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In "The Third Bullet," Stephen Hunter's fictitious super-sniper finds middle ground between conspiracy and lone gunman theories. - As the Baltimore Ravens and Denver Broncos get ready for their big playoff game Saturday, there are plenty of opinions about how the teams and cities compare. But in one competition -- based on books -- Baltimore wins hands down.
- Jules Witcover says the former Sun reporter wrote perhaps the best book on a presidential campaign
- Theatergoers in search of a dark comedy, a light musical or an adventure told in imaginative stage action will find all three in productions now showing at nearby venues.
- The former Baltimore Sun reporter who later became a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer and an acclaimed author died Monday of lung cancer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 62.
- Richard Ben Cramer had the gift of a great writer: an agile mind that generated entertaining books and magazine articles in topics as disparate as Middle East politics and baseball.
- Republicans are complaining about the fiscal cliff deal, but the truth is they got what they wanted most -- permanent tax cuts -- for almost everybody.
- Joel Brinkley says the GOP spends freely on wasteful projects in Afghanistan but refuses useful stimulus spending at home
- "Claudie Hukill," on stage at Venus Theatre on C Street through Dec. 23, is a play about a poor family, struggling to survive hard economic times and personal tragedies in a West Virginia mining town.
- Our political system has never been pretty, but it can be effective in the right hands.
- With business school plan, Morgan confronts past racism in the most positive way: by building
- Lobbyist Grover Norquist issues a fatwah on wavering Republicans in Congress who dare contemplate violating his anti-tax pledge.
- The demise of Hostess demonstrates everything that's wrong with labor relations in America.
- The Gaza conflict forces Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi to pick a side, and it's not ours.
- How long will marriage equality be allowed in some states but not others?
- Republican dead-enders have to call the Obama coalition un-American; otherwise, they would have to cope with the fact that America rejected them.
- Dr. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, an acclaimed and influential professor of American history who wrote widely on Southern history and culture and whose book on honor in the antebellum South was a 1983 Pulitzer Prize finalist, died Monday of pulmonary fibrosis at Roland Park Place. He was 80.
- Pulitzer Prize-winner will appear at "Facing Race" conference in Baltimore
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- The DVD 'Dreams from my Real Father' is just the latest in loony anti-Obama conspiracy
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- After a successful inaugural three-play season at its Eastport Shopping Center location, Compass Rose Studio Theater opens its second season with Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of Harper Lee's acclaimed novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
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- Even West Coast liberals can't deny it: Romney cleaned Obama's clock.
- What would George Romney think of his country club brat of a son?
- President Obama gets blamed for the nation's problems, but in a permanently gridlocked Washington, there isn't much he can do about them.
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- Toby's Dinner Theatre in Columbia dazzles audiences with its production of "The Color Purple."
- Far from lazy do-nothings, many in Mitt Romney's 47 percent are people who work hard for not much money -- like cowboys.
- With a productivity level near an all-time low, the 112th Congress returns to Washington with an aim of doing the bare minimum to keep the country running.
- President Obama is making a gutsy bet that American voters will view his accomplishments in context.
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- Can a 21st century nation survive on the policies of William Howard Taft?
- Artscentric stages Pulitzer-winning 'Next to Normal' with mostly African American cast.
- In a sick bit of symbiosis, the gun lobby's coffers swell every time there's a mass shooting.
- People expect what they want when they want it for free, but broadcasting the games costs real money, and NBC deserves to make some of it back.
- A Koch-funded scientist has reversed himself on global warming; will the liberals' favorite villains follow?
- Watching Mitt Romney travel abroad was almost enough to make you feel sorry for him.
