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We won't post new stories on this page every day, but whenever we do put something up you have our word: It will be about the strip. Guaranteed.
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A Rape On Campus
Jackie was just starting her freshman year at the University of Virginia when she was brutally assaulted by seven men at a frat party. When she tried to hold them accountable, a whole new kind of abuse began...
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Horace Poolaw's Kiowa Nation
For more than fifty years, Horace Monroe Poolaw, a Kiowa American Indian, dedicated himself to documenting the lives of members of his tribe in southern Oklahoma...
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A Massacre In The Family
As dawn broke over the eastern Colorado prairie on Nov. 29, 1864, a hastily assembled regiment of volunteer U.S. cavalrymen approached their target: a peaceful village of Cheyenne and Arapaho wintering on Sand Creek.
Somewhere in the ranks rode my great-great-grandfather William M. Allen...
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A High-Stepping Thanksgiving
Ten years ago this very week, my wife, Amy, and I were about to celebrate our first Thanksgiving as a married couple...
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When G.M. Was Google
The art of the corporate devotional...
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The Lyndon Johnson Tapes: Richard Nixon's 'Treason'
Declassified tapes of President Lyndon Johnson's telephone calls provide a fresh insight into his world. Among the revelations - he planned a dramatic entry into the 1968 Democratic Convention to re-join the presidential race. And he caught Richard Nixon sabotaging the Vietnam peace talks... but said nothing...
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The Horrific Sand Creek Massacre Will Be Forgotten No More
The opening of a national historic site in Colorado helps restore to public memory one of the worst atrocities ever perpetuated on Native Americans...
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The Many Lives Of Artist David Hockney
The artist has achieved what often seems impossible -- to stay relevant throughout his entire career. His secret: not being afraid to change with the times...
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In A Shift, Obama Extends U.S. Role In Afghan Combat
President Obama decided in recent weeks to authorize a more expansive mission for the military in Afghanistan in 2015 than originally planned, a move that ensures American troops will have a direct role in fighting in the war-ravaged country for at least another year...
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Mike Nichols, Celebrated Director, Dies At 83
Mike Nichols, one of America’s most celebrated directors, whose long, protean résumé of critic- and crowd-pleasing work earned him adulation both on Broadway and in Hollywood, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 83...