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Will Michelle Obama unite nation's feminists?
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — Gina McCauley's blog on African-American women in pop culture has never attracted this kind of attention. The 3-year-old site has a mostly African-American audience. But she launched a new Michelle Obama Watch blog in June to monitor...Tags: Lobbying, Hillary Clinton, Washington Post Company, Heavy Engineering, Culture
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Bush: 'Affront' to Chinese to skip Olympics start
Associated Press WriterPresident Bush said Sunday he does not feel the need to boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics to state his opposition to China's human rights record. Skipping the event would be an "affront" to the Chinese people, he said. Bush spoke...Tags: The White House, Executive Branch, Human Rights, Global Warming, Summits
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Cookie and Magic Johnson and Spike Lee help fight HIV among blacks
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Ladies," said Cookie Johnson, looking straight into the camera, her husband's arm draped across her shoulders. "Have you been tested . . . " " . . . for HIV?" finished Lakers basketball legend Earvin "Magic" Johnson. As the most prominent African...Tags: Los Angeles, Diseases, Health Organizations, National or Ethnic Minorities, Civil and Public Service
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Obama: Media response to Iraq remarks overblown
Associated Press WriterBarack Obama celebrated "active faith" as an obligation of religious Americans and a chief agent of societal change while speaking Saturday to a nearly all-black roomful of churchgoers, but hoping to reach far beyond them. Earlier in the day as he flew...Tags: Anglican, Illinois, Hillary Clinton, Virginia, Missouri
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Two Republicans vie for shot at challenging Aronberg for state Senate seat
South Florida Sun-SentinelIs shooting squirrels a qualification for the state Senate? Or are diatribes about gays and minorities the campaign themes that will help a candidate unseat veteran Sen. Dave Aronberg, D-Greenacres? A pair of Republicans will clash in the August...Tags: Executive Branch, Greenacres, Boynton Beach, Florida, Interior Policy
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From Little Red Book to the Good Book
The factory could be any plant in this export-driven nation. Hundreds of Chinese workers huddle over loud machines churning out large orders for customers near and far. But what they're making might surprise you: Bibles. As Tibetan monks grab...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Beijing Games, Plant Openings, Charity, Bible
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Nine inmates die in Syrian jail riot
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syrian military police officers fired on Islamist inmates early yesterday during a riot at Saydnaya prison about 20 miles outside Damascus, the Syrian capital, leaving at least nine inmates dead, human rights officials here said. Inmates...Tags: Police Arrests, Prisons, Riots, Human Rights, Police
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Ruling may add to gun violence
The Founding Fathers wrote in the Constitution that citizens had the right to bear arms. Those arms were meant to protect the New World from the mother country ("Justices back gun owners," June 27). But the purpose of a gun is to kill or harm, whether...Tags: Owings Mills, Personal Weapon Control, Civil Rights, Interior Policy
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'Living legend' shares tales of friend, author Hurston
Sentinel Staff WriterThe scene looks like the most pleasant classroom you can image, with a big window overlooking Lake Virginia on the Rollins College campus, all clipped green lawns and Mediterranean charm. But the man talking in quiet Southern-accented tones to the...Tags: Eatonville, Winter Park, Orlando, University of Florida, Folk Music
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Land of the free
I'm proud to say I live in a country founded on the principle that the government can't scoop people off the street and lock them up forever without telling them what they did wrong or without ever charging them with a crime. I sleep well at night...Tags: Terrorism, Civil Rights, Prosecution
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