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This Sunday: The smartest person in the room and 'Cuckoo's Nest'
Jacket CopySunday's book reviews include a Margaret Fuller biography ("The Lives of Margaret Fuller") and a look at Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" 50 years after its publication.... -
New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: Band of Outsiders
All The Rage"Go West, young man," the bit of Manifest Destiny advice attributed to Horace Greeley, seemed to be resonating with Band of Outsiders creative director Scott Sternberg whose collection headed due West -- and jogged South across the border -- for...... -
On the trail of the Pony Express
Los Angeles TimesReporting from Sacramento, Salt Lake City and St. Joseph, Mo. Bill Gates' career as a Harvard undergrad. Elizabeth Taylor's second, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth marriages. Sarah Palin's tenure as Alaska governor. Barack Obama's stint as U.S. senator...Tags: Religion and Belief, Companies and Corporations, Daniel Day-Lewis, Arts, Museum Dioramas
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'The Thoreau You Don't Know' by Robert Sullivan
The Thoreau You
Don't Know
What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant
Robert Sullivan
Collins: 368 pp., $25.99
Robert Sullivan, to his great amusement, has often been called a nature writer, in spite of the fact that he has written about a New...Tags: Margaret Fuller, Death, Walt Whitman, Whale (animal), Diseases and Illnesses
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'Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor' by Tad Friend
Tad Friend's "Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of Wasp Splendor" is a memoir of growing up in the once unassailable American ruling class -- and of a long personal struggle to shed some of the emotional baggage such a lineage conferred....Tags: Education, Society, Pluto (fictional animal), Trumbull, Ralph Lauren
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Colorado mayor's sympathy for immigrants costs him his job
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTom Selders is still baffled at how quickly the city he served for years turned on him. The two-term mayor of this conservative farm town had been a political fixture for nearly two decades. A businessman who prided himself on bringing efficiency to city...Tags: Crimes, Regional Authority, Wages and Pensions, Social Security, Local Elections
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No thanks, James
By Richard Rayner
"Ulysses" (Vintage: $17 paper) is the description of a single day, June 16, 1904, a day in the mingled lives of characters walking, talking, dreaming, eating, drinking, mourning and climaxing their way through the hours of an average...Tags: Dick Cheney, Finance, Crimes, Pauline Kael, Edmund White
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Fertile imagination in Iowa
Times Staff WriterOn a sunny Sunday in June, I found myself at the Field of Dreams, watching as the pinstripe-clad Ghost Players baseball team appeared out of a cornfield. Wearing 1919 Chicago White Sox uniforms, they emerged from the corn just as the ghost team did in...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Chicago White Sox, Tourism and Leisure, Trips and Vacations, Iowa Hawkeyes
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The long road to the Baltimore Grand Prix
August 13, 2011
Steven Wehner had overcome dyslexia, a stint in jail on drug charges and the loss of his repair shop on Martha's Vineyard.
Living in the basement of his mother's Rodgers Forge home, he set his sights on his biggest challenge yet:...Tags: Holidays, Finance, Public Officials, William H. Cole IV, The Wire (tv program)
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Baltimore Grand Prix had better be worth the hassle
For years, Baltimore has been a city divided on east-west lines. East Baltimore political organizations vie with those in West Baltimore. The city's high schools have spirited crosstown rivalries, such as Dunbar and Douglass. Loyalties on the college...Tags: Maryland State Fair, Holidays, Traffic, Headaches, Science and Technology
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Don't Go West, Young Man
"Go West, Young Man..." When Horace Greeley printed those words he was talking about what awaited farmers and their families in the fertile valleys of parts of the west. Thousands of families took up that mantra, accepted the challenges of actually...Tags: U.S. Department of the Interior, Water Restrictions, Conservation, Ecosystems, Weather
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Wrigleyville fields more than ballgames, beer
Gus Isacson is an exception to the rule.
Isacson, executive director of the Central Lakeview Merchants Association, says most Wrigleyville residents spend three years in the neighborhood. They usually work outside the area, taking advantage of its...Tags: Crimes, Dining and Drinking, National Hockey League, Depeche Mode (music group), Bob Dylan
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