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Ron Klein-Allen West race for Congress: complete coverage
Palm Beach Politics | Sun Sentinel blogsRon Klein attempts to fend off challenge from tea party favorite Allen West Profile: 22nd Congressional District Ron Klein biographical sketch Allen West biographical sketch Congressional candidate Allen West doesn???t live in the district he???s...Tags: Barack Obama, Interior Policy, CNN (tv network), Tea Party Movement, Polls
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Obama's Indonesian trip: Biography big
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama's planned, and slightly delayed, trip to Indonesia marks an important step in relations with the Islamic world, says an expert on U.S.-Asian relations who served the Bush administration on this front. " It is......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Indonesia, Islam, Michael Green
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Taking note of music books
If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, as Elvis Costello and others have sneered, then what does that make reading about music? Well, fun, for starters. Although Bowker Market Research reports that music books have steadily comprised...
Tags: Artists, Entertainment, Patti Smith, Wyclef Jean, Clive Davis
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Tracking down famous (or infamous) ancestors
We've all got them. They are the ancestors our family told us about: the famous and the infamous; the memorable and the unmentionable; the ones we can identify and the ones that we can't seem to find out more about. We have stories handed down to us... -
Simplistic 'Chaplin' silences the magic of the Little Tramp
At the crucial emotional juncture of "Chaplin," the new musical about the Englishman who became, for a good while, the most famous movie star in the world, the character Charlie Chaplin sings of the pain that flows from declining interest in his work....
Tags: The Gold Rush (movie), London Theatre, Entertainment, Charlie Chaplin, Ethel Barrymore Theatre
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Our town was Wilder's town too
Chicago makes a claim on many writers — Nelson Algren, David Mamet, Ernest Hemingway, Carl Sandburg — even if those scribes spent only a portion of their lives within its sweet confines. But Thornton Wilder, the author of such iconic plays...
Tags: Carl Sandburg, Lynn Fontanne, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Art Institute of Chicago, University of Chicago
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Why I'll never write a book
‘You should write a book.” Or, “Why don't you write a book?” Or, “Have you ever thought about writing a book?” Are you detecting a theme here? Anyone who writes for a living — anyone that is, with a mother...
Tags: Finance, Journalism, Authors, Andersonville, Ellen Warren
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American West explored in Kit Carson biography
Kit Carson, the 19th century mountain man cum Indian agent has long been an enigma. Less so, now maybe, because of David Remley's recent release "Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man." Out now in paperback, Remley's examination of one of...
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Motoring News
Here are some notes from the past week in the automotive world, courtesy of auto expert Jim MacPherson: -Tesla, a maker of electrically powered cars, has vowed to start repaying federal loans by the end of the year. Regulatory filings at the end of March...Tags: Ford, Automotive Equipment, New Products, Tesla, Companies and Corporations
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Another reason for IOC to boot Pal Schmitt
If Pal Schmitt's resignation as president of Hungary over a plagiarism scandal isn't enough for the International Olympic Committee to boot him as a member, here's a little more evidence of the fraud Schmitt perpetrated regarding his academic credentials....
Tags: Science and Technology, Sports Organizations, Sports, Olympic Games, European Parliament
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God has no other plan but us
An angel saw Jesus ascending into heaven. "Where have you been?" the angel asked. "I've been on earth conducting my ministry," Jesus responded. "For how long?" "Three years," Jesus answered. "How did it go?" "They crucified me." "But you must have...Tags: Nazareth
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See the billionaire – then be the billionaire
How'd they do it?
That is often thought to be the primary motivation behind our fascination with the life stories of business behemoths: a curiosity about the means – both noble and scurrilous – by which mammoth fortunes are made. "Steve...Tags: Merchandise Mart, Julia Keller, Computer Hardware, Pixar Animation, Apple iPad
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