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    Robert Ford (2012)

    Robert S. Ford began serving a recess appointment as the U.S. Ambassador to Syria in January  2011; his appointment was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2011. He is the first  American ambassador posted to Damascus since 2005, when the U.S. withdrew its diplomatic presence amid tensions over the Iraq war, human rights complaints, and the ...

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    David Baker, Michael Streit, Marsha Ternus (2012)

    On April 3, 2009, the Iowa Supreme Court made history by unanimously striking down a statute barring same-sex marriage, making Iowa the third state in the U.S. and the first state outside of New England to allow same-sex marriage. Massachusetts and Connecticut already allowed same-sex marriage at the time; California had done so before the passa...

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    A Conversation with Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and David Souter

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    PEN New England and the JFK Library Announce Winners of the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the 2008 L.L. Winship/PEN New England Awards (March 4, 2008)
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    PEN New England today announced that Joshua Ferris has won the 2008 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for a distinguished first book of fiction for Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown and Company). Patrick Hemingway, the son of Nobel Prize-winning writer Ernest Hemingway, will present the prestigious literary award to Ferris on Sunday, March 30, at...

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Julian Bond

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Entry into the Civil Rights Movement

Remarks at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, 17 May 1961

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Sound recording of President John F. Kennedy’s remarks at the United States Embassy in Ott...