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Actor Ed Asner, 83, treated for exhaustion in NW Ind.
GARY, Ind. (AP) — Ed Asner's publicist says the 83-year-old actor, who has been touring the country performing a one-man show for more than three years, has been hospitalized with exhaustion. Publicist Charles Sherman tells The Associated Press...
Tags: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (tv program), Ed Asner, Celebrities
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Portage man, 102, still regrets vote for Hoover
PORTAGE, Ind. (AP) — Catherine Bryan guided her husband of 67 years toward the ballot booth with a playful nod and a gentle push. "Now go do your civic duty again," she told him. Kenneth Bryan, who's 102 years old, didn't need any Election Day...Tags: Voting, Career and Workplace, Employees, Purdue University, Politics
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Niles veteran recalls Japan's surprise attack 70 years later
BUCHANAN — Certainly, Earl “Judd’’ Walls knows what transpired 70 years ago at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The problem, he says, is that few others do. “I think most of them have (forgotten),’’ he said Wednesday, in...Tags: Japan, World War II (1939-1945), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Legion
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After seven decades, Pearl Harbor fresh in vets' minds
The crude oil was already 30 inches deep on Battleship Row by the time 18-year-old Harold Helser arrived on the shore, looking for a way to help. Overhead, Japanese planes continued to drop bombs and strafe with their machine guns, as the Dec. 7, 1941,...Tags: Documentary (genre), Japan, World War II (1939-1945), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), U.S. Army
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Factbox: IRS's rich history of scandals, political abuse
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A crisis engulfing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over its scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status adds to a long history of scandal and abuse - both real and alleged - at the tax agency. Here are some high-...Tags: American Enterprise Institute, William Randolph Hearst, White House, Taxation, Politics
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Naperville honors barbershop singers
Barbershop singing has remained on a short list of activities that might be enjoyed equally by teenagers and octogenarians since a revival of the turn-of-the-century music took off in the 1930s. A Naperville chapter of men's barbershop vocalists who...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Parent Organizations, Culture, The Happiest News!, Entertainment
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Obama the latest in line of US presidents to face suggestions of political bias in IRS actions
Associated PressWASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service controversy dogging President Barack Obama is hardly the first time a White House and the tax agency have been accused of political meddling and bias. Nor is it the first time that political and...Tags: Interior Policy, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Department of Justice, Elections, Barack Obama
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My Word: One step closer to freedom from fear
Years ago, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed four fundamental freedoms that all people everywhere ought to enjoy: freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. Of the four, freedom from fear is the most difficult...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Civil Rights, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
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Will Dodd-Frank save (or stifle) capitalism?
WASHINGTON -- It's been five years since the onset of the financial crisis -- the rescue of Bear Stearns in March 2008 -- and we still don't know whether the financial system is safe. In a recent speech, Daniel Tarullo, the Federal Reserve's point man...
Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Christopher Dodd, Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Why Maitland's billboard decision matters
The most outrageous thing about the Maitland City Council's attempt to ditch its 75-year ban on billboards is not that one of the 70-foot monstrosities could soon loom over a quiet neighborhood. And it's not that the City Council voted 3-2 in favor of...
Tags: Maitland, Religion and Belief, Christian Orthodoxy, Interstate 4, Politics
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COLUMN-Tennessee Valley Authority to remain publicly owned: Kemp
ReutersBy John Kemp LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - For free-market purists, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a monstrous hybrid - part giant electric producer, part government agency. The Obama administration has announced a strategic review that could...Tags: Rivers, Budgets and Budgeting, Investments, Freddie Mac, Investment Service
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School in Prague to be named after Mayor Cermak
Eighty years ago, Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak was assassinated, an anniversary that some, like Ald. Edward Burke, 14th, say does not receive enough attention. But on Thursday, a school in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, will remember Cermak by...
Tags: Edward M. Burke, Prague (Czech Republic), Local Elections, Chicago Elections, Chicago City Hall
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