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Let freedom ring!
Paul GreenbergHow about that? Not just Barack Obama can "reset" American policy toward Russia, or give it more "flexibility," to quote his not-so-confidential promise to that country's newest czar. (Our president didn't realize he was talking into an open mike at the...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Religion and Belief, Russia, George H.W. Bush
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Gorbachev, railing against capitalism, sounds a lot like Obama
Less than a week before the U.S. election, former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev berated America and all but endorsed the sitting president and fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner at an event I attended in Houston. Speaking last Thursday from a...
Tags: Barack Obama, Feminism, Nobel Prize Awards, Russia, Elections
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Time out -- take five with the Brubeck Jazz Quartet
Paul GreenbergDave Brubeck wasn't just a goodwill ambassador abroad with his music and manner, but at home. No one who ever met him left without a good feeling -- and a good story. Here's one: It was long ago when she was a bright girl from deep in the heart of Texas,...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Pakistan, Music Industry, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck
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Jazz composer, pianist Dave Brubeck dies
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck, whose pioneering style in pieces such as "Take Five" caught listeners' ears with exotic, challenging rhythms, has died. He was 91. Brubeck died Wednesday morning of heart failure after...
Tags: NASA, Heart Failure, Music Industry, Ken Burns, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Annual wreath-laying ceremony focuses on the 'forgotten war'
julieg@herald-mail.comSpeaking about the war often referred to as the “forgotten war,” Hagerstown-area resident Les Bishop said the Korean War was one of the most significant events of the previous century and deeply affected the communist movement. Bishop was the...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), United Nations, Human Interest, American Legion, Russia
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The Crowd: A Russian night for Beckstrand Cancer Foundation
She did it again. Lil Spitzer, executive director of the Beckstrand Cancer Foundation, produced what many called "the party of the year" Oct. 13 in the Hangar at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa. Spitzer joined forces with community...
Tags: Don Diamont, Automotive Equipment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Celebrities, Television
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Founder of Unification Church Rev. Sun Myung Moon dies
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon -- a controversial religious and political figure who founded the Unification Church, a major institution in East Asia and beyond that gained fame decades ago for its mass weddings -- died early Monday in South Korea, the church...
Tags: Family, Religion and Belief, Heart Surgery, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Freedom of the Press
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Pussy Riot found guilty: Judge says women 'motivated by religious hatred'
VarietyBERLIN -- A Russian court has sentenced the three members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot to two years each after being found guilty of hooliganism for performing a protest song in a Moscow cathedral in February. Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda...Tags: Bjork, Christianity, Paul McCartney, Religion and Belief, Judges
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Dave Brubeck: A jazz icon who reached a massive audience
Dave Brubeck changed the sound of jazz in profound ways, unexpectedly becoming something of a pop star in the process. Starting in the mid-1950s, in fact, he emerged as a symbol of jazz in America, and well beyond, gracing the cover of Time magazine...
Tags: Concerts, Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Music Industry
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Mikhail Gorbachev death rumor spreads on Twitter
KIAHDid you hear former Soviet Statesman, Mikhail Gorbachev, died? Well, he didn't! If you use Twitter as your primary news source, you may've thought he had. The Gorbachev death rumor showed up on Prime Minister of Sweden, Fredrik Reinfeldt's, Twitter feed....Tags: Fredrik Reinfeldt, Social Media, Government, Twitter, Inc., Politics
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25 years ago: Prank marks end of classes
Custodians at Petoskey High School discovered a makeshift barnyard Tuesday night walking into the main office — four to five bales of hay were broken and scattered all over the inside of the office. Petoskey city police are investigating the...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Restaurants, Lawyers, Judges, Business Enterprises
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During Elgin visit, Gorbachev recalls being 'not impressed' by Reagan's Berlin Wall speech
Tribune reporterOffering an historical footnote Saturday to one of the most memorable lines of the Cold War, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev confessed Saturday that he was underwhelmed when President Ronald Reagan demanded in 1987 that he “..tear...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Leukemia, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Education
Dec 20, 2012
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Dec 5, 2012
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May 30, 2012
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