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Right wingers careen into craziness to explain Obama's victory
President Obama’s reelection has caused right-wingers to become completely unhinged. They are purple-faced and apoplectic, convinced that an ignorant horde of government-dependent social leeches has destroyed traditional America and banished God...
Tags: Donald Trump, Social Issues, Elections, Ted Nugent, Mitt Romney
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Frances Hashimoto dies at 69; Little Tokyo leader, mochi ice cream creator
Frances Hashimoto, one of Little Tokyo's most influential business leaders who fought to preserve the neighborhood's Japanese cultural traditions and who invented the popular fusion dessert known as mochi ice cream, died of lung cancer Sunday at her...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Tokyo (Japan), Japan, Ice Cream, Safeway Inc.
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Syrian government agrees to temporary cease-fire
World NowResponding to international peace efforts, Syria said Thursday its forces would observe a cease-fire from Friday to Monday, the period of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.... -
‘Akira’s’ Katsuhiro Otomo takes fiery turn in ‘Combustible’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comKatsuhiro Otomo, the director of the watershed Japanese animated feature “Akira,” will make a rare personal appearance at REDCAT in ...... -
Russell Means dies at 72; American Indian rights activist, actor
Russell Means, who gained international notoriety as one of the leaders of the 71-day armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973 and continued to be an outspoken champion of American Indian rights after launching a career as an actor in...
Tags: Columbus Day, World War II (1939-1945), Pocahontas, Martin Luther King Jr., Chemotherapy
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U.S. reviewing guidelines for use of force by border agencies
The Department of Homeland Security is reviewing guidelines for use of force by border agencies amid a sharp increase in agent-involved killings along the U.S.-Mexico border. The scrutiny of U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement practices...
Tags: Heart Attack, Mexico, Human Rights, Justice and Rights, U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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Review: Sherman Alexie in dark, comic mode with 'Blasphemy'
-------------------- Blasphemy New and Selected Stories Sherman Alexie Grove Press: 480 pp, $27 -------------------- Sherman Alexie's characters live in a kind of dreamscape, a limbo between Native American and white culture, between city life and...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Injuries and Wounds, Entertainment, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Counter intelligence: Superba Snack Bar in Venice
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticIf you were to invent a restaurant whose specialties include a cauliflower T-bone, you probably couldn't do any better than Superba Snack Bar. It occupies what looks like a corrugated shoe box sliced open at one end, a giant version of the dioramas you...Tags: Salads, Rome (Italy), Gjelina, Wines, The Tasting Kitchen
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Reel China: A crash course in different storytelling traditions
BEIJING — Every movie project involves a certain amount of negotiation, but finding middle ground proved no easy matter when writer-director Daniel Hsia tried to film "Shanghai Calling" in China. To secure permission to make his story about a...
Tags: Rob Minkoff, Jackie Chan, Literature, Fiction, The Forbidden Kingdom (movie)
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Lia Lee dies at 30; figure in cultural dispute over epilepsy treatment
She could speak only with her eyes. But Lia Lee's life bridged worlds and changed American medicine. Lia, the subject of Anne Fadiman's 1997 book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," died Aug. 31 in Sacramento at the age of 30, after living...
Tags: Sepsis, Arts and Culture, Central Intelligence Agency, Laos, Drugs and Medicines
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IndieCade 2012: Five noteworthy games
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comGame designers from across the globe descended on Culver City, Calif., for IndieCade this weekend, and some of the most ...... -
Gov. Brown signs bill to help injured college athletes get degrees
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown goes to bat for injured college athletes...
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