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School board cancels trips to Antietam Recreation after parental complaints about 'spiritual' message
julieg@herald-mail.comWashington County Public Schools middle school students will not be making the traditional spring trip to Antietam Recreation this year after complaints about last year’s program, including a message that was “spiritual in nature,”...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Teaching and Learning, Education, Travel, Students
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RPT-Texas judge rules that cheerleaders may display Bible banners
Reuters(Repeats for wider subscribers) By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, May 8 (Reuters) - A Texas judge on Wednesday ruled that the "Bible banners" waved by cheerleaders during football games in a small school district are constitutionally protected free speech and...Tags: Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief, Judges, Freedom of the Press, Politics
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Md. poet laureate Stanley Plumly comes to Hagerstown
chrisc@herald-mail.comStanley Plumly has received many awards and published many books in his long career in poetry. And for the past four years, the University of Maryland, College Park English professor has been Maryland’s poet laureate. But this particular honor...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, The Herald-Mail, Human Interest, Teaching and Learning, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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Mother's Day with the Andrettis
Dee Ann Andretti sat with her husband, Mario, in Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis on May 24,1992, waiting for Mario to have foot surgery following a crash in the Indianapolis 500. "That was bad enough," she said. But it got worse when she heard from...
Tags: Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Auto Racing, Open-Wheel Racing, Halloween, Indianapolis 500
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Pre-Raphaelite art is a reminder of Mom's influence
chrisc@herald-mail.comMy mother made me a journalist. And a musician, an artist, a poet and a playwright. I realized this recently while taking in an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. —“The Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design,...Tags: Entertainment, England, Charles Darwin, Washington, DC, Artists
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RPT-NEWSMAKER-Ahmadinejad protégé poses challenge to Iran's leader
Reuters(Repeats without change to text) * Mashaie registers candidacy for election * Loyalists accuse him of seeking to erode clerical rule * Looks to nationalist themes to gain popularity By Marcus George DUBAI, May 11 (Reuters) - President Mahmoud...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Politics
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The war for mobile messaging is on
SAN FRANCISCO — WhatsApp is one of Silicon Valley's most buzzed-about companies, yet it actively avoids the spotlight, operating out of a small office in Mountain View, Calif., with no sign on the building entrance or on the office door. Unlike...
Tags: Social Media, Google Inc., Culture, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Corporate Officers
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Lyric's passion must extend to musical theater
In 2008, New York's Lincoln Center revived a Broadway warhorse: "South Pacific." At the beginning of the overture in the Vivian Beaumont Theater, the lip of Michael Yeargan's setting, which had the outline of a tropical island, began to move backward,...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Culture, Civic Opera House, Broadway Theater, The Sound of Music (movie)
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In Theory: Are parts of Scripture outdated and in need of change?
It's not often that a Christian minister agrees with the New Atheist movement, but the Rev. Michael Dowd believes it's possible when it comes to what he calls the "idolatry of the written word." A self-described "New Theist" — one who "value[s]...Tags: Culture, Slavery, Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Science and Technology
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Somerset County church news for May 11
Middlecreek COB "Mirroring Mother's Virtue" will be the message at the Middlecreek Church of the Brethren this week in celebration of Mother's Day. It will be given by the Rev. John Stoner. The Rev. Linda Stoner will serve as worship leader. The...Tags: Easter, Somerset County (Maryland), Religion and Belief, Fiction, Malaria
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Dalai Lama packs UM Comcast Center for address on compassion
He pulled on a Terps visor, to the crowd's delight. He rubbed noses with Gov. Martin O'Malley. And the Dalai Lama was met Tuesday with rounds of applause from a crowd of 15,000 at the University of Maryland, College Park's Comcast Center. "Sit down,"...
Tags: Entertainment Events, University of Maryland, College Park, Roman Catholicism, Human Interest, Dalai Lama
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For some, it's double Mother's Day
A few years ago, Dennise Rosado and her family decided they didn't need to celebrate Mother's Day in any traditional way — what they needed was something that worked for them, that felt like it fit. And so on Sunday, Rosado, her partner, Rosa...
Tags: Northwestern University, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Teaching and Learning, Human Interest
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