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Doughnuts as a symbol of consumer culture
Dining@LargeMy earlier post on Krispy Kreme's woes reminded me of a press release I got on a new book, Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut by Paul R. Mullins, associate professor and chair of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis:...Tags: Purdue University, Travel, Culture, Commuting, Consumers
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Hillary: Answers
Spin CycleClinton is delivering her opening statement -- delivering a lecture on the importance of diplomacy and "smart power," which unfortunately she didn't seem to grasp when she voted to go to war in Iraq in 2002. Her opening statement is......Tags: Weaponry, Global Energy Incorporated, Culture, National Government, Conservation
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Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State-to-be
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated We are hearing familiar words today, at the Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing for Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state -- words heard in President Bush's many various statements on the potential of....Tags: Weaponry, Chelsea Clinton, Global Energy Incorporated, Culture, National Government
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Obama's dress code: 'Pull up your pants'
The Swampby David Zucchino DURHAM, N.C. - When candidate Barack Obama told MTV viewers in November that "brothers should pull up their pants," Kent Williams Jr. was thinking the same thing. Williams, the student body president at North Carolina Central University,...Tags: Michelle Obama, Education, Minority Groups, Barack Obama, Culture
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President, prof, police: 'This one's for you'
The Swampby Mark Silva It was Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who led Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Jr., out of his own home in handcuffs, who suggested to President Barack Obama, who first criticized the arrest as stupid......Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Barack Obama, Culture, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., National Government
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Obama, Maliki: Iraqi security promising
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, hailing the transfer of authority inside Iraq's cities to Iraqi military forces, acknowledged today that "differences in strategy'' remain to be resolved, but voiced satisfaction with the level of security in the war-...Tags: Barack Obama, Culture, National Government, Saddam Hussein, Ban Ki-moon
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Henry Gates: Harvard for sergeant's kids
The Swampby Mark Silva Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's looking forward to his next talk with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, maybe lunch, maybe dinner with the families, maybe getting the officer's kids into Harvard -- if the......Tags: Major League Baseball, Minority Groups, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, Culture
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Michelle Obama's Roots: Gates' way
The Swampby Mark Silva The genealogic discovery of a white great-great-great grandfather in the family tree of First Lady Michelle Obama is a quintessential American coda to a year of living divisively. The genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who spent several months in....Tags: Michelle Obama, National Basketball Association, Minority Groups, South Carolina, Barack Obama
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Healthcare, TEA Parties, racism, rancor
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Sunday morning There was quite a scene outside the Capitol today, where the House was embroiled in debate over passage of a healthcare bill that President Barack Obama is demanding. Protesters amassed, and some of......Tags: Culture, Health, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hospitals and Clinics
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Singer gallery to celebrate repairs
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail In 1949, Anna Brugh Singer traveled to Hagerstown to dedicate the addition of two wings to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, including the Singer Memorial Gallery. She and her husband, William,...Tags: Human Interest, Culture, Artists, Arts and Culture, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Meet Marcus Samuelsson
Just when the chef memoir had started tasting a little overly familiar — the long struggles to cook their food their way, the breakthrough review, the stove burns, the final 60 pages where nothing much happens but happiness and prosperity —...Tags: New York City, Lifestyle and Leisure, Culture, Barack Obama, Bensonhurst
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CSO's Citizen Musician seeks right note
A little more than two years ago, the curtain lifted on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra-led Citizen Musician initiative, and CSO Association President Deborah Rutter told an overflow crowd at the Chicago Cultural Center: “All of you are citizen...
Tags: Edgewater, New Products, Fine Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Culture
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