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Ken Levine returns with ‘BioShock Infinite,’ but will he stay?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSome video-game makers are motivated to make the most detailed simulation of warfare. Others re-create childhood dreams of monsters in ...... -
High-tech incubator Blueseed not the first to target high seas
PALO ALTO -- Forget building a startup. Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija want to build a startup colony. And they want to put it in the Pacific Ocean –- out of the reach of restrictive U.S. immigration laws they say keep high-skilled immigrants...
Tags: Immigration, Kevin Costner, Milton Friedman, Oceans, Mutual Funds
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AIG and big banks are the 'Takers' taking from the rest of us
In “The Fountainhead” and her other tomes of hyper-libertarian fantasy, Ayn Rand posits that society is composed of “Makers and Takers.” In her vision, it is the creative supermen of industry who are the Makers and it is the work-...
Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Mortgages, Financial and Business Services, Finance, American International Group
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Maggie Simpson gets her Hollywood close-up
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comMaggie Simpson is in the spotlight in “The Longest Daycare,” the animated short that precedes screenings of “Ice Age: Continental Drift” ...... -
88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
The Siren's Call: Where's Rimbaud?
Los Angeles TimesIn the worlds of myth and literature, plenty of figures have had their "lost" years. There are, to name a few, Sherlock Holmes (after the plunge from Reichenbach Falls), the wizard Merlin (was he imprisoned in a cave or was he killed?), Shakespeare...Tags: Arts and Culture, Arthur Rimbaud, Bob Dylan, Music, Dorothy Lamour
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McManus: Mitt Romney stays put
If you've been holding your breath to see whether Mitt Romney would pivot to the center now that it's a two-man race between him and President Obama, you can exhale; he won't. Romney made that clear in his victory speech after last week's primaries in...
Tags: White House, Health Insurance, Politics, Elections, Tea Party Movement
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Don Delillo's 'Cosmopolis,' via David Cronenberg [video]
Jacket CopyTwo masters, David Cronenberg and Don Delillo, have come together to create the film "Cosmopolis." Is it possible that's a bad thing?... -
McManus: Don't close the GOP show
We in the mainstream media harbor a dirty little secret: Most of us are rooting for Rick Santorum. It's nothing personal, although Santorum is a reasonably appealing guy. And it's not ideological; most of us aren't yearning for Bible-based social...Tags: Sarah Palin, Sheldon Adelson, Newt Gingrich, CNN (tv network), Rick Santorum
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Tony Blankley dies at 63; press secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich
Reporting from Washington -- Tony Blankley, who gained notoriety as press secretary for Newt Gingrich during the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990s and later as a conservative commentator on radio and television, has died. He was 63.
The...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Radio, Newt Gingrich, Television, Entertainment
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'Atlas Shrugged Part 2' to start production in April
24 Frames"Atlas Shrugged Part 2," the second film in a proposed trilogy adapting Ayn Rand’s 1957 capitalist epic, is scheduled to start principal photography in April in Los Angeles and Colorado, with an eye toward an October 2012 theatrical release.... -
Patt Morrison Asks: Robert Reich, Pre-Occupied
Robert Reich has worked in a lot of big white buildings -- in the Senate, as an intern to Robert F. Kennedy; in the office of then-Solicitor General Robert Bork; in the Ford and Carter administrations; and as labor secretary to President Clinton. Now...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Unions, Newt Gingrich, Social Issues, Entertainment
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