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2004-2005 PTSA mini grants awarded
By Zahra Gordon | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
The Blair PTSA Mini Grant Committee received 23 requests for funding and was able to meet the needs of all applications, according to the PTSA newsletter. The committee awarded nearly $7,000 in grants in the areas of arts, communications, counseling and mentoring, tutoring, academic support and enrichment.
Toni Morrison
By Adedeji Ogunfolu | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Toni Morrison was born Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feb. 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio. She was a precocious, young child, and in the first grade, she was the only student that could read. Her love for literature grew, and she also developed a taste for Tolstoy, Dostoyevski, Gustave Flaubert and Jane Austen.
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Blazer offense sputters on Senior Night
By Dan Greene | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
FEB. 18, NELSON H. KOBREN MEMORIAL GYMNASIUM- After a resounding victory over Gaithersburg and a near win on the road at Wootton, Blair fell into their old habits on Senior Night tonight against Whitman, falling 59-45 to the Vikings. The Blazers' (2-17) ineffectual offense, including three points total in the second quarter, and frequent turnovers led to a blowout loss against a team that was far from Blair's toughest competition this season.
The changing face of gangs
By Sherri Geng | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
A gun blow to the back of the head late last September. A wrecking at Wheaton Plaza in November that nearly ended in death. A brutal beating in June from those she now calls her closest family. A knife fight after a skipping party early last July.
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NHL must use this travesty to revamp its product
By Michael Bushnell | Feb. 18, 2005, midnight | In Print »
What the NHL Players Association needed during the last couple of months was some Dr. Phil. They needed to get real. This season went dark for five months because both sides were lazy in meeting and starting a real dialogue. But it ended because the union is blind to all the red ink this league has been hemorrhaging the last 10 years. And now, as a result, the league will need to dramatically overhaul their whole product, or risk oblivion.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first black poets to be nationally recognized.
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Toni Morrison, author of various acclaimed novels.
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Albert John Luthuli, a nonviolent civil rights activist for peace and education.
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By Emma Norvell | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Latest »
Ninth grade CAP students listen intently as Historian Alfred Goldberg talks about World War II.
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By Diana Frey | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Latest »
The Blair Community Ice Hockey team is not affiliated or sponsored by the Montgomery Blair High School athletic program or Montgomery County Public Schools. The team is an independent group of Blair students. Blazers struggle during their first Hockey playoff game.
Silver Chips Online named Pacemaker finalist
By Seema Kacker | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Silver Chips Online was selected as one of seven finalists in the National Scholastic Press Association's (NSPA) annual online Pacemaker competition. Winners will be announced at a journalism convention in April.
Ice Hockey season still alive
By Erik Kojola | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
The Blair Community Ice Hockey team was given a second life as Broadneck forfeited their first round victory over Blair. Thus Blair will play at least one more game this season as they advance to the second round of the state playoffs.
UMCP sponsors Sadat Essay for Peace contest
By Feza Kikaya | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
The University of Maryland, College Park's Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development invites Maryland high school students to discuss their thoughts concerning peace in the Middle East and throughout the world in essay form. Entries should be postmarked by March 18.
An old leader dies, a new day dawns
By Rocky Hadadi | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
He was in the headlines for 55 years, glorified in the fight against Israel and known for violent tactics and hard-line ideology. To some he was a romantic revolutionary, the Middle Eastern counterpart to Communist poster-boy Ché Guevara and a hero to the Palestinian people. Now, Yasser Arafat's death has left a question mark in the middle of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
MCPS named as "Gold Medal" school system for 10th time in national survey
By Alexander Gold | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
MCPS received a gold medal from Expansion Management magazine for the 10th consecutive year for its attractiveness to the business community, according to the MCPS Bulletin.
Phillis Wheatley
By Erik Li | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Phillis Wheatley was the first noteworthy black female poet of the U.S. In the fight for black freedom, abolitionists often cited her works in order to refute the claim of black intellectual inferiority. Thought to be born near present-day Senegal in about 1753, Wheatley was kidnapped and enslaved in 1761. She was sold in Boston to the Wheatley family, who treated her as kindly as their own two daughters.
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Love patient Albert Brennaman (Kevin James) shows off some dance moves to date doctor Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Will Smith).
Halle Berry
By Fidan Karimova | Feb. 17, 2005, midnight | In Print »
Halle Berry, who was named after the department store Halle Brothers, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on Aug. 14, 1968. Her father left her family when Berry was just four years old, so she and her sister, Heidi, were raised by their mother, Judith, in a one-parent household. Later, the family moved into a suburban area dominated by Caucasians. In the new neighborhood, children started teasing Berry and her sister because of their skin color. Determined to overcome the racial issue, Berry became more involved in school as a cheerleader, Prom Queen and member of the National Honors Society.
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