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Tragedies connect parents
Michelle Ross of Oklahoma City never followed the playing career of Erik Kramer, who was the Bears' quarterback in the mid-1990s. "I am not much of a sports person," she said. But after coming across a Tribune story about Kramer's late son, Griffen,...
Tags: National Football League, Arts and Culture, Behavioral Conditions, Depression, Punishment
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Kings, Jonathan Bernier find their way in 3-2 victory over Stars
DALLAS — Jonathan Bernier played goal Sunday with a heavy heart, still grieving the recent death of his maternal grandmother, Georgette St-Gelais. "It's never an easy time to go through," said Bernier, who missed the Kings' trip to the White...
Tags: Dustin Brown (ice hockey), Arts and Culture, Jeff Carter, Los Angeles Times Columnists, American Airlines Center
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To replace Jerry Buss, Lakers should dream of Jeanie
He was speaking only for his weary and rumpled self, speaking in the singular, sorrowful tones of someone who just lost a boss and friend of more than three decades. But, in one poignant moment while publicly mourning the death of Lakers owner Jerry...Tags: Television Industry, Mitch Kupchak, Phil Jackson, Arts and Culture, Jerry Buss
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At Florists And Nurseries, Hearts and Workloads Are Heavy
The Hartford CourantNEWTOWN — Flowers and wreaths. They are the living, fragrant markers that hold together a community in mourning, in public and sacred spaces, at funerals, in houses all over Newtown and beyond. Wherever there is grieving, there are carefully...Tags: House and Home, Arts and Culture, Lifestyle and Leisure, Floral Design, Monroe (Fairfield, Connecticut)
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The family legacy: Holiday traditions
This week my husband, Bob, and I stayed busy decorating our house for Christmas. We will be visited by our two children and their families during the holidays and we want to be ready with all the familiar traditions that our family remembers. As I set...
Tags: Religious Festivals, Arts and Culture, Family, Christmas, Customs and Tradition
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Rodricks: Incident shows our vulnerability to disaster
"We love our children with all our hearts," Gordon Livingston, psychiatrist, philosopher, author and twice-bereaved parent says from his home in Howard County. "We imagine that they will bury us. Then fate intervenes and we must bury them. Nowhere is...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Leukemia, Ellicott City, Arts and Culture, Culture
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The journey of Judge Joan Lefkow
Tribune staff reporterA few days ago, Joan Lefkow was walking down a Chicago street flanked by federal marshals when a panhandler walked up to her and said, "God bless you, Judge Lefkow." It has been nine months since U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow's name and face...Tags: Arlen Specter, Criminal Laws, Dance, Father's Day, Homes
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The massacre this time
Look at what has become national ritual: A horrific shooting in some otherwise ordinary corner of the country — this time a town in Connecticut — with many dead and wounded, shock and grief, wall-to-wall television coverage. The president...Tags: Daniel Webster, Interior Policy, Sociology, Murder, Arts and Culture
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Fitzgerald, in his own words
Popcorn. Check. Diet Coke. Check. Twizzlers. Check. A copy of "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Short Autobiography" (Scribner), edited by James L. West III. Check. If you're on your way to see — or see again — "Midnight in Paris," the latest film...Tags: Biography (genre), Ernest Hemingway, Health, Arts and Culture, Literature
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‘Tearaway’: Folklore and paper create a modern Vita experience
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesAs a showcase for modern technology, “Tearaway” for Sony's hand-held gaming machine the Vita may not at first seem to […]... -
Marie Chouinard's "Rite of Spring' intense, sexual, anti-climactic
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGThe enthusiastic applause that greeted the Marie Chouinard Dance Company’s disarmingly primal “Rite of Spring” at Lafayette College Wednesday evening was in marked contrast to the jeers and catcalls that reportedly greeted the Paris...
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