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Allan Powell: What can we learn from 'Little Dorrit?'
Hardly more than a year ago, I made my first contact with “Little Dorrit” when I read a newly published biography of Charles Dickens. Then, a friend, the late Robert Molten, bound several editions of Harper’s Magazine (1856) into three...Tags: Labor Legislation, Charles Dickens, Business, Philosophy, Career and Workplace
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Obama to sign off on Tubman monument on Eastern Shore
President Barack Obama will sign a proclamation Monday creating a Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument on the Eastern Shore, a designation long sought by advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers. The designation protects the land...
Tags: Harriet Tubman, Martin O'Malley, Dorchester County, Barack Obama
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Foreign tech workers on a cruise ship? SeaCode was first to try
SAN FRANCISCO -- As novel as the concept sounds, Blueseed was not the first company to take "offshoring" so literally. In 2005, a San Diego company called SeaCode proposed housing foreign software engineers on a cruise ship three miles off the...Tags: Labor Legislation, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, David Cook
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Jump into U.S. history instead of skydiving
In colonial Virginia in 1654, a black man named John Casor became an answer to this trivia question: Who was the first man in the colonies to be legally declared a slave by the courts? But the more interesting trivia question concerns Anthony Johnson,...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Air and Aviation Sports, Sports, John Hancock, The Herald-Mail
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Called out to return
“Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has done for you, and how He had mercy on you.”—Mark 5:19. We are all still feeling pretty green these days. St. Patrick’s Day makes everyone celebrate even the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Republic of Ireland
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Letters to the Editor - March 17
Lincoln most certainly would not be a Democrat To the editor: Screenwriter Tony Kushner, for the movie “Lincoln,” and Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the book “Team of Rivals,” on which the movie was based, suggested that if...Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Congress, Abraham Lincoln, Conservation, Tony Kushner
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Kevin Williamson, Stranger Than Fiction, Authors, Butter, Espionage and Intelligence
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'Django Unchained' to be shown in China
Quentin Tarantino's "Django Unchained" will debut in China on April 11, marking the first time a film by the writer-director will screen in that nation. The violent western, a box office hit for its backers Sony Pictures Entertainment and The...Tags: China, Django Unchained (movie), Ang Lee, Entertainment, Leonardo DiCaprio
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Long live 'Negro'
I let Black History Month slide by this year without writing anything about it. I am so over celebrating firsts or reprising triumphal narratives. But news from last month did suggest that we may need a black history lesson — one that goes...Tags: African-American History Month, Spain, Black History, Population and Census, Social Issues
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Master and slaves, no longer bonded
One could never accuse Northlight Theatre of a lack of eclecticism in its programming. In a matter of weeks, subscribers there in Skokie have gone from chortling at Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple," of all things, to a drama that begins with the...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Passover, Judaism, Mark Twain, Arts and Culture
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Best Samuel L. Jackson Movies
Blogging with Bill WhiteIn honor of Samuel L. Jackson’s stellar work as a despicable slave in “Django Unchained,” today’s list will be the 10 Best Samuel L. Jackson Movies. Jackson’s career makes a list like this difficult. He has had cameo roles... -
'Django Unchained' is Tarantino, undisciplined ★★
In "Django Unchained," which has its moments of devilish glee in and among dubious wallows in numbing slaughter, writer-director-trash compactor Quentin Tarantino delivers a mashup of several hundred of his favorite movies, all hanging, like barnacles,...
Tags: Russ Tamblyn, Movies, Ku Klux Klan, Pulp Fiction (movie), Django Unchained (movie)
Mar 22, 2013
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Mar 22, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Mar 19, 2013
|Column| Daily American
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 13, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 11, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Jan 27, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jan 4, 2013
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Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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