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Walter Cronkite: A Look Back
The TV ZoneWalter Cronkite's funeral is tomorrow afternoon, and so I'd like to take a look back at this career in a handful of posts today that I hope might convey to a reader exactly why this passing is so important.......Tags: CBS Corp., Walter Cronkite
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Obama's approval: 'Lost some steam'
The Swampby Mark Silva Has the past week been a rough patch for President Barack Obama, pushing health care reform and debating racial profiling? Yes. The president's job-approval rating reached a new low in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking -- in......Tags: Government, Medical Services, Barack Obama, Polls, Health
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Colin Powell: Racial profiling, anger, cool
The Swampby Mark Silva Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell, who also once served as the chief diplomat for the United States, says Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. could have averted the famed confrontation with the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department at......Tags: Pakistan, Branch Rickey, Colin Powell, Taliban, Weaponry
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Sarah Palin: 'Going dark for a while'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with William Shatner What, no tweets? Sarah Palin has "gone dark?'' That's the word from AL-ASK-AH, where the self-retired former governor has left the hearts of Twitter fans all aflutter. (Facebook it: This beats talking......Tags: Glenn Beck, Fox Broadcasting Company, William Shatner, Alaska, Barack Obama
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Say on pay: House says yea
The Swampby Richard Simon Responding to the public furor over bonuses paid to executives of Wall Street firms bailed out by taxpayers, the House today voted to give shareholders a bigger say over compensation in the first piece of President Obama's......Tags: Business Institutions, Financial and Business Services, Democratic Party, Government, Republican Party
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Sotomayor: Judiciary approves justice
The Swampby David G. Savage and Mark Silva Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Hispanic member of the U.S. Supreme Court, won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a lopsided vote cast largely along party lines......Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, John McCain, Politics, Democratic Party, Crime, Law and Justice
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Obesity: Americans 4.6 billion lbs. over
The Swampby Kristina Sherry There's good and bad news when it comes to American obesity, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said today at an event to address the nation's increasingly costly and deadly weight problem. The inaugural conference...Tags: Health and Safety at School, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Obesity, Diseases and Illnesses, Arne Duncan
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Clinton: If 'Obama walked on water...'
The Swampby Mark Silva While maintaining that husband Bill Clinton's journey to North Korea to secure the release of two American journalists was "a private mission,'' apart from any consideration of nuclear proliferation, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says...Tags: Punishment, Heads of State, Taliban, Afghanistan, Medicaid
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North Korea frees U.S. pair: 'Peace-loving'
The Swampby Mark Silva Bill Clinton didn't go to Pyongyang for nothing. For all the appearances of high-level negotiations over two jailed American journalists created by the surprise visit of the former president to North Korea and Clinton's meeting with leader.....Tags: Kim Dae Jung, John Kerry, Heads of State, Nobel Prize Awards, California
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Hyundai Bringing Flagship Equus Sedan to U.S.
KickingTiresToday, Hyundai announced it will bring its global flagship sedan to the United States. Named ???Equus??? in other markets, the sedan is 7.2 inches longer than the Genesis sedan, which went on sale last year. It???s built on the same......Tags: Passenger Cars
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Pentagon's Facebook: Do ask, don't tell
The Swampby Julian E. Barnes The burning question in the hallways of the Pentagon today: Will Adm. Michael G. Mullen have to take down his Facebook page? The Pentagon has launched a study of the use of social networking websites designed......Tags: Craig Thomas, Networking, Computer Networking and Internet, MySpace, Defense
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Hillary Clinton: 2000 election Bushwhack
The Swampby Mark Silva Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ran for president in 2008, suggests that the long-disputed election of 2000 is evidence of modern-day "problems" in the greatest democracy on Earth, which is "still evolving'' - a lesson that......Tags: Local Elections, Referenda, Heads of State, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Jeb Bush
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