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On A Trip Abroad, Finding A Bridge Back
The Hartford CourantA letter to the Irish Times Wednesday was headlined "Name for the new Liffey bridge" The body of the letter consists of "Sir — The suspension is killing me. — Yours, etc. Tom Gilsenan." Bravo, Tom. You've done your duty as an Irishman. You'...Tags: George Bernard Shaw, Dublin (Ireland), Heart Disease, Bram Stoker, Heart Attack
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How the unassimilated are transformed into terrorists
If you're the child of an immigrant, like me, or perhaps an immigrant yourself brought here as a child, you know what it's like to have one foot planted in the old world and the other planted in the new, in this amazing, sometimes frighteningly free...
Tags: NATO, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Migration, Jihad
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Irish task at hand: Forget history, focus on present
Before quarterback Carlyle Holiday took two steps into the campus bookstore that Monday morning 10 years ago after a big road victory made his team 8-0, he realized this would be no ordinary week. Not at Notre Dame, where almost everybody majors in...
Tags: Bowl Championship Series, Football, Holidays, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Florida State University
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'Tent to Tent': Homeless veterans' stories may play out on stage
About one in five homeless Central Floridians once wore our country's colors. Vets such as Loretta White. She's among the 62,000 or so vets who pray the Obama administration's bid to end homelessness by 2015 is a more unequivocal win than the Iraq and...
Tags: Seminole State College, Sanford, Behavioral Conditions, Homelessness, Abusive Behavior
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New pet books spotlight everything from military dogs to a cat who looks like a cow!
My Pet WorldHere's a sampling of fine new pet books for your summer reading list: "Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes," by Maria Goodavage (Penguin Publishing, New York, NY, 2012; $26.95). Truly an excellent read. Although the author is...Tags: Chicago Tribune Columnists, Book, Steve Dale, Armed Forces, Pets
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Shootings, Sandy Hook Elementary School, U.S. Senate
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Terrorists and the Constitution
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., proposes that if and when Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is captured, he be held as an "enemy combatant" so he can be interrogated without the constitutional protections afforded to criminal suspects. He's talking about an American...Tags: Criminals, Crime, Law and Justice
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Future bride says "I don't" to Pastor-Dad
Dear Amy: I am getting married next summer to a wonderful man. During the planning it has come to my attention that my fiance would very much like his father, a minister, to officiate our wedding. I am opposed to this because I would like his father to be...
Tags: The Happiest News!, Reviews, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Human Interest
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He says his battle almost over
Mary SanchezSome will say that Tomas Young agreed to die a long time ago. The 33-year-old Iraq war veteran is lying in a bed in Kansas City under hospice care, intent on soon stopping life-sustaining drugs and nourishment. But this is not a preordained event, one...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Baghdad (Iraq), Iraq War (2003-2011), Iraq, George W. Bush
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VA trying to move faster on benefits claims
Our government historically has armed soldiers with the technology necessary to succeed on the battlefield, enabling them to topple targets like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Washington finally is recognizing the importance of technology on the home...Tags: Eric Shinseki, Veterans Affairs, Electronics, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Disabled American Veterans
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Rachel Patron: GOP having real trouble recognizing real world
The GOP agonistes. It's a Greek word portraying someone's agonizing journey to find themselves. Last week Rush Limbaugh said — I paraphrase — this country is conservative. More people in the United States espouse conservative...Tags: Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Adam Lanza, U.S. Army
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From Afghanistan to Montana: War vets find solace fly-fishing in a new documentary
In the affecting new documentary "Not Yet Begun to Fight," a sound engineer is caught on film asking for a cigarette from one of the film's subjects, a Marine corporal from Evansville, Ind., named Erik Goodge, who lost an eye when he was wounded in...
Tags: Malaysia, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Entertainment, Injuries and Wounds, Afghanistan
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