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Apodaca: College Board's monopoly on testing puts students at risk
Many of us believe the college admissions process has spiraled out of control. There are also plenty among us who feel that our education system has become too test-centric. And at the intersection of the two lies the SAT, the most dreaded, derided,...Tags: Game of Thrones (tv program), Colleges and Universities, Examinations, Students, Teaching and Learning
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'Downton Abbey' gets Diddy-fueled makeover in Funny or Die spoof
Diddy's rather confusing Twitter announcement that he'll be appearing as a series regular on the wildly popular British aristocracy drama "Downton Abbey" has manifested itself as a mediocre Funny or Die video. And aren't we all a little relieved? We'...
Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), Maggie Smith, Ken Jeong, Penelope Wilton, Sean John Combs
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American dreaming, from Gatsby to Draper
Last weekend, the film "The Great Gatsby" was reported to have earned a whopping $51 million, according to Business Insider. Just prior to its release, however, many critics ripped the film for distorting the classic novel on which it is based with over-...Tags: Bolton Hill, The Daily Show (tv program), Community College of Baltimore County, Tony Soprano (fictional character), Sean John Combs
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The Lehigh Valley's forgotten graves
The old gravestone is broken. A crack about three-quarters of the way to the top has severed it, exposing a rough, jagged edge, like a chipped front tooth. The detached top, where the name and date of birth were long ago etched, lies on the ground. It's...Tags: Sociology, Wars and Interventions, Arts and Culture, Memorial Day, American Legion
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Wars and Interventions, American Legion, Harvard University
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Northern Michigan moms
Exhibit — The annual Youth Art Show runs through Saturday, May 11, at Crooked Tree Arts Center, Petoskey. Hours 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, though 10 a.m. open Wednesday, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday. (231) 347-4337 or www.crookedtree.org. Free...
Tags: Sunset Park, Libraries, Mushrooms, Ceremonies, Arts and Culture
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Kenneth Branagh's 'The Magic Flute' to screen stateside
After a trip to Amsterdam in the summer of 2008, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed brought back a curious souvenir: a three-disc Dutch edition of Kenneth Branagh's "The Magic Flute,” which he’d spotted in a remote record-store window....
Tags: Kenneth Branagh
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Easton park may get digital billboard
A double-sided, 48-foot canvas of steel and light-emitting diodes may soon peer down upon Route 22 from a hillside of Hackett Park. Easton City Council got its first glimpse at a lease with Adams Outdoor Advertising on Wednesday night for a wooded hill...Tags: Justice System, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Larry Holmes
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Verdugo Views: Kiefer makes a name for himself in mortuary business
A small notice in a 1916 edition of the Glendale Evening News informed readers, "Emil Kiefer, an employee at the White Store, is now working for Pulliam Undertaking Co. He intends to make this his life's work. He is a young man of great energy. He came...
Tags: Travel, Transportation, Railway Transportation, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Artcetera
Laguna Art Museum 307 Cliff Drive (949) 494-8971 http://www.lagunaartmuseum.org Open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays and Fridays through Sundays; 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays; and closed Wednesdays. Admission is $7 for adults and $5 for...
Tags: Lobbying, Photography, Arts and Culture, Music Industry, Fine Artists
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Lafayette Trail in Havre de Grace named for key figure in local and world history [Editorial]
Havre de Grace was able to pull together a respectable version of its Lafayette Trail, just in time for the bicentennial celebration of a British sacking of the city during the War of 1812. The trail is named for Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Human Interest, American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Travel
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Dr. Christian de Duve dies at 95; Nobel-winning scientist
For the first half of the 20th century, the cell was a mysterious, unfathomable entity. Nutrients went in and hormones, wastes and other products came out. But what happened in between was anybody's guess. Light microscopes could reveal the rough...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, New York City, Belgium, Cardiac Arrhythmia, Physiology
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