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Take 5: Hail to the Chief
With Sarah Palin and Joe Biden squaring off in tonight's vice presidential debate, we offer up five memorable veeps who have been dramatized on TV. Dick Cheney Lawrence Pressman played the current vice president in the 2003 TV movie, "DC 9/11: Time of...Tags: Dwight David Eisenhower, National Government, Long Island, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Ingrid Bergman
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Remember the Supreme Court Nov. 4
I really hate to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. The Congress makes "dysfunctional" sound like a compliment....Tags: South Dakota, Paris Hilton, National Government, Justice System, Minority Groups
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Viewpoint: High court on a precipice
I really hate to bring it up. We already have two branches of our national government in full-scale meltdown. The president looks like a guy pleading before the parole board for early release. Congress makes "dysfunctional" sound like a compliment. But...Tags: South Dakota, Paris Hilton, National Government, Minority Groups, Sarah Palin
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1066: William the Conqueror invaded England. 1781: American forces in the Revolutionary War, backed by a French fleet, began their successful siege of Yorktown, Va. 1787: Congress voted to send the just-completed Constitution of the United States to...Tags: Elia Kazan, Armed Forces, Maryland, New York, Herman Melville
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On this date: Sept. 28
1066: England was invaded by William the Conqueror. 1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. 1974: First lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy. 1991: Former D....Tags: Cincinnati Reds, Chicago White Sox, Major League Baseball, Baseball, All Stars
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Anne Armstrong, national GOP leader
The Associated PressAnne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and '80s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain, died Wednesday. She was 80. Mrs. Armstrong had battled cancer and had been in a Houston hospice for about a...Tags: National Government, Heads of State, Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, Texas
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Republican stalwart from Texas
McALLEN, Texas — Anne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and '80s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain in the Ford administration, died Wednesday. She was 80. Ms. Armstrong had battled cancer...Tags: Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, Texas, Abigail Adams, Ronald Reagan
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Deaths elsewhere
ANNE ARMSTRONG, 80 Pioneering U.S. ambassador Anne Armstrong, a powerful Republican in the 1970s and 1980s who advocated a greater role for women and served as U.S. ambassador to Britain in the Ford administration, died yesterday. Ms. Armstrong had...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, George H.W. Bush, Texas, Gerald Ford
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The two Henry T. Nicholases
Last week began and ended on high notes, sort of, for the billionaire Orange County crusader behind some of California's most recent tough-on-crime ballot measures. On June 2, an anti-gang proposition that he is backing with $1 million from his personal...Tags: National Government, Sexual Assault, Trials, Drug Trafficking, Sex
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Checking in on Cindy McCain's lapel pins
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCONFESSION: I can't stop staring at Cindy McCain's chest. It's like a Fourth of July fireworks finale with all those sparkly patriotic pins on her lapel. They seem to be breeding like wild hares in her closet too. Every time she appears at a luncheon or a...Tags: Lil' Kim , New Hampshire, Madeleine Albright, Barack Obama, Jennifer Aniston
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Curtis Whitley
Former NFL center Curtis Whitley, who played for three teams in the 1990s and had a history of substance use, was found dead in his trailer home in West Texas, according to the Associated Press. The Pecos County sheriff said Wednesday that the 39-year-...Tags: Football, Drunk Driving, National Football League, Carolina Panthers, Florida Panthers
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The contrasts of Cindy McCain
Tribune correspondentCindy McCain's hair is a mess. An icy wind whips through it as she tromps across hillsides still slick from snow on the Albanian border, wearing well-worn hiking boots and carrying her Prada purse. She's looking out at mine fields and visiting schools...Tags: National Government, Easter, Defense, Rape, Hawaii
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