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Anchorage Mayoral Race Gets Personal
The last days of any campaign have a life of their own. And in the Anchorage mayoral race, the battle has become intensely personal for Paul Honeman. He’s taken some sharp jabs on the radio against the incumbent, Mayor Dan Sullivan. The two ads,...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Career and Workplace, Dining and Drinking, Minority Groups, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Supporters of Equal-Rights Initiative Turn In Signatures
Channel 2 NewsSupporters of an equal rights initiative turned in 13,515 signatures today in an attempt to get on the April ballot. If approved by voters it will provide the same legal protections to gay and transgender Alaskans that are already provided to women,...Tags: Politics, Elections, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Voting, Storrs
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Has Ties to Anchorage
Channel 2 NewsA Nobel Peace Prize laureate has local ties to Alaska. Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was honored for her advocacy of women's rights and shares the Nobel Peace prize with two other women. Sirleaf's nephew, Dr. Estrada Bernard practices...Tags: Politics, International Organizations, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
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Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013
GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: Theater, Apple iTunes, Amway, John Bell, 2016 Olympic Games
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Letters: Can conservatives appeal to college grads?
Re "Conservatives need not apply," Opinion, May 19 Economist Kevin Hassett laments the scarcity of conservatives giving graduation speeches. He even claims that "a primary objective of today's academic institutions … is not to educate students...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, Students, University of California, Irvine, Education
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Ahmadinejad protests aide's disqualification from Iran election
TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denounced as unjust the disqualification of his top aide from next month’s presidential election and says he plans to appeal to Iran’s supreme ruler. Ahmadinejad spoke a day after the Guardian...
Tags: Politics, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Elections
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Classic Works With a Modern Commentary at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich
Kathleen Gilje was trained as an art restorer, and she began her career working on the national collections at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples. In her exhibit Revised and Restored which is currently open at the Bruce Museum, she used her skills to...
Tags: Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Arts and Culture, Arts, Museums
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Rights group: Dramatic spike in number of Afghan women jailed for 'moral crimes'
Associated PressKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The number of Afghan women and girls jailed for "moral crimes" has risen dramatically in the past 18 months, raising concerns that gains in women's rights might be reversed with the withdrawal of most international troops...Tags: Human Rights, Islam, Afghanistan, International Law, Human Rights Watch
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Jailing of Afghan women for 'moral' crimes is increasing, group says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for “moral crimes” has risen by 50% in the last 18 months, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government’s need to step up efforts to protect...
Tags: Rape, Human Rights, Criminals, International Law, Human Rights Watch
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Afghan women's rights in peril, group says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The number of women and girls jailed by Afghan authorities for "moral crimes" has risen by 50% in the last year and a half, an alarming statistic that reflects the Afghan government's need to step up efforts to protect women'...
Tags: Rape, Environmental Issues, Afghanistan, International Law, Justice and Rights
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Mailbag: Give teachers better seats at board meetings
Thirty-five years ago, I wrote a letter to the Newport-Mesa Unified School District Board of Education arguing that the teachers' organization should have an equal place on the board dais during meetings. For those of you who have not been to a board...Tags: Landforms, Mountains, Abortion, Abortion Issue, PTA
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A birth control double standard
In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Family Planning, Science and Technology, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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