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Experts: Recast Ind. sex offender bill unconstitutional
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Lawmakers working to rewrite an overturned Indiana law that banned sex offenders from social networking sites could still have trouble passing constitutional muster. Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would reword...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, Lawyers
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Sweat-free labels to change the garment trade [Blowback]
In a May 7 Op-Ed article, Richard Greenwald and Michael Hirsch exhort consumers to support the workers who make our clothes rather than the global apparel industry that exploits them with low wages and unsafe working conditions. Yet exactly how we...
Tags: Laws, Business, Human Rights, Immigration, Northern Mariana Islands
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Duke Ellington's music lives to be heard
It's no big thing to play the music of Duke Ellington. That's done all the time: in cabarets, concert halls, movies, Broadway theaters and anywhere jazz musicians assemble. Ellingtonia, a word coined by admirers who realized that no existing musical...
Tags: Entertainment, Stan Kenton, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Music
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Hires and promotions at Lehigh Valley companies
Chang Xu has been appointed to platform leader of polymer encapsulation at Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc.'s Tidewood facility. Xu holds a doctorate from City University of New York as well as a bachelor of science degree from the University of...Tags: Allentown, East Carolina University, Science and Technology, Banking, Harrisburg (Dauphin, Pennsylvania)
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READER SUBMITTED: Dr. Stephen Becker, President/CEO Of HARC, Inc. To Retire
HartfordHARC, Inc., an organization serving people with intellectual and related disabilities, celebrates the transformational 36-year tenure of President/CEO, Dr. Stephen Becker, who has announced that he will retire July 12. Dr. Becker, who began his career at...Tags: Queens (New York City), Columbia University, Colleges and Universities, Brooklyn (New York City)
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READER SUBMITTED: Middlesex Chamber Business & Education Partnership Member Breakfast Meeting
Middletown/ShorelineChandler Howard, Chairman of the Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce, announced that Dr. Elsa M. Nunez, president, Eastern Connecticut State University, will serve as guest speaker at the Chamber's Business & Education Partnership Member Breakfast...Tags: Cromwell, Middlesex County (Connecticut), Education, Colleges and Universities, Liberty Bank
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ANALYSIS-Truth and consequences - a dilemma for Twitter and its users
ReutersBy Gerry Shih SAN FRANCISCO, April 24 (Reuters) - Does Twitter have a credibility problem? For many, a single fake tweet from the Associated Press account that briefly roiled financial markets on Tuesday, driving the Dow Jones industrial average down...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Corporate Officers, Computer Networking and Internet, White House, S&P 500
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...Tags: Adultery, Central Intelligence Agency, Migration, Tampa, Immigration
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10 Things to Know for Today
Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Wednesday: 1. NEW HUNT FOR CULPRIT IN RICIN CASE Officials searched another man's house after officials dropped charges of sending poison-filled letters...Tags: Postal (movie), Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Kermit Gosnell, Central Intelligence Agency, Paul Kevin Curtis
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Review: 'Harvard Square' by Andre Aciman
André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's status as a graduate. As his son ricochets between hope and scorn,...
Tags: Education, Religion and Belief, Chicago Tribune, Judaism, Colleges and Universities
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The NRA's off-target plan
Theodore Roosevelt was appalled by the lack of firearms training within the constabulary when he was appointed president of the New York City Police Department Board of Supervisors, a rank now known as police commissioner. He would, I suspect, be...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Theodore Roosevelt, Wayne LaPierre, Weaponry, The New York Times
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Yoani Sánchez: la cara de una nueva generación
Los cubanos que a diario corren el riesgo de ser encarcelados por intentar transmitir una imagen certera de la vida en Cuba—a través de blogs, Facebook, Twitter—han tenido una cara ante el mundo, indudablemente, en Yoani Sánchez. Gracias a...Tags: Fidel Castro, Central Intelligence Agency, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Twitter, Inc., Miami Dade College
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