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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...
Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Jimmy Carter, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Vatican crackdown: U.S. nuns chastised for questioning church
The Vatican has ordered an overhaul of the most important group of nuns in the United States after an investigation found what Roman Catholic Church officials called "radical feminist themes" that questioned official positions on homosexuality and the...
Tags: Anders Breivik, Belief and Faith, Religion and Belief, Dick Clark, Benedict XVI
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Vatican scolds Catholic nuns' group for deviating from doctrine
A group that represents the majority of Roman Catholic nuns in the United States has been chastised by the Vatican for deviating from church doctrine and promoting what the Holy See called "radical feminist themes." The Leadership Conference of Women...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Same-Sex Marriage, Social Issues, Benedict XVI, Abortion
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Murray Seeger dies at 82; L.A. Times reporter led Moscow bureau
Murray Seeger, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondant who served as Moscow bureau chief in the early 1970s and was later director of information for the AFL-CIO, has died. He was 82.
Seeger, who lived in Silver Spring, Md., died of pneumonia Monday in...Tags: Harvard University, Europe, International Monetary Fund, Russia, Media Industry
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Actors unions start formally discussing merger
Company TownCommittees approved by the respective boards of the Screen Actors Guild and AFTRA to come up with a plan to combine the unions met for the first time over the weekend at the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland.... -
Frank Neuhauser dies at 97; first national spelling bee winner
The word had already baffled one contestant when Frank Neuhauser confidently spelled it right — "G-L-A-D-I-O-L-U-S" — to win the first national spelling bee in 1925.
Luck was his ally. Although he had studied for months with his mill-worker...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Louisville, Documentary (genre), Colleges and Universities, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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Dagmar Wilson dies at 94; organizer of women's disarmament protesters
In 1961, the Berlin Wall went up, the Cold War arms race was on and Dagmar Wilson, a storybook illustrator and mother of three, steamed into the national spotlight.
A self-described "non-joiner," Wilson sparked a movement that on Nov. 1, 1961, drew an...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Activism, Washington Monument, Russia, Air and Space Accidents
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John Kluge dies at 95; founder of Metromedia television empire
John Kluge, a billionaire entrepreneur and pioneer in independent television-station ownership whose Metromedia Inc. stations formed the basis for News Corp.'s Fox network, has died. He was 95.
Kluge died Tuesday at his home in Albemarle County, Va.,...Tags: Columbia University, Rupert Murdoch, Colleges and Universities, Bankruptcy, University of Virginia
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Liguori's contract gets sweetened for taking helm of OWN
Company TownWith new responsibilities comes new money. Peter Liguori, the Discovery Communications chief operating officer who earlier this month added the title of interim chief executive of the Oprah Winfrey Network after the abrupt departure of Christina Norman,... -
Antonina Pirozhkova dies at 101; common-law widow of Russian writer Isaac Babel
Antonina Pirozhkova, who was the common-law widow of Russian literary giant Isaac Babel and wrote a well-received memoir that provided a rare glimpse of the persecuted writer's final years in the 1930s, has died. She was 101.
Pirozhkova died Sept. 12...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Subway Transportation, Moscow (Russia), Police Arrests, Science and Technology
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Discovery tries to bulk up with Fit and Health programming
Company TownDiscovery Communications has discovered that there is an audience for health programming after all. Two weeks after shutting down the Discovery Health Channel to make room for the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), the Silver Spring, Md., media company said it.... -
Leon Howell dies at 73; author and essayist was last editor of Christianity and Crisis
Leon Howell, an author and essayist who was the last editor of the influential liberal-tilting journal Christianity and Crisis, has died. He was 73. Howell died Feb. 26 at his home in Silver Spring, Md. He had suffered for years from a viral spinal...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Reinhold Niebuhr, Christianity, Death
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