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Memories of Little Italy
Dining@LargeA sweetly illustrated new book arrived on the Antipasto Desk, America's Little Italys: Recipes & Traditions from Coast to Coast. Its author, Sheryl Bellman, devotes about half of the book's geography to the Little Italy neighborhoods in Manhattan and the....Tags: Al Capone, Thanksgiving, Italy
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The two Comments of the Week
Dining@LargeSometimes something needs to be said and it's nice when one of you says it so eloquently, more eloquently than I could have said it. EL Paul W and Donny B, you are technically correct about Baltimore's food traditions of......Tags: Liver, Weather, Alcoholic Beverages, Steaks, Baltimore Weather
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Confused about trade
For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy. Now, though, the tide is turning....
Tags: Barack Obama, Eastman Chemical Company, Nucor Corporation, Alcoa Incorporated, Ron Wyden
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The times we live in
Paul GreenbergThe president of the United States, being a gentleman and a man, paid a compliment to California's attorney general -- Kamala Harris -- when both of them appeared at a Democratic fundraiser in that state. Indeed, he paid her several compliments when he...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Jay Carney, Justice System, Kamala D. Harris
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Mencken and me
Paul GreenbergA friend and critic here in Little Rock -- well, definitely a critic and I hope he's still a friend -- submitted a guest column not long ago reciting my many sins. (Whose sins are few?) And we were happy to run it on the op-ed page of the Arkansas...Tags: Periodicals, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, Christopher Hitchens, Sage
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The brevity of Silent Cal
WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator...
Tags: White House, Petroleum Industry, Politics, Barack Obama, Government
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Man About Town: Valentine's candyland at Sweet! Hollywood
I'm in my traditional Cupidian buying frenzy leading up to Valentine's Day, my major organs bursting with good intentions, not knowing quite where to turn, getting a little angry about it actually — the frustrations of unbridled romance, bordering...
Tags: Marshmallows, Holidays, Herbalife Limited, Marilyn Monroe, Boxing Day
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Viewpoint: The good, bad and ugly of getting older
With my birthday coming up in the very near future I was thinking about some of the things that annoy those of us getting up in years. I am grateful several female friends shared their pet peeves. These aren’t in any particular order. 1. Print so...
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Hold the applause
Paul GreenbergIt was H.L. Mencken who said nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. He didn't think to add that no politician ever lost an election by underestimating the gullibility of the American public. The latest illustration of...Tags: Environmental Issues, Renewable Energy, Politics, Barack Obama, NASCAR
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Hysteria over 5-Hour Energy drink is not yet justified
The floor space of the new Walmart Supercenter (they don't want to call it a mere store) in Whitehall Township has enough room for nearly four full-sized football fields. Luckily, somebody in a blue shirt pointed to a "pharmacy" section that is very...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Allentown, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Whitehall, Starbucks Corp.
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The bureaucratic impulse
Paul GreenbergBusiness hasn't been all that great the past four years in America. But, never fear, our president has noticed -- even if it's taken him a while. His solution: a new U.S. secretary of business. That's right. A whole new federal department would...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Business, Politics, Teachers, Barack Obama
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Not just a little girl from Little Rock
Paul GreenbergHelen Gurley Brown wasn't just a little girl from Little Rock, to borrow a lyric from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." No, sir, she was from Green Forest, Ark., which is about 125 miles up the road from Little Rock. And from Los Angeles as well as Texas...Tags: Mae West, Arts and Culture, Oprah Winfrey, Polio, Obituaries
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