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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Baltimore Star.com http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/cat/45d771c7290844e9/ en-us Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400 Sat, 18 May 2013 22:01:21 -0400 30 Even by the standards of Syria's ever-worsening stream of atrocity and massacre videos, the latest footage from the country cannot fail to shock for its sheer savagery. ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214608687/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:45:27 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214608687/scat/45d771c7290844e9 It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214607695/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 20:00:32 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214607695/scat/45d771c7290844e9 That means being as aggressive and imaginative as - and preferably more aggressive and imaginative than - the tax specialists who work for accountancy firms and the companies they advise. Inevitably, this is a competition at which lower-paid public servants are always going to be at a disadvantage to their rivals in the private sector, but HM Revenue & Customs have one thing in their favour, ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214607400/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 19:10:19 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214607400/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Shaquonica Johnson was comforted by fellow home-care worker Rochelle Turan while testifying at a hearing on the possible unionization of home-based care ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214606496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 18:31:55 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214606496/scat/45d771c7290844e9 One late Minnesota afternoon, as summer sanctified the northern latitudes, Secret Lake was inspirited with relentless light. Eleven days before the summer solstice - our seasonal pentecost - my wife, Pam, and I hiked down to the water, paddles in hand. It was 8:30 p.m., but the forest path was warm and enriched, sunlight still penetrating the canopy of leaves and needles at the edge of the bog. ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605968/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:18 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605968/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Mark Dayton signed the bill that makes same-sex marriage legal in Minnesota after Aug. 1. But this was supposed to be the tax reform session - or so I thought in January. Back then, DFLer Dayton cast himself as a tax-policy modernizer, willing to expend some personal political capital to retrofit the state tax code for today’s economy. In today’s economy, the rich get richer while ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605967/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:17 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605967/scat/45d771c7290844e9 When groups representing educators discuss the achievement gap, they often say, "We know what works.’’ Far too often, though, that knowledge fails to produce results. Minnesota schools in general - ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605966/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:16 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605966/scat/45d771c7290844e9 This handout released by the Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority and the Minnesota Vikings shows the new Minnesota Vikings stadium in this rendering done by HKS Sports and Entertainment Group and released Monday, May 13, 2013. The yet-to-be-named facility, which will open in 2016 and replace the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, will have a translucent roof and louvered front windows to let as ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605965/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:15 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605965/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Best Buy and other stores could be more expensive in the Twin Cities because of an additional sales tax. And the list goes on. Democrats promised that they were going to "tax the rich." But in the final few days of session, we're finding out that what they actually intend to do is tax nearly everybody and everything. Democrats have announced a plan to raise taxes and fees by ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605964/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:15 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605964/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton delivered his State of the State address before a joint session of the Minnesota Legislature in the House Chambers at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn. on ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605963/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 17:37:14 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605963/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Word is that both Israel and Turkey are seriously entertaining the notion of constructing an undersea pipeline to deliver Israeli natural gas to Turkey and, perhaps, hence to Europe.The Turks reportedly have expressed willingness to foot part of the estimated $2 billion bill. Such pipelines exist elsewhere in the world, most notably from Russia and from Norway.It is becoming evident that a ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605900/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:36:36 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605900/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Contributed by : Carol Gould I thought I would re-publish this article from a year ago as local UK elections loom on 2 May. The present hysteria surrounding the rise and rise of UKIP, the United Kingdom Independence Party, fascinates me as an American because the Tea Party rose from disatisfaction with both Democrats and Republicans. The Tea Party now has six US senators and helped shift the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605901/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:13:24 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605901/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To ensure that gold businesses in Dubai respect and protect rights, due diligence procedures should be made mandatory and include measures to check for child ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214604511/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 14:15:06 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214604511/scat/45d771c7290844e9 On April 29, just ahead of International Workers' Day, Iranian authorities summoned Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to discuss the terms of his temporary release from Tehran's notorious Evin prison. Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and blogger who is almost three years into a five-year prison sentence, was given leave from the prison after many pleas to care for his ailing son, who suffers from a ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603740/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:15:27 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603740/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Uzbekistan: A Massacre That Should Not Fade Into History Eight years after the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan remains a human-rights disaster. When will the EU change its strategy towards ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603759/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 13:15:25 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603759/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Enlarge A series of newspaper clippings that a father of two sons has collected over the years. The two sons are listed on the public sex offender registry for offenses committed when they were ages 9 and 11, and they were often publicly named in the local ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 12:13:37 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214603563/scat/45d771c7290844e9 If Home Secretary Theresa May thinks the Jordanian government can be trusted not to torture its prisoners, she needs to look a little harder at the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214602482/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 11:13:26 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214602482/scat/45d771c7290844e9 On May 19, African countries will kick off a special summit to celebrate 50 years of unity, first under the Organisation of African Unity and, since 2000, under the African Union. This is an opportune time for the AU to set the record straight on its support for accountability, especially the atrocities during Kenya’s 2007-08 post-election violence. Indeed, Kenyan government sources ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601887/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 10:12:30 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601887/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Steve King of Iowa, Benghazi alone was worse than Watergate and Iran-Contra combined, "times maybe 10." So far, though, the three imbroglios don't add up to another Watergate; not even close. But there are enough unanswered questions to keep any administration tied up for months in congressional hearings, and that's exactly what's about to happen. Let's take the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601238/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:03 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601238/scat/45d771c7290844e9 If you're like many people, contemplating your newfound wealth would probably make you think about one thing above all else: yourself. A growing body of research shows that the mere whiff of money draws out our selfish sides, focusing us on what that money can do for us, and us alone. Perhaps you imagined buying a raft of new possessions: a faster car, a high-end gas grill with rear ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601237/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601237/scat/45d771c7290844e9 My nomination for American hero of the 20th century is someone who lived half his life in disguise and the other half as the world's most recognizable man. He appeared on more radio broadcasts than Ellery Queen and in more movies than Marlon Brando, who once played his father. He helped give America the backbone to wage war against ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601236/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:02 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601236/scat/45d771c7290844e9 But there is also ample reason for caution. The U.S. has a long history of "betting on the come," of unwarranted optimism that the transfer of billions in unconditional aid will influence Pakistan to withdraw its support for the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601235/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:01 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601235/scat/45d771c7290844e9 We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601239/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:18:00 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214601239/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Eight years have passed after one of the worst massacres in the former Soviet Union since its collapse. On May 13, 2005, security forces in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on protesters, the vast majority unarmed, killing hundreds of men, women and children as they tried to flee. No one has been held accountable, and the authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, has defied calls for an ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214600911/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 08:07:31 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214600911/scat/45d771c7290844e9 , the protagonist, an American in her 20s, moves to Moscow shortly after the Cold War. After a few months, she returns to the U.S. a changed woman. Holt, who is 39, also lived in Moscow where she worked as a copywriter at an advertising agency as well as in London and New York. Currently, she resides in Washington, D.C. and writes full time. I asked Holt to make a list of her favorite books about ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214600377/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 07:35:52 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214600377/scat/45d771c7290844e9 After a half-year mission at the International Space Station, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield lands in central Kazakhstan on May ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214599437/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 05:30:32 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214599437/scat/45d771c7290844e9 America's trust in key public and private institutions has been sliding steeply for the past 20 years. The latest IRS, justice department and Benghazi scandals raging in Washington follow years of declining faith in Congress, banks and news ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598919/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:26 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598919/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Has the war on poverty been lost because we hired professional soldiers to fight, but never involved the civilians, the poor, in having a say in their ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598305/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:18:01 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598305/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Winner: The window washer who dressed as Spider Man on Thursday in order to thrill the children who are patients at Primary Children's Medical Center deserves an award. Mimicking the movements of the popular fictional character, he washed the windows of the tall structure and gave the children a thrill, which was, no doubt, exactly what many of them needed that ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598306/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:18:00 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598306/scat/45d771c7290844e9 In a move that likely is unprecedented, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will close all of its public operations on five separate days between now and Aug. 30, telling its employees to stay home on unpaid furlough days. These closings will severely impact taxpayers and IRS employees. On these days, taxpayers will not be able to get help from the IRS on the telephone, nor will the agency's ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598308/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:17:59 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598308/scat/45d771c7290844e9 As a member of America's communities, please stop and take a moment today, Armed Forces Day, to reflect on the sacrifices made, on your behalf, by our troops. Then, reach out and demonstrate your thanks personally or through a troop-support organization. You can donate in-kind goods for care packages, or ask what they need to continue support of America's military, veterans and the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598307/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:17:59 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598307/scat/45d771c7290844e9 In this March 23, 2010 file photo, Marcelas Owens of Seattle, left, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., right, and others, look on as President Barack Obama signs the health care bill in the East Room of the White House in ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598309/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 03:17:58 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214598309/scat/45d771c7290844e9 It eventually comes down to who - who at the IRS was responsible for targeting conservative and Tea Party groups for special scrutiny.Because, after all, you can’t put a "system" in jail. You can’t put a report in prison. You can’t indict a department for corruption. At the end of the day it’s people who are responsible for using the enormous powers of the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214597552/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:51:27 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214597552/scat/45d771c7290844e9 "No nation has more opportunity to advance the cause of democracy, " said then-Sen. John Kerry at his recent confirmation hearing to become U.S. secretary of state. "And no nation is as committed to the cause of human rights as we are." This weekend, ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214597011/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:43:29 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214597011/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Whether one thinks the demiscandals being howled about in Washington should or should not resonate more widely, they ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605899/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:16:19 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605899/scat/45d771c7290844e9 What first caught my eye was the op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal. Published in late February, it was written by Andrew N. Liveris, the chairman and chief executive of the Dow Chemical Company. Liveris, an Australian, has become quite the Washington player in recent ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605367/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:01 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605367/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Ah, the irony. The Cannes Film Festival - promoter of any number of heist movies - was itself the scene of an audacious robbery yesterday. Indeed, it was on the very day of the screening of The Bling Ring (about a gang that burgles the rich and famous while they are strutting the red carpet) that thieves swiped EUR300,000 (250,000) worth of jewellery that was to adorn Hollywood's A-listers ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214594814/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:37:02 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214594814/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Twenty-one Republicans voted with 46 Democrats (and 2 Independents) recently to pass the Marketplace Fairness Act, a long-overdue bill allowing states to require online retailers to collect sales taxes and remit them to the state where the customer lives. Will the House be so rational? ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605898/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:26:06 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605898/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Angelina ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605897/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 21:23:19 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605897/scat/45d771c7290844e9 ENFORCEMENT of federal tax laws has key benchmarks that must be respected. The rules and regulations must be applied in an equitable, nonpartisan and timely manner. The Internal Revenue Service appears to have broken all the rules with its treatment of tea-party groups and other conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status. The shabby behavior was further compounded by the oblivious ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214594768/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 20:40:34 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214594768/scat/45d771c7290844e9 St. Paul from Illinois to be near our children, who like countless others were drawn here for the metropolitan area’s quality of life. We chose to live in the Lowertown neighborhood of downtown. Clearly, downtown St. Paul has a charm few deny, but it also has growing economic problems. Recently, I studied how the city came to the point of breaking ground for a $54 million minor-league ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592939/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:37 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592939/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The Arctic, which is melting and thereby creating new shipping routes and access to minerals, poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States and other nations - particularly in the warmer months when once-impassable seas become open. But it’s easy to put off dealing with it. The process is like the annual scramble for summer camp: The need for planning begins around February, when ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593857/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:36 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593857/scat/45d771c7290844e9 John Kriesel 's young son was hit in the face with a baseball two years ago, the disabled Iraq veteran and former Minnesota legislator brought his boy to the doctor and then in for an MRI scan to rule out a serious brain injury. Thanks to the Pentagon health insurance program for military retirees that Kriesel is currently enrolled in, his out-of-pocket expenses were about $20. But if the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592940/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:35 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592940/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The downturn we call the Great Recession officially started in 2007. But after spending the last two years talking to people who lost jobs, homes or savings during the official recession, I'd argue that the trouble actually started decades earlier. Almost all those I spoke to had already slogged through many years of stagnant or declining hourly wages by the time the recession kicked in. ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592942/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:33 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592942/scat/45d771c7290844e9 It is surprising how few drinks can impair a driver’s judgment. A report from the National Transportation Safety Board estimates that alcohol-impaired driving contributes to thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of serious injuries each year. It is right to urge states to reduce that toll by lowering the allowable blood alcohol concentration for drivers from 0.08 percent to 0.05 ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592944/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:32 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214592944/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Don't buy the spin coming from the Star Tribune Editorial Board ("DFL's day care overreach," May 16). Child-care providers across Minnesota want a union and have delivered 874 handwritten letters to their legislators in support of it. The idea that we are merely on a wish list for the union is demeaning to every provider who has fought so hard for this. The editorial writers ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593858/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:39:31 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593858/scat/45d771c7290844e9 TOKYO - As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Japan, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is making waves. Known for his aggressive efforts to revive Japan’s economy, his nationalist rhetoric and his openness to military strength, he is also pushing Japan toward a new assertiveness on human rights. Despite a vibrant democracy at home, the diplomats who guide Japan’s foreign policy ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593861/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:44 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593861/scat/45d771c7290844e9 At his inauguration on April 9, Kenya's new president, Uhuru Kenyatta, promised to uphold "international obligations". This was most likely a reference to the International Criminal Court. Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, are to stand trial before the ICC for crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the country's election-related violence in 2007 and 2008. ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593026/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:03:44 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214593026/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: In ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605434/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 19:02:48 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605434/scat/45d771c7290844e9 TO THE EDITOR: ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214606421/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:59:23 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214606421/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: It is essential that we have a system of strong global rules to limit the potentially destabilizing risks associated with derivatives trading. But that objective requires more than seeking to apply United States law as broadly as possible to overseas business, as implied in a recent editorial ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605895/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:45:05 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605895/scat/45d771c7290844e9 To the Editor: Re ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605894/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:37:15 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214605894/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Ah, if only all summers could be like June, July and August 1740 -- when three young guys (and a 6-year-old and a 3-year-old) did a science experiment that startled the world. In those days, you could do biology without a fancy diploma. More people could play. That spring, the hot book -- the one everyone was reading -- was a gorgeously illustrated volume about insects by the French naturalist ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591820/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:26:20 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591820/scat/45d771c7290844e9 network upfronts week , we talk in this episode about the cancellation of shows, including the ones that came and went that we honestly can hardly remember as well as the ones -- like ABC's delightful, ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591821/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 18:26:20 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591821/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Whether it concerns training the Malian Army in the laws of war (an aspect included in the European Union's training program to be extended to four battalions of the Army), or the fight against corruption (which played a significant role in giving rise to the current crisis and deprives the country of resources required for respecting social rights), or the setting up of a "truth, ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591929/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:03 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591929/scat/45d771c7290844e9 -- When the European Union recently lifted economic sanctions on Myanmar, it closed a decades-long chapter designed to encourage democratic reform in the country. Although an arms embargo remains in place, the action will send an unequivocal message of "mission accomplished." But while the EU is celebrating the "new Myanmar," Rohingya Muslims in the western part of the ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591960/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:55:03 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214591960/scat/45d771c7290844e9 . They discuss controversial IRS audits, the release of White House emails on Benghazi talking points and the Justice Department's seizure of AP phone ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590547/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:17:15 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590547/scat/45d771c7290844e9 The following editorial appeared recently in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Obama administration is starting to make extraordinary abuses of power look ordinary. Hard on the heels of the revelation of an IRS crackdown on conservative groups comes news that federal prosecutors orchestrated a roundup of journalists' telephone records, leaving yet another set of federal boot prints on the First ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590550/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 17:11:03 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590550/scat/45d771c7290844e9 the turn of the Bevin Boys -- commemorated in a new memorial to their war years in the coalmines. What will it be next? Unlimited opportunities beckon for similar commemorations - many of them already doubtless well-advanced - through 2013, 2014 and in 2015. The 75th anniversaries kick in even before the 70ths have come to an end, to say nothing of those other commemorations that are already ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590369/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:44 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590369/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Call it the smell test. When Google justifies paying minimal taxes in the UK because "no money changes hands" here, while admitting that up to 70% of its relevant ad revenues are handled by UK staff, then all may be legal - but something still doesn't smell right. When Amazon negotiates the deals in its Slough office, but gets the paperwork done in ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590744/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:40 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590744/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Nigeria , has made little secret of the fact that it regards itself not only at war with the Nigerian state, and its security forces, but its people too. It has bombed churches, mosques, carried out assassinations, kidnapping, and mass assaults. On a single day in January last year, it killed 185 people across Kano. As the years have gone by, the ferocity, ambition and scale of its attacks have ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590648/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:54:31 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590648/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Titillating fact Cole had a very short stint as a video game producer. When actresses wouldn't show up for production, Cole would often have to sub for them. She spent many a day in a CGI bodysuit, acting as a range of characters including (but not limited to) a prostitute and a police ... http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590582/scat/45d771c7290844e9 Fri, 17 May 2013 16:52:52 -0400 http://www.baltimorestar.com/index.php/sid/214590582/scat/45d771c7290844e9