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For Hartford Teen, A Personal Project On Leadership
The Hartford CourantTre'Jon Hamm reached for the grand doors of the state Capitol when his cellphone buzzed. "I can't talk to you right now," the 14-year-old told his friend on the other line. Hamm rushed here after school on one of the final days of the legislative...Tags: Jim Calhoun, College Basketball, Government, Dannel P. Malloy , Executive Branch
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Partnership for cruise line The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), founded nearly 200 years ago to advance geographical science, is to...Tags: Elizabeth II, Gymnastics Clubs, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Malaysia, Guggenheim Museum
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Eduardo Galeano discusses "Children of the Days"
It was May 10 and it was cold outside and I was inside, at a downtown bar/restaurant awaiting the arrival of the distinguished Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano, which latest book is titled "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History." I...
Tags: George Washington Carver, Mexico, Arts and Culture, ABC (tv network), Al Capone
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Big events for July
As summer surges forward, there's plenty of time to catch a festive wave. For fun in the sun, consider the tall-ships gathering in Duluth, Minn., or the Ossipee Valley Fair west of Portland, Maine. For revels under the stars, look to the Candlelight...
Tags: Festive Events, Chincoteague (Accomack, Virginia), Music, Arts and Culture, England
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Ketchen, Pope and Prisby: Penn State trustees yet to reach goal of complete reform
Mark Twain once noted, "There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." Some members of Penn State's board of trustees honestly believe that the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), National Collegiate Athletic Association, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Dad recounts family cycling adventure in 'Pedal to the Sea'
You wouldn't expect a kid who grew up on the edge of Harbor Springs to become the adult who with his wife and two kids rode from coast to coast on a bicycle built for four. Who would you expect to do a thing like that? Looking back at his teen years,...
Tags: Newburg, Science and Technology, Pacific Ocean, Petroleum Industry, Book
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Lawmaker Jason Smith will sit on judiciary, natural resources committees in U.S. House
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's newest congressman has been appointed to the U.S. House committees on natural resources and the judiciary. Republican Jason Smith, of Salem, won a special election June 4 in southeast Missouri's 8th Congressional...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Natural Resources, Elections, Natural Resource Industry
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Jeannette Walls' Visit Among R.J. Julia Events
The Hartford CourantJeannette Walls, the journalist whose 2009 memoir "The Glass Castle," about growing up poor with brilliant but neglectful parents, has been a New York Times bestseller for five years, has written her first novel, "The Silver Star" (Scribner, $26). It's...Tags: Music, Arts and Culture, Learning Disability, Colleges and Universities, Libraries
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Margaret 'Peg Smith,' Longtime Enfield Volunteer, Dies At 76
Margaret "Peg" Smith, one of the women instrumental in founding the Enfield Food Shelf, died May 27 at 76. In the 1960s, Smith, along with Barbara Costas, Connie Lamond, Cindy Lockwood, and Pat Lombardo, organized the Church Women of Enfield group...
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Discover (or rediscover) a giant of comedy
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceThe great African-American comedian and actor Richard Pryor died of a heart attack at age 65 in 2005. By then, Pryor who had mostly retreated from public life after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1986 had spent his final decade in seclusion....Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Heart Attack, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Substance Abuse
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'I'm Connecticut' Shows The State Has Its Funny Side
The Hartford CourantThe show: "I'm Connecticut" at the Ivoryton Playhouse in Essex First impressions: Would the romantic comedy by the Emmy Award-winning writer-producer of "The Simpsons" — and Connecticut native — Mike Reiss, be as hysterically funny as when I...Tags: Annie Hall (movie), Storrs, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, Alzheimer's Disease, Jerry Adler
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Bernice "Bernie" Bender Bartholomew, 92, formerly of Salisbury
Bernice "Bernie" Bender Bartholomew, 92, died May 31, 2013, at Emeritus Senior Living in Towson, Md. Born on Aug. 27, 1920, daughter of the late Effie Miller Bender and Mark Twain Bender, Bernice graduated from Salisbury High School in Salisbury. She...Tags: Worth, Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), Austin (Chicago, Illinois), Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Dwayne Johnson
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