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Compiled with input from readers and the newsroom, The Baltimore Sun’s list of 100 essential food experiences encompasses places people talk about, think about and come back to again and again and again.

Clemenceau Medical Center is one of 19 projects in the growing portfolio of Johns Hopkins Medicine International, the arm of the Baltimore-based institution that’s charged with taking the Hopkins mission and brand global.

One of the scariest parts of the very scary world we live in today is the responsibility that we and our allies bear for the creation of the enemies confronting us. This is most dreadfully true in Iraq, where thousands of Americans have died and more than $1 trillion have been wasted on a war that had no just cause, where the vacuum created by the 2003 invasion was filled by Islamic jihadists and a government and armed force more loyal to Iran than to the United States.

Dr. Suhayl Kalash, former chief of urology at St. Agnes Hospital who was an avid gardener, died Sundayfrom pancreatic cancer at his Cockeysville home. He was 69.

Marylanders in Baltimore and Annapolis sang and prayed Monday to publicly voice their love and support for the families, friends and nations of the 129 people in France and 40 in Lebanon killed in terrorist attacks late last week.

After the credits (lion mask girl, maze and jazz are still there, but new stuff too!), we open with Carrie arriving at the Lebanon/Syria border with the refugee crisis in full swing.

The fifth season of "Homeland" opens with Carrie attending mass. She looks calm and happy as she takes communion.

Suheil Badi' Bushrui, a distinguished author, professor, and advocate for peace, who first held The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park, died congestive heart failure on Sept. 2 at the Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, OH. He was 85.

Jerrelle Benimon had an uneven game for the Tigers, who fell to UNC-Wilmington, 66-53, and lost ground on Delaware in the CAA standings.

Ariel Sharon, the daring Israeli general who as a field commander and prime minister became one of the most influential and controversial leaders in the Middle East, died Saturday. He was 85.

The Eastern Shore met the Middle East in East Baltimore recently when a woman from Tilghman Island taught a woman from Lebanon to make Maryland crab soup.

Americans and human rights activists should take pride in U.S. intervention in Syria. The use of chemical weapons stopped, and the number of victims dropped from an average of 4,000 to 3,000 a month.

Ben Hall, a 31-year-old director of operations for the Baltimore based landscaping company Lorenz, Inc., will be running the equivalent of a marathon a day for 12 out of the next 14 days.

While the Obama administration rallies support for a military strike against the regime of President Bashar Assad, international agencies are warning that health conditions in Syria are deteriorating.

Rather than another ill-conceived military intervention in the Middle East, we should focus on efforts to foster ties to the new, moderate regime in Iran.

The following students were named to the dean's list or graduated from various colleges

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Stevenson offense continues to spread wealth with 10 players with at least 10 goals each -- and reap the rewards

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M. Faysal Thameen, a retired structural engineer who headed the city's role in the 1980s construction of the Fort McHenry Tunnel, died of cancer April 9 at his home in Millbury, Mass. The former Parkville resident was 75.

The Syran civil war should prompt the U.S. to recognize Israeli control of the Golan Heights.

Like her classmates at the U.S. Naval Academy, Midshipman 1st Class Dagmara Broniatowska came to Annapolis for plebe summer, learned how to salute, ran the endurance course, and memorized the body of American military information, history and quotations known as the Rates.

American meddling in the Arab world has produced decades of disasters, so why are we still there?

History shows that Israel has consistently sought peace

Israel has done much to promote peace despite the actions of terrorists

The results of the Arab Spring make military action in Gaza far riskier than in the past.

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Columnist Robert Ehrlich is wrong to say we should take a harder line in the Middle East.

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Students from Sparks, White Hall, Upperco, Baldwin, Glen Arm, Parkton, Jarrettsville, Hereford, Baldwin and Butler earn degrees, honors at colleges, universities.

Jean E. Breiner, a retired registered nurse who had been the school nurse at Padonia Elementary School for more than two decades, died Friday of myleoid leukemia at her Timonium home. She was 77.

Youths in Laurel learn about local government and the world of work as participants in the Mayor's Summer Jobs Program