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Stanley Karnow dies at 87; author of epic Vietnam history
Stanley Karnow, an award-winning author and journalist who combined insightful reporting with personal accounts and historical sweep in books on the Vietnam War and the Philippines and the critically acclaimed public television series that accompanied the...
Tags: Morley Safer, U.S. Army, University of Paris, News Media, Philippines
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Linda Pugach dies at 75; disfigured by lye, she married attacker
"It's me and Burt against the world." -- Linda Pugach, 2007 With those words, Linda Pugach explained, perhaps as well as anyone could, an unfathomable chain of events. PHOTOS: Linda Pugach | 1937 - 2013 In 1959, she was Linda Riss, a 22-year-old dark-...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Newspaper and Magazine, Geraldo Rivera, Bronx (New York City), Dan Klores
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Japan hangs three prisoners, first executed under new government
Japan hanged three convicted killers, its Justice Ministry said Thursday. The hangings are the first executions under the new government, continuing a secretive practice that has appalled human rights groups and made Japan an outlier among wealthy...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Japan, Amnesty International, Charles Lane
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Dodgers still adding veteran backup catchers, sign Jesus Flores
Come one, come all. If you’re creaking between the knees, own a catcher’s mask and are willing to travel, the Dodgers are interested. Not as a starter; A.J. Ellis has that job firmly in command. And probably not immediately as a backup,...
Tags: Peter Moylan, Baseball, Washington Nationals, Justin Sellers, Tim Federowicz
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'A Good Day to Die Hard' has a bad day with the critics
Following in the footsteps of fellow senior action stars Arnold Schwarzenegger ("The Last Stand") and Sylvester Stallone ("Bullet to the Head"), Bruce Willis is back with a new shoot-'em-up of his own, reprising his role as the wisecracking New York...
Tags: Die Hard (movie), The Expendables (movie) , NPR, Movies, The Last Stand (movie)
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Friday TV Talk Shows: Jane Lynch; Robert Zimmerman; Kathy Griffin
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 10 - 16, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- CBS This Morning (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today (N) 7 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC Live With Kelly and...
Tags: Heidi Klum, Josh Duhamel, Health and Medical Professionals, Whoopi Goldberg, Laura Dern
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Rafael Soriano should be in Nationals camp 'soon,' agent says
Rafael Soriano was a notable absence when pitchers and catchers reported for the Washington Nationals earlier this week. The closer who signed a two-year, $28-million deal with the team during the off-season was nowhere to be found during the team...
Tags: Rafael Soriano, New York Yankees, Sports, Baseball, Washington Nationals
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Can secular journalists argue theology with the pope?
One of my least favorite pundits is the shrill and self-parodic conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin. But Rubin had a point when she criticized “liberal media types” for lecturing the Roman Catholic Church “about the need,...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Belief and Faith, News Media, Roman Catholicism, Social Issues
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Chivas USA makeover continues with James Riley heading for D.C.
Defender James Riley, who led Chivas USA in minutes played last season, apparently won't be adding to that total this summer after being traded to D.C. United on Thursday. A day earlier Riley said he expected Chivas, which had already jettisoned seven...
Tags: Colorado Rapids, D.C. United, Soccer, Danny Califf, Sports
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State of the Union: The not so bully pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt, America’s 26th president, reveled in the platform the job gave him to comment on all matters great and small: “I have got such a bully pulpit!" he declared. Eighteen presidents and nearly a century later, President...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Unions, Theodore Roosevelt
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U.S. drone use could set dangerous example for rogue powers
Imagine if North Korea or Iran or Venezuela deployed thousands of unmanned surveillance aircraft in search of earthbound enemies, a swarm of robotic hunters armed with lethal weaponry and their governments’ go-ahead to exterminate targets. It&...
Tags: Hamas, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Pakistan
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McManus: The other drone question
It has been 11 years since the United States began using missile-firing drones to attack Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But only now are we beginning a full public debate on this new form of warfare, and it took the nomination of...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, John Brennan, Stanley A. McChrystal, Pakistan, John O. Brennan
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