Nearly 10 years after her son disappeared, Brenda Adams celebrated the man’s 30th birthday the way he would have wanted her to. Family and friends scarfed down fried chicken, his favorite food. A DJ blasted “Atomic Dog,” his favorite song. The party was a happy distraction, an opportunity to pay tribute to the life of Harold Clifton Cooper III. Read full article > >

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10 years after son disappears, a Maryland mother’s grief feels fresh

There was a volcano in Iceland and Mitch Daniels announced he wasn’t running for president, but Saturday night was mostly a disappointment for followers of rapture forecaster Harold Camping. On Saturday morning, as believers watched their televisions…

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Doomsday Group Disappointed

Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who predicted that Judgment Day would occur May 21, has been silent as the day has progressed without incident. Camping had predicted that doomsday would begin in Asia, but Asian cities are now in the early hours…

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Broadcaster Silent as World Goes On

At the age of 80, with almost 40 books behind him and nearly as many accumulated honors, Harold Bloom has written a kind of summing-up of his monumental career as a critic and scholar.

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Book Review: Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader

Representative Harold Rogers used to send tens of millions of dollars home to Kentucky, but a new mission has him looking to trim the federal budget.

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Appropriations Chief Spends Less and Cuts More

Ms. Stoddard, after a long career onstage and in television roles, brought the works of Noël Coward, James Thurber and Harold Pinter to Broadway.

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Haila Stoddard, Actress and Producer, Dies at 97

Channel 4′s Jon Snow recalls his first taste of politics when, as a young boy, his father introduced him to a man who went to the same church service: the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.

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‘I thought the PM was married to the Queen’

Margaret Thatcher was advised by Harold Macmillan to drop her controversial monetarist economic policies a year after she became prime minister.

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Thatcher ‘lectured by Macmillan’

US soul singer Bernard Wilson, a member of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, dies at the age of 64.

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US soul star Bernard Wilson dies

Is the unsolved murder of Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen closing? Police say that Harold Smith, previously referred to as a person of interest in the case, murdered Chasen and acted alone, they revealed in a press conference late Wednesday. Just a…

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Police Say Suicide Victim Murdered Chasen

The State Department is bracing itself for the next WikiLeaks dump, but there seems to be little it can do. Its latest move was sending a final plea to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in the form of a letter from its legal adviser, Harold Hongju Koh….

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New WikiLeaks Docs ‘Will Risk Lives’

Novelist Hanif Kureishi is awarded a literary prize set up in honour of playwright Harold Pinter.

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Hanif Kureishi wins Pinter prize