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VIA: USA Today TV evangelist Oral Roberts has died at age 91, a day after he fell at his California home and was hospitalized. Roberts founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Okla., in 1963 and served as its president until 1993. “Oral Roberts was the greatest man of God I’ve ever known,” said his son, […]
VIA: CNN.com Otis Redding was proud to be a country boy. “You know what, Otis? You’re country,” lashes Carla Thomas in her 1967 duet with Redding, “Tramp.” “That’s all right,” Redding quickly responds. “You’re straight from the Georgia woods.” “That’s good,” Redding says. He meant it. He was born in Dawson, in southwest Georgia, and […]
VIA: CNN.COM Oslo, Norway– President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in Norway on Thursday but acknowledged the questions surrounding the award. Obama, along with first lady Michelle Obama, walked into Oslo City Hall at 1 p.m. to a trumpet fanfare and sustained applause. “I receive this honor with deep gratitude and great humility,” he […]
VIA: New York Times Johnny R. Williams, 30, would appear to be an unlikely person to have to fret about the impact of race on his job search, with companies like JPMorgan Chase and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago on his résumé. But after graduating from business school last year and not having […]
VIA: Baltimore Sun A coalition of atheists and agnostics is hoping to get Baltimoreans talking with a billboard campaign that poses the question: “Are you good without God?” The effort, which includes signage on I-895, I-95 and near M&T Bank Stadium, is part of a campaign that has hit states blue (New York, California, Massachusetts), […]
VIA: New York Times On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the final Thursday of November to be a national holiday of Thanksgiving. That came just over a year after Lincoln made another more historic proclamation, one that directly concerned my family and their future: the Emancipation Proclamation, which had freed the enslaved in […]
VIA: New Orleans Times-Picayune In a groundbreaking decision, a federal judge ruled late Wednesday that the Army Corps of Engineers’ mismanagement of maintenance at the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet was directly responsible for flood damage in St. Bernard Parish and the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr.’s 156-page decision could […]
VIA: New York Times On his last day in China, President Obama went to see the Great Wall. At around 3:32 p.m. on Wednesday, Mr. Obama’s motorcade arrived at the wall’s Badaling section, which snakes over jagged, rocky mountains. The usual cacophony of vendors at the wall was absent as the whole place was largely […]
VIA: US Magazine Janet Jackson is speaking out about her brother Michael’s death, blaming Dr. Conrad Murray, whom she says should no longer be allowed to practice medicine. “He was the one that was administering,” she tells Robin Roberts in an ABC News special, In the Spotlight, airing Wednesday. “I think he is responsible.” Dr. […]
VIA: Chicago Tribune Police investigating the death of Chicago school board president Michael Scott say initial reports from the scene indicate Scott shot himself in the head along the banks of the Chicago River. Scott’s family had reported him missing on Sunday. Police used his cell phone to locate his body and his car behind […]
VIA: CNN.com Hjalti á Lava was searching his iPhone for a Bible app when he stumbled across Church Online, a service of Web site LifeChurch.tv. Soon he was regularly logging into the Oklahoma-based cyber-church — some 4,100 miles away from á Lava’s home in the Faroe Islands, west of Norway. “It allows me to connect […]
VIA: New York Times The icon is a very old man now. His hair is white, his body frail. Visitors say Nelson Mandela leans heavily on a cane when he walks into his study. He slips off his shoes, lowers himself into a stiff-backed chair and lifts each leg onto a cushioned stool. His wife, […]