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Two worlds collide as lawyer fights for inmate husband
Second of Three Parts
"Well, it's dinnertime at the amazing Miss Weird's Place," Pamela Griffin wrote her husband, Robert, one night in 1986, sitting alone at her kitchen table with leftovers. "Tonight we have the famous incredible squash concoction --...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Court Administration, Michael Thompson, Punishment, Consumer Electronics Industry
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A praiseworthy show
North Broward Preparatory School"Curiosity killed the cat," as the saying goes, but in Archbishop McCarthy High School's production of The Curious Savage, curiosity kept the characters alive. Presented in a small, intimate setting, the Maverick Players débuted this production with...Tags: Schools, Academic Progress
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Balloons delight crowd at Macy's Thanksgiving parade
The giant bobbing wonders cascaded down Broadway, seeming bigger, bolder and shinier than ever before. Under the bright morning sun, the balloons of the 82nd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade followed their handlers southward, earning cheers and...Tags: Macy's, Theater, Festive Event, Miley Cyrus, Keith Haring
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Obama daughters will face public curiosity
When Malia and Sasha Obama move into the White House in January, they'll also move into the proverbial fish bowl.
The public will likely have an insatiable curiosity about their lives, and with the Internet, cable TV, blogs and other 24/7 technology, the...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Government, History, Stony Brook University, Al Gore
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Boo! Knicks too scary for TNT
neil.best@newsday.comBlowouts generally are bad for ratings. But there are blowouts, and then there is what happened to the Knicks in Boston 11 months ago. The Celtics squashed them, 104-59, and morbid curiosity kept many viewers glued to their tubes. "That was one of our...Tags: Patrick Ewing, Halle Berry, Isiah Thomas, Eddy Curry, ESPN
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'Descartes' Bones' by Russell Shorto
"Cogito ergo sum" -- commonly translated from the Latin as "I think, therefore I am" -- is probably the most-quoted, if also least-understood, fragment of philosophy in the history of Western civilization. In "Descartes' Bones," journalist and...Tags: Fiction, History, Philosophy, Benjamin Franklin, Books and Magazines
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Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96
Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96.
Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago, his...Tags: George Bush, Studs Terkel, Bob Dylan, Civil Rights, Radio Industry
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Douglas Kearney says winning a Whiting Writers' Award is a fresh start
Like everyone else at the Old Dominion Literary Festival, Southern California poet Douglas Kearney had turned his ringer off. So when a stranger called and left an undecipherable message, Kearney, preparing for his reading, didn't think much of it. As a...Tags: Poetry, August Wilson, San Diego (San Diego, California), Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Los Angeles
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Remembering 'curious' Terkel
It is a special brand of tragic timing that took Studs Terkel and Barack Obama's grandmother away as the whole world tuned in to America's Big Election. Madelyn Dunham, whom Obama called a "quiet hero" in his life, died Monday in Hawaii at 86. One of her...Tags: Government, Studs Terkel, Mike Royko, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama
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Curiosity, passion are keys to college
Yale University/ North Miami Beach High graduateAlmost every high school student or worried parent I encounter asks me the same question: What's the trick to getting accepted into a Top 10 university? Every time, I've answered that question differently because the truth is I'm still not sure. But...Tags: Diseases, North Miami Beach, Schools, Society, Miami Beach
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Rediscovering early fictional America detective James Brampton
It is a truth universally acknowledged that after Edgar Allan Poe's mysterious death in 1849, detective fiction did not make another splash on these shores until a pipe-smoking Englishman with remarkable powers of deduction became a transatlantic...Tags: Wilkie Collins, Crimes, Edgar Allan Poe, Murder, Police
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Dodgers will still give it their best shot
PHILADELPHIA -- If it felt like an eternity Friday hanging in there with the Dodgers through yet another playoff loss, what must it have been like for Sandy Koufax, who was sitting beside the Screaming Meanie the whole time?
You know the old saying:...Tags: Boston Red Sox, Jeff Kent, Frank McCourt, Chad Billingsley, Derek Lowe
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