NEWS
July 12, 2007
MIGNON N. LIEBERMAN died of natural causes July 1, 2007 at her home in Phoenix, AZ. Born Mignon Newman in Baltimore, MD, she graduated from Western High School and, what is now known as, Towson University. While attending Towson University, she met her future husband, Sidney Lieberman D.D.S. They married in June of 1938. Together they opened Dr. Lieberman's dental practice on Eutaw Place, which subsequently moved to Park Heights Avenue. Before the birth of her two sons, she taught elementary school for Baltimore City School System.
NEWS
July 18, 1999
Academic, activity and leadership awards were presented to seven area students at the annual Spring Awards Ceremony at Western Maryland College.Laura Boesler of Westminster, a junior mathematics major, won the Charles J. Miller Award for Excellence in Mathematics.Gaelen Cross of Sykesville, a junior biochemistry major, was given the Harry Clary Jones Scholarship in Chemistry. The award, along with a scholarship in physics, honors the memory of Jones, a longtime faculty member at WMC.Lindsey Drager of Eldersburg, a junior history and English double major, was given the James D. Essig Memorial Scholarship.
FEATURES
By Susan Reimer | October 18, 1998
WITH WORD THAT Hustler publisher Larry Flynt will pay $1 million to any woman who can prove that she had sex with a member of Congress, columnist Susan Reimer has taken a brief leave of absence to pursue this important development.Reimer reports that she will attempt to get Flynt to pick up the tab for a pair of movie tickets for her and her husband - if the happy couple can agree on a movie.While she is busy negotiating financial sponsorship of her marriage, Reimer has left the following true facts to consider.
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By Thomas Powers | January 21, 1996
IF AMERICANS have learned anything from the political traumas of the last 30 years -- the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the war in Vietnam, the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard M. Nixon, the Iran-contra scandal that almost did the same for Ronald Reagan -- it is that their government has much to hide. The final words of Oliver Stone's controversial film, "Nixon," tell us that the former president spent the last 20 years of his life fighting for control of 4,000 hours of conversations secretly recorded during his years in the White House, and that all but 60 hours remain locked up. What secrets are hidden in that vast archive of Nixon's compulsive talk with the handful of men he trusted about his fears, his enemies, his plans, his past?
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By J.D. Considine BTC | September 15, 1996
"Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music," by Simon Frith. Harvard University Press. 352 pages. $27.95.One of the great terrors of junior high school math was the proof. As none of us particularly cared what, if y equaled 26, x might turn out to be, the notion of supporting those calculations with layers of mind-numbing logic seemed especially perverse. Sensing this, the teachers tried to put our puny efforts into perspective by observing that university-level mathematicians were expected to work lengthy proofs demonstrating that one plus one did, in fact, equal two.Many of us, I suspect, gave up then and there.
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By Marc Arkin | July 2, 1995
"Saints and Schemers: Opus Dei and Its Paradoxes," by Joan Estruch. Translated by Elizabeth Ladd Glick. 352 pages. New York: Oxford University Press. $27.50On May 17, 1992, more than 200,000 people, including 33 cardinals and 200 bishops, assembled under the hot sun in Saint Peter's square to watch Pope John Paul II beatify Monsignor Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer. It was a mere 17 years after Msgr. Escriva's death and seemed to betoken a swift ascent to sainthood for the founder of Opus Dei, the secretive traditionalist organization within the Catholic Church whose ties reach from Franco Spain to Latin America and the Philippines, with allies as various as Belgium's Queen Fabiola, Italy's Northern League and influential members of the Vatican curia.
NEWS
November 6, 1995
William Manning Rountree, 78, a veteran diplomat who served under six presidents and was an ambassador to Pakistan, Sudan, South Africa and Brazil, died Friday in Gainesville, Fla. He also was assistant secretary of state for Near East, South Asia and African affairs in his 38 years of government service. He was a top aide to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and was awarded the State Department Superior Service Award for helping negotiate the admission of Greece and Turkey into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
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By DeWitt Bliss | February 17, 1994
Josephine Garland, who headed the sociology and anthropology department at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland from 1967 to 1986 and had taught there from 1962 to 1965, died Saturday of cancer at Union Memorial Hospital. She was 69.Dr. Garland lived on Stony Run Lane in Baltimore.Her teaching career had also included periods at Marygrove College in Detroit, Catholic University in Washington, University of Scranton, Misericordia College near Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. In 1987 and 1988, she taught criminal justice at the University of Baltimore.
NEWS
By David Folkenflik | October 29, 1994
COLLEGE PARK -- University of Maryland College Park instructor Scott McKearney wanted his 60 sociology students to address social problems through projects that pack a punch.He felt pummeled by their response. "I had the most earth-shattering experience," Dr. McKearney said this week. "Seven women over the course of three days came into my office, sat down, and told me they had been raped. I was seeing entirely too many tears," he said.Born of those students' tears was yesterday's 90-minute teach-in about acquaintance rape, at which women undergraduates read the words of students expressing shame and trauma in enduring assault at the hands of men they had trusted.
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By Los Angeles Times | February 17, 1993
Being rich, it seems, isn't what it used to be.Once upon a time, wealth meant a lifestyle of leisure, luxury and protection from the hassles of everyday survival.But these days, what it takes to qualify is a $100,000 household income, according to President Clinton. The figure set off alarm bells across America because the president previously cited $200,000 as the threshold for those who will pay much higher tax rates.In any case, the president has focused a spotlight on the question of who is rich.