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The gender gap and the GOP's future
You can bet your Hillary Clinton buttons that one of the biggest chunks of the body politic that political pathologists will be putting under the lab microscope is the gender gap: women’s votes. “Remember the ladies,” Abigail Adams...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Politics, Feminism, Minority Groups, Abortion
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Paycheck Fairness Act: Good politics, good policy
If Maryland's resident pit bull, Sen. Barbara Mikulski, has demonstrated anything in her several decades in Congress and as dean of Senate women, it's a willingness to stand up for the less powerful in society, and she was at it again this week advocating...
Tags: Discrimination, Career and Workplace, Politics, Parties and Movements, Barbara A. Mikulski
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The Iron Lady
Fox 5 San Diego staffRight before watching a screener of The Iron Lady, I started reading a Newsweek with Meryl Streep on the cover. The three page story was a lot more interesting than the two hour movie. It was also a lot more thorough. I found out in the article that...Tags: Michelle Williams, Jim Broadbent, Fox Broadcasting Company, Academy Awards, Jack Nicholson
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OMOS students win essay contest
Two students from Our Mother of Sorrows School earned cash prizes for winning the Great Americans Day Essay Contest sponsored by CTC Foundation, an affiliate of Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC). Kate McGrath's essay won first place, and Noah...Tags: Human Interest, Politics, Elections, Corporate Officers
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Comments & Curiosities: Adams said it best: Celebrate with a big boom
You know what Monday is. And, yes, it is a big day. Not only is it Colleen Johns' birthday, like you didn't know that, but it's America's birthday — Uncle Sam, the US-of-A, this place, 235 years old this year. Can you believe it? It hardly looks a...Tags: Human Interest, Apple iPad, Marco Polo, John Hancock, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Theater review: '1776' at Glendale Centre Theatre
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Southern Winds Theatre announces 2011-12 season
Orlando Theater BlogSouthern Winds Theatre kicks off its 2011-12 season this Tuesday with a presentation of “Mr. and Mrs. Adams.” Here are the season plans for the theater company, headed by David McElroy and Marylin McGinnis: Mr. and Mrs. Adams – The... -
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Teachers as artists
Recent works by Washington County’s public, private and home-school art educators. Opening reception with music by Staff Infection will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at Washington County Arts Council, 14 W. Washington...Tags: CNN (tv network), Human Interest, Animals, Colleges and Universities, Washington (U.S. state)
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"First Family: Abigail and John Adams" by Joseph J. Ellis
Literary Editor"First Family: Abigail and John Adams" By Joseph J. Ellis Knopf, 299 pages, $27.95 Before Barack and Michelle, Eleanor and Franklin and certainly before the brand otherwise known as Brangelina, came America's first power couple: John and Abigail Adams....Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Human Interest, Elizabeth Taylor, John Adams, Aaron Burr
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"Abigail Adams" by Woody Holton
Literary editor"Abigail Adams" By Woody Holton Free Press, 483 pages, $30 Absence may make the heart grow fonder, and the marriage founder, but for President John Adams and Abigail Smith Adams, the periods apart bonded them together-- and has been a boon for...Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Freedom of the Press, John Adams, Politics
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates Touts Public Service During Often Humorous Commencement Speech At UW
Staff reporterTimely jokes and a call for public service highlighted the commencement speech by Secretary of Defense Roberts Gates at the University of Washington Saturday. Protesters who tried to disrupt the speech were removed quickly by police and Secretary Gates...Tags: Career and Workplace, Defense, Colleges and Universities, Washington (U.S. state), Armed Forces
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Obama White House gets really big pink ribbon for breast cancer awareness (photos here)
Top of the TicketWorkers at the White House hoisted something unusual in the front of the grand entrance to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Monday -- a massive pink ribbon. Running the length of the columns in front of the presidential residence, the dramatic ribbon......
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