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The gender gap and the GOP's future
You can bet your Hillary Clinton buttons that one of the biggest chunks of the body politic that political pathologists will be putting under the lab microscope is the gender gap: women’s votes. “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Demographics, Career and Workplace, Hillary Clinton, Elections
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Paycheck Fairness Act: Good politics, good policy
If Maryland's resident pit bull, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, has demonstrated anything in her several decades in Congress and as dean of Senate women, it's a willingness to stand up for the less powerful in society, and she was at it again this week advocating...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Social Issues, Democratic Party, Barbara A. Mikulski, Barack Obama
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The Iron Lady
Fox 5 San Diego staffRight before watching a screener of The Iron Lady, I started reading a Newsweek with Meryl Streep on the cover. The three page story was a lot more interesting than the two hour movie. It was also a lot more thorough. I found out in the article that...Tags: Entertainment Events, Fox Broadcasting Company, Michelle Williams, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep
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Southern Winds Theatre announces 2011-12 season
Orlando Theater BlogSouthern Winds Theatre kicks off its 2011-12 season this Tuesday with a presentation of “Mr. and Mrs. Adams.” Here are the season plans for the theater company, headed by David McElroy and Marylin McGinnis: Mr. and Mrs. Adams – The... -
OMOS students win essay contest
Two students from Our Mother of Sorrows School earned cash prizes for winning the Great Americans Day Essay Contest sponsored by CTC Foundation, an affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC). Kate McGrath's essay won first place, and Noah...Tags: Corporate Officers, Human Interest, Politics, Elections
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Comments & Curiosities: Adams said it best: Celebrate with a big boom
You know what Monday is. And, yes, it is a big day. Not only is it Colleen Johns' birthday, like you didn't know that, but it's America's birthday — Uncle Sam, the US-of-A, this place, 235 years old this year. Can you believe it? It hardly looks a...Tags: Human Interest, Marco Polo, John Hancock, Apple iPad, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Theater review: '1776' at Glendale Centre Theatre
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Teachers as artists
Recent works by Washington County’s public, private and home-school art educators. Opening reception with music by Staff Infection will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Washington County Arts Council, 14 W. Washington...Tags: Dog (animal), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Tourism and Leisure, Education, Animals
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"First Family: Abigail and John Adams" by Joseph J. Ellis
Literary Editor"First Family: Abigail and John Adams" By Joseph J. Ellis Knopf, 299 pages, $27.95 Before Barack and Michelle, Eleanor and Franklin and certainly before the brand otherwise known as Brangelina, came America's first power couple: John and Abigail Adams....Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Romance (genre), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Aaron Burr, Human Interest
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Book review: 'First Family' by Joseph J. Ellis
Special to the Los Angeles TimesFirst Family Abigail & John Adams Joseph J. Ellis Alfred A. Knopf: 304 pp., $27.95 John and Abigail Adams are the most well-known, most-written-about couple in America's Revolutionary generation. Why? Because they left such a well-constructed paper...Tags: History, An American Family (tv program), Marriage, Awards and Prizes, Journalism
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America's hometowns, found in New England
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt's autumn in New England The days are getting shorter. Wood piles are stacked high. Geese are flying south, and Indian corn is hanging from the door. People in new L.L. Bean flannels stop their cars in the middle of the road snapping pictures or...Tags: Lakes and Ponds, Paul Revere, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Bars and Clubs, Salt
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Check It Out: Tales of love, destruction
Some marriages endure, some thrive, and others fail. Some of these stories are scandalous while others are sweet. Love evokes powerful emotions in all of us, from desire to envy, longing to hatred. What these stories all have in common is their ability to...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Abraham Lincoln, Romance (genre), F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Burton
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