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Vietnam-era anti-war act in Catonsville still resonates

2013-05-15 06:45:00

Mary Murphy looked up from the paperwork on her desk one day in May 1968. A man stood in the doorway of her office — a Catholic priest. He was staring at her. "Can I help you, sir?" said Mary Murphy. The man in the doorway didn't hesitate....

Bel Air man advocates against eating meat [Letter]

2013-04-16 16:25:00

The new link between meat consumption and heart disease, discovered by Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic, is just the latest evidence linking meat consumption to killer diseases that cripple, then kill, 1.3 million Americans annually. Hazen's...

Manifold Greatness

2013-04-15 13:51:27

"Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible," a traveling exhibition opening at the Hays-Heighe House at Harford Community College on Monday, April 22, celebrates the 400th anniversary of the first printing of the King James...

For potty mouths

2013-04-08 06:22:00

If you are of delicate sensibilities, you do not want to be in the newsroom of a daily newspaper on deadline, because the swearing then and there is heartfelt, vocal, and repetitious.* But journalists have a complicated relationship with bad words,...

Novelist Taiye Selasi, hailed as next big literary star, visits Baltimore

2013-03-09 00:00:00

Taiye Selasi's debut novel has been in publication for less than a week. But even before a single copy was sold, the glamorous 33-year-old was being hailed as the newest star of the literary world. Selasi's publisher, The Penguin Group, is promoting...

Herbert W. "Bill" Acker, accounting executive

2013-03-05 13:05:00

Herbert W. "Bill" Acker, a retired Price Waterhouse Coopers LLD regional managing partner, died Friday of kidney cancer at his Stone House Farm in Churchville. He was 70. Herbert William Acker — who was known as H. William "Bill" Acker —...

Oh the nerdity

2013-02-20 07:19:00

W.H. Auden trawled the Oxford English Dictionary for old and obscure words, some of which he employed in his poetry. He was so fond of the OED that he often took a volume of it to bed at night. We here in Wordville understand that. Thus there is joy...

Bible in Obama inauguration on display

2013-01-22 11:56:00

Millions of people got a long-distance view of the "Lincoln Bible," one of those used by President Barack Obama for his second inauguration on Monday. Starting tomorrow, you can get a closer look at the velvet-covered Bible that was used for Abraham...

Steven Muller, former Hopkins president, dies at 85

2013-01-19 16:23:00

Steven Muller, former president of the Johns Hopkins University and a major figure in American higher education, died Saturday of respiratory failure at his Washington home. He was 85. A child refugee from Nazi Germany who went on to earn a doctorate...

Digest: Newly unveiled Spirit names Jorden first coach

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Women's pro soccer Newly unveiled Spirit names Jorden first coach The Washington Spirit, the area's entry in the new U.S. league, revealed its identity Tuesday afternoon and announced that Mike Jorden will be its first coach. The club's website is...

Disinfecting robots help prevent superbug infections at Hopkins

2012-12-31 16:00:00

Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots. It sounds more futuristic than...

Three with local ties among 2013 Rhodes Scholars

2012-11-18 18:48:00

by Ted Gioia (Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95) This exquisite book brings both context and passion to the 250-plus songs that make up the jazz canon, blending research, criticism and a musician's understanding to frame an informal history of the form.

2012-12-13 13:48:42

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves through The Great Gate after receiving her honorary degree at Oxford University , in Oxford southern England. Myanmar's Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday continued an emotional visit to Britain, where she left her family 24 years ago

2012-06-20 00:00:00

On an overland safari expedition from Nairobi into the Masai Mara and the Serengeti (without roads or power lines), you will see the world as it looked before human beings inhabited it.

2011-12-30 14:55:41