Buck O'Neil remembered for dignity and impact on baseball
Baseball legend Buck O Neil, a smooth fielding first baseman and first black major league coach, died at 94 in Kansas City. He won Negro Leagues batting titles with the Kansas City Monarchs and later led the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, shaping the sport's history and inspiring future players despite racial barriers.
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Baseball Hall of Fame
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Leaders react to North Korea test and lettuce recall
White House spokesman Tony Snow condemns a North Korea nuclear test as provocative while Tom Nunes Jr warns a precautionary recall over generic E. coli in lettuce. Legs McNeil recalls CBGB's closing as a landmark venue from the 1970s punk scene.
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Telegram Letters Policy Flier
The Telegram outlines rules for reader letters including signed submissions with address and phone, confirmation before publication, and edits for libel and length. Letters should stay under 500 words, thank you notes should be general, and form letters poems or testimonials are not printed. Contact details include email editor and postal and fax options with local Garden City Kansas addresses.
First Amendment pledge on religion speech and assembly
The text outlines the First Amendment protections: establishment of religion free exercise freedom of speech freedom of the press and the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of grievances. It emphasizes restraint on government imposition on these rights.
Common sense instead of expert chatter on Iraq
Charley Reese argues Washington misread Iraq by removing Saddam. He says Kurds Sunnis and Shiites will not coexist peacefully and that removing the dictatorship invites new oppression. He warns 2700 dead 20000 wounded now may rise to 5000 dead 35000 wounded, urging restraint and experience over empty theories. He concludes with a call for pragmatic experts grounded in language culture and history.
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Iraq
Saddam Hussein
Saddam
Syria
Turkey
Iran
Kurdistan
Egypt
America
Israel
DOE race question plan sparks civil rights debate
Civil rights activists oppose a DOE proposal on race and ethnicity grouping in college questionnaires. Harvard Civil Rights Project says mixed race should be counted separately and Hispanic status treated apart from race. The piece argues for Census like multi race options to reflect real demographics and calls for DOE to ensure answers count.
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Broadway Plays and a Column of Band Names Listed
A compilation lists plays Birth and After Birth Hell House Hairspray The Drowsy Chaperone It Goes Without Saying Monty Python's Spamalot The Wedding Singer Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven The Treatment. It then surveys an extensive roster of music groups including Absinthe Audioslave Bad Day Be Your Own Pet Black Rebel Motorcycle Band Casting Crowns Catfish and the Crawlers Centro-matic Crumbsuckers Cro Mags and Agnostic Front Deadboy and the Elephantmen Deadbubbles Dead Kennedys Dengue Fever Dirty Pretty Things Drag the River Drowning Dolphins 18 Wheelers The English Beat Evangelicals 50 Foot Wave Fishbone Flaming Lips Fleshtones Fourplay The Fray The Gateway Mountain Boys the Greencards Hinder Hip Hop Hoodies Hold Steady Hot Jazz Caravan Human League Hungry March Band Kasabian Kekele The Killers Jet John Brown's Body Ladytron Las Amigos Invisibles Las Rubias del Norte Lifehouse Little Man Big Band Long Winters Ludacris Mates of State Menlo Park Menomeme Mexican Institute of Sound Mooney Suzuki Mountain Smoke Muse NoMeansNo North Atlantic Plungers Preservation Hall Jazz Band Queensryche Raconteurs ReBirth Brass Band The Rolling Stones Roots Savoy Family Cajun Band Secret Machines Sex Mob Shirts the Skillet Lickers Slavic Soul Party Soul Wax Sunset Rubdown Swingset Swing 7 The Throwing Muses Three Days Grace Tres Corones TV on the Radio 2 Many DJs Many Wax on Radio Yard Dogs Yat-Kha Youngblood Brass Band Wax on Radio Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians Woggles Ushiwakamaru a New York City restaurant named for a legendary hero’s childhood name is noted as a yearlong venture with bold claims about bravado and rough service.
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Absinthe
Audioslave
Bad Day
Be Your Own Pet
Nashville
Black Rebel
BRMB
Casting Crowns
Catfish and the Crawlers
Centro-matic
Denton
Texas
Crumbsuckers
Cro- Mags
Agnostic Front
Deadboy and the Elephantmen
Deadbubbles
Dead Kennedys
Dirty Pretty Things
Drag the River
Drowning Dolphins
18 Wheelers
Evangelicals
50 Foot Wave
Fishbone
Flaming Lips
Oklahoma
Fleshtones
Fourplay
The
Fray
the Gataway Mountain Boys
Greencards
Hinder
Hold Steady
Hot Jazz Caravan
Human League
Hungry March Band
Kasabian
Kekele
the Killers
Jet
John Brown
Ladytron
Sandhorne Slim
Las Amigos Invisibles
Las Rubias del Norte
Lifehouse
Little Man
Little Man Big Band, Long Winters (Power Pop), Ludacris
Mama's Cookin
Mates of State
San Francisco
Menlo Park
Paul Simon
Harper
Menomeme
Mexican Institute of Sound
Mooney Suzuki
Mountain Smoke
Muse
Savoy Family
Brooklyn Buzz Band
Wax
Chicago
Yard Dogs
Youngblood Brass Band
Madison
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New York
George Lopez
Roger Hernandez
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Optoniine.net
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Heaven
NoMeansNo
North Atlantic
San Diego
Plungers
Preservation Hall
Queensryche
Raconteurs
ReBirth
New Orleans
Rolling Stones
Roots
New York City
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