James Buchanan

McManus: Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?

2012-12-12 00:00:00

Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...

PASSINGS: Ron Palillo, Al Freeman Jr., James M. Naughton

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Ron Palillo Actor played Arnold Horshack on 'Kotter' Ron Palillo, 63, an actor whose signature role was Arnold Horshack in the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said his agent, Jackie...

'Welcome Back, Kotter': Robert Hegyes and cohorts [video]

2012-01-27 16:37:08

Book review: 'The Information' by James Gleick

2011-03-13 00:00:00

The Information A History, a Theory, a Flood James Gleick Pantheon: 531 pp., $29.95 Partway through "The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood," James Gleick describes a technological innovation so transformative that it was heralded as "one of...

If you go: Pennsylvania Dutch country

2011-05-15 00:00:00

THE BEST WAY TO LANCASTER, PA. From LAX, US Airways and United offer nonstop service to Philadelphia; US Airways, United, Continental, Southwest, Delta, American and AirTran offer connecting service (change of plane). Restricted round-trip fares begin at...

Gifts with a Presidents Day Twist: White House pet project

2011-02-21 16:32:11

East met West for the first time in San Francisco in 1860

2010-03-21 00:00:00

America's first fascination with Japan flared -- and disappeared -- like fireworks. Before J-Pop, or the American discovery of Zen, or even the reshaping of Impressionism by the Japonisme aesthetic in the late 1800s, the United States was seized by a wave...

Far East treasures in San Francisco

2009-12-13 00:00:00

Doris Duke. It's a mighty big name in philanthropic circles. The only child of tobacco and hydropower magnate James Buchanan Duke, she inherited his $80 million estate in 1925, when she was 12. The "poor little rich girl" grew into an elegant woman whose...

Ronald Reagan and singer/dancer/zoo zealot Michael Jackson

2010-06-25 04:37:08

The first suppers: A tradition of inaugural meals

2009-01-14 00:00:00

Barack Obama will be sworn into office on Tuesday -- just weeks before the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. Obama's inaugural theme, "A New Birth of Freedom," has, fittingly, been drawn from his fellow Illinoisan's Gettysburg Address, and he's...

Pope John Paul II's compassion for Jews on display at Skirball

2008-10-04 00:00:00

As a young boy in Poland before World War II, Karol Jozef Wojtyla possessed an uncommon warmth for an often reviled group of outsiders -- Jews. Like most others in his hometown, Wojtyla was Catholic. But he counted Jewish children among his friends --...

Hail to the chiefs, as played by . . .

2008-02-18 00:00:00

Americans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...

James Buchanan High School alumnus Donte Moore makes and displays pottery Thursday during Arts in Action at the high school.

2013-05-02 00:00:00

James Buchanan High School student Joseph Heintzelman, 16, hooks up his three story elevator before judging begins on Friday at the 31st annual Franklin Science and Technology Fair at the Chambersburg Area Middle School South.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

James Buchanan High School students Carley Shaffer and Shaina Haas get ready to sign their names to the Rachel's Challenge pledge board hanging in the high school cafeteria on Wednesday.

2013-02-27 00:00:00