JOHANNESBURG — Former South African President Nelson Mandela was hospitalized for a test to determine what is behind an undisclosed stomach ailment, and the country’s current leader said the much beloved 93-year-old icon was in no danger. Mandela, a Nobel peace laureate who spent 27 years in prison for fighting racist white rule, has officially […]
February 2012
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Bill Nemitz: This Lent, don’t give up; instead, give
Back when I was a kid, the first Sunday of Lent marked my annual descent into 40 days of agonizing self-deprivation. One year, in keeping with my Roman Catholic obligation to show pre-Easter penitence between Ash Wednesday and Holy Thursday, I gave up bubble gum. Another year, it was comic books. Then there was the […]
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Trial of 16 Americans due to begin in Egypt
CAIRO – The trial of 16 Americans and 27 others opens today at a Cairo courthouse in what critics say is a politically charged case linked to a government crackdown on nonprofit groups that has touched off the deepest crisis in U.S.-Egyptian relations in decades. The case, which involves American employees of four U.S.-based pro-democracy […]
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Saudi Arabia steps up crude oil exports
The Saudis also offer more output to their largest customers in an effort to help contain prices.
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An interview with Glenn Close
Actress Glenn Close talks about her career, her life in Maine – and her chances tonight of bringing home the best actress Oscar for her work in “Albert Nobbs.”
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Arts Dispatches
HEBRON Academy’s Yena Kang wins Scholastic Art’s top awards Hebron Academy student artist Yena Kang has earned top honors in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2012. Kang’s original works received seven Gold Keys and one Silver Key, the top prizes bestowed by the organization. Among the most prestigious awards for young artists since […]
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History’s hidden in the floorboards
Decades of oral tradition and a few scant clues suggest the role a northern Maine church played in harboring slaves along the Underground Railroad.
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Bystanders ignore veteran crawling for help
DETROIT – A World War II veteran says nobody helped him after he was attacked and carjacked during daylight at a busy Detroit gas station and he had to crawl across a concrete parking lot to get help. A roughly four-minute surveillance video shows 86-year-old Aaron Brantley struggling to get from the fuel pump to […]
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Audience Calendar
Art “Charles Gatewood’s Wall Street,” rare vintage and contemporary photographs, River Tree Arts, Kennebunk. 967-9120. Through March 16. “In a State of Becoming: Inuit Art from the Collection of Rabbi Harry Sky,” Bowdoin College (Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum), Brunswick. bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum. Through April 14. Michael Bell-Smith, lo-fi environments exhibit, Maine College of Art (Institute of Contemporary Art), […]
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For Stewart, winning Daytona means it all
Despite all his success, Tony Stewart’s dominance in Sprint Cup has yet to reach the Daytona 500.