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Bryan Cranston to play LBJ in play by Robert Schenkkan
Bryan Cranston is going from playing a meth dealer on AMC's "Breaking Bad" to playing President Lyndon B. Johnson in a new stage production of a work by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan. "All The Way" will open the new season at...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Breaking Bad (tv program), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Jane Kaczmarek, Lyndon B. Johnson
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L.A. County to offer free meningitis vaccine to low-income residents
Los Angeles County health officials on Wednesday began offering free meningitis vaccinations to low-income and uninsured residents while downplaying fears about a potential outbreak of the disease. "We really sympathize with the heightened concern...
Tags: AIDS, Vaccines, Personal Income, Flu, Comprehensive Health
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North Caucasus to Boston: Rise and fall of the Tsarnaev brothers
Anzor Tsarnaev was tough, a championship boxer back home, and he wanted his oldest boy to be tough too. Rain or shine, like a scene from "Rocky," the wiry Chechen immigrant would ride his bicycle as his son Tamerlan jogged to a Boston-area boxing gym,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Crime, Law and Justice, Separation of Church and State, Religious Texts, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013)
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Leo Branton Jr. dies at 91; civil rights lawyer defended Angela Davis
Leo Branton Jr., a civil rights and entertainment lawyer whose stirring defense of '60s radical Angela Davis brought him his most celebrated victory in a six-decade career often spent championing unpopular cases, died of natural causes Friday in Los...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Teachers, Movies, Celebrities
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Birmingham, Ala., embraces its complex history
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — When I told friends I was planning a trip to Birmingham, the reaction was universal. "Alabama?" one asked. "On purpose?" I shared their skepticism, viewing the travel literature with the jaundiced eye of a longtime Angeleno...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Christianity, Explosions, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning
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As 'Mad Men' moves into 1968, Matt Weiner talks history
“Mad Men” returned to AMC Sunday night with a premiere that was criticized by some for being too slow – perhaps a touch ironic, given that the episode saw Don Draper and his colleagues ringing in 1968, a year that was anything but...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Assassinations, Netflix Inc., AMC (tv network), Columbia University
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'Mad Men' recap: The jumping-off point
In the category of “high-class problems,” having a show whose return is anticipated so feverishly that it’s inevitably going to be something of a letdown is pretty near the top of the list, but that’s the cross that Matt Weiner,...
Tags: John Slattery, Politics, Kiernan Shipka, F-bomb Dropping, Entertainment Events
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Alabama seeks to correct past, to offer 'Scottsboro boys' pardons
The Alabama Legislature has created a path to pardon for nine black teenagers known as the Scottsboro boys, who were falsely accused of raping two white women more than eight decades ago in one of the more infamous episodes in the racist South. On...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Robert J. Bentley, George Wallace, Prisons, Trials
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'Mad Men's' John Slattery, Matthew Weiner talk Roger Sterling
The last time viewers caught a glimpse of Roger Sterling, the rakishly charming advertising executive played by John Slattery on "Mad Men," he stood naked looking out a hotel window, arms raised in a state of LSD-induced bliss. The image of Roger's bare...
Tags: John Slattery, AMC (tv network), LSD, Christina Hendricks, 2012 Democratic National Convention
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King's Easter epistle on civil disobedience
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s decision to violate an injunction forbidding him to pray, sing or march in public in Birmingham, Ala. On Good Friday 1963 (which fell on April 12 that year), King led a march from...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Politics, Religious Festivals, Laws
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Letters: Marriage at the Supreme Court
Re "Justices seem to side with gay couples," March 28 The time has come for the Supreme Court to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8 as unconstitutional. Laws designed to limit a person's pursuit of happiness by denying him or...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Minority Groups
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Bahrain: 21 medics cleared in closely watched case
A Bahraini court on Thursday cleared 21 medics who had been convicted in connection with protests against the government, a victory for rights activists in the closely watched case. The exonerated doctors, nurses and other medical personnel were among...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Islam, Justice and Rights, Cyprus, U.S. Department of State
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