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Centre Basketball: Centre women playing Charthage in NCAA Sweet Sixteen at Mount Union
After winning two NCAA tournament games at home, the Centre College women are taking their act on the road.
The Colonels, who are in the round of 16 for the first time since 2001, will be off to Alliance, Ohio, for a third-round game in the NCAA Division...Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, Illinois Wesleyan University, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, College Sports
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Peace on Earth in 2012? Doubtful
Contributing columnistNearly every national or international beauty contest features a question period when some aspiring beauty queen voices her desire for “world peace” in answer to an innocuous puffball question. However, this year, as in the past, world peace...Tags: Kim Jong Il, Social Sciences, Barack Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Arts and Culture
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Ola Huff Durkin: Sept. 20, 2011
Ola Huff Durkin, 93, widow of Maurice K. Durkin, died Tuesday at Fountain Circle Health and Rehabilitation in Winchester.
She was born in Powell County on Sept. 30, 1917, to the late John and Eva Huff. Durkin was a graduate of Camargo High School in...Tags: Montgomery (Montgomery, Alabama), Human Interest, Chicago
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Obituary: Dr. Bradford Curry
STANFORD — Dr. Bradford Curry, 92, of Stanford died Friday, Nov. 25, 2011, at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, Ky. He was born Jan. 6, 1919, in Uptonville, Tenn., to the late John Milton Curry, M.D. and Mary P. Curry. He...Tags: Religion and Belief, Church and State Relations, John Milton, Christianity, Georgetown
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Dr. Patrick Staunton, 1928-2013
Patrick Staunton traveled from impoverished western Ireland in the early 1950s and rose to a leadership role in the treatment of the mentally ill in Illinois, always mindful of his boyhood as the son of a country doctor who treated patients, delivered...
Tags: Park Ridge, Psychiatry, Mental Health, Oak Park, Republic of Ireland
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Taxpayers not responsible for pension debt
What kind of mess have our state lawmakers got us into now? Illinois’ pension problem dwarfs the retirement problems of all other states. This state has a $100 billion unfunded liability or a $45,000 or more debt for every family that resides in...Tags: Justice System, Retirement, Career and Workplace, Pension and Welfare, Science and Technology
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State studying new regulations for special education
Decades-old limits on the size of special education classes would disappear along with restrictions on the number of disabled students in traditional classrooms under proposals being pushed by state education leaders. The proposed changes could affect...
Tags: McHenry, Chicago Public Schools, Teaching and Learning, Students, Trials
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Green initiative has officials flush with excitement
The Deerfield Park District has become a leader in harvesting rainwater, with a beta program at Woodland Park that diverts roof runoff into an underground storage tank for water to flush toilets, hose down floors and other non-drinking needs. "Our...Tags: Waste
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Historical cannon rededicated to honoring war dead
In 1979, about a month before leaving his home in Chicago's western suburbs to join the Army, Jon Meinholz led a group of volunteers in refurbishing a 19th century cannon at Montgomery's Riverside Cemetery. The 17-year-old touched up the old weapon,...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Memorial Day
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19th-century cannon gets second life in Montgomery
Tribune reporterIn 1979, about a month before leaving his home in Chicago’s western suburbs to join the Army, Jon Meinholz led a group of volunteers in refurbishing a 19th-century cannon at Montgomery’s Riverside Cemetery. The 17-year-old touched up the old...Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), International Military Interventions, Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Richard Linklater finishes trilogy with 'Before Midnight'
CHAMPAIGN -- Richard Linklater's sneakers squish-squish- squished against the wet tiles. We were walking the perimeter of the Illini Union, on the campus of theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. It was a stormy night in April, and students...
Tags: Owen Wilson, Roger Ebert, Teaching and Learning, Students, NBC (tv network)
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Illinois Senate passes pension bill, sets up showdown with House
SPRINGFIELD — Senate President John Cullerton today sent his version of pension reform to the House, setting up a high-profile clash with the rival plan Speaker Michael Madigan already pushed through the House. The showdown puts more than 700,...
Tags: Christine Radogno, Public Employees, Michael Madigan, Teaching and Learning, John J Cullerton
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