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Doughnuts as a symbol of consumer culture
Dining@LargeMy earlier post on Krispy Kreme's woes reminded me of a press release I got on a new book, Glazed America: A History of the Doughnut by Paul R. Mullins, associate professor and chair of anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis:...Tags: Travel, Commuting, Indiana University, Consumers, Arts and Culture
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Hillary: Answers
Spin CycleClinton is delivering her opening statement -- delivering a lecture on the importance of diplomacy and "smart power," which unfortunately she didn't seem to grasp when she voted to go to war in Iraq in 2002. Her opening statement is......Tags: Celebrities, Global Expansion, Civil and Public Service, Natural Resources, Law Enforcement
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Hillary Clinton: Secretary of State-to-be
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated We are hearing familiar words today, at the Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing for Sen. Hillary Clinton's nomination as secretary of state -- words heard in President Bush's many various statements on the potential of....Tags: Celebrities, Global Expansion, Civil and Public Service, Natural Resources, Law Enforcement
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Obama's dress code: 'Pull up your pants'
The Swampby David Zucchino DURHAM, N.C. - When candidate Barack Obama told MTV viewers in November that "brothers should pull up their pants," Kent Williams Jr. was thinking the same thing. Williams, the student body president at North Carolina Central University,...Tags: Jay-Z, Fashion Trends, National or Ethnic Minorities, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama
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President, prof, police: 'This one's for you'
The Swampby Mark Silva It was Sgt. James Crowley, the Cambridge police officer who led Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates. Jr., out of his own home in handcuffs, who suggested to President Barack Obama, who first criticized the arrest as stupid......Tags: Vernon Jordan, Barack Obama, Dining and Drinking, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Racism
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Obama, Maliki: Iraqi security promising
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, hailing the transfer of authority inside Iraq's cities to Iraqi military forces, acknowledged today that "differences in strategy'' remain to be resolved, but voiced satisfaction with the level of security in the war-...Tags: Saddam Hussein, United Nations, International Military Interventions, Barack Obama, Joe Biden
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Henry Gates: Harvard for sergeant's kids
The Swampby Mark Silva Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's looking forward to his next talk with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, maybe lunch, maybe dinner with the families, maybe getting the officer's kids into Harvard -- if the......Tags: Chris Rock, Oprah Winfrey, National or Ethnic Minorities, Barack Obama, Major League Baseball
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Michelle Obama's Roots: Gates' way
The Swampby Mark Silva The genealogic discovery of a white great-great-great grandfather in the family tree of First Lady Michelle Obama is a quintessential American coda to a year of living divisively. The genealogist Megan Smolenyak, who spent several months in....Tags: Family, National Basketball Association, Hawaii, Kansas, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Healthcare, TEA Parties, racism, rancor
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Sunday morning There was quite a scene outside the Capitol today, where the House was embroiled in debate over passage of a healthcare bill that President Barack Obama is demanding. Protesters amassed, and some of......Tags: Steny Hoyer, John Lewis, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Racism
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Quintana's emergence comes at right time
On a Monday night flight that originated in Barranquilla, Colombia, Abel Quintana landed in Chicago and the new world of opportunity created suddenly by his son's baseball career. Out of nowhere over the weekend, Jose Quintana arrived as a major league...
Tags: New York Mets, Chicago White Sox, Mark Buehrle, American League Central, Philip Humber
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Singer gallery to celebrate repairs
By Rebecca Massie Lane Special to The Herald-Mail In 1949, Anna Brugh Singer traveled to Hagerstown to dedicate the addition of two wings to the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, including the Singer Memorial Gallery. She and her husband, William,...Tags: Arts, Artists, Museums, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Dodger great Carl Erskine: Pitching equality
Jackie Robinson changed baseball and the nation that loves it on April 15, 1947, when he became the first black player to walk onto a major league ball field. He changed Carl Erskine's life in March 1948, when Robinson, by then a Brooklyn Dodgers star,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Court Preliminary, Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles Dodgers, Special Olympics
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