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'Timmy Failure' feeds Stephan Pastis' success
The last time "Pearls Before Swine" cartoonist Stephan Pastis walked the halls of San Marino's K.L. Carver Elementary School, he was an 11-year-old, practical-joke-loving fifth-grader with a penchant for irreverent doodling — things like the Ty-D-...
Tags: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (movie), Crime, Law and Justice, Cartoons, Lawyers, San Marino
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One Goal, And No Quit
The Hartford CourantGrowing up in Columbus, Ga., home of Fort Benning, Kimberly Smithwick knew better than to hang around with soldiers at bars. "I never thought I'd date a military guy, but then I met Joe," she said, laughing. There was something different about Staff...Tags: Authors, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland), Bristol (Hartford, Connecticut), Wrestling
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: U.S. Military, Rebellions, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Taliban
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Widow of "American Sniper" speaks at NRA convention
HOUSTON -- The widow of slain former military sniper Chris Kyle made a surprise appearance at the annual National Rifle Assn. convention on Friday, addressing a packed auditorium of hundreds. Taya Kyle, 38, a slim figure with long brown hair, appeared...
Tags: U.S. Military, National Rifle Association of America, Sarah Palin, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Criminals
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Veterans Administration Secretary Faults Delays In Processing Claims
The Hartford CourantKevin Burke walked into the veterans hospital about 18 months ago with advanced diabetes and kidney and liver disease. A subsequent mental health screening revealed that the 51-year-old Navy veteran is also an alcoholic and suffers from post-traumatic...Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Electronics, Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Government, Veterans Affairs
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Valerie Sayers on Joe DiMaggio and "The Powers"
In "The Powers," Valerie Sayers' long-awaited sixth novel — her first since "Brain Fever" (1996) — the great Yankees slugger Joe DiMaggio is embarking on his historic hitting streak of 1941, riveting Americans as much as or more than the...
Tags: Authors, Roman Catholicism, Labor Legislation, Vietnam War (1955-1975), The Wall Street Journal
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'The Way of the Knife' exposes America's shadow wars
In October 2002, Barack Obama, then an obscure state senator in Illinois, stood in Federal Plaza in Chicago and gave a speech about Iraq that launched his career toward the White House. "I don't oppose all wars," Obama told the crowd. "What I am opposed...Tags: U.S. Military, Military Equipment, Fidel Castro, U.S. Congress, Weaponry
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Iraqi team learns O.C. criminal procedures
WESTMINSTER — A burgeoning relationship between a small Christian college in Costa Mesa and a public university in Iraq could help shape the Middle Eastern country's response to gender-based violence in its northern region. Over the span of 15...Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Abusive Behavior, Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups
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READER SUBMITTED: Middlesex Community College Veterans' Club Raised $1500 For A Memorial Tree For A Fallen Hero
Middletown/ShorelineThe MxCC Veterans' Club, for the past three semesters, have been having hot dog sale fundraisers on campus to raise money so they could sponsor a Memorial Tree for one of the 64 men and women who were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting the war on...Tags: Connecticut College, Afghanistan, Colleges and Universities, Human Interest, Middletown
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It's time to stop blaming Bush
I am not a fan of former President George W. Bush, but I must comment on the hatchet job that was The Sun's editorial about the opening of the Bush library in Dallas ("Misoverestimating Bush," April 28). During the last two years of Mr. Bush's...Tags: Ellicott City, Politics, Wars and Interventions, Christopher Dodd, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Stay out of Syria
With the Iraq War behind us and our departure from Afghanistan underway, the United States could be entering a well-earned respite from fighting. But even before peace can take hold, hawks are singing the old country song: "I've enjoyed as much of this as...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), U.S. Military, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), The Wall Street Journal
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David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC
David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...Tags: FBI, U.S. Army, Central Intelligence Agency, Paula Broadwell, Princeton University
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