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Mail Call - Sept. 20
“If the county commissioners approve the contract to buy a piece of land for three times what it was paid for a year ago, each and every one of them should be booted out of office, and on their way out, they should send a letter of apology to...Tags: Republican Party, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Politics, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Solyndra LLC
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GUEST COLUMN: The VP is just a heartbeat away
Contributing WriterEvery four years there’s a big to-do in the media about whom the Democratic or Republican candidate is going to choose for his running mate. Of course, the incumbent president usually goes with his incumbent vice president. Their choices are of...Tags: Dick Cheney, Culture, Economy, Business and Finance, Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman
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Scrabble at the Bain Center
Activity Pals For single seniors. Get together with others to attend events, shop, go sightseeing, dine out and more. 301-596-6385. The Bain Center 5470 Ruth Keeton Way, Columbia. 410-313-7213. •Acting Up! Tuesdays, 10:30 a.m. A theater club....Tags: Cirque du Soleil, Alzheimer's Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Clubs and Associations, Chess Playing
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Privileges and responsibilities
Tribune Media ServicesMy first political convention was in 1964 when Democrats convened in Atlantic City to nominate Lyndon Johnson for a full term as president. I was a young copyboy at the NBC News network bureau in Washington. We arrived from Washington aboard a...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, Entertainment Events, Hurricane Isaac (2012), Miss America Pageant
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Chicago plaque marks site of Obama's first kiss
KIAHPlaques usually mark places of great importance or commemorate their significance to humanity. The moon landing, the Kennedy assassination and now there’s one marking the spot where the first couple shared their first kiss. The plaque placed...Tags: Foods and Beverages, Ice Cream, Hyde Park, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Andy Griffith and the myth of a fair-minded, small-town Southern America in the turbulent '60s
The Baltimore SunAndy Griffith, one of the stars who put CBS on top of the TV world in the 1960s with an easy-going but culturally-packed sitcom that ran for eight seasons during that stormy decade in American life, died Tuesday at 86 at his North Carolina home in Roanoke...Tags: Andy Griffith, Double Indemnity (movie), Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Elia Kazan
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Another Tilghman involved in a historic moment
Several readers wrote me about last week's column that told the story of federal Judge Sarah Tilghman Hughes, a Baltimorean who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson as president aboard Air Force One after the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963.
They...Tags: Politics, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Talbot County
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The myths about Watergate
Liz Smith"ALMOST forty years after the Watergate arrests on June 17, 1972, three myths about it are still pervasive. First, that the scandal only concerned 'a third-rate burglary' of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. "Second, that the cover-...Tags: Liz Smith, U.S. Department of Justice, Politics, Robert Redford, PBS (tv network)
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JFK Hearse Fetches $160,000 at Auction
CNNNEW YORK -- A Cadillac hearse that carried the body of President John F. Kennedy to Air Force One following his assassination in Dallas was sold at a Scottsdale, Ariz., auction for $160,000. The car was sold at Barrett-Jackson auction company's annual...Tags: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Companies and Corporations, Companies and Corporations, Auction Service, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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Bookmark: Timing is everything
Take a minute, if you will, to consider the prominence of time travel as a theme in the arts. You don't have to be a brilliant but evil scientist huddled in a secret mountaintop laboratory, rubbing your hands together and cackling with glee as you...Tags: Literature, Entertainment Events, Terra Nova (tv program), Fox Broadcasting Company, Entertainment
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Worthy Canadian initiative
The Baltimore SunCanadian journalist Jonathan Kay quotes Joseph Bottum on cranks: "There are three infallible signs of the crank. ... The first is that he has theory about the Jews. The second is that he has a theory about money. And the third is that he has a theory...Tags: National Government, Politics, Government, Vaccines, Francis Bacon
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JFK hearse sells for $160,000
CNNMoneyA Cadillac hearse that carried the body of President John F. Kennedy to Air Force One following his assassination in Dallas was sold at a Scottsdale, Ariz., auction for $160,000. That doesn't include fees paid to the auction company, which usually add...Tags: Frank Sinatra, Companies and Corporations, John Lennon, Companies and Corporations, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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