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Seer madness: Readers and I do our duty, predict 2013
Change of SubjectWith the help of several Latin scholars I’ve come up with a fittingly snooty motto for this column’s annual exercise in forecasting the news: Non coniectare imprudentior esset Translation: Not to conjecture is imprudent. Inspiration: “Is... -
Heat shines light on region in 2012
'Tis the season of lists. The Weather Channel lists the 20 Top Storms of 2012 (I survived one). The New York Times Book Review, the year's Top 10 books ( I've read one). But on the simple, annual, personal list of Top 10 South Florida Sporting Events...
Tags: LeBron James, Brandon Marshall, Miami Heat, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Dale Tallon
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Oscar Niemeyer dies at 104; modernist Brazilian architect
Oscar Niemeyer, the architect whose soaring buildings form the heart of Brasilia, the instant modernist capital built in the wilds of Brazil in the late 1950s, has died. He was 104. Niemeyer, who had outlived his contemporaries to become the world's...Tags: Cuba, U.S. Congress, Robert Hughes, Arts and Culture, Architecture
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Congress is Less Popular Than Nickelback
Congress is known for egotism, obstruction, selfishness and general malaise, so it’s no surprise that their approval rating is very low. But now, thanks to the fine folks at Public Polling Policy, we can finally put into words exactly how low....
Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Root Canal, Elections, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Time capsule from 1959 unveiled, new one sealed
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsKansas' Dwight Eisenhower was in The White House. Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba. Sleeping Beauty opened in theaters. The year was 1959. It was the same year that a time capsule was buried at the downtown Wichita YMCA. On Monday, the contents of the...Tags: YMCA, Clubs and Associations, Lifestyle and Leisure
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A case for targeted killings
WASHINGTON — President Franklin Roosevelt was truly astonished when told by a reporter that Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been shot down by U.S. planes over a Pacific island after Americans decrypted Yamamoto&...Tags: Military Equipment, Libya, Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC
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Commissioner in bad spot regarding Marlins shameful salary dump
The best pitch in baseball? It's probably the fastball, although a good changeup is a close second. As Commissioner Bud Selig heads toward retirement, with a legacy for creating labor peace and growing a game that had stagnated badly under his...
Tags: Bud Selig, Los Angeles Dodgers, Sports Illustrated, Ozzie Guillen, Marlins Park
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Cuban missile crisis myth constrains today's diplomatic standoffs
World NowGlobal Focus: Fifty years after the superpowers were poised to annihilate each other over nuclear missiles sent to Cuba, the myth prevails that President Kennedy forced Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to back down by threatening to unleash nuclear war.... -
With cigars, politicians protect Americans from getting the best
No one can deny that the American cigar industry leads a charmed life, especially in Pennsylvania. First came the Cuban trade embargo half a century ago, leaving Americans as the only people in the world who cannot legally obtain the world's best cigars,...
Tags: Cuba, Republican Party, E-Commerce Industry, Food and Drug Administration, Economic Sanctions
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Mack joins in furor over Obama’s dismissal of Chavez threat
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelRepublicans from Mitt Romney to U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio to senate candidate U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV are expressing outrage over President Barack Obama's reported dismissal Monday of the national security threat posed by Venezuela dictator Hugo Chavez. On... -
Gabriel Garcia Marquez unable to write, brother says
Jacket CopyAccording to his brother, Nobel prizewinning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez is suffering from dementia and is no longer able to write.... -
A dance with Castro's Cuba
HAVANA — "It's been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa Girón is a popular beach destination for foreigners," the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the words "Bay of Pigs" could do anything but fill...
Tags: Cuba, Arts and Culture, Starbucks Corp., Trinidad and Tobago, Entertainment
Jan 5, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Dec 28, 2012
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 5, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| WTXX-LTV
Nov 19, 2012
|Story| KWCH
Dec 9, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Nov 14, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 17, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Aug 9, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Jul 11, 2012
| Orlando Sentinel
Jul 9, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Nov 18, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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