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Canada: Campaign worker quits over plagiarism
A senior campaign staffer for the governing Conservative Party resigned Tuesday after admitting he wrote a speech for Prime Minister Stephen Harper that plagiarized another leader's address urging support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The opposition...Tags: Government, Political Candidates, Elections, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions
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Sun Inns 250th and a wild zoo gala
SUN INN 250th ANNIVERSARY A quarter of a millennia ago, the Sun Inn was constructed in Bethlehem. Still standing today, the stone structure has hosted some of history's notables, from George Washington and John Adams to the Marquis de Lafayette. ''...Tags: David Jones, Tourism and Leisure, Government, John Callahan, Cedar Crest College
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Frankfort Township Assessor Paul Ruff stands by e-mail on Islam, immigrants
Chicago Tribune reporterDespite outrage from the local Muslim community, a Frankfort Township official did not apologize Wednesday for circulating an e-mail with anti-Islamic sentiments. "The e-mail's basic message was that people coming to this country should adapt,"...Tags: Reviews, Religious Leaders, Council on American-Islamic Relations, Frankfort, Minority Groups
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Electronic monitoring battle a costly one
Chicago Tribune reporterCook County Sheriff Tom Dart has severely cut the number of criminal defendants released on electronic home monitoring, boosting the population at the crowded jail and costing the county millions in expenses. Dart said he's keeping more than 1,000...Tags: Prisons, Electronics, Crimes, Trials, Justice System
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New report points to many causes of County Jail crowding, violence
Chicago Tribune reporterContinued overcrowding and violence at Cook County Jail are the result of systemic problems caused by many agencies, not just the sheriff's office, according to a report filed Thursday by a federal court-appointed monitor. "The county health service, the...Tags: Government, Prisons, Todd H. Stroger, Cook County Board, National Government
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Ex-state prison chief gets 2 years in kickback scam
Chicago Tribune reporterA former director of the Illinois Department of Corrections who admitted pocketing kickbacks from contractors has done incalculable damage to the public trust, a federal judge said Wednesday in sentencing him to two years in prison. "Every time a high-...Tags: Prisons, Trials, Police, Contracts, George Ryan
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California's east-west divide
It's not the Civil War, of course. There's no Andersonville or Quantrill's Raiders. But from the time that L.A.-spawned Jesse Unruh captured the Assembly speakership in 1961 and transformed it from an office of ceremony into an office of power, a north-...Tags: Government, Executive Branch, California, Los Angeles, Upper House
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Letters to the editor
Film criticism is askew Re "The right kind of Oscars," Opinion, Feb. 16 I'm trying to understand the point of Andrew Klavan's Op-Ed. Is it that Hollywood films should not shed light on nefarious doings of huge corporations? Or that Hollywood filmmakers,...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Studio City, Andrew Klavan, Cinema Industry, California
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9/11 suspects may face death penalty
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Pentagon announced Monday that it was seeking the death penalty against alleged Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other men, in a move that will probably ensure that the controversial military commissions at the Guantanamo Bay prison...Tags: Defense, Human Rights, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism, George Bush
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Ex-rocker gets political in Australia
Associated PressThe music of Peter Garrett has always been politically charged. Now the towering, baldheaded former singer of Midnight Oil is charged with practicing politics -- as Australia's new environment minister. Garrett founded the band when he was a law...Tags: Government, Economic Policy, Peter Garrett, Music, Elections
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A Down Under turnaround
We Australians don't kid ourselves that Americans follow our politics as closely as we follow theirs. The results of the Australian election last weekend, however, may give pause to some in Washington: A social conservative, once described by President...Tags: Government, Defense, Petroleum Industry, Elections, Tony Blair
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Enchanted? How about jilted?
Tribune staff reporterDisney's hit film "Enchanted" boasts a fairy princess, dancing rats and Patrick Dempsey. But it's perhaps most notable for its exceptionally -- one might say perplexingly -- accomplished and agreeable jilted fiance. A venerable figure in romantic comedy,...Tags: Cary Grant, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Movies, Punishment, Patrick Dempsey
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