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Are Magic tactfully tanking season?
Running off at the typewriter. … This just in: The Magic will forgo Easter eggs this year and have a massive hunt for multiple multi-colored ping-pong balls. No, I'm not accusing the Magic of tanking the season in hopes of getting the No. 1 draft...
Tags: Miami Heat, Social Media, Barack Obama, Tim Tebow, PGA Tour
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Poetry contest winner on her way to finals
South Bend TribuneEmma Libersky, a sophomore at Plymouth High School, got top honors at the Indiana Poetry Out Loud Competition in Indy. She will represent the state at the national finals on April 29-30 in Washington, D.C. Twenty-four other schools competed but Emma...Tags: Georgia Institute of Technology, Education, Asthma, Butler University, Students
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City Lights: Unplugging in a fast-paced digital world
I'm living an austere lifestyle as I write these words. At least, as austere as possible under the circumstances. My Twitter and Facebook accounts are logged off. My iPhone, which harbors my Hotmail account and text messages, is in my pocket untouched....Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Apple iPhone, Authors, Libraries, Social Media
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'Louder Than a Bomb' still crackles with young poets' ideas
Last week, in a valiant effort and one that deserves to be applauded, the mayor and NBA Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas took the point in an effort to raise money to expand the at-risk youth basketball program known as Windy City Hoops. “For me, as a...
Tags: Columbia College Chicago, Englewood, Roseland, Victory Gardens Theatre, Isiah Thomas
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Richard Blanco discusses his Inauguration Day poetry reading
When Richard Blanco was named as the 2013 inaugural poet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith said in an email that the White House had made an ideal choice, citing the scope of his poems, "their beautiful fidelity to private experience, to...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Maya Angelou, Entertainment Events, Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy
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It's the 'Groundhog Day' movie quiz... Again!
“Groundhog Day” opened in theaters 20 years ago, and was greeted by much head-scratching, even among Bill Murray fans. This was not a movie about Murray and his rodent nemesis from “Caddyshack.” The Nietzschean story, which...
Tags: Ryerson Incorporated, Harold Ramis, Groundhog Day (movie), Chevy Chase, Stephen Tobolowsky
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Lessons from a five-star president
As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in....
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), U.S. Congress, Richard Nixon, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Wars and Interventions
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Richard Blanco's big day
"One Today," the poem Richard Blanco read at Monday's presidential inauguration, describes a typical American morning: "My face, your face, millions of faces in morning's mirrors/Each one yawning to life, crescendoing into our day." For Blanco, of...
Tags: Bill Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, Poetry
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South Florida engineer becomes Obama's chosen poet
On a sunny South Miami morning, Richard Blanco took the podium at a groundbreaking ceremony for his latest project on Sunset Drive. It was spring 2008, and Blanco had directed the renovation of the busy avenue, urbanizing the stretch that serves as the...
Tags: Maya Angelou, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Starting over
Dec. 12 appeared like any other manic Monday. I drove my girls to LCHS, went to Starbucks, and continued my struggle with chapter 12 of the book I’m working on, searching for the right words that would give readers an “ah-ha” moment....Tags: Religion and Belief, Central Intelligence Agency, Education, Philosophy, Students
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It's only a game, until it isn't
I guess it will happen at some point. A kid in Baltimore will come across a faded black-and-white picture, or notice all those blue #19 jerseys, and he won't quite believe it: "We had a football team before the Ravens?" Maybe it's already happened,...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Heart Attack, New Year's Day, American Football Conference, Indianapolis Colts
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Obituary: Elby Frost
Elby Frost 1923-2013 LANCASTER — The Rev. Elby Frost, 89, widower of Evelyn Frost, died Tuesday. Born Aug. 2, 1923, he was the son of the late Wood and Sarah Hurst Frost. He was a member of the New Mission Worship Center in Danville. Frost...Tags: Protestant Convention, Religious Events, World War II (1939-1945)
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