The New York Times

Retired APG general: The players change, the 'GAM' remains the same

2013-05-23 03:05:00

Sixteen years ago, Robert Shadley, then a major general in the Army, uncovered disturbing news from an important Army training facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Drill sergeants and other instructors were regularly using their power to get sexual...

Eagle Archives: Standard, aka junk, mail goes back to 19th century

2013-05-23 04:55:00

The nation's first countywide free rural postal delivery service got off to a shaky and contested start Dec. 20, 1896, in Carroll County. According to multiple media accounts, including the Baltimore Sun, "One of the first pick-ups postal clerk Edwin...

Howard County pets: What's the hype about raw diets?

2013-05-22 08:46:00

Q: I’ve heard a lot about raw dog food, but it seems pricey. Is it safe? Are the health benefits substantial? A: Raw diets for dogs (including raw meat) have become increasingly popular. Some pet owners -- even some veterinarians -- swear by them,...

Protesters oppose possible sale of The Baltimore Sun to Koch brothers

2013-05-21 15:31:00

Ten protesters gathered Tuesday morning in front of The Baltimore Sun's office on North Calvert Street, rallying against a possible sale of the newspaper to Koch Industries. Headed by brothers David H. Koch and Charles G. Koch, the private company has...

Good intentions don't create jobs

2013-05-21 09:44:00

Baltimore City Council members confused caring about unemployment with abating it by giving preliminary approval to a local hire law last week. The legislation, which requires a final vote and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's signature to become law,...

The Internet likes Kanye; not such a big fan of the Tumblr purchase

2013-05-20 05:06:00

Yahoo has added another major property to its portfolio, Kanye West went dark and political for his SNL gig, and France is buying military equipment. Welcome to your post-weekend trends report for May 20, 2013. With the exception of television show...

In a word: "blandishment"

2013-05-20 08:34:00

Each week The Sun's John McIntyre presents a relatively obscure but evocative word with which you may not be familiar, another brick to add to the wall of your working vocabulary. This week's word: BLANDISHMENT All of us are susceptible to persuasion,...

Why education should be considered a civil right

2013-05-13 03:00:00

I recently spoke at a seminar at Harvard on the theme of education as a civil right. Among other things, the seminar conveyed the urgency as well as the intractability of the problem of low college completion rates for certain groups of young people in...

Kwame Kwei-Armah keeps his vow to bring Center Stage national exposure

2013-05-13 05:28:00

Kwame Kwei-Armah is turning up the floodlights on Center Stage. It's been not quite two years since the British-born playwright became artistic director of Maryland's largest regional theater. With his production of two button-pushing dramas nicknamed...

Maryland Film Festival 2013 continues event's expansion

2013-05-13 06:21:00

It used to be that the Maryland Film Festival was just a cool neighborhood event for Courtney Knipp — a bunch of obscure movies being shown just up the street from her home in Mount Vernon. Not anymore, not with thousands of film fans massing in...

Kevin Krigger could ride into Preakness history as black jockey

2013-05-15 18:58:00

The day after riding in the Kentucky Derby, Kevin Krigger packed his family and gear and headed for Pimlico Race Course — by way of Cincinnati. A woman there had captured his heart. She was Liliane Casey, 88, whose father, Jimmy Winkfield, was the...

Angelina Jolie will also get ovaries removed

2013-05-15 09:50:00

Actress Angelina Jolie, who got a double mastectomy to lower her chances of breast cancer, will also have her ovaries removed, according to People magazine. Jolie said in a New York Times editorial Tuesday that she had her breasts removed and...

Microsoft is betting it has a new way to win the wallets of consumers. The company on Tuesday introduced the new version of its Xbox video game console.

2013-05-21 00:00:00

Alan Gelfand's move is more famous than the man. The question �Who invented the Ollie?� appeared on Sugar Pops cereal boxes; the term is in the Oxford English Dictionary (as a noun and an intransitive verb); and has been an answer in a New York Times crossword puzzle.

2013-05-20 00:00:00

Angelina Jolie revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed article this week that she underwent a preventive mastectomy.

2013-05-17 16:57:18