everybody just refers to it as HoCoPoLitSo.