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Much of Greg Harm's life has revolved around the Nebraska State Capitol. Stone sculptures' diamond year Lee Lawrie's artwork adorning the Nebraska State Capitol was completed 75 years ago this month.
This time, the gold bugs might be right
Reguly in Europe This time, the gold bugs might be right Soaring levels of U.S. debt, record stimulus, rock-bottom interest rates and tsunami waves of government bond sales will help to push the U.S. dollar ever lower, making gold increasingly attractive Eric Reguly Published on Thursday, Nov.
Abandoned piano finds new South Bend home
Most people would have passed by a 90-year-old, broken-down, P.A. Starck Co. piano sitting on a curb outside a house.
TVA exhibit in Clarksville presents a vision of public good
Some people still remember losing their family farms to TVA, the peril of annual floods replaced with the permanence of a man-made flood that covered their ancestral homes for all time.
Director Roman Polanski depressed & despondent in a Swiss jail
Roman Polanski.... Talented?.. Definitely. Controversial? Absolutely... In jail waiting to be extradited to the U.S..... A fact.
Veteran was 'dinosauric' - and proud of it
RON CSILLAG Last updated on Friday, Oct. 02, 2009 02:39AM EDT C harles Sydney Frost was a dinosaur and proud of it.
Novelist steels the imagination
The labor strife of the past in Pittsburgh area steel mills seems far away now, the stuff of folklore.
T HERE was no mention of Tom Kenny's passing on the nightly news. Flags over Parliament House were not set at half-mast, and nor was he spoken of over half empty pots at the local RSL.
Wiggin: Bernanke Wrong, Recovery Fictitious
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has declared that the recession is over. Addison Wiggin, executive publisher of Agora Financial, isn't buying it.
Appearances are deceptive, whichever way you look at Mumford and Sons. For a start, frontman Marcus Mumford isn't nearly as grizzled as either his oak-aged voice or his band name suggests.
National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week: The four big lies.
This is National Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week . So I have a print out post: four lies used about and against those with Invisible Chronic Illness'. You can print them out, carry them with you, to identify and console yourself, to root out of your own head these misconceptions regarding Invisible Chronic Illnesses.
'Me and 'My Shadows' opens tonight at the Muir
Opening Friday September 4th at the Muir Gallery, "Me and My Shadows: A Fine Art Sidetrack" is the gallery's first show of the Fall season.
Brunchin' is a Habit: Waiting for the Bran
When it came to food, my grandfather prized quantity. Maybe it was something about being a kid during the Depression and then an adult during World War II rationing, but he relished, like little else, walking into the dining room of a second-rate hotel restaurant, and seeing brunch laid out: a legion of steaming metal tubs on tables in rows, like ...
AC/DC rocks B.C. Place Stadium
Hell's gong was chiming loudly outside B.C. Place before AC/DC's second Vancouver concert on its wildly popular global Black Ice tour.
Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1 review
Mesrine: Public Enemy No.1, review Vincent Cassel exudes seductive, dangerous charisma as French gangster Jacques Mesrine.
Duayne Hatchett at the Burchfield-Penney
Duayne Hatchett will proudly tell you that his grandmother raised him in Oklahoma during the Depression.
Isle identity brings cultures together
RAY JEROME BAKER / 1985 Work in the pineapple fields was hot and grueling. CRAIG T. KOJIMA / 1990 Del Monte worker Corazon Tacras, above, prepares to work in the Wahiawa pineapple fields.
Analysis: Stimulus money could save Katy bridge
History buffs and bicyclists who have long sought to save a rusty old railroad bridge as part of a state recreation trail could have a new reason for optimism as a result of the federal economic stimulus package.
Clock ticking to find tenant for GM plant
Mansfield is sometimes called "little Detroit," in part because of the number of shuttered factories within range of downtown.
The following is part of Pivotal Events that was published for our subscribers Thursday, August 6, 2009.
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