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Col. William F. Rickett Jr., USA Ret., 84
Funeral services with full military honors for Col. William F. Rickett Jr., USA Ret., 84, will be Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at 10:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church of Jacksonville, Ala., with the Revs. John Simmons and Ted Anderson officiating....
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Religion and Belief, Awards and Prizes, Human Interest, International Military Interventions
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Vietnamese coffee
Vietnamese coffee: I might be the only Seattleite who doesn't guzzle coffee on an hourly basis. I make an exception, though, for Vietnamese coffee.
It's coffee for noncoffee drinkers, for those who find its bitterness overbearing. Vietnamese coffee is...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Wicker Park, Coffee, Sandwiches, Foods and Beverages
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Joel Brinkley: Food security still a major issue in Southeast Asia
American VoicesLUANG PRABANG, Laos -- Travel through Southeast Asia, and wherever you go you'll find statues of Buddha -- meditating, cogitating, calling for peace or for rain. The multiple poses are varied, and each one has its own meaning. But only one pose shows the...Tags: Environmental Issues, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Journalism, Thailand, Religion and Belief
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Column: Boundaries of the permissible
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it." — Col. Nathan Jessep to Lt. Daniel Kaffee, "A...Tags: Movies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Tom Cruise, John Brennan, Terrorism
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Interrogation: Boundaries Of The Permissible
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it." — Col. Nathan Jessep to Lt. Daniel Kaffee "A...Tags: Movies, Tom Cruise, John Brennan, Central Intelligence Agency, Jack Nicholson
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Boundaries of the permissible
"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it." -- Col. Nathan Jessup to Lt. Daniel Kaffee "A...
Tags: Movies, Tom Cruise, John Brennan, Michael Mukasey, Central Intelligence Agency
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Lloyd Waters: After war, veterans still need care
When a young man or woman makes a decision to enter military service, they do so for a lot of reasons. They know, however, that this commitment means protecting American freedoms like many generations before them have done. Some of them might sacrifice...Tags: Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Heart Disease, The Herald-Mail, Camp Lejeune (military base)
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Obama needs Hagel in the Pentagon
Absent from the discussion about whether former Senator Chuck Hagel would make a good secretary of defense is any focus on lessons learned from personal factors like combat in war, as well as loyalty to the president. As I was grousing about this, my...
Tags: Armed Forces, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Defense, International Military Interventions, Chuck Hagel
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Vietnam jails activists up to 13 years for 'subversion'
Fourteen activists were convicted of subversion Wednesday in Vietnam and sentenced to up to 13 years in prison, in an unusually large case centering on their alleged ties to a banned democracy group. Vietnamese state media reported that the dissidents...Tags: Revolutions, Punishment, Hanoi (Vietnam), Human Rights, U.S. Embassy
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Duy Quang dies at 61; renowned Vietnamese singer
The eldest sibling in Vietnam's most enduring singing family, Duy Quang was known for holding audiences enthralled as he boomed out the ballads of yesteryear, many penned by his father, Pham Duy, who knew how to tug at a listener's heart with songs...
Tags: Lung Cancer, Hanoi (Vietnam), Entertainment, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Music
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Letters: War weary
Re "Waiting for the last plane out," Opinion, Dec. 23 I had tears in my eyes reading David Freed's Op-Ed article about not seeing his son, who is probably stationed in Afghanistan, this Christmas. I share his feelings of longing to be with a son at...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Military, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.
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John Kerry's second act
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, named by President Obama to be his next secretary of state, could have been a character out of F. Scott Fitzgerald: a Yale man, tall, handsome, aristocratic, the son of a foreign service officer, married...Tags: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Nixon, John McCain, Clarence Thomas, United Nations
Jan 15, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Jan 10, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 15, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Jan 13, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Jan 11, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Jan 14, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 13, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Jan 2, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 23, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 26, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 28, 2012
|Column| Tribune Media Services
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