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Letters to the editor
Put education first Re “Bid to oust Brewer falls apart,” Dec. 3 It was disheartening to read about the bureaucratic machinations surrounding the failed effort to remove Los Angeles Unified Supt. David L. Brewer. My disappointment was...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Insurance, Distilling and Brewing Industry, Massacres, Interior Policy
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'The Norman Maclean Reader'
The Norman Maclean Reader Essays, Letters, and Other Writings by the Author of "A River Runs Through It" Norman Maclean Edited by O. Alan Weltzien University of Chicago: 256 pp., $27.50 Norman Maclean, who died in 1990, was a big two-hearted writer...Tags: Fishing, Fiction, History, University of Chicago, Murder
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No sympathy for Detroit at a Kia plant in Georgia
This attractive old mill town along the Chattahoochee River, with its brick downtown and streets of cozy, unpretentious homes, could be the backdrop for a patriotic American car commercial -- lacking only the plaintive croak of a Bob Seger or John...Tags: National Government, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Georgia Brown, Labor Legislation, Plant Openings
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'NOBODY IS WATCHING'
Tribune correspondentTo glimpse America's secret war in Africa, you must bang with a rock on the iron gate of the prison in this remote port in northern Somalia. A sleepy guard will yank open a rusty deadbolt. Then, you ask to speak to an inmate named Mohamed Ali Isse. Isse,...Tags: Civil Rights, Wars and Interventions, Maritime Accidents, Firearms, Injuries
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For two widows, a soldier's trial is their battlefield
Day after day, the widows sit silently in court, a few feet from the soldier accused of murdering their husbands. They listen as their husbands' violent deaths play out again and again in witness testimony. Sometimes, they say, the defendant stares at...Tags: Prosecution, Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Trials, Court Administration
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On this day in history
On Nov. 29, 1832, "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa. In 1864 a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1890, at West Point, N.Y., the first...Tags: Heads of State, National Government, Massacres, Democracy, Adam Clayton
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VW expects auto industry to be out of doldrums when Tenn. plant begins making sedans in 2011
Associated Press WriterCHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) _ With huge dirt movers shaping the site of Volkswagen's $1 billion assembly plant at Chattanooga, Europe's largest automaker says it has no regrets about announcing its arrival as an American employer in hard times. "We have...Tags: Nissan, Globalization, Ford, Kia Motors Corp., BMW
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Tamarac Turkey Trot goes to Iraq
Forum Publishing GroupThe city of Tamarac Parks and Recreation Department will present its 28th annual Turkey Trot 5K race on Thanksgiving Day, but this year, the race will be held in two locations. A soldier serving in Iraq, Army Capt. Erica Chabalko of Pompano, contacted...Tags: Tamarac, Turkey, Holidays, Thanksgiving
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Col. James C. Burris, Vietnam War veteran
Col. James Curtis Burris, a highly decorated career Army officer who fought in the Vietnam War, died Nov. 13 at his Havre de Grace home of cancers related to exposure to Agent Orange. He was 78. Colonel Burris, who was born and raised in Tulsa, Okla.,...Tags: National Government, Family, Wars and Interventions, Anglican, World War I
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Money, money
Last week in the Daily Press was an article that said Newport News was setting aside millions of dollars to buy land in King William County for a regional reservoir. (Bazillions already spent on both sides.) Now a front-page article says the city is short...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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NY-NJ beacon project marks Brits' 1783 NYC exit
Associated Press WriterJuly 4, 1776? Fuhgedaboutit! The date every New Yorker should know is Nov. 25, 1783, the day the British evacuated Manhattan at the end of the Revolutionary War. "When they left, we won. It doesn't get much bigger than that," said Deke Hazirjian, a...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Oakland (Orange, Florida), George Washington, ESPN, Tourism and Leisure
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