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In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...

It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...

Peter Neofotis is coming back to Wilson to tell more stories from his book, "Concord, Virginia." Neofotis made many friends here when he first appeared in Theater of the American South in 2010 giving dramatic recitations of stories roughly based on...

Chang Xu has been appointed to platform leader of polymer encapsulation at Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Tidewood facility. Xu holds a doctorate from City University of New York as well as a bachelor of science degree from the University of...

HARC, Inc., an organization serving people with intellectual and related disabilities, celebrates the transformational 36-year tenure of President/CEO, Dr. Stephen Becker, who has announced that he will retire July 12. Dr. Becker, who began his career at...

Chandler Howard, Chairman of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, announced that Dr. Elsa M. Nunez, president, Eastern Connecticut State University, will serve as guest speaker at the Chamber's Business & Education Partnership Member Breakfast...

By Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem? For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down...

David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. NEW HUNT FOR CULPRIT IN RICIN CASE Officials searched another man's house after officials dropped charges of sending poison-filled letters...

André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's status as a graduate. As his son ricochets between hope and scorn,...

Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...

Yoani Sanchez has become the international poster girl for a new generation of Cubans trying to promote democratic reforms in their homeland — one tweet at a time. Sanchez, who is scheduled to speak at two public events Monday during her first...