Tag: Arizona
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To Salve the Hearts of a Wounded Land
Obama Arizona Memorial Speech: FULL TEXT Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much. Please, please be seated. (Applause.) To the families of those we’ve lost; to all who called them friends; to the students of this university, the public servants who are gathered here, the people of Tucson and the people of Arizona: I have…
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McCain’s Unscrupulous Start in Politics
From the beginning, John McCain traded heavily on his “heroism” in Vietnam to make his way as a politician. Now, we’re are being asked to not only look past the defects of this deeply flawed and corrupt man, but actually elect him president because of his past. If only he were running against a Republican.…
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King's Day
There’s a lot of reverent (no pun intended) talk today about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King. Bill Maxwell in his 2003 St. Pete Times column even went so far as to castigate those who don’t speak in appropriately respectful tone of the slain civil rights leader. One of the people Maxwell was unhappy…
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SENIOR CITY-ZENS; They left only to find there’s no place like home
Sunday, October 26, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer Horst Liepolt left New York City in 1995 for Berlin, where he was born 70 years ago, only to discover his heart belongs to the Big Apple. Ditto for Dolores White, now retired, who yearns to live in the city again. Howard and…