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'I was never alone' Heart pump and family help Geistown man survive health scare
Ray Alt is a fighter, his wife says. After two years in and out of hospitals for a swiftly deteriorating heart, the Geistown man has become the first in the Johnstown area to receive a new type of heart pump, designed to keep his blood flowing while...
Tags: Human Interest, Food and Drug Administration, Heart Attack, Prostate Cancer, Physical Therapy
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Chan Lowe: Women in combat
I am an American male who has never served in the military, which makes me at least as qualified to opine on the subject of women in combat as most of the politicians who are bloviating about it. The nearest I came to combat was when I had the...
Tags: Richard Nixon
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Dick Cheney's heart to get its own memoir
To his detractors, Vice President Dick Cheney was the dark force of the administration of President George W. Bush. Cheney himself said he was “honored” at being compared to Darth Vader. Those who blamed him for the second Iraq War liked to...
Tags: Heart Attack, George W. Bush, Cardiologists, Iraq War (2003-2011), Book
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Obama's unpardonable neglect of clemency
One of the under-reported promises made by Congressman Ehrlich in the gubernatorial campaign of 2002 was to re-energize the pardon power in Maryland. My advisers thought it a bit loony to make the pledge, since the race promised to be close and there...Tags: Lawyers, Republican Party, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons
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Sundance premieres: Linklater, 'Stoker' and Ashton Kutcher's Steve Jobs
The final installment in Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, Chan-wook Park’s English-language debut and Ashton Kutcher’s Steve Jobs portrayal all will be unveiled at Sundance -- and did we mention documentaries about...
Tags: David Grohl, Ethan Hawke, History (tv network), Sundance Film Festival, Rupert Grint
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Treading water and waiting for a life raft
Sept. 9 Four years ago, the ship of state managed by Republican Shipping Lines Inc. was driven onto an iceberg partially formed by attempting to finance two wars with tax breaks. Most of us were going down for the third time. First mate Dick...
Tags: Science and Technology, Karl Rove, Halliburton Company, Canoeing and Kayaking, Sports
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GOP losers
Republicans need to get a grip. Thousands of Texans signing petitions of secession? A man committing suicide because Barack Obama won? A wife driving her car over her husband, just because he voted for the president? The Georgia state Legislature...Tags: Republican Party, Physical Fitness and Exercise, George W. Bush, United Nations, Politics
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Is Tom Cruise big enough to carry 'Jack Reacher'?
The opening minutes of the action-thriller "Jack Reacher" unfold with a display of gun violence that will be strikingly familiar to anyone who has been horrified by headline news in recent weeks. A sniper is shown assembling his long-range assault rifle....Tags: Lee Child, Lincoln Center, Media Industry, George W. Bush, Entertainment
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Free the CIA torture report
Americans have known for years both the broad outlines and some of the disgusting details of the George W. Bush administration's policy of subjecting suspected terrorists to torture, humiliation and imprisonment at "black sites" in foreign countries....
Tags: Terrorism, Saxby Chambliss, Olympia J. Snowe, Justice System, Dianne Feinstein
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Letters: Torture on the silver screen
Re "Why the fabrication?," Opinion, Dec. 23 It is astonishing that what is not disputed about "Zero Dark Thirty" is its accurate depiction of how for years the CIA deliberately and systematically tortured detainees with waterboarding and other savage...Tags: Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Crime, Law and Justice, George W. Bush, Entertainment, Barack Obama
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Police Investigations, White House, Central Intelligence Agency, National Government
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Samuel L. Jackson on slavery, entertainment, guns in 'Django'
Samuel L. Jackson has incarnated some colorful, fast-talking characters in Quentin Tarantino movies over the years, such as his scripture-quoting hit man Jules Winnfield in "Pulp Fiction" and scheming gun runner Ordell Robbie in "Jackie Brown."...
Tags: The Hurt Locker (movie), Leonardo DiCaprio, Social Issues, Entertainment, Politics
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