Native Kansas Citians have their down-home delicacies †barbecue, of course, and Stroud’s fried chicken, Kansas City strip steaks, Dixon’s Chili, Winstead’s steakburgers, Wolferman’s English muffins, even Wish-Bone Italian salad dressing.
A certain irony attends the fact that the study of civil rights in America, at least in the academy, is burgeoning even as our government and society at large appear to retreat ever further from the goals expressed by the civil rights movement, goals enshrined in public consensus yet far too often betrayed in practice.
There are good reasons why Timothy McCuen Piggee stands out when he's in a musical. He's 6-foot-4 and good-looking, occasionally sporting a Clark Gable–style mustache, and he has a talent for playing what he calls "the more well-groomed characters": sophisticates, wits, noblemen, and priests.
Compass Diversified Holdings announced today that it plans to release financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2007, on Wednesday, March 12, 2008, during pre-market hours, and has scheduled a conference call to discuss the results at 9:00 a.m.
The Iraq War story is never going to go away. Now the Government is faced with an order to disclose the minutes of two Cabinet meetings where the reasoning behind the decision to invade Iraq in March 2003, was discussed by ministers.
Compass Diversified Holdings announced today that American Furniture Manufacturing, Inc., , one of its eight subsidiary businesses, expects to return to more than 90% of its production level by the first week of March, less than three weeks after experiencing a previously announced fire at its main plant in Ecru, Mississippi on the evening of February 12, 2008.
That voice -- when did I first hear it? Wait, I remember now. Strolling through Longwood Gardens on a bleak January day, he suddenly came to me. That guy. The one who narrates the "Frontline" reports on PBS. In my very own head.
A member of the Manley panel on Canada's role in Afghanistan says the government's proposed 2011 deadline for a military withdrawal is arbitrary and should not necessarily be binding.
OTTAWA (Feb 23, 2008) -- Parliamentary squabbling over the future of Canada's role in Afghanistan drew fire yesterday from both the chief of the defence staff and a member of the Manley panel on the mission.
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