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Remembering duty, service and 'lost human potential'
There were many moving moments during Monday's annual Memorial Day Ceremony at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, in Timonium. The program included nearly two hours of musical selections by military bands and choral groups and prayers, along with...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Holidays, Human Interest, Memorial Day
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Amazon categorizes Rodney King's memoir as 'criminal biography'
Jacket CopyRodney King's addiction and recovery memoir, "The Riot Within," is a bestseller in Amazon's "Criminal Biography" subcategory alongside books about serial killers and members of the mafia.... -
First-ever Carnegie Awards in Literature go to Enright, Massie
Jacket CopyThe American Library Association announced the winners of a new set of awards going to books for adults.... -
Commerce Secretary John Bryson found unconscious after hit-and-run crashes
L.A. NOWU.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was involved in two hit-and-run accidents in the San Gabriel Valley on Satruday before being found unconscious inside his Lexus vehicle by police, authorities said. Bryson was treated at the scene by Los Angeles........ -
Commerce Secretary John Bryson accused in hit-and-run crashes
L.A. NOWAuthorities are investigating a series of traffic collisions in the San Gabriel Valley involving U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson, authorities said Saturday.... -
Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson discusses the late, iconic Apple leader
Few nonfiction writers think bigger than Walter Isaacson, who has taken on subjects like Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein. But when Apple founder Steve Jobs invited him in 2004 to write a complete and frank biography, Isaacson held...
Tags: Louis Armstrong, Benjamin Franklin, Apple iPhone, Literature, CNN (tv network)
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Feedback: What is the best biography you have ever read?
One of the best biographies I have ever read was "Another Man's War: The True Story of One Man's Battle to Save Children in the Sudan," by Sam Childers, aka the machine gun preacher. It painted the image of Childers fighting for orphans in Sudan, and also...Tags: John Belushi, Cancer, Sudan, Music, Entertainment
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Book review: 'Jerusalem' by Simon Sebag Montefiore
Special to Tribune NewspapersSimon Sebag Montefiore's epic survey of Jerusalem's sanguinary history does not inspire confidence in the civilizing qualities of religion. The pile of corpses accumulated over millenniums from the persecutions both perpetrated and endured by all three of...Tags: Book, David Ben-Gurion, Religion and Belief, Good Friday, Israel
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Charles Higham dies at 81; controversial celebrity biographer
Charles Higham, a poet, critic and prolific celebrity biographer who found political and sexual intrigue in the lives of Hollywood icons such as Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and, most controversially, Errol Flynn, died April 21 at his Los Angeles home. He...Tags: Fiction, Reviews, Errol Flynn, U.S. Department of State, Lucille Ball
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Allan Powell: Kings of the mountain exposed, Part 1
When we were kids, we earned some small change by selling burlap bags of corn cobs that we got free from a huge pile of cobs at Stickles' Mill on Baltimore Street. In those days (circa 1935), many homes cooked on coal stoves using corn cobs as kindling...Tags: Karl Marx, Science and Technology, Thomas Carlyle
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C. David Heymann dies at 67; controversial bestselling biographer
C. David Heymann, a bestselling biographer whose titillating accounts of famous lives often were criticized as inaccurate or dishonest, including a book on heiress Barbara Hutton that was recalled because of factual disputes, has died. He was 67.
Heymann...Tags: Farrah Fawcett, Book, Elizabeth Taylor, Arts and Culture, New York City
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News briefs for Monday, May 14
New 'super' PAC hopes to woo younger voters, tapping into unease about jobs, student loan debt WASHINGTON (AP)— President Barack Obama counted on the support of younger voters four years ago. Now, a new Republican-leaning "super" political...
Tags: Health, Advertising, Dell Inc., Steve Jobs, Eva Longoria
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