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Bullish about Buffett
Special to The Baltimore SunThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life By Alice Schroeder Bantam Books / 960 pages / $35 When he was 21 and "people weren't listening," Warren Buffett says, half in jest, he gave his best financial advice. Now he can say "the dumbest...Tags: Financial Planning, Cornell University, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., American Express Company, Coca-Cola Company
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Call goes out for readers' favorite swell small towns
Special To The SentinelWe called the pieces "Swell Small Towns" stories and challenged readers to send us favorites. The feature became our most popular. This was a decade ago, when I edited 50 PLUS magazine in New York City and was ever on the prowl for something to help us...Tags: Newspapers, Ted Turner, New York Times, St. George, Trips and Vacations
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Will VCR, Antenna Still Work In '09?
Q: Will I be able to record programs off the air with my VCR after the digital transition? A: Though it's easy to overlook, VHS is not yet extinct. And the end of almost all analog television broadcasts on Feb. 17 won't doom videotape, either. It will,...Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Television Industry
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Opportunity For Change In Mideast
The election of Barack Obama to be the 44th president is profoundly historic. We have at long last been able to come together in a way that has eluded us in the long history of our great country. We should celebrate this triumph of the true spirit of...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Diplomacy, Government, Election Day, Refugee
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First tenure, now suspensions
baltimoresun.comLast week, I blogged about D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's attempts to end tenure as we know it. Now, as The Washington Post reports today, Rhee has released a five-year plan that floats the possibility of ending out-of-school suspensions. In-school... -
WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
Up to a point, Bush's defensiveness is understandable, given the comforting belief in many countries that lax American regulation and Wall Street greed were the sole causes of their own economic misfortunes. Anyone with a passing acquaintance with the... -
Ex-Skins coach facing old team
There was a time, when Bill Lazor first started coaching at Cornell University, that his younger brother Dan was a linebacker at the school. And in a spring practice game, Dan Lazor roared through the offensive line and into the quarterback, knocking...Tags: Ethics, Cornell University, Washington Redskins, Values, Seattle Seahawks
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David Broder: A real chance for health-care reform
Things are looking up for substantive reform of America's troubled health-care system. No one who knows the history of such efforts, from Harry Truman's administration through Bill Clinton's, needs to be reminded of the difficulties that inevitably...Tags: Government, Max Baucus, Harry S Truman, Tom Daschle, Labor Legislation
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Weekend Talk Shows
TODAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC 26648 McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET 12613 SUNDAY Today Recycling rooms. (N) 6 a.m. KNBC 27385 Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC 61743 CBS News Sunday Morning The origins of the Caesar salad; Boz...Tags: Government, Steny H Hoyer, David Axelrod, Joe Lieberman, Foods and Beverages
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Family Filmgoer
The Family Filmgoer 6 & older Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (PG) The mismatched animal escapees from the Central Park Zoo get stranded at an African nature preserve. In a briefly scary prologue we see how a lion cub was stolen by poachers, who shot...Tags: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Role Models, Central Park, Zack and Miri Make a Porno, The Secret Life of Bees
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Holly Golightly continues to enchant 50 years after Capote published 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'
Associated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ The scene that made it excusable to wear a tiara to breakfast: Audrey Hepburn, gowned in Givenchy black with long gloves, fat pearls and oversized sunglasses. She peers through a Tiffany's window with Danish and coffee in hand. Having...Tags: Norman Mailer, Barney's New York Incorporated, Frank Sinatra, Audrey Hepburn, Celebrity Mothers
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Groups push to get buyers off sidelines
What will it take to get consumers off the sidelines to buy more houses and help stimulate the economy? How about a mortgage at 2.99 percent fixed rate for 30 years for anyone who purchases a home before next July 1? Or how about a non-repayable...Tags: Interior Policy, Government, State Budgets, Real Estate Buyers, Housing and Urban Planning
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