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Oct. 13, 2009
ANALYSIS/OPINION: In April 1991, miners topped the news. One-third of the 1.2 million Soviet coal miners were on strike, hoping to topple communist leader Mikhail Gorbachev. In the other superpower, miners were reeling from government findings that half of America's coal-mining companies had...
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch