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Baseball Card Sold for $12.6 Million, Breaking Record
A mint condition Mickey Mantle baseball card became the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia to be sold at auction,…
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Biden Becomes a Boon for Democrats
The coattail effect in politics is the theory that the popularity of a candidate at the top of the ticket…
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Why Pastors Are Burning Out
If you are part of a church, there’s a good chance that your pastor is not all right. A recent…
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Lower Black and Latino Pass Rates Don’t Make a Test Racist
The Association of Social Work Boards administers tests typically required for the licensure of social workers. Apparently, this amounts to…
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Possible Scenarios to Deal With the ‘Trump Problem’
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A Tiny House in Manhattan Has a Link to the Underground Railroad
In a city of showy skyscrapers climbing ever higher in their bids to catch the eye, the beguiling little brick-and-wood…
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Jaimie Branch, Trumpeter Who Crossed Genre Lines, Dies at 39
Jaimie Branch, an innovative avant-garde trumpet player and composer whose punk-rock intensity and relentless commitment to experimentation and ...
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Rick Reed, G.O.P. Adman of ‘Swift Boat’ Campaign, Dies at 69
Rick Reed, a Republican advertising executive whose work in the 2004 presidential race tarnished Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee,…
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Joey DeFrancesco, Reigning King of the Jazz Organ, Dies at 51
Joey DeFrancesco, who was widely credited with bringing the organ back into vogue in jazz circles in recent decades, died…
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‘I Often Wish the Morning Hour Would Last Longer’
The Morning Hour Dear Diary: I like waking up before the chain-smoker who lives two floors below me. Sipping coffee,…