Jul 27, 2009 -
Author E. Lynn Harris dies at age 54
By theGrio via AP
JOSH L. DICKEY, AP Entertainment Writer
(AP Photo/John Bazemore, file)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- E.
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May 29, 2009 -
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009277489_apamericangitmo.html
On Capitol Hill, politicians are dead-set against transferring some of the world's most feared terrorists from Guantanamo to prisons on U.S. soil. But at City Hall in this impoverished town on the Northern Plains, the attitude is: Bring 'em on.
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May 04, 2009 -
The Principal And The Paddle
One South Carolina educator used corporal punishment to turn around his struggling elementary school. Why he's so conflicted about it.
Eric Adelson
NEWSWEEK
From the magazine issue dated May 4, 2009
http://www.newsweek.com/id/195119?Gt1=43002
The wooden paddle on principal David Nixon's desk is two feet long, with a handle wrapped in duct tape that has been worn down by age and use.
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Jan 19, 2009 -
By Thom Patterson
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/19/obama.move/
Comedian Mark Russell was at a recent event in Chicago, Illinois, when he found himself sitting next to Valerie Jarrett, an adviser to President-elect Barack Obama.
Russell asked her whether President Bush's staff members were going to remove all the Os from their computer keyboards, alluding to the 2001 incident in which President Clinton's departing staff removed Ws from some White House computers.
Jarrett said no, but that didn't stop Russell from speculating what really happened when President Bush's daughters, Barbara and Jenna, gave Obama's two daughters a tour of the White House recently.
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