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Peace: Pursuit of the persistently elusive
The Swampby Mark Silva On his way to Oslo tonight to collect the Nobel Prize for Peace, President Barack Obama certainly has considered these words as he prepares to deliver his own: "We must ever bear in mind that the great......Tags: Justice and Rights, Mikhail S Gorbachev, Awards and Prizes, Science and Technology, Civil Rights
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Oprah Tearfully Announces End of Show in 2011
Associated PressCHICAGO -- Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying "prayer and careful thought" led her to her decision. Winfrey told the audience that she loved...Tags: Tom Cruise, Entertainment, Sarah Palin, Toni Morrison, Black Eyed Peas (music group)
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Academy Award voters opt for the sunny over the dark
Like some Zen master clandestinely operating in the heart of Hollywood, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has perfected the art of offering surprises without being surprising. Though specific Oscar nominations can be unexpected, the...Tags: Academy Awards, Entertainment, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (movie), Science, Michael Shannon
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Senators turn away repeal of death penalty in Md.
Baltimore County senators rebuffed an effort to abolish Maryland's death penalty yesterday, persuading lawmakers instead to restrict when capital punishment can be used. The Senate's first full debate on the death penalty in more than three decades was...Tags: Jennie M Forehand, Norman R. Stone, Jr., Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Donald F Munson, Elections
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Clooney named UN peace envoy
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon designated George Clooney as a U.N. "messenger of peace" Friday to promote the world body's activities, especially in its far-flung peacekeeping missions.
The 46-year-old actor has been campaigning for an end to the 4 1/2-...Tags: George Clooney, Social Issues, Jane Goodall, Michael Douglas, Daniel Barenboim
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Obama joins in Holocaust remembrance, says world cannot tolerate cruelty, intolerance, racism
Associated Press WriterPresident Barack Obama stood Thursday with Jewish leaders at a solemn Holocaust remembrance in a cavernous Capitol hall, proclaiming: "Never again." Obama warned against what he called the dangers of silence, saying that every day, somewhere in the world...Tags: Judaism, Religious Conflicts, Social Issues, Civil Unrest, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Alleged Madoff Fraud Has Worldwide Exposure
NEW YORK (AP) - The list of investors who say they were duped in one of Wall Street's biggest Ponzi schemes is growing, snaring some of the world's biggest banking institutions and hedge funds, the super rich and the famous, pensioners and charities. The...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Japan, U.S. Bancorp, Greenwich, BNP Paribas
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Leroy Sievers
The TV ZoneI'll get back to the wild and wacky world of TV blogging in a just a little bit - promise - but I first wanted to make note here of another untimely passage in the TV industry. This one......Tags: Sports, Entertainment, Health and Safety at School, Basketball, Disasters
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Bush: No negotiation with 'killers'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated JERUSALEM - President Bush, addressing the Israeli parliament at a time celebrated by Israelis and mourned by Palestinians, today will remind Israelis that Americans rose first to the recognition of the new independent state of.....Tags: Travel, Freedom of Religion, Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), National Government, David Ben-Gurion
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The Hartford CourantFestivals, ice-skating shows, kick-boxing exhibitions - if it doesn't fit in a category, it's listed here. 26TH ANNUAL NAVARATRI FESTIVAL Sept. 19-22 - Four-day-long celebration of Indian culture. Directed by Wesleyan adjunct professor of music T....Tags: Sports, Ultimate Fighting Championship, Travel, Winter Solstice, Easter
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Theater review, Elie Wiesel's 'Night' at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Tribune theater criticWe do not require suicide bombings to remind us that the corrosive rivers of anti-Semitism rage on. Our world is spoiled painfully for examples, blatant or tacit. Dashed French presidental hopeful Jean-Marie Le Pen once dismissed the Holocaust as...Tags: Judaism, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Nobel Prize Awards, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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