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Travelers Celebrity Pro-Am Pairings, Starting Times
Starting times for Wednesday's Travelers Championship celebrity pro-am with the pro listed first: First Tee, Morning 6:50 a.m.: Hunter Mahan, Philip Podgorny, John Lundgren, Burt Wallack 7:00: Rickie Fowler, Jeffrey Flaks, Greg Jones, Richard Graziano...Tags: Stewart Cink, IBM, Chris Dailey, J.J. Henry, Tim Wakefield
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NBA center Jason Collins says he is gay
NBA center Jason Collins, who played for the Washington Wizards last season, has become the first male athlete still active in a major professional sport to come out as gay. Collins made his announcement to Sports Illustrated, which will feature Collins...
Tags: Gay Pride Los Angeles, Washington Wizards, Sports Illustrated, Yvette Prieto, National Basketball Association
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Milestones - April 30
Birthdays Tuesday, April 30 — Bob Shimminger, Hagerstown, turns 75; Joe Kennedy, Relative Way, Falling Waters, W.Va., turns 32; Trudy Spielman turns 50. -
Washington Wizards' Jason Collins announces he's gay
Washington Wizards center Jason Collins has become the first active player in a major American sports league to acknowledge that he is gay, according to Sports Illustrated's website. In a story appearing in the May 6 issue of Sports Illustrated and...Tags: Gay Pride Los Angeles, Periodicals, Washington Wizards, Sports Illustrated, Boston
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NBA veteran Jason Collins comes out as gay
NBA veteran Jason Collins became the first active male player in the four major American professional sports to come out as gay. The 34-year-old center, who has played for six teams in 12 seasons, wrote a first-person account that was posted on...Tags: Washington Wizards, Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, Sports Illustrated, Sports
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Dominican graduation to be at UIC
For the first time, Dominican University students will enjoy the pomp and circumstance of their graduation day away from the River Forest campus, and all the families in the audience will be able to cheer from the same room. "For years we've just been...Tags: Students, Awards and Prizes, Merchandise Mart, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, Colleges and Universities
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Fists fly as 1964 Lakers beat Knicks
FrameworkA Lakers and New York Knicks free-for-all breaks out near the end of a game at the Sports Arena. Knicks' Tom Hoover (23) prepares to take poke at Lakers' Don Nelson (20) who suffered a split lip in fracas.... -
'Ride The Tiger' Funny, Fascinating
The Hartford CourantThe show: "Ride the Tiger" by William Mastrosimone at New Haven's Long Wharf Theatre First impressions: You can't keep your eyes off the characters in this juicy, funny and fascinating new play that is part myth, part political melodrama and part pulp...Tags: Police Investigations, Literature, TheaterWorks, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Central Intelligence Agency
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A Tale Of The Kennedys, Sinatra And The Mafia At Long Wharf
The Hartford CourantWhen William Mastrosimone was working on the script for the 1992 mini-series "Sinatra," the singer told him a startling tale that involved Joseph Kennedy Sr., JFK, Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana and Judith Exner, Sinatra's girlfriend who was also...Tags: Murder, Cuba, Youth Organizations, Organized Crime, Adultery
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Hugo Chavez: Admired and despised by readers
For just as many reasons readers found to sneer at Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who died Tuesday after a lengthy battle with cancer, others found reasons to praise the late strongman. While several readers slammed Chavez for behaving like a dictator and...
Tags: Trade Agreements, Trade Dispute, North American Free Trade Agreement, Jose Serrano, Poverty
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John F. Kerry embraces Europe
WASHINGTON -- When John Kerry’s political foes complained in 2004 that he “looked French” and ordered Swiss cheese on his Philadelphia cheese steaks, the Democratic presidential nominee began keeping his affinities for Europe bien...
Tags: France, Literature, Central Asia, John Kerry, Mitt Romney
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Announcing the 2012 L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
This post has been updated; see below for details. The finalists for the 33rd L.A. Times Book Prizes were announced Thursday morning -- the complete list is below. In addition to the 50 books in 10 categories that are in the running for the awards,...
Tags: Gravesend, War Crimes, Literature, Awards and Prizes, Authors
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