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By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,SUN STAFF | May 6, 1996
NEW YORK CITY -- Daniel Berrigan listens to the joyous throng sing Happy Birthday and then flashes the wry, wide smile that has illuminated nearly four decades of protest in America.Hard-earned lines crease his famous smile. But it is as bright and radiant as on that day in 1970 when he was led away to jail as one of the Catonsville Nine anti-war "conspirators."The Rev. Daniel Berrigan, poet-priest of the peace movement, turns 75 on Thursday. His hair is silver-gray and silken under his trademark black cap, his eyes deep-set and shadowed, but still warm and penetrating.
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By Tom Pelton and Tom Pelton,Sun reporter | April 6, 2008
Forty years ago next month, Tom Lewis and eight other Vietnam War protesters strode into the offices of U.S. Selective Service Board 33 in Catonsville and left a mark on history. The "Catonsville Nine" emptied file cabinets, hauled 600 draft records into the parking lot and burned them with homemade napalm. Then they prayed and waited to be arrested. That act of civil disobedience on May 17, 1968, inspired headlines - and more than 200 protests at draft board offices across the country.
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March 13, 1992
Roszel Thomsen, who died here Wednesday at the age of 91, served his nation as a federal district judge from his appointment 1954 almost until his final illness. He was one of the most respected lawyers in the state when he became a judge, and his tenure on the bench was regarded as outstanding by his peers and by other court watchers.Before he became a judge, he also was known for his public service. He was a member of the city's school board for 10 years, from 1944 to 1954. As president of the board in 1952, he led the city in ending its racial segregation policy at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.
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By MICHAEL GARVEY and MICHAEL GARVEY,Pacific News Service | August 30, 1991
With the turmoil in Wichita, we Catholics have become unfashionable once again.It's high time, too.We have a long countercultural history in America. Now the most numerous religious community in the country, we started out here as an embattled minority, learning how to negotiate a culture formed and dominated by Protestant social ethics. One conspicuous example was our willingness to pay for, but not to patronize, public schools, preferring instead to build our own parochial school system, to educate our young in our own way at our own expense.
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By Stephanie Shapiro and Stephanie Shapiro,SUN STAFF | August 4, 2004
With his appearance on the cover of Time magazine this week, 19-year-old uber-swimmer Michael Phelps joins a gallery of heroes, artists and at least one rogue with Maryland connections who have graced the front of the weekly publication since its 1923 debut. In its Aug. 9 Olympics preview issue, Phelps' life story, from water baby to amphibious wonder, is told in the shadow of swimmer Mark Spitz, who won seven gold medals in 1972. Whether or not Phelps can snag eight gold medals is a "long shot," the Time article says, "but no one is better prepared to do it."
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By Carl Schoettler and Carl Schoettler,Sun Staff Writer | July 14, 1995
Mary Moylan always was the most elusive of the Catonsville Nine, that tiny band of anti-war resisters who ignited one of the most dramatic protests of the '60s with a small bonfire of draft records.Her name echoes out of the Vietnam era like a half-remembered lyric by Phils Ochs or Country Joe and the Fish, emerging from that time when anti-war protest was expressed in a kind of numerology: the Milwaukee Fourteen, the Baltimore Four, the Chicago Eight, the Harrisburg Seven, the Catonsville Nine.