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Russert: One of TV news' Top 10
The Swampby Michael Tackett and Mark Silva With the sudden passing of Tim Russert, chief of the Washington bureau for NBC News and longtime host of Meet the Press, television journalism has lost one of its all-time greats. Russert, 58, was,......Tags: Social Issues, Television Industry, CBS Corp., Tim Russert, Walter Cronkite
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Bush lawyer: Obama was 'honest broker'
The Swampby James Oliphant Bradford Berenson is a former White House lawyer in the Bush administration who also served with Barack Obama on the Harvard Law Review in 1991, when Obama was president of that publication. His comments for the PBS......Tags: Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Government, George W. Bush, National or Ethnic Minorities
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PBS Just Gave You...Everything
The TV ZoneThis you have to see, and I suggest that you see it right now: Pbs.org. And click on video. Or, if you prefer, go here... Pretty much the entire visible universe of the Public Broadcasting Service has just been......Tags: Lost (tv program), Public Relations
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Reckoning With Emotions' Powerful Political Pull
The Hartford CourantDuring Wednesday's debate on new gun laws, Sen. John Kissel rose and began a lengthy set of remarks with two anecdotes. First, the Enfield Republican spoke movingly of hugging his youngest son, Tristan, on the day of the Newtown massacre, one day before...Tags: Punishment, Colin McEnroe, Crime, Law and Justice, Al Gore, National Rifle Association of America
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'Snitch,' starring Dwayne Johnson, is capably noirish ★★★
Large, in charge and nobody's little Margie: Dwayne Johnson takes on the drug kingpins in "Snitch." Place your bets! "Snitch" comes from a story told in a "Frontline" documentary about the post-Reagan-era injustice of mandatory minimum sentencing for...
Tags: Movies, Dwayne Johnson, Snitch (movie), LSD, Susan Sarandon
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A new GOP, or just a cosmetic touchup?
Maybe the party is finally over. Meaning not simply the Grand Old Party, but more specifically the bacchanal of the bizarre and carnival of crazy to which it has lately devolved. So obvious has this devolution become that even Republican stalwarts...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, POLITICO LLC, Philosophy, Michele Bachmann, Elections
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: Charles Dickens, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Michael Bloomberg
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Faces, some masked, of Anonymous
Two years ago in December, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal cut off all financial services to WikiLeaks. This left the controversial website blocked off from accepting online donations — a state of affairs that did not sit well with members of the...
Tags: National Geographic Channel (tv network), PayPal, Inc., Crime, Law and Justice, Columbia College Chicago, Trials
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Mediators try to make streets a little less mean
In its charting of a Chicago epidemic and belief in the power of street-level human empathy, the superb documentary "The Interrupters" comes to us at a time when the notion of conflict resolution has been sidelined utterly on the national political level....Tags: Social Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Gene Siskel, Crimes, Gang Activity
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Goldberg: Obama, abroad, is adrift
Since President Obama has been having a rough time lately, let me belatedly congratulate him on his apparently successful policy of regime change in Libya. Initially, I favored a more robust and decisive intervention when Obama seemed to dither, and then...Tags: Terrorism, Hate Crimes, Massacres, Central Intelligence Agency, NATO
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Daum: Sept. 11 and the impulse to pay tribute
Not that you needed reminding, but Sunday is the 10th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Around the world, memorials will be held, prayers said, tears shed. President Obama has called on the nation to "reaffirm the strength of our nation with...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), CNN (tv network), Long Island, John F. Kennedy, Diana, Princess of Wales
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Obama's border blues and 2012
It may not rank high in polls of voters' priorities compared to jobs and the economy, yet immigration has taken on a central role in the 2012 presidential campaign drama. Republican presidential debates have been a contest to see who can sound more...Tags: Migration, Social Media, Deportation, Hispanic and Latino Americans, Prisoners and Detainees
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