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N.Y. congressional test: Obama's win
The Swampby Mark Silva, updated with RNC Chairman Michael Steele's statement, and with President Obama's statement at 6:45 pm EDT. In the quiet knolls of the upper Hudson River Valley where a nationally contested election played out, the contest for the......Tags: Lower House, Politics, Timothy M. Kaine, Referenda, Parties and Movements
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West Wing drama: New Robin red-breasts
The Swampby Mark Silva Sure it's Spring at the White House when the best picture around is that of the nesting Robins outside the West Wing. Ron Edmonds, the veteran AP photographer, caught these nesting birds just outside the White House......Tags: Politics, Ronald Reagan, White House
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Democrats, "with a little D"
The Swampby Mark Silva Out on the grass mall where protesters have camped, marched and clashed, thousands of poetry- prose- and history-lovers huddled under tents shielding them from a steady, cold drizzle, reminded by a best-selling Iranian writer and freshly...Tags: Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, National Government, Andrew Jackson, South Carolina
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Obama's Nobel: 'Expectations' raised
The Swampby Mark Silva Mornings after the award of the Nobel Prize for Peace to President Barack Obama, the man who challenged him for the White House is serving as the most outspoken representative of the Republican Party with praise for......Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, George W. Bush, NBC (tv network), The Washington Post, Michael Steele
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Elian Gonzalez: Gore's albatross grown
The Swampby Mark Silva Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban who cost Al Gore the White House -- him, and Gore's defeat in his home state of Tennessee in the presidential election of 2000, and also Ralph Nader's candidacy in Florida and......Tags: Politics, Referenda, Ralph Nader, Corruption, Awards and Prizes
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Obama's power, China's competition
The Swampby Mark Silva If the world is flat, President Barack Obama's chances as a world leader would have been even flatter had his healthcare legislation failed. Yet in the shifting stage known as the global economy, a successful American leader......Tags: Dick Durbin, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, The New York Times
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'Vera Stark' looks back at lost stars
The idea for "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark," now in performances through June 2 at the Goodman Theatre, came to playwright Lynn Nottage the way so many of us discover so many slivers of old Hollywood. How? By happening upon a lesser-known title on the...
Tags: Human Interest, Entertainment Events, Goodman Theatre, Celebrities
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In Florida, a question of timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...
Tags: Politics, George Ryan, Death Penalty, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Oklahoma!' comes sweepin' into Lyric Opera
If ever a musical theater work deserved its exclamation point, it's “Oklahoma!” Breathes there a man or woman of a certain age who hasn't at one time or another succumbed to the nostalgic charms of this classic American show, whose spirit...
Tags: Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Music Theater, Poetry, Music, Civic Opera House
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Renee Fleming brings 'A Streetcar Named Desire' to Lyric Opera
Divine destiny — or is it the shade of Tennessee Williams? — is bringing Renee Fleming and Blanche DuBois together on the same stage, at the same time, at Lyric Opera. The real Renee and the fictional Blanche are, in their very different...
Tags: Culture, Poetry, Carnegie Hall, Entertainment Events, Entertainment
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Nico Muhly and Bryce Dessner join blackbirds for a new music romp at MCA
When people think of the cultural cross-pollination that goes on between Chicago and New York, interchanges in theater and the visual arts are what usually spring to mind. But exchanges among contemporary classical music performers seem to be taking place...
Tags: Arts, Theater, Music Theater, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Entertainment Events
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A little humility may be in order
This is for the rest of us. Meaning the ones who don't have personal chefs, gift-wrapping rooms or hired sycophants, who don't hobnob or rub shoulders, and who drive the same car every day of the week. The rest of us would like to offer some of you a...
Tags: Movies, O.J. Simpson, Entertainment Events, Allen Iverson, Entertainment
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