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Commentary: Pushing back NFL draft about money, ratings, Eastern bunny
The Charlotte ObserverLiterary critic H.L. Mencken said, "When somebody says it's not about the money, it's about the money." In the NFL, it's that or the TV ratings. Of course, that's not what commissioner Roger Goodell is saying about pushing the NFL draft into May, a TV...Tags: National Football League, Football, Roger Goodell, Madison Square Garden, Ron Rivera
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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: Energy, Debbie Stabenow, Nucor Corporation, Energy Resources, 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, Kamala D. Harris, Jay Carney, Justice System, Lawyers
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A Word, Please: A would-be worry that isn't
An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day,...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, FBI
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Viva House soup kitchen has provided 45 years of service
In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk. Boarded-up rowhomes line the streets. A pile of mattresses rests on a trash heap in someone's former backyard. A lonely placard reads, "Stop shooting – start...
Tags: Social Issues, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Catonsville, Poverty, Charity
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Stealing from yourself
The Baltimore SunYesterday, writing at Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark suggested that our current attitudes about plagiarism have conflated relatively minor or innocuous literary borrowings with serious thefts. One of the points he identified was the clamor about self-...Tags: Book, Theft
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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, Awards and Prizes, Newspaper and Magazine, Newspapers, Sage
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In a word: omnibibulous
The Baltimore SunA bonus word of the week for you, at the urging of colleagues: OMNIBIBULOUS This worthy word has not found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined by H.L. Mencken, an inveterate foe of Prohibition and a stout defender of his Twenty-... -
Brother Patrick Ellis, college president
Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J.
The Baltimore native was 84....Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Religion and Belief, Roman Catholicism, Leukemia, Colleges and Universities
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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: Petroleum Industry, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Boston, Government
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Helmet-less cyclists come up lame
I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would...
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What does Morgan have to do with the College Park murder-suicide?
I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities
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Feb 18, 2013
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Feb 16, 2013
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