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Even in changing times, Shawnee Mission aims to remain at the head of the class
The Kansas City StarThe curtain to the new Shawnee Mission School District opens on a stage of cowboys and cowgirls rehearsing at Westridge Middle School. Something they call "positive risk" is in full play. For a troupe of nervous middle-schoolers learning the musical...Tags: Students, Music, Teachers, University of Washington, Theater
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Column: Ghosts of Christmas past seen in immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jeff Sessions, Illegal Immigrants, Religion and Belief, Washington, DC
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EDITORIAL: Justice Department's journalistic dragnet
The Philadelphia InquirerObama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists' telephone...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama, Freedom of the Press
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Could Biden benefit from scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi?
If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the terrorist attack on...
Tags: Martin O'Malley, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Andrew Cuomo
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Greener Cities Will Push Cars To The Curb
What will our cities look like by mid-century as America's population expands a projected 36 percent, to some 440 million? Will they be more livable, green, vibrant? Can we do away with our tons of city-based industrial wastelands and remake our low-...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Car Safety Tips and Advice, Environmental Issues, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Population
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON — You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Jay Carney, Barack Obama, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Watergate's lessons seem to be forgotten
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Jay Carney, Crime, Law and Justice, Religion and Belief, Barack Obama
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Holder enfrenta dura audiencia en el Congreso sobre escándalos del IRS y AP
EFEEl secretario de Justicia y fiscal general de EEUU, Eric Holder, se enfrenta hoy a una audiencia parlamentaria en la que le preguntarán acerca de los últimos escándalos que afectan a la Administración: la incautación de llamadas telefónicas de periodistas...Tags: The Associated Press, Politics, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Taxation, Internal Revenue Service
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Cannes keeps being film industry's place to be
— It's been 42 years since I first covered the Cannes Film Festival. Arriving on the French Riviera this week, I was struck by how Cannes has remained the quintessential place for film, despite enormous changes in the cinema landscape. Cannes...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Festive Events, France, Film Festivals, Jack Nicholson
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Harper's intensity carries risks as well
ReutersThe Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH Bryce Harper brings the kind of intensity that few players have nowadays. That's a good thing. But it also can be dangerous. He sat out Tuesday's loss to the Dodgers, and manager...Tags: Baseball, Dan Haren, National League West, Craig Stammen, Wilson Ramos
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Winner of $61k Kerr literary prize announced
As the five young writers sat with bated breath, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda told them that a life of wordsmithing would bring them pain. One of them would soon win the nation's most lucrative literary award, the...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Enoch Pratt Free Library, Journalism, Arts and Culture, Perry Hall
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Poll: McDonnell's job approval rating slips
The Virginian-PilotAlthough Gov. Bob McDonnell's job approval numbers have declined to their lowest point in two years according to a new poll, his reputation doesn't seem seriously damaged by questions swirling around his relationship to a political donor who's given gifts...Tags: Barack Obama, Polls, Star Scientific Incorporated, Timothy M. Kaine, Mark R. Warner
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