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A birth in Havana
The new father lit yet another cigarette with the still smoldering butt of his last one. Two more crushed smokes lay near his feet. "I'm so nervous right now," Jarniel, 27, said outside the maternity hospital where his first son was born early Monday....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Metal and Mineral, Baby Products, Services and Shopping, Baby Products
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'Prayers' just won't do
It's been a particularly grim and bloody month on one of the world's great killing fields -- the United States of America. On Friday, Los Angeles paused for the largest police funeral in its history when it buried Officer Randal Simmons, a 51-year-old...Tags: Northern Illinois University, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Louisiana, Firearms
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Tribune Co. chief Sam Zell interviewed by federal prosecutors in criminal probe of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Tribune reportersTribune Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell hired well-known defense lawyer Anton Valukas and was interviewed in January by federal prosecutors as a "potential witness" in the criminal investigation of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the company...Tags: Richard M. Daley, Local Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Wrigley Field
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Hybrid showdown: 2010 Toyota Prius vs. 2010 Honda Insight
Among the handful of people who might actually enjoy seeing gasoline return to $4 a gallon, let's include marketing managers for the 2010 Honda Insight and 2010 Toyota Prius, a pair of all-new hybrids set to do battle this spring. They'll be successful...Tags: Transportation, Hybrid Vehicles, Regional Authority, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Prius
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Food, Fuel, Famine
The Swampby Stephen J. Hedges U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, who travels to a world food security conference in Rome next week, laid out the Bush administration's strategy today for meeting the current worldwide crisis of rising food costs and shortages......Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Medical Specialization, Agriculture, Disasters and Accidents, White House
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Cheney: Tax cuts, security, game plan
The Swampby Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney - the "magic man'' of the Bush administration, in the words of the now-renowned Scott McClellan - stirred up the Republican faithful last night in New York, scene of the party convention that......Tags: Religious Conflicts, Religion and Belief, National Security, International Military Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice
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Rice's Rules of Engagement
The SwampBy Bay Fang Despite diligently ignoring each other at a United Nations-led conference on Iraq in Stockholm, Sweden, Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could not avoid getting into a bit of a public spat. At the meeting,......Tags: Politics, Condoleezza Rice, United Nations, Political Systems
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Clinton and sexism -- Not 'death knell'
The Swampby Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice......Tags: Civil Rights, Primaries, Small Businesses, Human Mishaps, Economic Policy
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Bush: (Welcome) American in Paris
The Swampby Marc Silva There have been, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy gently put it today, a few "hiccups'' along the way in that long history of Franco-American relations. Must have been the "Freedom Fries.'' But you wouldn't have known that......Tags: The New York Times, Diplomacy, Politics, Social Issues, White House
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Obama: We need City Hall, not McCain
The Swampby John McCormick, updated with McCain response Sen. Barack Obama told a conference of mayors Saturday in Miami that he knows he will need to listen to them if he makes it to the White House, otherwise the snow in......Tags: Richard M. Daley, Thomas Jefferson, Barack Obama, White House, John McCain
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Black terror comments: 'Inappropriate'
The Swampby Jill Zuckman After telling Fortune magazine that a terror attack on the United States would be "a big advantage" for Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign, senior adviser Charles R. Black, Jr. was forced to recant the sentiment......Tags: Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, John McCain, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Dobson criticizes Obama on religion
The Swampby Katie Fretland An influential conservative figure criticizes Sen. Barack Obama on religion today in a radio segment saying the candidate for president has distorted the Bible and pushed a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution. James Dobson,...Tags: Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, John McCain
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