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McManus: Obama's plan to avoid lame-duckery
For the last two months, President Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the budget. But...Tags: State of the Union Address, Personal Weapon Control, Saxby Chambliss, Lyndon B. Johnson, Elections
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Just the facts: Verzbicas must be U.S. citizen to compete for USA at Olympics
It's time to clarify the situation about Lukas Verzbicas' eligibility for the 2012 Olympics.
Verzbicas, 18, is a citizen of Lithuania who has lived in the United States more than half his life and has applied for U.S. citizenship, but it seems unlikely...Tags: Awards and Prizes, 2012 Summer Olympics, Denmark, Lithuania, Tanith Belbin
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Boosters want to turn Pullman into national park
A group of Chicago residents and preservationists are working to win federal approval to turn the entire Pullman neighborhood on Chicago's Far South Side into a national park. If approved by Congress or proclaimed a national monument by the president,...
Tags: U.S. Army, Pullman, National Government, Abraham Lincoln, Business
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'Slow moving holocaust' keeps prisons full
The first thing you notice about the 1905 mug shot of Laura Scott is her Sunday-go-to-meeting hat, large with wayward bows. Then, you take in the information surrounding the photograph that reveals her physical measurements and describes her as a 40-year-...
Tags: Criminals, Rogers Park, David Simon, Richard Nixon, Crime, Law and Justice
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Winds of change blowing in opposite directions for consumers, businesses
For a nation that once embraced the mission of seeing how high it could soar, to the moon and beyond, the challenge that momentarily — and fittingly — has captured our imagination of late is that of a daredevil out to see just how far and...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Mitt Romney, Consumer Confidence, Moody's Corporation, Credit and Debt
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Obama has leverage to get his way on Guantanamo
President Barack Obama's renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn't viable as a matter of practicality or...Tags: George W. Bush, Al-Qaeda, Prisons, Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice
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Business charm school in session
— When it comes to the economy, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett wants to remind everyone: Her boss inherited this mess. She said so numerous times during a less than 20-minute interview in the West Wing Thursday on the Obama...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Government Health Care, William Daley, NBC (tv network), Today (tv program)
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Chicago Confidential: Lehman Brothers bankruptcy examiner believes lessons not heeded
The lessons of Lehman Brothers, Chicagoan Anton Valukas says, haven't been learned. He would know. As the man charged by the bankruptcy court with getting to the bottom of what caused the largest bankruptcy in history, the Jenner & Block chairman and...
Tags: Ben Bernanke, Financially Distressed Companies, Crime, Law and Justice, Henry Paulson, Realty
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Obama's breathtaking fall from the top
WASHINGTON - Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Budget Control Act of 2011, Personal Weapon Control, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Department of State
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Personal Weapon Control, Mary L. Landrieu, Crime, Law and Justice, Mitch McConnell
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The worst human rights violator in Cuba
For decades, American politicians have denounced human rights violations in Cuba. With good cause, they've accused the Castro brothers of rounding up political prisoners, torturing them, and detaining them for years with no charges filed and no access...
Tags: Human Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, National Defense Authorization Act, Cuba, George W. Bush
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Obama: the fall
WASHINGTON -- Fate is fickle, power cyclical, and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the losing party is sagely instructed to confess sin, rend garments and rethink its principles lest it go the way of the...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Budget Control Act of 2011, Personal Weapon Control, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), U.S. Department of State
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May 6, 2013
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