NEWS
January 4, 1993
President-elect Clinton faces a world that in 1993 is:Shrinking. By the Concorde, deep-dish television reception, by satellite telephone circuits, fax. No place is remote. The United .. States is in Somalia in part because the images of the starving were in American living rooms every day.Consolidating. Only recently, large blocs of nations were the coming thing. Even the United States seemed not large enough to face a single Europe, now taking effect. Hence the move to turn North America into a trading bloc, wedding Mexican labor to U.S. capital.
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By Arin Gencer | March 5, 2009
A former Baltimore County teacher sentenced to a year and a half in jail for a sex offense against a 13-year-old student now faces federal child pornography charges, according to U.S. District Court documents. Timothy N. Gounaris, 52, of the first block of Cardor Court in Perry Hall, is scheduled for a detention hearing Monday. Gounaris was arrested Friday after the FBI found evidence that he was sharing image and video files of "minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct" on the Internet, court documents said.
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By New York Times News Service | December 18, 1994
ROME -- Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's billionaire prime minister, made much of his money by offering soap operas and game shows and high-kick dancers on commercial television stations that drew almost half the country's viewers.For a man who won power in part by deploying his vast corporate resources in advertising and television, the unraveling his political fortunes has seemed an extraordinarily unscripted spectacle.Last week the prime minister was summoned before investigating magistrates in Milan to face seven hours of interrogation about suspected corruption at Fininvest, his business empire, an allegation he denies.
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By Ellen Goodman | October 18, 2004
BOSTON - There are moments in Jon Stewart's hilarious send-up of civics textbooks, America (The Book), when the truth pops up like a jack-in-the-box. Consider The Daily Show comic's take on political campaigns: "Although the skills needed to woo voters are at times diametrically opposed to those necessary to govern them, the expensive and arduous process exists for a reason: to ensure that those who wish to govern are, if not the most qualified our country has to offer, the ones who want it the most."
SPORTS
By JOHN STEADMAN | February 28, 1999
No man has meant more to a baseball organization than Cal Ripken Sr., a throwback to another era who sacrificed personal opportunities to labor in the vineyards and do more for the Orioles than they could ever do for him.He brought discipline, a no-nonsense instructional ethic and a working wisdom that prepared players for the demanding major-league examinations that awaited. He asked no plaudits; he derived satisfaction from the results of his coaching and personal example.Now Cal Sr. is competing against a foe that deals in hard stuff.
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By Andrea F. Siegel and Andrea F. Siegel,SUN STAFF | November 20, 2004
A grand jury returned a 12-count indictment yesterday against a Queenstown man whose pickup truck slammed into a police cruiser and killed Maryland Transportation Authority Police Officer Duke G. Aaron III in July. Albert Gene Antonelli, 32, faces charges of negligent homicide by automobile, negligent manslaughter while impaired by cocaine and diazepam (also known by the brand name Valium), driving while impaired by drugs, possession of cocaine and marijuana, and several traffic violations.