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In 'Restless,' William Boyd spies overlooked World War II chapter
British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn't buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries "Any Human Heart"), novels by the...
Tags: Restless (movie), Biography (genre), Germany, Literature, Graham Greene
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A day that changed their lives: Memories of Pearl Harbor from a Petoskey couple
Thomas Pinson, of Petoskey, and his wife, Shirley can still clearly remember Dec. 7, 1941. The day changed their lives, changed America and changed the entire course of world history. Many young people today may not be aware that on that day in 1941,...
Tags: U.S. Navy, Radio, Germany, Europe, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Review: Bill Murray shines as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
Los Angeles Times Film CriticWhen Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan...Tags: Bill Murray, Samuel West, Ronald Reagan, Comedy (genre), Roger Michell
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Pearl Harbor: U.S. remembers a 'date which will live in infamy'
In just over seven minutes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave voice to a nation’s outrage, branding Dec. 7 as a “date which will live in infamy” for Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Within an hour, Congress had...
Tags: Barack Obama, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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Republican policies are no recipe for freedom
Matt Patterson's thoughtful op-ed piece in The Baltimore Sun, "America the Dictatorship" (Nov. 27), constitutes a bad case of sour grapes. These questions arise from his column. Is it freedom to fail and never ask for help? Is it freedom to watch a...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Politics, Social Security, Annapolis, Republican Party
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Let's cut to the chase: America the dictatorship
Well, that pretty much settles it. My fellow Americans, I have heard and understood the loud and unequivocal message you sent with this year's election: Liberty is for losers. True, we have not been a free people in some time. It's been a long and...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Barack Obama, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...Tags: Spiro Agnew, Ronald Reagan, Politics, Elections, Feminism
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'Hyde Park,' 'Lincoln' and more films give history a leading role
In "Hyde Park on Hudson," the retelling of the visit of the king and queen of England to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in upstate New York in 1939, there's a particularly remarkable scene: Roosevelt's mother — who owned the house where everyone...
Tags: Argo (movie), Tony Kushner, Wes Anderson, Roosevelt, David Chase
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Robert Watson: For Truman, Key West was home
The presidency is the world's most demanding job. Consequently, most presidents relied on "retreats" to get away from the capital city. Ronald Reagan, for instance, had his ranch in California, "W" his ranch in Crawford, TX., and Teddy Roosevelt sought...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Politics, Government, Radio Industry, World War I (1914-1918)
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Sandy Hook shows America is broken
What a perverse country we live in. We spend $2 billion on an election where people in this country actually think we are better off with a huge percentage of our population not having health care. Mental health issues are swept under the rug and...Tags: Barack Obama, Interior Policy, Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, Politics
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The trouble with Obama's rhetoric: It bites the man who reads it
Once it was all about "hope and change." Now it's "we hope he changes." Barack Obama was marketed in 2008 as some kind of messianic political god, leaving the enraptured throngs unshaken in their faith that every word from his mouth was pure gold....
Tags: Charlotte, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Politics
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Franklin Roosevelt at the Hollywood Bowl
FrameworkGov. Franklin D. Roosevelt waves during a campaign speech to a large crowd at the Hollywood Bowl....
Dec 1, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Dec 7, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Dec 7, 2012
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Dec 6, 2012
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Dec 3, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 26, 2012
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Nov 19, 2012
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Nov 29, 2012
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Dec 2, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 21, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Sep 7, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 24, 2012
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