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After three years, VP role suits Biden
Washington BureauHe squared up against a 250-pound, barely-clothed Mongol wrestler, accepted as a gift a handsome brown horse that he named Celtic, and marveled at the logic-defying contortions of a physical performer balancing herself by her teeth. Mongolia, the...Tags: Business, Joe Biden, China Earthquake (2010), Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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Irwin Silber dies at 84; editor of folk journal Sing Out!
Irwin Silber, who became a key figure in the revival of folk music beginning in the 1950s as editor of the magazine Sing Out!, has died. He was 84. Silber, who was also a producer and wrote and edited several books on music and other subjects, died...Tags: Politics, Bob Dylan, Periodicals, Communist Party, Mass Media
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'Nothing to Fear' by Adam Cohen
Nothing to Fear FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America Adam Cohen Penguin Press: 372 pp., $29.95 Adam Cohen's cogent chronicle of the pell-mell opening months of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration couldn't be...Tags: Literature, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Sociology, Herbert Clark Hoover, Richard J. Daley
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Norman Borlaug dies at 95; revolutionized grain agriculture and won Nobel Peace Prize
Norman Borlaug, the father of the "Green Revolution" who is widely credited with saving millions of lives by breeding wheat, rice and other crops that brought agricultural self-sufficiency to developing countries around the world, died Saturday in Texas....Tags: Obituaries, Science and Technology, Awards and Prizes, Fertilizer, Congressional Gold Medal Honorees
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Margaret Bush Wilson dies at 90; first black woman to head national NAACP board
Margaret Bush Wilson, the first African American woman to head the national NAACP board of directors, and who was ousted in 1983 after a public feud with its executive director, died Tuesday at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis of multiple organ...Tags: Finance, Lawyers, Homes, Obituaries, St. Louis
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McCarthyism Without Habeas Corpus
HOWARD A. RODMAN chairs the writing division at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He wrote the screenplay adaptation of "Joe Gould's Secret."I GREW UP in Brooklyn, in Red Brooklyn, in the arms of the Henry Wallace campaign and the Committee for the Negro in the Arts. At camp, I learned baseball and folk songs and equality, and instead of color war, we played war of nations, and somehow the...Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Prisons, Civil Rights, Tourism and Leisure
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A 'Kitchen Cabinet' of one
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS and SUSAN DUNN teach at Williams College. Burns is author of "Leadership." They are coauthors of "The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America" and "George Washington."EVEN MANY Republicans today recognize Franklin D. Roosevelt as the greatest president of the last century. The anti-Franklin Roosevelt, however, is George W. Bush. From his regressive tax codes and plan to privatize Social Security to his Supreme Court...Tags: Dick Cheney, Republican Party, Politics, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
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Lessons from the '30s, '40s
I bought a book at a book fair several months ago. I had yet to pay for it when a friend (I think) approached me and asked what I was buying. I told him it was a book written by Tom Dewey and he said, “Tom Dewey!” Then he laughed and walked away. That...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Democratic Party, 2016 Olympic Games, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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End farm subsidies and make agriculture sustainable
Farm subsidies could finally be on the chopping block.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently acknowledged that corn and ethanol "subsidies need to be phased out" over time. And on a swing through Iowa, Mr. Vilsack suggested that the Obama...Tags: Republican Party, Chesapeake Bay, Whole Foods Market, Science and Technology, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Hail
Hail is another thunderstorm product, and it causes more than a billion dollars in damage every year, including the complete destruction of crops, greenhouses, cars, and roofs. In a sense, hail is much like snow - it looks like it, and it causes very...Tags: Death, Weather Reports, Onions, Weather, Sports
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Vilsack Set to be Obama's Ag Secretary
December 17, 2008--Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is expected to be announced as the nominee for Agriculture Secretary in the Obama administration today. The news comes weeks after Vilsack denied being a candidate for the job. The appointment would...Tags: Tom Harkin, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Agriculture
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Is America ready for a real black president?
South Florida Sun-SentinelSOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL OP-ED ONLINE Is America Ready for a Real Black President? By Norm Vance Are you ready for a peanut butter and hamburger sandwich? Not sure? Yet someone in Bluffton, Indiana insists it was a favorite of her father and herself....Tags: Politics, Hillary Clinton, Armed Forces, Rutgers University, Michael Bloomberg
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