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'Reluctant Fundamentalist': Immigrant's journey a tale most timely ★★★ 1/2
If there ever was a time to see "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," that time is now. With a potent piece of fiction as its starting point and a splendid performance by Riz Ahmed as its centerpiece, "Reluctant Fundamentalist" is able to deal with the...
Tags: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Pakistan, Entertainment, Riz Ahmed, Movies
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...Tags: Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, Woodrow Wilson
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Arthur Machen Jr., Venable law partner
Arthur W. Machen Jr., a retired attorney who was also the chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and a legal advocate for the poor, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday at Gilchrist Hospice Care. The former Ruxton resident was 92. A well-...
Tags: Human Interest, Carrollton, Baltimore County, Politics, Christianity
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Field has mulled selling artifacts
When the Field Museum sold more than 30 works of 19th-century Western art for millions of dollars in 2004, it eased controversy by announcing plans to spend the proceeds on new artifacts and by holding on to four of the best paintings from the collection....
Tags: Museum of Natural History, Values, John James Audubon, Colleges and Universities, Career and Workplace
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Edward Frieman dies at 87; leading figure in American science
Edward A. Frieman, a leading figure in American science for decades as a researcher with wide-ranging interests, a top-level governmental advisor on defense and energy issues, and director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Applied Physics, Teachers, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Central Intelligence Agency
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Herbert A. Davis, real estate broker
Herbert A. Davis, a Baltimore real estate broker and decorated World War II veteran, died Monday of progressive supranuclear palsy at Keswick Multi-Care Center. He was 87. "Herb was always very enthusiastic and just a great guy," said Dorothy F. "Patsy"...
Tags: Human Interest, Real Estate, YMCA, Baltimore County, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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A rich season for playwright Richard Greenberg
NEW YORK — "I'm too tired to be anxious," said playwright Richard Greenberg, looking worn out with anxiety as he settled into a booth at a Chelsea diner. This neighborhood canteen, dubbed his "office" by the late theatrical agent Helen Merrill, is...
Tags: Human Interest, Jessica Hecht, Manhattan (New York City), Music Theater, Music
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Review: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' considers 9/11 effects
If there ever was a time to see "The Reluctant Fundamentalist," that time is here and now. In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, with even President Obama asking, "Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and...Tags: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Pakistan, Entertainment, Barack Obama, Riz Ahmed
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Dinosaur-size debt
For many people the defining moment in the Field Museum's recent history was the bid at a 1997 auction that made Chicago home to the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Sue. But that choice could have far less impact on the Field's future than another...
Tags: Rentals, Corporate Officers, Colleges and Universities, Soldier Field, Politics
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Staying connected to plugged-in teens
I wonder what grounding looked like in the 1920s. What items or privileges were restricted? "Young man, hand over the stick. There will be no stick ball and no fishing." And what did kids get grounded for? Were they lighting matches or dressing like...Tags: Sociology, Computer Networking and Internet, Networking, Brookings Institution, The Herald-Mail
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'The Accursed' by Joyce Carol Oates: An engrossing throwback
In her long and famously prolific career as a novelist, Joyce Carol Oates has worked in many different modes, from the social realism of her National Book Award-winning "them" (1969) and the neo-Gothic storytelling of "Bellefleur" (1980) to the...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Vampires (supernatural entitiess), Mark Twain, Politics, Theodore Roosevelt
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Petoskey mentoring business offers help with college selection
PETOSKEY -- If you'll be ready for college in a couple of years, or have a child that will be, there are choices to make in the meantime. Toby Jones can help with the school-selection process by way of his new Petoskey business, College Planning Mentors....
Tags: Colleges and Universities, School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Students, Education
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