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    May 9, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Confused about trade

    For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy.
    For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy. Now, though, the tide is turning....

    Tags: Energy, Debbie Stabenow, Dow Chemical Co., Barack Obama, Alcoa Incorporated

    2. Apr 23, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  2. The times we live in

    Paul Greenberg
    The president of the United States, being a gentleman and a man, paid a compliment to California's attorney general -- Kamala Harris -- when both of them appeared at a Democratic fundraiser in that state. Indeed, he paid her several compliments when he...

    Tags: Lawyers, Jay Carney, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Kamala D. Harris

    3. Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  3. A Word, Please: A would-be worry that isn't

    An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day, a celebrity might say mean things to a singer you support through text messaging.
    An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day,...

    Tags: FBI, Central Intelligence Agency

    4. Apr 14, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Viva House soup kitchen has provided 45 years of service

    In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk.
    In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk. Boarded-up rowhomes line the streets. A pile of mattresses rests on a trash heap in someone's former backyard. A lonely placard reads, "Stop shooting – start...

    Tags: Sandwiches, Timonium, Roman Catholicism, Bethlehem Steel, Foods and Beverages

    5. Mar 28, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. Stealing from yourself

    The Baltimore Sun
    Yesterday, writing at Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark suggested that our current attitudes about plagiarism have conflated relatively minor or innocuous literary borrowings with serious thefts. One of the points he identified was the clamor about self-...

    Tags: Theft, Book

    6. Mar 20, 2013 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  6. Mencken and me

    Paul Greenberg
    A friend and critic here in Little Rock -- well, definitely a critic and I hope he's still a friend -- submitted a guest column not long ago reciting my many sins. (Whose sins are few?) And we were happy to run it on the op-ed page of the Arkansas...

    Tags: Sage, Awards and Prizes, Periodicals, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine

    7. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  7. In a word: omnibibulous

    The Baltimore Sun
    A bonus word of the week for you, at the urging of colleagues: OMNIBIBULOUS This worthy word has not found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined by H.L. Mencken, an inveterate foe of Prohibition and a stout defender of his Twenty-...
    8. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Brother Patrick Ellis, college president

    Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J.
    Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J. The Baltimore native was 84....

    Tags: Religion and Belief, Colleges and Universities, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), University of Pennsylvania

    9. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances

    Baltimore has witnessed love and loss.
    Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...

    Tags: Elizabeth II, John Ward, Tuberculosis, Druid Hill, Hospitals and Clinics

    10. Feb 18, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  10. The brevity of Silent Cal

    WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator knew that "Silent Cal" could use words powerfully -- 15 of them made him a national figure -- because he was economical in their use, as in all things.
    WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator...

    Tags: Politics, White House, Boston, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama

    11. Feb 18, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  11. Helmet-less cyclists come up lame

    I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would not have, save for the helmet I was wearing. That said, I know what I am talking about.
    I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would...
    12. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. What does Morgan have to do with the College Park murder-suicide?

    I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the heyday of journalism in America. I wake up Wednesday morning in Afghanistan to find the legacy of that time in shambles. The Baltimore Sun has became a joke when a headline that read "College Park shooter identified as Morgan State University graduate" (Feb. 13).
    I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the...

    Tags: Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities, Afghanistan

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