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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' on HBO.
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Invasion In this new series, wildlife...
Tags: Entertainment, Music, La Toya Jackson, James Franco, Katie McGrath
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Op-Ed, explained
TO SOME READERS, the Op-Ed page is a bit mysterious. I'll be at a cocktail party, or in the bleachers at a Little League game, and the guy next to me will begin asking questions about just what it is we're trying to do, and how we get it done. Who are...Tags: Meghan Daum, Patt Morrison, Authors, Periodicals, Nicholas Goldberg
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Great Performances' on PBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 28 - May 4, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fashion Star In this new episode...
Tags: Music, PBS (tv network), Ana Gasteyer, Stephanie March, Drew Pinsky
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State Department's Passport Day is canceled
This post has been updated.Anticipated federal budget cuts expected to kick in Friday have forced the cancellation of the U.S. State Department's Passport Day on March 9. "Due to the anticipated sequestration, the Department of State must cancel 'Passport Day in the USA,' which...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Personal Data Collection, U.S. Department of State, Media Industry
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McManus: Romney's arithmetic problem
Here's an issue that hasn't been debated much in the presidential campaign but ought to be: How much should we spend on defense? President Obama has proposed keeping the Pentagon budget essentially flat for the next 10 years. Mitt Romney, by contrast,...
Tags: Medicare, Science and Technology, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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McManus: The nuclear countdown in Iran
Not long ago, an astute reader noted that it has been nearly two years since I wrote in a column that "most experts now estimate that Iran needs about 18 months to complete a nuclear device and a missile to carry it." His point — that those...
Tags: Tehran (Iran), Ehud Barak, Manufacturing and Engineering, Politics, Iran's Nuclear Program
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McManus: Bin Laden and ballots
We're far enough away from it now that we can probably all agree: It was a mistake for George W. Bushto land on that aircraft carrier in a flight suit to proclaim "Mission Accomplished." And not just because the war in Iraq was far from over at that...
Tags: Afghanistan, Parties and Movements, Pakistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joe Biden
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McManus: A campaign bombshell
The Supreme Court is about to toss a judicial bomb into the middle of the presidential campaign, and nobody knows what impact it will have. The bomb, of course, is the court's ruling on President Obama's healthcare law, which is expected next month....
Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, Democratic Party, Justice System, Polls
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McManus: Lies, damned lies and political advertising
The television commercial is designed to spark outrage. "Billions of taxpayer dollars spent on green energy went to jobs in foreign countries," it intones. "The Obama administration admitted the truth — that $2.3 billion of tax credits went...
Tags: SunPower Corp., Parties and Movements, Tax Credits, Bain Capital, LLC, Barack Obama
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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: CNN (tv network), Tampa, Sheldon Adelson, Ron Paul, Politics
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McManus: Romney, the worst candidate?
In the spring of 1980, the race for the Republican presidential nomination got nasty. The front-runner, Ronald Reagan, said his main challenger,George H.W. Bush, wasn't a real conservative. Bush went on the attack, accusing Reagan of peddling "voodoo...
Tags: Tampa, Parties and Movements, Joe Biden, Democratic National Conventions, Ron Paul
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McManus: Fuming about gas
When the price of gasoline rises, the supply of hot air expands. Just look at the recent GOP attacks blaming President Obama for prices that exceed $4 a gallon in some parts of the country. Not only is Obama responsible, according to some Republicans,...
Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Parties and Movements, Petroleum Industry, Steven Chu, Globalization
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