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Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia
The Hartford CourantDeb Sokolow's 'Some Concerns About the Candidate' 'Something about this doesn't feel right." These are the words of an anonymous narrator, who's keeping a journal about participating in a political campaign. Within weeks of enthusiastically joining...Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Paranoia, Lee Harvey Oswald, Entertainment
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Recuerdos de Ronald Biggs
En la década de 1980, el periodista uruguayo Homero Alsina Thevenet escribió dos libros llamados "Una Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles" y "Segunda Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles". En ellos recopilaba miles de datos, contaba historias con un estilo mordaz y,...Tags: Interpol, Sex Pistols (music group), Charles Manson
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Feeling the stress of the job
Flat-screen monitors cast soft light on work consoles as casually dressed staffers fielded calls on a recent afternoon at Tri-Com Central Dispatch, the 911 call center serving central Kane County. Inside the single-story center in west suburbanSt....
Tags: Suicide, Shootings, Religion and Belief, Health, Human Interest
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Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, reporter and editor
Baltimore Sun reporterAnthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Journalism, Loyola University Chicago, Diseases and Illnesses, George Mason
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Anthony O'Neill 'Tony' Miller, reporter and editor
Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Journalism, Loyola University Maryland, Loyola University Chicago, George Mason
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Daum: Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid'
Drunk any Kool-Aid lately? Or maybe you accused someone else of doing it? If so, congratulations, you're right in step with one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends. A snappy, fruit-flavored way of referring to someone who unquestioningly...Tags: Tom Wolfe, Ken Kesey, Google Inc., Religion and Belief, Starbucks Corp.
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Don't 'go postal' over 'drinking the Kool-Aid' [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.Don't "drink the Kool-Aid," writes Meghan Daum in an Op-Ed column that urges readers to "ease up on a figure of speech arising from 1978's Jonestown massacre." She writes: [A]pparently unbeknown to just about everyone who uses the expression, "drinking...... -
Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad
Hacienda admits it made a mistake.
For the first time in the history of the South Bend-based restaurant company, billboards are being removed less than two weeks after Hacienda launched a new advertising campaign.
Hacienda has instructed a local...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Politics, Marketing, Advertising, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Album review: The Peoples Temple’s ‘Sons of Stone’
Pop & HissHoZac Records' spring releases include superb limited-edition punk singles from bands such as Timmy’s Organism and Red Mass, but the most exciting item on the label’s roster is the long-awaited long player "Sons of Stone" from cosmic garage... -
"Eden Springs (Made in Michigan Writers)" by Laura Kasischke
Special to the TribuneEden Springs (Made in Michigan Writers)" By Laura Kasischke Wayne State University Press, 146 pages, $18.95 You can, if you like, take a regional angle when you approach this forceful and lovely novella by one of our country's most (paradoxically)...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Music, Entertainment, Cults and Sects, Crimes
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Mix-tape Friday for June 10, 2010
Staff reporterGARRY'S MIXTAPE Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night Jarrett's Mixtape a. Over the Hills and Far Away by Led Zeppelin b. I'm a Pretender by Exploding Hearts c. Ballad of Jim Jones by Brian Jonestown Massacre d. Dusty Nothing by Dead Meadow e....Tags: Jefferson Airplane (music group), Johnny Cash, Radio, Warren Zevon, Smashing Pumpkins (music group)
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Biden, Obama: 'Misread the economy'
The Swampby Mark Silva A few months into the federal government's attempt to stimulate the economy, with unemployment at a 26-year-high of 9.5 percent in June, Vice President Joe Biden, the Obama administration's point-man on the stimulus program, allows that...Tags: United States, Politics, United Nations, Economic Policy, Defense
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