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Barack Obama: 38.4 million TV viewers
The Swampby Mark Silva DENVER -- Thirty-eight million people watched the television coverage of the closing night of the Democratic National Convention here, with Sen. Barack Obama accepting the party's presidential nomination with a pledge for sweeping "change''...Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton
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Tuskegee pilot airborne again
martin.evans@newsday.comHe is 86 years old now, a little slower, a little grayer and perhaps a tad less sharp-eyed than he was on a fateful day in the skies over Berlin in March of 1945. But when the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport invited Roscoe Brown to fly again...Tags: Democratic Party, Political Candidates, Wars and Interventions, Parties and Movements, Labor Day
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Critics say CDC report underplays HIV rates
Sentinel Staff WriterA report this month by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on HIV-infection rates failed to include Puerto Ricans, and Hispanic AIDS activists are calling the omission a mistake with widespread consequences for the entire nation. By...Tags: Health Organizations, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Population, The White House, Diseases
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Ads For Runaway Slaves Inspire Artist's Exhibit
Courant Staff Writer— Cora Marshall was doing research at the Library of Congress when she saw the advertisements offering rewards for the capture of runaway slaves. The ads, which ran in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in the early 1800s, inspired Marshall,...Tags: Washington (Litchfield, Connecticut), New Britain, Missing Persons, Slavery, Central Connecticut State University
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UCLA accused of illegal admissions practices
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterArguing that UCLA admissions policies are being manipulated to circumvent the state's ban on consideration of applicants' race, a professor there has resigned from a faculty committee that he says refused to allow him to study the matter. Political...Tags: Students, California, Los Angeles, Prosecution, NAACP
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Los diseños latinos de Saralegui
ESPECIAL PARA EL SENTINELCristina Saralegui la llama su "tercera carrera", quizás porque primero vino la maternidad, luego los medios de comunicación, y más recientemente la posibilidad de crear ambientes. "Soy una diseñadora frustrada", afirma la presentadora de televisión...Tags: Kohl's Corporation, Cristina Saralegui, Puerto Rico, Minority Groups
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Jill Biden earns passing marks
The SwampJill and Joe Biden Thursday in Denver. (Ted S. Warren/AP) by James Oliphant There's a website named RateMyProfessors that must be the bane of all collegiate instructors everywhere. Students are asked to rate their teachers on a scale of......Tags: Joe Biden, Political Candidates, Schools, Christianity, Elections
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Good friends Blake, Fish go head-to-head at Open
john.jeansonne@newsday.comThis could be cosmic or it could just be tennis. It could be coincidence, with the best black American male tennis player since Arthur Ashe - former Harvard player James Blake - having another successful day at the U.S. Open hours before a Harvard Law...Tags: Arthur Ashe Stadium, Political Candidates, Pete Sampras, Michael Chang, Arthur Ashe
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Museums
Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum: Fly Me to the Moon: An animated 3-D movie in the Adler's new Universe Theater about three flies who tag along on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the...Tags: John Sloan, Coral Reefs, Lincoln Park Zoo, Arts, Shedd Aquarium
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Obama gets it in gear with acceptance speech
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor a month or more, Barack Obama's presidential campaign has seemed stuck in neutral, losing momentum -- and voters -- to the hard-punching Republican campaign of John McCain. Obama was nothing but a "celebrity," McCain's spokesmen charged, an airy...Tags: Democratic Party, Political Candidates, George Bush, Government, Hillary Clinton
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Family Filmgoer
OK FOR 6 AND OLDER ''FLY ME TO THE MOON'' (G) Three young flies stow away on the Apollo 11 spacecraft in this marginally entertaining computer-animated feature in 3-D. Kids might not get the Cold War references to evil Russian spies -- er, Russian...Tags: Don Cheadle, Star Wars, Heart Disease, Amber Tamblyn, People
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Barack Obama: Search for identity
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFour years ago, Barack Obama introduced himself to America by painting a picture of a country that was united, somehow, in spite of itself. The pundits, he said in the keynote address to the Democratic convention, like to "slice and dice" the country:...Tags: Edward M. Kennedy, Maryland, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Gun Control, National Government
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