Almanac Highlights April 13 2017 Daily Facts
Today marks day 103 of 2017 and day 25 of spring. Birthdays include Thomas Jefferson and Halle Berry. Tiger Woods won the Masters in 1997 at age 21. Quotes note Samuel Beckett Molloy. Handel completed Messiah for its Dublin premiere on April 13 1742. Moon phase spans from full on April 10 to last quarter on April 19.
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Thomas Jefferson
U.S
Samuel Beckett
Eudora Welty
Howard Keel
Seamus Heaney
Paul Sorvino
al Green
Christopher Hitchens
Ron Perlman
Max Weinberg
Garry Kasparov
Nellie McKay
Josh Gordon
Halle Berry
Tiger Woods
Molloy
George Frideric Handel
Dublin
May 2 Primary Election Letters Guidelines
The Chronicle Telegram invites letters to the editor about the May 2 primary. Submissions must be 250 words or fewer and include signature, full address, and phone. Deadline is 5 p.m. Friday, April 21. Mailing, fax and email submission details provided.
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Chronicle-Telegram
Elyria
Letters
Chroniclet.com
Fame, backlash, and the fall of boorish power in a wired age
Kathleen Parker argues that social media magnifies misbehavior, devalues ethics, and reshapes reputations. She links Fox News harassment cases including Bill O'Reilly and Andrea Mackris to advertiser boycotts, stock fluctuations, and a shifting public standard, noting the rise of viral accountability and lasting consequences for public figures.
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Washington
Fox News
Bill O'Reilly
United Airlines
United
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Flannery O’connor
Confederate States
Twitter
USA
O'Reilly
Loofah
O’reilly
Mackiis
Gretchen Carlson
Roger Ailes
Ailes
Carlson
Mackris
Fox
Bootoreilly
Jenny Craig
Advil
Mercedes-Benz
United States
Trump must fix staff before fixing policies
Jennifer Rubin argues that personnel problems crippled the Trump administration. She cites Flynn and Bannon clashes, calls for replacing staff with capable experts, and urges a strong chief of staff to enable policy moves on trade tax reform and infrastructure.
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Trump
Donald Trump
Syria
Neil Gorsuch
Supreme Court
Barack Obama
Antonin Scalia
Gorsuch
National Security Council
Michael Flynn
State Department
Eliot Cohen
America
Assad
U.S
Cohen
National Security
H.R. McMaster
White House
Jared Kushner
Flynn
Steve Bannon
Bannon
Gary Cohn
Treasury
Spicer misstates Holocaust history drawing fire from critics
Columnist Connie Schultz laments White House press secretary Sean Spicer for equating Assad’s use of chemical weapons with Nazi horrors. The piece condemns his remarks as a false narrative that harms Holocaust memory and dignity, urging accountability and truth.
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Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Germany
Auschwitz
White House
Sean Spicer
Spicer
Syria
Bashar Assad
Hitler
Assad
Holocaust Center
CNN
Greta van Susteren
Newseum
United States
Elie Wiesel
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