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A 'Passport' to the world of Druid Hill Park
A Roland Park resident has created a "passport" to Druid Hill Park. Janet Felsten, founder and director of the nonprofit group Baltimore Green Map, introduced the green-colored passport April 19 at a Baltimore Green Week kickoff party in the...
Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Kickstarter, LinkedIn Corp., Interior Policy
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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: Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prisons, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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USC students, others meet with LAPD over alleged racial profiling
On the eve of final exams, more than 700 students and others at USC and neighboring communities gathered on campus to discuss issues raised from a clash between students and police over how the LAPD responded to an off-campus house party over the weekend....
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Police Arrests
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Nation and Melone: Will Supreme Court end affirmative action for college admissions?
Americans embrace the ideal of equality. However, we have had a difficult time with the concept in practice. The towering rhetoric of the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal" was shamefully belied by the enshrinement of slavery...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Social Issues, Discrimination, Texas Legislature, Lehigh University
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The lure of a Southern drawl at the movies
"There are things you can get away with in this world, and things you can't." The voice is Matthew McConaughey's, and days after seeing him in "Mud," I can close my eyes and hear him still — a simple line echoing with the mysteries of a man caught...
Tags: No Country for Old Men (movie), Celebrities, Magic Mike (movie), Human Interest, TNT (tv network)
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Review: Kenny Chesney's 'Life on a Rock' could do without 'Lindy'
Is a reductive engagement with social issues worse than no engagement at all? That was the question raised by "Accidental Racist," Brad Paisley and LL Cool J's astonishingly simple-minded meditation on American race relations. Many critics assailed the...
Tags: Entertainment, Brad Paisley, Music
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After Dorner claim, other fired LAPD cops want cases reviewed
In the wake of Christopher Dorner's claim that his firing from the Los Angeles Police Department was a result of corruption and bias, more than three dozen other fired LAPD cops want department officials to review their cases. The 40 requests, which...
Tags: Christopher Dorner, Career and Workplace, Los Angeles Police Department, Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice
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Black USC students accuse LAPD of bias after party clash
The Los Angeles Police Department opened an internal investigation into its response at an off-campus house party near USC amid complaints from some students that the department showed racial bias and used heavy-handed tactics. The incident occurred...
Tags: Riots, Los Angeles Police Department, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Health and Safety at School
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The Week Ahead: A king at last, Obama to Mexico, Malaysia divided
A man takes charge in the House of Orange-Nassau Tuesday, April 30 -– Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands becomes king, the first male head of state in 123 years. The 46-year-old heir to the throne will inherit the crown, scepter and...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Politics, Social Sciences, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Arts and Culture
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How to update census' race question
A notable example of how Americans fall through the cracks in census data-gathering caught my eye recently. It appeared on the black-oriented TheRoot.com website under this intriguing headline: "I found one drop; can I be black now?" The "one drop" is a...
Tags: Minority Groups, Demographics, Population and Census, Advice Columns and Columnists
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Sanitized society puts hygiene hypothesis to the test
Is the American body politic suffering from an autoimmune disease? The "hygiene hypothesis" is the scientific theory that the rise in asthma and other autoimmune maladies stems from the fact that babies are born into environments that are too clean. Our...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Social Issues, Prosecution, Media Industry, Crime, Law and Justice
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Payton College Prep principal says leadership problems, not 'racist tendencies,' led to North Side baseball team forfeiting game on Far South Side
A North Side Chicago Public Schools principal says internal leadership problems, not "racist tendencies," led to his baseball team forfeiting a game Saturday on the city's Far South Side. The explanation came after a series of media reports, which the...
Tags: College Baseball, Walter Payton, Chicago Sun-Times, Baseball, NBC (tv network)
May 8, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 8, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 7, 2013
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|Story| Allentown Morning Call
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Apr 29, 2013
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May 5, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 6, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 29, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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