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Following are excerpts of stories in The LaRuelist Report:
In recognition of Black History Month, the Governor and Lt.
Kim Guadagno invited several students from around the State
to honor them for their extraordinary accomplishments in a
literary assignme... Read More >>
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Generals Find Suicide a Frustrating Enemy
As seen on Huffington Post
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It was just past midnight in Afghanistan when Brig. Gen.
Mark Milley appeared on the video screen in the Pentagon
conference room to brief some of the Army's top generals on
a sobering development: his unit's most recent confirmed
suicide.
A 19-year-old... Read More >>
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Former S. Korean President Roh commits suicide
As seen on CNN.com...May 23, 2009
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SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) -- Former South Korean President
Roh Moo-Hyun committed suicide Saturday by leaping to his
death from a hill behind his house, the government
announced.
He was 62.
Roh, who was president from 2003 to 2008, had gone hiki... Read More >>
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Color Me Butterfy....
One woman talks about four generations of domestic abuse...
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L.Y. Marlow is the third generation of her family to have
been a victim and survivor of domestic violence: a
violence that almost took her own life and the life of
her unborn child. In her award-winning Color Me
Butterfly, she tells the poignant and evocative... Read More >>
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When Words Can Kill: 'That's So Gay'
Anti-Gay Taunts in School Lead to 11-Year-Old's Suicide and Rising Calls for Change
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By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
April 14, 2009
Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover was 11-- hardly old
enough to know his sexuality and yet distraught
enough to hang himself last week after school bullies
repeatedly called him "gay."
Th... Read More >>
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The first puppy makes a big splash
By Manuel Roig-Franzia
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Who let the dog out?
That's the Washington mystery du jour.
The identity of the first puppy — the one that the
Washington press corps has been yelping about for
months, the one President Obama has seemed to
delight in dropping hints about -... Read More >>
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Levi Johnston On CBS: Palins Treated Me Like An Outcast After Election
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WASHINGTON — The father of Bristol Palin's baby
boy says he's been treated like an outcast since the
end of Gov. Sarah Palin's run for vice
president.
Appearing in an interview broadcast Wednesday on
CBS's "The Early Show," Levi Johnston sa... Read More >>
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Obama And ASU: Who Has Received An Honorary Degree?
Huffington Post on-line...
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William P. Carey founded and chaired the real estate
investment-banking firm, W.O. Carey & Co. LLC, in
New York City. His company owns more than 650
commercial and industrial facilities throughout the
world. But perhaps his greatest accomplishment is
being a... Read More >>
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Why We Must Fix Our Prisons
Senator Jim Webb In Parade Magazine...3/29/09
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America's criminal justice system has deteriorated to
the point that it is a national disgrace. Its irregularities
and inequities cut against the notion that we are a
society founded on fundamental fairness. Our failure
to address this problem has caused the n... Read More >>
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Oprah Winfrey isn't giving away $1 million
By David Colker The Los Angeles Times
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Oprah Winfrey has been generous with her studio
audiences, including the famed day when she pointed
to everyone there and proclaimed, "You're getting a
car!"
But she's not giving away $1 million, despite a spam
e-mail making the rounds. Th... Read More >>
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