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A Way Out of the Spoiler Dilemma
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE By Steven Hill With the Academy Awards over, it's time for a new year of thrilling cinematic chills. How about: "Spoiler Dilemma, Take Three," starring Ralph Nader? It's like a horror movie that keeps coming...Tags: Ralph Nader, George H.W. Bush, U.S. Elections, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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Wesleyan Wins Praise For Its Handling Of Fatal Shooting And Its Aftermath
The Hartford CourantHundreds of Wesleyan students were converging on Foss Hill for Spring Fling last Wednesday when university officials learned that Johanna Justin-Jinich lay fatally wounded in an off-campus bookstore — and that the gunman was still at large....Tags: Virginia Tech, Society, Ceremonies, Crime, Law and Justice, Murder
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Palmeiro speaks
sun reporterThe man whose finger-wagging image may forever be the lasting snapshot of baseball's so-called steroid era hasn't paid much attention to the sport's most recent drug scandal. Rafael Palmeiro spends his mornings working out, his days playing baseball with...Tags: Family, Baltimore Orioles, Texas Rangers, Miguel Tejada, Steroids
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Deputy Anne Jackson's Family Sends Statement
The family of the deputy killed in Tuesday's tragedy sent out this statement Thursday: "We, the family of Anne Jackson, want to acknowledge and extend our profound gratitude to all those people, relatives, friends, complete strangers, and the law...Tags: Family, People's Bank, Crime, Law and Justice, Death, Crimes
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Stan Chambers
KTLA's Stan Chambers is unique among television newsmen; he's been with the same station for 60 years. And in a major market like Los Angeles, where news personalities come and go almost as quickly as one switches channels, such longevity is no small...Tags: Crimes, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Television, Television Industry, Festive Events
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Shuttle investigation finds White House, Congress also at fault
Associated PressWASHINGTON - The White House and Congress must share some blame for the space shuttle accident that killed seven astronauts, the chairman of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board said yesterday. Ret. Navy Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr. told the House...Tags: Rocketry, White House, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Disasters and Accidents
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Apparent Terrorism; Horrific Destruction
In an unprecedented, apparently coordinated terrorist attack on the United States, two aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and another into the Pentagon in Washington Tuesday morning, leaving horrific scenes of destruction in...Tags: Government, Air and Space Accidents, White House, Heads of State, CNN (tv network)
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We must remember this: Films give solace
Chicago Tribune movie criticGreat wars and social tragedies can make the movies seem temporarily irrelevant. But, in the end, the emotions those cataclysms arouse and the memories they leave almost always enter into the movies -- and, eventually, they change them just as...Tags: Billy Wilder, War Crimes, Fritz Lang, Crimes, Jean Renoir
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A voice from the sky: 'Our plane is being hijacked'
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThey had time to glimpse their fate, and precious seconds to tell of it. Unlike the victims inside the World Trade Center, these casualties of Tuesday's terror had an idea what was coming. "Our plane is being hijacked," TV commentator and author...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, FedEx Corporation, Boeing Co., Comedy (genre), Los Angeles Kings
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Onion brings us a laugh in national time of tears
Tribune Media ServicesLeno and Letterman couldn't do it. Bill Maher tried but failed. "Saturday Night Live" tiptoed around it. And the talented comedians who appeared on a live, all-star telethon didn't even bother. So it was up to The Onion to try to wring some laughter...Tags: National Security, Saturday Night Live (tv program), New York City Police Department, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense
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Struggling to convey tragedy
Television turning into the nation's public square in the wake of tragedy is a familiar thing, even when the events are so staggeringly unfamiliar. But being able to witness tragedies as they occur, from an airplane crashing into a World Trade Center...Tags: Jack Ruby, VH1 (tv network), CNN (tv network), ABC (tv network), WPIX
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Aftershock: What will this tragedy do to the American psyche?
Tribune staff reporterIn the aftermath of Tuesday's catastrophe, when people confronted with unmitigated horror reached for something within their experience to compare it with, the event most often cited was Pearl Harbor. The surface parallels were there. Almost certainly,...Tags: Sex Crimes, Prisoners and Detainees, Comedy (genre), Murder, Culture
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