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Something about SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau's ponytail may have triggered the attack. That's what an official at the Orlando marine park told reporters the day after the 16-year veteran at SeaWorld was killed by Tilikum, a 12,000-lb. (5,500 kg) killer whale. On Feb. 24, in the middle of an otherwise routine show, the 40-year-old trainer was standing at the edge of a tank when the 29-year-old animal leaped from the water, grabbed her by the ponytail and began thrashing her about. As horrified visitors watched both from around the tank...
...President Obama's first term. As Curtis Roosevelt explains, "President Roosevelt [Class of 1904] was elected at a time of economic uncertainty. In 1933 and 1934, he had to deal with a variety of issues that were both controversial and damaging to his public approval. If you had told anyone in 1933 that the Democratic Party would win big in the 1934 midterm elections, they would have thought that you were crazy. Obama faces similar challenges, but what remains to be seen is how he deals with them...
...those students, Crystal Chang ’10, said a security official told her, “Don’t you see the alarms? You can’t be in the House anymore...
Will Candace Burnet be one of the lucky customers and make her Baltimore relatives happy? As soon as she enters the store, she darts toward an attendant to ask if the mittens are available. Adult sizes are sold out, she's told, but she can try the youth section...
...Kurdish filmmakers - all sadly no strangers to being picked up by the police and interrogated at dawn - who joked darkly about what the country might wake up to the following morning. "Part of you thinks, 'No way, a coup just isn't possible anymore,'" one of the filmmakers told me. "But there's always a niggling little voice in your head." (Read "Can Obama Keep Eastward-Looking Turkey On Side...