January 2011
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Baltimore Crime Beat: "Wire" creator responds to... →
“Wire” creator responds to top cop’s criticism
“The Wire” creator David Simon, during a break between dubbing sessions for season two of “Treme,” responds to comments made recently by Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III that the HBO show was a “smear that will take decades to overcome,” reviving a debate that took place...
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President Obama’s Tucson Arizona Memorial Speech
To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants gathered tonight, and the people of Tucson and Arizona: I have come here tonight as an American who, like all Americans, kneels to pray with you today, and will stand by you tomorrow.
There is nothing I can say that will fill the sudden hole torn in your hearts. But...
Jade Townsend -- IT'S ALIVE →
Night Journey by Theodore Roethke
Now as the train bears west, Its rhythm rocks the earth, And from my Pullman berth I stare into the night While others take their rest. Bridges of iron lace, A suddenness of trees, A lap of mountain mist All cross my line of sight, Then a bleak wasted place, And a lake below my knees. Full on my neck I feel The straining at a curve; My muscles move with steel, I wake in every nerve. ...
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