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Miss USA contestants position themselves as a video montage from a trip to Ocean City plays on the big screen during rehearsal for the Miss USA pageant.

N.C.’s Cooley takes crown

Front foot at 3 o'clock, back foot at 12. Shoulders back, chest out, hips under. Smile! Fifty-one beauties struck the classic pageant pose when Miss USA 2005 aired live on...
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Midtown pupils revisit 1954 for history lesson

"Stop Integration Now!" the flier being handed out at the board meeting read. "Brown v. Board was a horrible decision!" While board members listened intently, black parents pleaded for their...
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Marshall led way to ruling

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown vs. Board of Education that school segregation must end, Thurgood Marshall stood with his colleagues on the court steps to pose for...
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Douglass still struggling

Next month, Charles McDaniels will graduate from Frederick Douglass High School, the alma mater of civil rights attorney and former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. McDaniels' graduation date will come...
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Unlikely victims eager to achieve their goals

They were unlikely victims, friends and family members said. They each had different dreams, but the four boys wounded in yesterday's Randallstown High School shooting were on their way to...
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Schools plan would boost class sizes

The Baltimore school board approved last night the broad outlines of a spending plan for next school year that would increase class sizes, eliminate 250 teaching positions and reduce a...
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City schools to cut classes for summer

The Baltimore school system, struggling to balance its budget, will no longer give tens of thousands of students a last chance for promotion, ending its costly summer school sessions. Instead,...
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City schools plan for job cuts, larger class sizes

To keep spending under tight control and pay back a portion of the system's $58 million accumulated deficit, Baltimore school officials said yesterday that they plan to cut 250 teaching...