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Presidential rankings: Leadership
The Swampby Mark Silva On the eve of President's Day, ranking the 42 individuals who have occupied the presidency before now seems a fitting undertaking. That's what "a cross-section'' of 65 historians have done, commissioned by C-SPAN to produce a Historians........Tags: George W. Bush, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Ulysses S. Grant, Colleges and Universities
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Michelle Obama's box mates tonight
The Swampby Frank James The White House earlier today released the names of those who will be in the First Lady's Box during President Barack Obama's speech tonight before a joint session of Congress, his first. Among the guests: a banker,......Tags: Montpelier, Valerie Jarrett, University of Maryland, College Park, Armed Forces, Social Security
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Obama: Fundraiser, 'Genius... bum'
The Swampby Mark Silva If there's one thing that President Barack Obama can do well, it's raise campaign cash - having raised more than $700 million, a runaway record, for his own campaign last year, and now turning his fundraising prowess......Tags: Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Body, United States, Family
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'America's Next Top Model' back with smaller contestants
Reality CheckI guess Tyra Banks is hoping that the saying “Big Things Come In Small Packages” will work to her advantage this season of America’s Next Top Model. This cycle, the host and creator of the show has opened up the competition......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Queens (New York City), Sexual Assault, Rihanna
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Nobel Peace Prize: Gandhi never won it
The Swampby Mark Jacob With a Chicagoan -- President Barack Obama -- winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, it's fitting to take a deeper look at the world's most famous awards for peaceful human achievement. The fact that they were founded......Tags: Applied Science, Colleges and Universities, Alfred Nobel, Social Issues, Health
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Edward W. Brooke: Congressional medal
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has spoken often of "the arc of history,'' today honored one of the men who paved a path for the president's own historic election. The president conferred the Congressional Gold Medal on former......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Awards and Prizes, World War II (1939-1945), Justice System
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Dillard High grad???s team wins NASCAR promotions contest
The Business of Sports | Sun-Sentinel BlogsStephanie Lockhart???s dedication to NASCAR has paid off. The Fort Lauderdale native and 2006 Dillard High grad and her fellow Howard University students have won the NASCAR Kinetics program???s Spring 2010 Case Study Competition. The contest pitted teams...Tags: NASCAR, Colleges and Universities, Coastal Carolina University , Auto Racing, University of Notre Dame
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Washington closed, White House open
The Swampby Mark Silva and James Oliphant The answers may be blowing in the wind, but the snow certainly was -- though this couldn't stop Bob Dylan, Morgan Freeman and a cast of all-stars from acknowledging the struggles of the Civil......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Music, Julian Bond, Bob Dylan, Joe Biden
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Leonard PittsRand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all. He...Tags: Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Students, NAACP
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Conversation starters Paisley, Paul are taking their lumps
Jonah GoldbergAre Brad Paisley and Rand Paul the bravest men in America? Er, no. At least not by my lights. But maybe the country singer and the first-term senator are contenders for that title according to the attorney general of the United States, Eric Holder. In...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Music, Social Issues, Starbucks Corp.
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Richard Nixon, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, Abraham Lincoln
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Digest: Maryland coaches caravan comes to Baltimore May 29
Et cetera Maryland coaches caravan comes to Baltimore May 29 Maryland's 2013 Coaches Caravan will stop in Ocean City, Baltimore, Annapolis and Washington. Each event runs from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and features a short program followed by an...Tags: Brenda Frese, Football, Randy Edsall, Teaching and Learning, College Sports
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