Endings and Beginnings in a Millennial Mood
Geneva Overholser surveys the chatter of endings from arms control to the dial tone, then notes hopeful beginnings in civility, values at Brown, centrism in Generation X politics, and signs of change in abortion, death penalty, and racial justice debates, urging a fresh political breeze.
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Tragic Rockford deaths haunt a Chicago Tribune staffer
A six year old boy sits in a Chicago newsroom office while his family grieves two young brothers who died after being left in a hot Rockford, Illinois car. Police found Jorie, three, dead, Dallas, two, later died, and a two year old survived. Investigators say no charges filed and the deaths are being treated as accidental. The father, Michael Higgs, questions if someone in the house could have harmed or forgotten the children as the sweltering summer persists.
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Diane Powell
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Gray
Winnebago County
Atty
Paul Logic
Questioning the Mozart Effect and Sacred Cows
A columnist vents frustration at rethinking long held beliefs from sunscreen to the Mozart Effect. They joke about famous names and broader doubts on science and society, concluding with a cynical note that trust in anything is fading.
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Sammy
Judge Frank Johnson Helped End Jim Crow Era in Alabama
Long run judge Frank Johnson faced fierce opposition in the 1950s and 60s as a judicial activist. He overturned segregation, ruled Rosa Parks case, allowed the Selma to Montgomery march, embraced one man one vote, desegregated Alabama institutions, and faced years of protection by marshals. He died at 80, and Montgomery’s federal courthouse was renamed in his honor in 1992.
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Brown Vs. Board of Education
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Today in History and Sports Note for August 9
On this day in 1988 Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. Today also lists historic birthdays including Izaak Walton John Dryden Bob Cousy Ned Laver Sam Elliott Men Norton Melanie Griffith Whitney Houston and notes the moon phase between last quarter on August 4 and the new moon on August 11.
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John Dryden
Bob Cousy
Ned Laver
Sam Elliott
Men Norton
Melanie Griffith
Whitney Houston
Wayne Gretaky
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Los Angeles Kings
Mob Uw
Abraham Lincoln
Las Quarter
New Moon
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