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N.Y. congressional test: Obama's win
The Swampby Mark Silva, updated with RNC Chairman Michael Steele's statement, and with President Obama's statement at 6:45 pm EDT. In the quiet knolls of the upper Hudson River Valley where a nationally contested election played out, the contest for the......Tags: Politics, Parliament, Parties and Movements, Local Government, Hudson River
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West Wing drama: New Robin red-breasts
The Swampby Mark Silva Sure it's Spring at the White House when the best picture around is that of the nesting Robins outside the West Wing. Ron Edmonds, the veteran AP photographer, caught these nesting birds just outside the White House......Tags: Politics, White House, Ronald Reagan
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Democrats, "with a little D"
The Swampby Mark Silva Out on the grass mall where protesters have camped, marched and clashed, thousands of poetry- prose- and history-lovers huddled under tents shielding them from a steady, cold drizzle, reminded by a best-selling Iranian writer and freshly...Tags: Politics, Alcoholic Beverages, Government, Dining and Drinking, White House
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Obama's Nobel: 'Expectations' raised
The Swampby Mark Silva Mornings after the award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama, the man who challenged him for the White House is serving as the most outspoken representative of the Republican Party with praise for......Tags: CNN (tv network), Nobel Prize Awards, Awards and Prizes, Government, John McCain
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Elian Gonzalez: Gore's albatross grown
The Swampby Mark Silva Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban who cost Al Gore the White House -- him, and Gore's defeat in his home state of Tennessee in the presidential election of 2000, and also Ralph Nader's candidacy in Florida and......Tags: Politics, Elections, Corruption, Illegal Immigrants, Ralph Nader
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Obama's power, China's competition
The Swampby Mark Silva If the world is flat, President Barack Obama's chances as a world leader would have been even flatter had his healthcare legislation failed. Yet in the shifting stage known as the global economy, a successful American leader......Tags: Dick Durbin, Barack Obama, Health Care Reform (2009)
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"The Happiest Song Plays Last" at the Goodman Theatre ★★★½
"Write about your own life" says many a writing teacher to many a young scribe. Confronted with that authoritative solipsism, the young writer tends to worry about two things. First, that my life is not interesting enough to write about, especially not...
Tags: International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, Armed Conflicts, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment Events
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Joel Brinkley: Can Taiwan pull China toward democracy?
American VoicesPresident Ma Ying-jeou sat at the head of large conference table in his presidential office, and inscribed on the wall behind him was the name of his nation: Republic of China. Beside that, in parentheses and smaller letters, was acknowledgment that he...Tags: Politics, Communist Party of China, Entertainment Events, Joel Brinkley, Stanford University
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'Vera Stark' looks back at lost stars
The idea for "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," now in performances through June 2 at the Goodman Theatre, came to playwright Lynn Nottage the way so many of us discover so many slivers of old Hollywood. How? By happening upon a lesser-known title on the...
Tags: Celebrities, Entertainment Events, Human Interest, Goodman Theatre
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'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Theater, Arts and Culture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Music Theater
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Renee Fleming brings 'A Streetcar Named Desire' to Lyric Opera
Divine destiny — or is it the shade of Tennessee Williams? — is bringing Renee Fleming and Blanche DuBois together on the same stage, at the same time, at Lyric Opera. The real Renee and the fictional Blanche are, in their very different...
Tags: Culture, Homes, Carnegie Hall, Poetry, Entertainment Events
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Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner join blackbirds for a new music romp at MCA
When people think of the cultural cross-pollination that goes on between Chicago and New York, interchanges in theater and the visual arts are what usually spring to mind. But exchanges among contemporary classical music performers seem to be taking place...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Theater, Music Industry
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