WASHINGTON – Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not just signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the collapse of the Soviet Union itself just two years later. The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s Syria could be similarly […]
February 2012
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Occupy Maine protesters ordered to vacate Lincoln Park by Monday
Park cleanup is already under way, but some occupants say they will refuse to leave peacefully.
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Nuclear critics tell panel to restart plant’s review
The coalition wants state regulators to delay issuing a 20-year extension.
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Patriots Beat: Mainer makes Super Bowl memorable for city, fans
INDIANAPOLIS — Nap Town. That’s what this midwestern city of just under 800,000 was called for a long time. Nothing to do here. Come visit, take a nap. Well, it’s been anything but sleepy this week. Citizens here rolled out a Colts-blue welcome carpet for the thousands of visitors coming for Super Bowl XLVI between […]
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Sen. Collins announces wedding plans
Collins, 59, got engaged Sunday to Thomas Daffron, a public policy and political consultant in Washington.
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M.D. Harmon: Birth-control rule reveals Obama’s disdain for Catholics
The church is under fire from a powerful enemy, but voters will have the final say in November.
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Code Talker dies after fall at 86
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. – Another Navajo Code Talker has died. Sgt. Jimmie Begay was 86. Thurmon Begay said his father, of Sawmill, died Wednesday after a fall. Begay was one of about 420 Navajos trained to transmit messages in a code based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. The Code Talkers sent thousands of messages without […]
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Bone marrow firm to pay N.H., Mass.
The company paid models to help recruit potential donors at malls, festivals and sporting events.
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Phil predicts six more weeks of winter, but others disagree
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. – Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil told people to prepare for six more weeks of winter on Thursday, making him the minority opinion among his groundhog brethren who seem to think that spring is coming early. But with such a mild and relatively snowless winter so far, who can tell the difference? Phil’s “prediction” came […]
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Salmonella outbreak over, CDC says
The outbreak, linked to ground beef sold at Hannaford stores, sickened 20, including four Mainers.