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On his last full day in the office where he spent much of his long public service career, Harford County Executive David Craig sounded content with his legacy and quietly modest about his achievements. - Longtime Laurel resident Hilda Fyffe celebrated her 105th birthday. Five-year-old Penelope Koren has been raising funds for a variety of charities. Laurel Presbyterian Church, 7610 Old Sandy Spring Road, will hold its annual Fall Bazaar, Saturday, Oct. 18. Fanatic Orioles fans, Eileen and Cliff Collins, have a large orange "O" trimmed in black painted on the side of their home. Orioles fan Ronnie Harris will celebrate his birthday Oct. 18.
- Jacob M. "Jack" Schmulowitz, a retired Social Security Administration division chief, died Wednesday at Sinai Hospital of kidney failure. He was 85.
- I am here to report that the White House Oval Office is not an abstraction. It's a real place. And that President Obama keeps a bowl of fresh apples on the coffee table for guests to partake of. By the way, the room is not nearly as spacious or as grandiose as I had originally thought. And the hallways at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. are narrow enough to leave visitors, this one included, with a touch of claustrophobia.
- "Why does everyone always ask if we're related to President Kennedy?"
- Paul Umansky, an opera lover, occasional actor and, for more than two decades, the public voice of Sinai Hospital, died March 27 at the Gilchrest Center.
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- Sharon Boston spends her weekends and vacations visiting homes once inhabited, as she says, by "presidents, poets and other historic persons."
- History, not an imagined rejection of capitalism, explains the president's re-election victory
- Can a 21st century nation survive on the policies of William Howard Taft?
- 1912 wasn't the city's first moment in the national political spotlight, but it was one of its most memorable
- President Obama's speech in Kansas this week, an echo of Theodore Roosevelt a century before, was his strongest effort yet to connect with the passion driving the Occupy Wall Street movement.
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