All Stories from August 5, 2011 (Change date)
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A word of warning from ChurchillAug 06, 2011 6:56 am - Barack Obama uses the phrase “shared sacrifice” as a nice way of stating his agenda for socialism. On the other hand, Winston Churchill was more plain spoken: “Socialism...
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Home repair: Buried tree stumps give reader sinking feelingAug 06, 2011 6:56 am - Q. We have been reading your column for years and hope you can provide some guidance. We moved into our house in 1983. The houses in this neighborhood were built amo...
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Images: Day three of the 2011 McHenry County FairAug 05, 2011 11:16 pm - ...
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Don’t mess with Social SecurityAug 06, 2011 6:56 am - The Republican representatives who ran for office last November saying that jobs were going to be their first priority have not brought up one jobs bill to be voted on. ...
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Elite SEAL team among casualties in chopper crashAug 07, 2011 7:10 pm - Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite ...
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Images: Behind the scenes at Mickey Finn's Brewery in LibertyvilleAug 06, 2011 5:54 pm - ...
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Serkis go-to guy for performance-captureAug 06, 2011 6:43 am - SAN DIEGO — When the filmmakers behind “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” settled on virtual simians rather than people in monkey suits for their lower primates, their fir...
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Fresh fig sorbetAug 06, 2011 6:43 am - If you've been a reader of this column or our Kitchen Scoop blog, you know I adore figs. My grandmother had a row of tree-sized fig bushes in her backyard, and my brothe...
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Schwarzenegger inches back after child disclosureAug 05, 2011 3:25 pm - LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a comeback. The former California governor on Thursday made his first speech in the state since confirming in May that he f...
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Companies should think about employeesAug 05, 2011 3:01 am - In a recent Daily Herald story on job stagnation and the unemployment rate, the phrase that caught my attention was employers have “learned to squeeze more work and reve...