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The boys of summer, past and present
The integration of Major League Baseball, so heroically carried by Jackie Robinson and ingeniously engineered by Branch Rickey, occupied one spring and summer season in 1947. The boys of summer occupied the baseball seasons of the early 1950s, the...
Tags: Movies, Major League Baseball, Sports, Los Angeles Dodgers, Entertainment
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Oswald's gun and the decline of U.S. politics
Next week marks a much-overlooked anniversary: It will be 50 years since Lee Harvey Oswald, under the name A. Hidell, purchased the Italian surplus Carcano M91/38 rifle with which he would eight months later assassinate President John F. Kennedy. Don'...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obituary: Raymond Medley
Raymond Medley 1946-2013 HARRODSBURG — Raymond Eugene Medley, 66, husband of Sandra Jean Gibson Medley, died Sunday. Born Nov. 10, 1946, in Harrodsburg, he was a son of the late Albert and Lois Drury Medley. He served in the Marine Corps... -
Samuel G. Thomas Jr., 62
Samuel Gardner Thomas Jr., 62, of Boonsboro, Md., passed from this life Wednesday, March 6, 2013, at his home while surrounded by his family. Born Sept. 9, 1950, in Washington County, Md., he was the son of the late Samuel Gardner Thomas Sr. and Anna Mae...
Tags: American Legion, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Arts and Culture, Amelia (movie), University of Houston, Flight (movie), Music Industry
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Rep Stage in Columbia presents 'Home'
A plain set is the congenial setting for the home truths imparted by Samm-Art Williams' "Home" at Rep Stage. Like the several wood platforms on which most of the action occurs, this play gets down to basics. The three actors have very few props or costume...
Tags: Celebrities, Howard Community College
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Driver in fair condition after Sunday wreck that damaged war memorial
An Aberdeen man accused of driving a car through a Vietnam War memorial in an Aberdeen park is in fair condition, a nursing supervisor at Avera St. Luke's Hospital said Monday. Thomas Harwood, 48, was driving westbound on Sixth Avenue Southeast when...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Trials, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest
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Review: 'Confederacy of Heretics' a delicate task
It's difficult to imagine a more delicate curatorial task than the one Todd Gannon, Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago faced in putting together "A Confederacy of Heretics: The Architecture Gallery, Venice, 1979." The exhibition, running through July 7 at...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Architecture, The Getty, SCI-Arc
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Bush's war, 10 years later
The 10th anniversary of the American invasion of Iraq seems an appropriate time to look back at how it all happened and what it has wrought, not so much for Iraq as for the United States, which poured its own troops, treasure and world reputation into...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), U.S. Congress, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Big Read, big issues: Tim O'Brien to discuss 'The Things They Carried' in Miami
When Tim O’Brien’s collection of Vietnam War stories, “The Things They Carried,” was published in 1990, a New York Times reviewer placed it “high up on the list of best fiction about any war.” Which must have pleased O&...
Tags: Arts and Culture, NPR, Wars and Interventions, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Drunken driver wrecks war memorial in Aberdeen
A car plowed through a Vietnam War memorial Sunday afternoon, injuring the driver and leading him to be charged with drunken driving, said an official with the Aberdeen Police Department. Thomas Harwood, 48, was taken by ambulance to Avera St. Luke'...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest
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Garcetti has a side commitment: the U.S. Naval Reserve
If he manages to get elected, Eric Garcetti may be the first mayor of Los Angeles who slips away for a little clandestine activity at a secret locale — and doesn't mind if his constituents find out about it. The city councilman and mayoral...Tags: U.S. Army, Armed Forces, Elections, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Original site for Vietnam War (1955-1975) topic gallery.