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READER SUBMITTED: GFWC Windsor Woman's Club Celebrates 50 Years
WindsorThe GFWC Windsor Woman's Club recently celebrated 50 years of service. The club began in 1963 when 15 local women met to discuss what they could do for their community. One of the club's first acts was to donate a painting of the late President Kennedy to...Tags: American Red Cross, Peggy Sayers, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Caroline Kennedy talks 'Poems to Learn by Heart'
During Caroline Kennedy's childhood, poetry was a family affair. Her father, President John F. Kennedy, had admired Robert Frost enough to give him a prominent place at his inauguration, and her mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, had loved poetry since...
Tags: Painting, Abraham Lincoln, Medical Procedures and Tests, Arts, Students
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Obama advisor David Axelrod to publish Washington memoir
David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, is joining the list of one-time Obama administration officials who will be penning memoirs next year, Penguin Press has announced. Other Obama administration officials with books on the way...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Chicago Tribune, Scott Walker, Literature
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Elon Musk really, really hates traffic jams
Apparently, billionaire Elon Musk is channeling John F. Kennedy, who famously intoned, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” Musk, who wasn’t even born when Kennedy gave his inaugural...
Tags: Traffic, Road Transportation, Travel, Les Miserables (musical), Transportation
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Teachers, parents, students fete Olive's 50 years
Olive-Mary Stitt Elementary School students, parents, teachers and alumni gathered recently to celebrate the Arlington Heights District 25 school's 50th birthday, reflecting on a half-century of learning that began during the Camelot era. The week-...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Teachers
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: Barack Obama, Radio, World War I (1914-1918), Rush Limbaugh, Timothy McVeigh
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Column: ChartGirl boxes the news
Reuters(Reuters) - If you're the nautical sort, you probably interpret the news as a flow. If you hunt and peck on the typewriter, your news feed might resemble a pointillistic painting. But if you love to break ideas down into their sequential components,...Tags: Media Industry, Newspaper and Magazine, Harvard University, Dianne Feinstein, David Petraeus
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Between the Darkness and the Light: Brian Azzarello on writing for DC Comics
If you only went by the type of comic-books he wrote, you would think that Brian Azzarello was a brooding soul, a tortured artist who was tormented by a traumatic past. But when you speak with the writer of dark titles like “100 Bullets” and...
Tags: McCormick Place, Manhattan (New York City), Human Interest, Zack Snyder, Watchmen (movie)
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Presidential Inaugural poet Richard Blanco to read at Museum of Art
Much was made about the symbolism of the choice of Richard Blanco to be the U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet at Jan. 21 ceremonies that began President Obama’s second term. Filling a role first assigned by President Kennedy to the white-haired...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Fort Lauderdale, Barack Obama, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Museums
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Daum: Getting it wrong in Boston
As social media sites have pelted out news of the Boston bombing, playing fast and loose with the numbers of the dead and injured and amplifying hearsay into a cacophony of confusion, one tweet seemed to say it all: "Dear Journalism: Get yourself together...
Tags: Columbine High School, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Social Media, Olympic Games, American Red Cross
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Boston bombings: Social media spirals out of control
Over the last few days, thousands of people have taken to the Internet to play Sherlock Holmes. Armed with little more than grainy surveillance camera videos, cellphone photos and live tweets from police scanners, they have flooded the Web with clues,...
Tags: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion (2013), Social Media, University of Virginia, Reddit Inc., Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Neil Diamond on 'Sweet Caroline' and Boston Marathon bombings
In the aftermath of Monday’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, sports teams have been playing Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” in efforts to give solace to those affected by the tragedy. “What resonates for me...Tags: Los Angeles Dodgers, Music, Entertainment, New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox
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