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Akron police investigate teen mob attack on family
Man found hanging at playground in Stow
Relatives doubt story of suicide
FBI asked to investigate attack on white family near Firestone Park
Robbery suspect's body left at Akron hospital
Man shot in back near Akron park
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Zeke, the basketball playing dog
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Friday Notebook
Patrick McManamon:
For your Saturday entertainment …
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Six new scholarship offers
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Quick thought on Browns rookies
Tribe Matters:
Tribe roster on hold?
Cleveland Browns:
Stallworth test showed marijuana
Kent State Sports:
Men's Basketball Scheduling update
Cleveland Cavaliers:
Andy’s Signed According to ESPN
All Da King's Men:
Baby Got Barack !
Blog of Mass Destruction:
The Rogue Bush White House
Akron Law Café:
New Wiretapping Revelations from Inspector General
Varsity Letters:
Report: Ontko selects Wisconsin
See Jane Style:
Oh Baby!
Car Chase:
Where do We Go from Here?
Let's Talk Real Estate:
Closings….Not the Good Kind!
Ohio Travels with Betty:
Margy inquires-when is a Taste of Hudson?
Sound Check:
LeVert II live performance Saturday night — "Dedication" album due July 13,
HRLite House:
DDI One of Best Places to Work
Akron Gamer:
Video game sales drop in May
Laura Ofobike
Smart technologies, smarter consumers
Or are our gadgets getting the better of us?
You know how small talk goes when you are thrown together in a public place with people you sort of know. The conversation meanders along, glancing at this and that until somehow, by some stroke of luck, it settles on a subject that taps into something close to the surface for someone.
Prison rape, the reality should shock the public conscience
If you want to know what people really think about sexual offenses, spend a moment or two scanning the Web commentaries that follow news stories about sexual crimes. The kindest sentiments you might find may be the ones that earnestly hope the accused would become someone's ''girlfriend'' behind bars as payback-in-kind for the so-and-so.
Go west? First, learn Chinese
For graduates, a primer for success in a global society
Sitting through a commencement speech under the blazing sun on a Sunday morning in June should qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. When a perfectly lovely day is an iffy thing, you don't want to waste one listening to well-worn themes and platitudes leavened occasionally by a good joke.
Go west? First, learn Chinese
For graduates, a primer for success in a global society
Sitting through a commencement speech under the blazing sun on a Sunday morning in June should qualify as cruel and unusual punishment. When a perfectly lovely day is an iffy thing, you don't want to waste one listening to well-worn themes and platitudes leavened occasionally by a good joke.
Pitfalls in the power of 'tweeting'
The value of restraint in instant messaging
Back in the days when it was a punishing offense for a student to talk back to a teacher, we grumbled into our books about the irrelevance of certain class exercises. A test on the vocative case in Latin? How many times in our lives would we approach a window, for example, and exclaim: ''O window, how lovely you are''?
Change the tone of politics? What for?
Tom Tancredo shows why civility matters
''Can't we all just get along?'' Rodney King was an improbable mouthpiece, but as South-Central Los Angeles smoldered in April 1992, the plaintive cry of the man whose encounter with law and justice unleashed race riots carried with it a frustration that reaches up from the past and into the future.
Rebel guns are silent in Sri Lanka
A long insurgency ends. What will fill the void?
Take the pace at which economic problems, diseases or pop-culture fads zip around the world, and the notion that we live in a shrinking world sounds less foreign with every passing day.
