Harlem Globetrotters first game marked franchise start
Almanac notes the Harlem Globetrotters played their inaugural game in Hinckley Illinois in 1927. The entry also recalls the team’s Chicago roots and that they did not perform in Harlem until 1968.
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Charles Addams
David Caruso
Katie Couric
Nicolas Cage
Francisco Rodriguez
Hinckley
Ill
Harlem Globetrotters
Chicago
Harlem
New Moon
Day in court for post 9/11 detainees urged by law scholars
Amos N Guiora and Laurie R Blank argue in the Los Angeles Times for granting post 9/11 detainees their day in court. They condemn indefinite detention at Guantanamo Bay and call for a fair mechanism to adjudicate guilt or innocence. They contrast POW treatment with detainees held in punitive detention and urge action by policymakers.
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Amos N. Guiora and
Laurie R. Blank
Los Angeles Times
United States
U.S
Rwanda
Sierra Leone
Cambodia
Yugoslavia
Obama
Guantanamo Bay
Congress
Supreme Court
al-Qaeda
Haiti's children keep faith with aid and hope
Daryl Stern argues that halting aid to Haiti would cost lives and that progress continues through clean water vaccines and education. He notes a girl in a tent school and urges continued support while urging evaluation of aid effectiveness.
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Mny
Haiti
Wall Street
Crying as a macho turn in public life
Dayton Daily News columnist DL Stewart argues that public mockery of John Boehner’s tears distracts from his politics. He cites cultural examples from Roy Orbison to Marley and Me and recalls his own tears at his daughter’s wedding and other moments.
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John Boehner
Ohio
MSNBC
Johnnie Ray
Roy Orbison
Luciano Pavarotti
Machohood
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Marian Anderson
New York
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Millard Fillmore
Francis Poulenc
Zora Neale Hurston
Garry Trudeau
Yael
Daisy
J.J
Mother's
Zeke
Peewee
Amos N. Guiora
University of Utah
S.J. Quinney College of Law
International Humanitarian Law Clinic
Emory University School of Law
Newsdary
Daryl Stern
U.S. Fund For Unicef
Maiden Lane
N.Y
Unicefusa.org
DL Stewart
D.L. Stewart
The
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