World leaders arriving in Washington for President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow .
They entered a capital that had become a military encampment, with camo-w ...
Posted Thursday, April 15th 2010 at 11:45AM
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If you’re like me, now that we’re in the week that federal income taxes are due, you are finally starting to collect your records and prepare for the ordeal. Either way, whether you are a procrastinator like me, or have already finished and know how ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 2:00PM
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A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white sch ...
Posted Wednesday, April 14th 2010 at 1:51PM
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Peace To All:
It is interesting to witness some of the startling events that have taken place in this country. In several middle and high schools, “children” have decided to take the lives of their classmates. The reasons provided are varied, bu ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2010 at 12:23PM
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A Gary, Indiana native will make history next month as the first black valedictorian from the University of Notre Dame.
Katie Washington, 21, is a biology major and minor in Catholic social teaching with a 4.0 GPA.
“I am humbled,” said Washingt ...
Posted Tuesday, April 13th 2010 at 11:57AM
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HBO's "Treme" has garnered rave reviews from The Times-Picayune, Entertainment Weekly, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, and numerous magazines, newspapers and Web sites in between.
But as of 9 p.m. Sunday, April 11, ...
Posted Monday, April 12th 2010 at 12:37PM
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WASHINGTON -- Several major players in the tea party movement on Thursday announced a new federation intended to help the decentralized small government movement get its message out. But don't call them organized.
The National Tea Party Federatio ...
Posted Monday, April 12th 2010 at 12:16PM
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ATLANTA - For parents and politicians hungry for better schools, the idea of paying teachers more if their students perform better can seem as basic as adding two and two or spelling "cat."
Yet just a handful of schools and districts around the co ...
Posted Monday, April 12th 2010 at 12:09PM
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Elizabeth Taylor is engaged to be married for the ninth time, Us Weekly reports.
Taylor, 78, recently got engaged to Jason Winters, 49, of Sterling Winters Management, a source tells the magazine. The couple has yet to confirm the news.
"It's ...
Posted Saturday, April 10th 2010 at 2:56PM
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I ran into a stranger as he passed by,
"Oh excuse me please" was my reply.
He said, "Please excuse me too;
I wasn't watching for you."
We were very polite, this stranger and I.
We went on our way and we said goodbye.
But at home a diffe ...
Posted Saturday, April 10th 2010 at 2:44PM
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