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By Philip Martin (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
Zerelda James Samuel died at about 3 p.m. Feb. 10, 1911. » Read story.
By Paul Greenberg (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
The flags waved, the singers sang and the dancers danced. » Read story.
He’s praised as a resolute firebrand and opponent of greed
by michael leahy the washington post
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
John McCain cupped a fist and began pumping it, up and down, along the side of his body. It was a gesture familiar to a participant in the closed-door meeting of the Senate committee who hoped that it merely signaled, as it sometimes had in the past, McCain’s mounting frustration with one of his colleagues. » Read story.
by evan r. goldstein from the chronicle of higher
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
As the debate over the meaning of a just war in Islam plays out, a parallel dispute has split the mostly liberal Western scholars and intellectuals who theorize about war and justice: What sort of dialogue with Islam is both prudent and possible? » Read story.
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
Around the world
Storm toll rising
The death toll from a powerful cyclone that struck Burma three days could top 100,000, officials said Wednesday. » Read story.
By Kane Webb (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
Of all the post-race blather about the death of Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby, the most insightful story and comment appeared the day before the race. And it should be read by anyone connected to thoroughbred racing—not to mention all the suddenly expert sportswriters and gum-flappers on radio and TV who wouldn’t know a blinker from a bit. » Read story.
st. louis post-dispatch
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS Several metaphors suggest themselves for the New York senator Hillary Rodam Clinton’s refusal to concede the Democratic presidential nomination to Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. » Read story.
How they did it in 1948
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
YOU KNOW you’ve spent way too much time watching campaign coverage this presidential election year when you find yourself up at midnight waiting for the votes to come in from Lake County, Ind. » Read story.
How to tell the gub-mint from a hole in the ground
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
WHEN WE first heard the term Mad Cow Disease years ago, we called a cattle rancher we know in South Arkansas and picked his brain. What does it do to cows? What does it do to humans? » Read story.
by robert kelly-goss cox news service
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Iwant to talk about being a boy because it’s something I know a little bit about; at least that’s what I’ve heard over the years. There’s this book, The Dangerous Book for Boys, by Hal Iggulden and when it first came out I wanted to scoff. I wanted to scoff because on the back cover of the book it entreats the potential reader to “Recapture Sunday afternoons and long summer days” as if we had lost those somewhere along the line. » Read story.
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
After witnessing the way human beings pull together and help each other with compassion, generosity and love after disasters, I wonder: Is there a reason or a cause or maybe a solution? » Read story.
By Meredith Oakley (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
Among the three contested Arkansas Court of Appeals races, there is only one involving an incumbent. Believe it or not, he’s not the odds-on favorite to win. » Read story.
By Bradley Gitz
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
In the wake of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Crawford vs. Marion County, the Democratic Party has hitched itself to what will likely be an astonishingly unflattering cause. » Read story.
By Mike Masterson (Contact)
(Sunday, May 11, 2008)
Please just bear with me on this happy Mother’s Day morning, valued readers, as I bound yet again down another of those philosophical rabbit trails that I’m prone to chase from time to time. » Read story.
by frida ghitis special to the democrat-gazette
(Saturday, May 10, 2008)
During a visit to Burma a few years ago, I decided to avoid the country’s legendarily deadly airlines and instead hire a car to take me along the somewhat less deadly roads. » Read story.
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