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Esther Williams dies at 91; athletic star of aquatic musicals
The water, Esther Williams once quipped, was her favorite costar. With her beauty, sunny personality and background as a champion swimmer, Williams shot to stardom in the 1940s in the "aqua musical," an odd sub-genre of films that became an enormous hit...Tags: Music, Summer Olympics, Stranger Than Fiction, Sports, Hobbies
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Secret program mines Web data
— The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's...
Tags: Elections, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, National Government, Fort Meade (military base)
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Secret Internet surveillance by government reported
Over the past six years, the FBI and National Security Agency have tapped directly into the central servers of nine leading Internet companies to search for emails, videos, photographs, audio files and other documents potentially linked to...Tags: National Government, U.S. Department of Justice, Google Inc., FBI, Business Enterprises
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Weekly Maryland recruiting roundup
The Baltimore SunFresh off a visit to Oregon State, 2014 small forward Jared Nickens is prepping for a trip to Maryland. Nickens, a 6-foot-6 three-star prospect from the Westtown School in Pennsylvania, spoke to The Washington Post's Alex Prewitt this week about his...Tags: College Park (Prince George's, Maryland)
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Rubio: Privacy is great but ...
Hours after The Washington Post revealed in an article that federal authorities were tapping into the central servers of U.S. Internet companies to gather information, members of the Florida press corps sat down with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida....Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, National Government, National Security, FBI, Politics
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Privacy advocates outraged, but lawmakers defend collection of phone records
Privacy advocates expressed outrage Thursday over revelations that the National Security Agency has been collecting telephone records of virtually every phone call made in the United States for seven years, but the Obama administration and a bipartisan...
Tags: Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, American Civil Liberties Union, Terrorism, Fort Meade (military base)
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Terps Trio: Hoops players with most to gain/lose, 2014 recruiting, fastest football player
Baltimore Sun reporters Jeff Barker and Don Markus and editor Matt Bracken weigh in on the three biggest topics of the past week in Maryland sports. With Mark Turgeon’s team starting summer workouts, which Terps have the most to gain and the...
Tags: Basketball, Teaching and Learning, College Sports, National Invitation Tournament, Sports
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At White House, liberal hawks ascend
With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the...Tags: Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Elections, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George H.W. Bush
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Rick Atkinson closes his war trilogy with 'The Guns at Last Light'
After calling it a masterpiece of deep reporting and powerful storytelling, what more needs to be said of Rick Atkinson's trilogy about World War II? The first volume, "An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943" received the Pulitzer Prize for...Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Unrest, Conflicts and War, Charles de Gaulle, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Entertainment Events
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Reactions to NSA surveillance: from outrage to cheerleading
This week's riveting scoops in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the data-grabbing driftnet the National Security Agency has cast over the phone networks and the Internet drew hostile fire from four of the country's five largest newspapers, and a...Tags: Taylor Swift, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Christi Parsons, Terrorism
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Is Big Data turning government into 'Big Brother'?
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — With every phone call they make and every Web excursion they take, people are leaving a digital trail of revealing data that can be tracked by profit-seeking companies and terrorist-hunting government officials. The...
Tags: George W. Bush, Forrester Research Incorporated, National Government, Google Inc., Amazon.com Inc.
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Jefferson Davis Presidential Library: Still fighting the Civil War
There's been a skirmish or two in the comments on my recent Op-Ed article on the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library in Biloxi, Miss. One commenter -- "Oceaneagle" -- pointed out that some thousands of blacks did serve in the Confederate army. Is...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Libraries, Arts and Culture, Slavery, Wars and Interventions
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