In the news, Monday, May 7, 2012

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SUN 06      INDEX      TUE 08

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Then and Now: Bloomsday
Olympians helped inaugurate first race in 1977

1977: Runners in the inaugural Bloomsday race make their way down what would later become known as Doomsday Hill, which is now taken from the opposite direction.

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This date in history

1812: English poet Robert Browning was born in London.

1942: U.S. Army Gen. Jonathan Wainwright went on a Manila radio station to announce the Allied surrender of the Philippines to Japanese forces during World War II.

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opinion:

Real culprit is ourselves

Leonard Pitts Jr.

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