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Robert R. "Bob" Timberg, a former Evening Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter and Marine Corps veteran whose 1995 book "The Nightingale's Song" about five Naval Academy graduates who served in the Vietnam War earned him wide acclaim, died Tuesday from respiratory failure at Anne Arundel Medical Center. He was 76. - Rebecca Polen "Becky" Hartman Obituary
- Why should it take Hillary Clinton to defend the GOP from the alt-right?
- This past week, my wife read The Source and found out about a symposium called "Choose Civility" that caught her attention. The title of the program was "The Ball's In Your Court: Can Civility and Sports Coexist?" It happens to be a subject of great interest to me and I immediately signed up to attend at the Miller Library on Oct. 9 starting at 6:30 p.m.
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- Benjamin K. Roe, a Grammy and Peabody Award winner, to helm Heifetz International Music Institute at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia.
- Leonard Pitts Jr. takes on a NYC developer, who plans to add a separate entrance to an apartment building for residents of modest means.
- The SAT is a 225-minute race to the finish line encompassing everything schools have been trying to prepare students for since pre-school. It doesn't really test math, writing and reading, but mainly test-taking strategies like process of elimination or lucky guessing.
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- Lobbying (and praying for) Congress can be a job for ordinary citizens
- If you're in the mood for some science fiction silliness, "The Intergalactic Nemesis: A Live-Action Graphic Novel" promises to keep you laughing on Friday, June 20, at 8 p.m. in the Jim Rouse Theatre at Wilde Lake.
- More proof that the mid-'80s were awesome, via Billboard's Hot 100 Chart archive.
- The editorial staff at WYPR voted to form a union and have asked management of the NPR affiliate in Baltimore to recognize their representation by SAG-AFTRA.
- An all-girls experience, be it the Girl Scouts, a girls' athletic team, a girls' camp or a girls' school can be a spring board to achievement and a sense of self-worth for girls, who are too quick to underestimate their abilities.
