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Boyle agencies awarded Arts Access Assistance Grants by Kentucky Arts Council
jbrummett@amnews.comThree Boyle County groups have been awarded Arts Access Assistance Grants from the Kentucky Arts Council to bring arts to a population that doesn’t always get to see artistic events: seniors. “Arts Access Assistance grants will provide...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Music, Artists, Politics, Religion and Belief
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Lesson: Letter from an Iraqi refugee
Contributing columnist(Editor’s note: Today we introduce a new columnist. James Duane Bolin, a professor of history at Murray State University, will be writing “Home and Away” on a weekly basis. Bolin is an accomplished writer with several books and other...Tags: John Adams, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Thomas Jefferson, Radio Industry
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Looking Back: From Our Files: Jan. 29, 2012
100 years ago — 1912
Col. James A. Shuttleworth, along with other stockholders of the Louisville Hotel Company, has sold the Louisville Hotel for $175,000. He has made the hotel his home most of the time since 1862, and said he had disposed of...Tags: Prisons, Politics, Prisons, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hospitals and Clinics
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Camp Nelson features living history event
The Camp Nelson Preservation and Education Foundation and the Jessamine County Fiscal Court will sponsor the Camp Nelson Civil War Days Living History Sept. 10-11. The event will be held on the grounds of the best preserved Union Army supply depot and...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, History, Minority Groups, Armed Forces
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Learning in a post-9/11 world
The Winchester SunTen years ago, I was a seventh grader at St. Paul School sporting a blue and white plaid uniform skirt and an Oxford blouse. My concerns were how many times my mom would take me to the ice rink that week, whether I would get elected to student council...Tags: Arts and Culture, Soccer, Politics, White House, Islam
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Car bombs in Turkey kill at least 42 near Syria border
BEIRUT — At least 42 people were reported dead Saturday in a pair of car bombings in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest apparent example of spillover violence from the conflict in nearby Syria. More than 140 people were injured,...
Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad, Politics, Turkey
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In Thailand, a resort for the greater good
MAE WANG, Thailand — As we sat together on a long, narrow raft of bamboo, Alexa Pham dipped her hand into the quickly moving river. "It's the really simple things," she said with a long breath, "that make it beautiful here in Mae Wang." Two wiry...
Tags: Prostitution, Burma, Politics, Manhattan (New York City), Sex Crimes
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Death toll in Turkey bomb blasts rises to 40
BEIRUT — The death toll from a pair of car bombs Saturday in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli has risen to at least 40, according to authorities and news reports, the latest apparent example of spillover violence from the conflict in nearby...
Tags: United Nations, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bashar Assad, Politics
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18 dead in Turkey bomb blasts believed related to Syria conflict
BEIRUT — A pair of car bombs left 18 dead and dozens injured in the southern Turkish town of Reyhanli, the latest apparent example of spillover violence from the conflict in nearby Syria, according to authorities and reports in the Turkish press....
Tags: United Nations, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Pakistan, Bashar Assad, Politics
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Status quo
Meet Omer Olivier. Mr. Olivier is an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has been living in Israel for the last seventeen years without official status. Although he has filed a request to be recognized as a refugee, his lack of...Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Justice and Rights, Pension and Welfare, Benjamin Netanyahu
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Shepherd University student escaped Ivory Coast oppression to make a new life in U.S.
richardb@herald-mail.comSiriki Diabate left his four daughters, parents and three siblings behind in 2005 when he was forced to flee his native Ivory Coast after suffering a terrific beating by thugs who left him for dead. He was working for a local newspaper at the time,...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Atlantic Ocean, Religion and Belief, Politics, Education
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Elie Wiesel, history's witness
It was a fine April day last week that found Elie Wiesel at Chapman University; it was a fine April day too, 58 years earlier, when the gaunt, teenage Wiesel found himself alive and suddenly free to walk out of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In the...
Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Politics, Religion and Belief, Bernard Madoff, Lawyers
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