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The right honey pot can be worth a pot of gold
Honey has a history going back to 2100 B.C. It is mentioned in some Babylonian writings. It was used for sweetening food, for medicine, for religious ceremonies and even as a form of money. In the 18th and 19th centuries, a special serving dish and...Tags: Wimbledon Championships, San Francisco Giants, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Cleveland Indians, Baseball
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Dueling over Watergate
In his March 1 Op-Ed article UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener criticized the Nixon Library's "Patriot, President, Peacemaker" exhibit for glossing over Watergate, which prompted former library docent Paul Carter to write in a letter published Wednesday:...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Hugo Chavez, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Libraries
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Is Baltimore in love with the Orioles?
The Baltimore Orioles are back in town for their home opener on Friday, and this is the moment when newspaper editorialists generally wax poetic about baseball in spring, fathers and sons, the uncertain state of the national pastime and hope springing...
Tags: Baltimore Orioles, Stephen Strasburg, Major League Baseball, Baseball, World Series
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MADD honors CMPD for DUI arrests
Mothers Against Drunk Driving recognized seven Costa Mesa police officers for each making 100 drunken driving arrests or more in 2012, police announced Friday. The Costa Mesa officers represented a third of the 21 officers who received a Century Award...Tags: Drunk Driving, Police Arrests, Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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Roy Brown dies at 96; designer of Ford's Edsel
When Ford launched plans in the early 1950s for a medium-priced car so distinctive it would grab attention from blocks away, the challenge fell to Roy Brown to design it. The concept he came up with blared individuality. It shunned the tail fins that...
Tags: Automotive Equipment, Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, Passenger Cars
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Rex Scouten dies at 88; longtime White House chief usher
Rex Scouten, whose 48-year career in the White House began with the Trumans and ended with the Clintons, and whose duties included helping first families transition to their oversized new home, died Feb. 20 at a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Va. He...Tags: Rosalynn Carter, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Army, John F. Kennedy, Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Dr. Gerald D. Klee, psychiatrist
Dr. Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist who was an LSD expert and participated in its experimentation on volunteer servicemen at several military installations in the 1950s, died Sunday of complications after surgery at the University of Maryland St....Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Psychiatry, The Washington Post, Staten Island (New York City)
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When Washington was really grim
WASHINGTON -- "When I first met Richard Nixon," Robert Bork says in the book he completed a few weeks before his death in December, "I could see in his expression the conviction that someone had blundered badly." With the dry wit that, together with his...Tags: Lawyers, Spiro Agnew, Justice System, Political Corruption, Crime, Law and Justice
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Sex harassment scandal rocks the peace of Bikram yoga world
They just keep coming and coming and coming. Not illegal immigrants. Yoga scandals. Last week, it was Lululemon Athletica’s “Pantsgate.” This week, it’s a sexual harassment lawsuit against Choudhury, father to the Los...
Tags: Raquel Welch, John McEnroe, Shirley MacLaine, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Sexual Misconduct
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Empty Spaces presents Central Florida premiere of 'Frost/Nixon'
WHAT: The nation was riveted in 1977 when British journalist David Frost landed an exclusive interview deal with disgraced ex-president Richard Nixon. Millions watched as Nixon discussed his presidency and the Watergate scandal that ended it. Nearly...
Tags: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, David Frost, Peter Morgan, Frost Nixon (movie)
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Out of the White House and onto the dole
In this era of huge federal debt and fiscal dysfunction, it's less than heartening to learn from the Congressional Research Service that the nation's four living former chief executives got a total of $3.7 million in pensions and operating expenses last...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Economy, Business and Finance, Finance, George W. Bush
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Basketball diplomacy, Pyongyang-style
It is really not so odd that we would find Dennis Rodman partying heartily with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. After all, they have so much in common. Think of Kim as Rodman with less height, fewer piercings, more nuclear menace — and more blood on...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit Pistons, The Washington Post, National Basketball Association, Toni Kukoc
Apr 5, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Mar 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 8, 2013
|Story| Daily Pilot
Mar 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 3, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 7, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 2, 2013
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 6, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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