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Skittles joins food brands at center of tragedy
NEW YORK (AP) — It could've been Starbursts, Twizzlers or Sour Patch Kids. But when Trayvon Martin was fatally shot, he happened to be carrying a bag of Skittles. The 17-year-old's death at the hands of a neighborhood watchman in February ignited...Tags: Trayvon Martin, Saddam Hussein, National Football League, University of Notre Dame, Companies and Corporations
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Nearly 200 gather to dedicate Jonestown memorial in California
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A new memorial has been dedicated to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana.
The dedication came after a judge last week denied a motion seeking to block further use of the monument at the...Tags: Human Interest, Judges, Court Preliminary, Crime, Law and Justice, Oakland (Alameda, California)
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Hacienda pulls 'cult' ad
Hacienda admits it made a mistake.
For the first time in the history of the South Bend-based restaurant company, billboards are being removed less than two weeks after Hacienda launched a new advertising campaign.
Hacienda has instructed a local...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Dining and Drinking, Politics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Companies and Corporations
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Atheneum Showcases Art Of Politcal Paranoia
The Hartford CourantDeb Sokolow's 'Some Concerns About the Candidate' 'Something about this doesn't feel right." These are the words of an anonymous narrator, who's keeping a journal about participating in a political campaign. Within weeks of enthusiastically joining...Tags: Arts, Politics, Arts and Culture, John F. Kennedy, Elections
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Recuerdos de Ronald Biggs
En la década de 1980, el periodista uruguayo Homero Alsina Thevenet escribió dos libros llamados "Una Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles" y "Segunda Enciclopedia de Datos Inútiles". En ellos recopilaba miles de datos, contaba historias con un estilo mordaz y,...Tags: Sex Pistols (music group), Charles Manson, Interpol
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Michael Murphy, Esalen's potentialist
Before the Esalen Institute, there was Michael Murphy's family's property, a choice chunk of gorgeous Big Sur, where, in 1962, Murphy (writer, seeker) and his friend and fellow human potentialist Dick Price dedicated the Murphy land to the now 50-year-old...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Stranger Than Fiction, Golf, Politics, Parties and Movements
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Feeling the stress of the job
Flat-screen monitors cast soft light on work consoles as casually dressed staffers fielded calls on a recent afternoon at Tri-Com Central Dispatch, the 911 call center serving central Kane County. Inside the single-story center in west suburbanSt....
Tags: Abusive Behavior, Behavioral Conditions, Mental Health, Philosophy, Health
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Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, reporter and editor
Baltimore Sun reporterAnthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The former Ellicott City resident was 68. Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: John Steinbeck, Catonsville, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Scott Miller, Health
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Anthony O'Neill 'Tony' Miller, reporter and editor
Anthony O'Neill "Tony" Miller, a retired reporter and foreign correspondent, died Nov. 23 of prostate cancer at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
The former Ellicott City resident was 68.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Catonsville, Mr. Miller was a...Tags: John Steinbeck, Catonsville, Loyola University Maryland, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Scott Miller
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Daum: Don't 'drink the Kool-Aid'
Drunk any Kool-Aid lately? Or maybe you accused someone else of doing it? If so, congratulations, you're right in step with one of the nation's most popular idiomatic trends. A snappy, fruit-flavored way of referring to someone who unquestioningly...Tags: Tom Wolfe, Valium (drug), Massacres, Ken Kesey, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Don't 'go postal' over 'drinking the Kool-Aid' [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.Don't "drink the Kool-Aid," writes Meghan Daum in an Op-Ed column that urges readers to "ease up on a figure of speech arising from 1978's Jonestown massacre." She writes: [A]pparently unbeknown to just about everyone who uses the expression, "drinking...... -
Album review: The Peoples Temple’s ‘Sons of Stone’
Pop & HissHoZac Records' spring releases include superb limited-edition punk singles from bands such as Timmy’s Organism and Red Mass, but the most exciting item on the label’s roster is the long-awaited long player "Sons of Stone" from cosmic garage...
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