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    May 9, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Confused about trade

    For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy.
    For decades, Americans have been told of the evils of importing energy. It sends our money abroad, the argument goes, makes us vulnerable to supply disruptions, strengthens our enemies and weakens the economy. Now, though, the tide is turning....

    Tags: Ron Wyden, Eastman Chemical Company, Nucor Corporation, Prices, Energy

    2. Apr 19, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  2. A Word, Please: A would-be worry that isn't

    An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day, a celebrity might say mean things to a singer you support through text messaging.
    An island nation you can't find on a map can threaten your retirement savings. Your health insurer could refuse to pay your medical bills by arguing you're covered only if someone drops a baby grand piano on your head, not an upright. On any given day,...

    Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, FBI

    3. Apr 14, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  3. Viva House soup kitchen has provided 45 years of service

    In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk.
    In a quiet block in Southwest Baltimore, a warm wind blows plastic bags along a sidewalk. Boarded-up rowhomes line the streets. A pile of mattresses rests on a trash heap in someone's former backyard. A lonely placard reads, "Stop shooting – start...

    Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Bethlehem Steel, Foods and Beverages, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    4. Mar 28, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  4. Stealing from yourself

    The Baltimore Sun
    Yesterday, writing at Poynter.org, Roy Peter Clark suggested that our current attitudes about plagiarism have conflated relatively minor or innocuous literary borrowings with serious thefts. One of the points he identified was the clamor about self-...

    Tags: Book, Theft

    5. Feb 28, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  5. In a word: omnibibulous

    The Baltimore Sun
    A bonus word of the week for you, at the urging of colleagues: OMNIBIBULOUS This worthy word has not found its way into the Oxford English Dictionary. It was coined by H.L. Mencken, an inveterate foe of Prohibition and a stout defender of his Twenty-...
    6. Feb 27, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  6. Brother Patrick Ellis, college president

    Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J.
    Brother Patrick Ellis, a member of the Christian Brothers who served as president of La Salle University and Catholic University of America, died Feb. 21 of leukemia at a Christian Brothers nursing home in Lincroft, N.J. The Baltimore native was 84....

    Tags: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Christianity, Harry James, Leukemia

    7. Feb 18, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel

  7. The brevity of Silent Cal

    WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator knew that "Silent Cal" could use words powerfully -- 15 of them made him a national figure -- because he was economical in their use, as in all things.
    WASHINGTON -- Before Ronald Reagan traveled the 16 blocks to the White House after his first inaugural address, the White House curator had, at the new president's instruction, hung in the Cabinet room a portrait of Calvin Coolidge. The Great Communicator...

    Tags: Washington, DC, Ronald Reagan, Calvin Coolidge, National Government, Boston

    8. Feb 18, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  8. Helmet-less cyclists come up lame

    I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would not have, save for the helmet I was wearing. That said, I know what I am talking about.
    I am a cyclist who has done big miles for a long span of years. I am also one who was hit from behind by a car in 2005, an accident which both projected me 85 feet into the air and required more than a year of recovery. I was lucky to survive and would...
    9. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Poetic passions, tragic partings among Baltimore's greatest romances

    Baltimore has witnessed love and loss.
    Baltimore has witnessed love and loss. From the banks of the harbor to Mount Vernon's cobblestones to the grassed-over burial plots of Greenmount Cemetery, embedded in this city are vestiges of some of history's great romances, stories of people coming...

    Tags: Johns Hopkins Hospital, Druid Hill, John Ward, Bolton Hill, Tuberculosis

    10. Feb 16, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  10. What does Morgan have to do with the College Park murder-suicide?

    I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the heyday of journalism in America. I wake up Wednesday morning in Afghanistan to find the legacy of that time in shambles. The Baltimore Sun has became a joke when a headline that read "College Park shooter identified as Morgan State University graduate" (Feb. 13).
    I grew up in Baltimore reading The Sun, The Evening Sun and The News American initially for comics then on to sports and finally the actual "news." I remember my English teacher at City College, Mr. Rosskopf, teaching us about H.L. Mencken and the...

    Tags: Morgan State University, Colleges and Universities, Afghanistan

    11. Feb 9, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  11. Man About Town: Valentine's candyland at Sweet! Hollywood

    I'm in my traditional Cupidian buying frenzy leading up to Valentine's Day, my major organs bursting with good intentions, not knowing quite where to turn, getting a little angry about it actually — the frustrations of unbridled romance, bordering on malice, verging on angina.
    I'm in my traditional Cupidian buying frenzy leading up to Valentine's Day, my major organs bursting with good intentions, not knowing quite where to turn, getting a little angry about it actually — the frustrations of unbridled romance, bordering...

    Tags: NBCUniversal, Boxing Day, Herbalife Limited, Marilyn Monroe, Marshmallows

    12. Feb 8, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  12. Baltimore love stories for book lovers -- Mencken, Poe and Fitzgerald

    With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/sun-magazine/bs-sm-baltimore-love-20130117,0,4388660.story" target="_blank">article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine,</a> reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken, Edgar Allan Poe and F. Scott Fitzgerald -- all three of which ended in tragedy. Here are excerpts from that article.
    With Valentine's Day approaching, it's a good time to review some of the literary love stories that have been set in Baltimore. In an article in the latest issue of the Sun magazine, reporter Jill Rosen highlights the relationships of H.L. Mencken,...

    Tags: Tuberculosis, Schizophrenia, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Edgar Allan Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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