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Obama names national-security team
The Swampby Frank James President-elect Barack Obama is announcing his national security team this morning. There are no surprises, all are people whose names were leaked in recent weeks. They are: Senator Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, selecting Defense.....Tags: Diplomacy, Prosecution, Crimes, Law Enforcement, 2008 U.S. Presidential Election
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Trusted Obama adviser Susan Rice is first African-American woman named to be US envoy to UN
Associated Press WriterUNITED NATIONS (AP) _ Susan Rice, the first African-American woman named as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, brings to the job a lifetime's work on international issues, an insider's knowledge of the White House and State Department, and close...Tags: Diplomacy, Guerrilla Activity, Heads of State, Terrorism, Minority Groups
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Solace, for some, is set in stone
Oakland's new Cathedral of Christ the Light stretches skyward, sheathed in gleaming glass that reveals a delicate skeleton of wood and steel.
Terrie Light has spent more than three years thinking about the elegant structure. She has attended more...Tags: Bankruptcy, Crimes, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Jim Kelly, Iowa
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Gilberto Bosques Saldívar, the 'Mexican Schindler,' is honored by the Anti-Defamation League
Gilberto Bosques Saldívar has never been the subject of a major motion picture by Steven Spielberg. American history books seldom, if ever, mention his name, and he does not have his own Wikipedia page, in Spanish or English.
But the former Mexican...Tags: Diplomacy, Jack Weiss, Steven Spielberg, World War II, Death and Dying
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Obama picks adviser for U.N. job
The New York TimesPresident-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be the U.S. chief delegate to the United Nations, Democrats close to the transition said Sunday. Rice is an advocate of "dramatic action" against genocide, they said....Tags: Diplomacy, Guerrilla Activity, Defense, Murder, Heads of State
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Relatives meet remains of Kurds found in mass graves
For more than 20 years, Aska Ali Ameen waited for her husband to come home.
She knew he was dead, but getting his corpse would be better than having nothing. At least she could give him a decent burial.
When Ameen finally got a peek inside the coffin...Tags: Nouri Maliki, Heads of State, Saddam Hussein, Government, National Government
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Lifetime, no see
Neither man had a clue what to expect that morning last March as they stood toe-to-toe, 42 stories above the city.
The men were guarded yet friendly, as they sized each other up, trying to decide whether to shake hands or hug. After all, they were...Tags: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Skyline, Prosecution, Theater, Muhammad Ali
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'CNN Presents: Scream Bloody Murder' takes up genocide's harrowing cost
Sentinel ColumnistChristiane Amanpour is a passionate teacher who picks difficult topics. She is so commanding that you want to enroll. In CNN's Scream Bloody Murder, she takes up perhaps the hardest subject of all: genocide. In this two-hour documentary, which debuts...Tags: United Nations, Murder, Saddam Hussein, Government, Crimes
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What to see at the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
Religion EditorThirty-six films from a dozen countries will be featured in the Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival, set for Wednesday through Dec. 14. Themes will include traditions and the lingering effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their families. Among the...Tags: Judaism, Movies, Palm Beach Gardens, Delray Beach
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Boynton temple hosts German consul for Kristallnacht remembrance
South Florida Sun-SentinelIt seemed a bit incongruous as Klaus H. D. Ranner, consul of the Federal Republic of Germany, stepped to the bima at Temple Torah in Boynton Beach, wearing a black yarmulke, to begin his talk, "Remembrance and Reconciliation." Ranner was there recently...Tags: Torah, Judaism, Boynton Beach, Religious Texts, Delray Beach
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Boca exhibit celebrates Americans, Canadians who fought for Israel's birth
South Florida Sun-SentinelWhile Americans commemorated the service of the country's veterans, workers at the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County were assembling an exhibit that celebrates other vets — Americans and Canadians who fought for Israel's independence 60...Tags: Boca Raton, Defense, University of Florida, Long Island, Injuries
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On this day in history
On Nov. 29, 1832, "Little Women" author Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pa. In 1864 a Colorado militia killed at least 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians in what became known as the Sand Creek Massacre. In 1890, at West Point, N.Y., the first...Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Punishment, Theater, John F. Kennedy Assassination, George Harrison
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