It's not likely that will.I.am's "Yes We Can," the theme song he wrote for the Obama campaign, is reverberating through the hills and hollers of West Virginia today. ...

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Penguins winger Georges Laraque, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the NHL, fairly sneered when he was asked yesterday about what pointers he gave teammate Tyler Kennedy after Kennedy's spirited fight with Philadelphia's Scottie Upshall Sunday night.

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Green acres, indeed: A stroll through Chatham University's second life, Eden Hall You know how it is when you run a 39-acre city campus and then pick up nearly 10 times that much land out in the ...

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Seems pretty much everybody's in a funk these days. It's the kind of world-weariness that makes you read the paper or listen to the news with the phrase "Yeah, right" forever on the tip of your brain. ...

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The Stanley Cup playoffs continue to be a major stage for the Penguins, a coming-out party, of sorts, for their young stars. ...

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Sports commentary by Gene Collier ...

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It is economically, environmentally and morally insane to use food for fuel

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The 2008 campaign isn't a replay of 1988, but we've certainly seen some of the tactics before

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Newspapers in general and columnists in particular have a reputation for harping on the negative and ignoring happy people doing good things on a sunny day with a song in their ... ...

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Among the many "thou shall nots" of the Ten Commandments, the Almighty in his wisdom threw in a couple of positive ones to keep folks from becoming too depressed. ...

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During the last days of the Bush administration, the career diplomats take over

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There's nothing wrong with a tough fight; the commentariat ought to chill out

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