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How to get an American passport quickly when yours is about to expire
Question: My passport will expire at the end of August. Because I travel for my job frequently and sometimes with little advance notice, I cannot be without a passport for the four to six weeks it will take to get a new one. Also, many visas I will be...
Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, U.S. Department of State, Trips and Vacations, Personal Data Collection
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Inaugural fundraisers race to meet $50-million goal
WASHINGTON — With less than a week to go before President Obama is sworn in for his second term, fundraisers for the presidential inaugural committee were still working Monday to secure their goal of $50 million in private donations to finance the...
Tags: Barack Obama, United Therapeutics Corp., Centene Corporation, Genentech Inc., Finance
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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: Howard University, Korean War (1950-1953), United States Naval Academy, Technology, Science and Technology
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Overpriced 'setup' houses are used to sell other nearby homes
WASHINGTON — In the real estate brokerage field they're often known as "setups" or "pinball" homes, and this spring's improving conditions in some markets could be stimulating more of them. A setup or pinball property is a house listed with an...Tags: The Washington Post, Real Estate Sellers, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Realty, Homes
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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: Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund, Russia, Harvard University, Baltic Region
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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.... -
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,... -
Start repairing your bad credit rating now
It is never too soon for folks who have given up their homes to start pointing to the day when they will once again decide to take the plunge.
Whether you were able to persuade your lender to accept a payoff for less than what you owed and dump your...Tags: Politics, Bankruptcy, Financially Distressed Companies, Financial and Business Services, Personal Data Collection
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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: Politics, Justice System, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities
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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: White House, Politics, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Georgetown, Russia
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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.... -
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, Transportation, Moscow (Russia), Subway Transportation, Science and Technology
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