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Lewis, Angelou, Russell get top honor

WASHINGTON (AP)—Civil rights icon John Lewis, poet Maya Angelou and Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell are among the 2010 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.

President Barack Obama will present the awards to the 15 honorees early next year, the White House announced Nov. 17.

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JOHN LEWIS, MAYA ANGELOU and BILL RUSSELL

winners include former President George H.W. Bush, investor Warren Buffett, St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan “The Man” Musial, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

“These outstanding honorees come from a broad range of backgrounds and they’ve excelled in a broad range of fields, but all of them have lived extraordinary lives that have inspired us, enriched our culture, and made our country and our world a better place,” Obama said. “I look forward to awarding them this honor.”

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Rev. to NJ church leaders: Thou shalt not Facebook

by Wayne Parry
Associated Press Writer

NEPTUNE, N.J. (AP)—Thou shalt not commit adultery. And thou also shalt not use Facebook.

That's the edict from a New Jersey pastor who feels the two often go together.

The Rev. Cedric Miller said 20 couples among the 1,100 members of his Living Word Christian Fellowship Church have run into marital trouble over the last six months after a spouse connected with an ex-flame over Facebook.

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ISSUES EDICT—Pastor Cedric Miller delivers the sermon during a service at Living Word Christian Fellowship in Neptune, N.J. (AP Photo/Asbury Park Press, Mary Frank)

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Barbara Bush: Palin should stay in Alaska

WASHINGTON (AP)—Former first lady Barbara Bush doesn't appear to think much of Sarah Palin's White House aspirations, saying the former Alaska governor should stick to her home state.

In an interview with CNN's Larry King scheduled for airing Monday, Bush says she sat next to Palin once and "thought she was beautiful."

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PALIN'S ALASKA—Sarah Palin waits by her husband Todd's boat before heading up river to see fish being counted in Dillingham, Alaska as part of a documentary for the TLC channel. (AP Photo/Discovery Communications, Gilles Mingasson)

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From sports stars to fire battalion chiefs

by Fred Jeter
For New Pittsburgh Courier

RICHMOND, Va. (NNPA)—Christine Richardson was a basketball standout at Virginia State University. Tina Watkins was a track and field star at Huguenot High School in Richmond, Va. Now as adults, they’ve used that competitive spirit to knock down barriers and climb to the top in a male dominated profession.

Richardson and Watkins recently became the first women to rise through the ranks and become battalion chiefs with the Richmond Department of Fire and Emergency Services. Both Watkins and Richardson ran the full gauntlet; recruit, firefighter, lieutenant, captain, to battalion chief.

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HISTORIC PROMOTION—New city Fire Department Battalion Chiefs Tina Watkins, left, and Christine Richardson chat at their historic promotion. (Photo by Jerome Reid/Richmond Free Press)

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France honors ‘beloved’ novelist Toni Morrison

by Jenny Barchfield

PARIS (AP)—Toni Morrison is “beloved” in France, the country’s culture minister said Nov. 3, as he inducted the celebrated U.S. novelist into the elite Legion of Honor society.

In a ceremony in a gilded hall in the ministry, Frederic Mitterrand pinned a red and gold medal onto the celebrated author’s jacket as a scrum of photographers snapped away.

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“BELOVED” AUTHOR—U.S. novelist Toni Morrison poses with her son Ford Morrison after being awarded of the Legion of Honor by French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand, unseen, in Paris, Nov. 3. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus).

Mitterrand called Morrison—a Nobel laureate and winner of the Pulitzer Prize—“the greatest American novelist of her time.”

“I want to tell you that you incarnate what’s most beautiful about America...(that) which gives a Black child, born during segregation into a modest family in a medium-sized Ohio city an exceptional destiny,” Mitterrand told Morrison, as she listened on from a gilt-covered armchair nearby. “You were the first woman writer to tell the painful history of Afro-Americans.”

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