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'The Cooked Seed' details Anchee Min's fraught immigrant saga
By the time Anchee Min made it to America in 1984, she was "considered a 'cooked seed' — no chance to sprout." As she explains in her new memoir, "I was 27 years old and life had ended for me in China. I was Madame Mao's trash, which meant I wasn'...
Tags: Politics, Culture, Rentals, Art Institute of Chicago, Chinese Restaurants
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Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist
Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...
Tags: Joyce Brothers, Diabetes, Cornell University, Long Island, Health and Medical Professionals
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GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...
Tags: Politics, Lamar Alexander, CVS Corp., U.S. Congress, Kathleen Sebelius
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Drugs, sex and collusion behind bars in Maryland, indictment says
More than a dozen female prison guards in Maryland helped a group of inmates in a dangerous national gang run a drug-trafficking and money-laundering ring from inside the walls, prosecutors contend. A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday said 13 female...Tags: Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, FBI, Gang Activity, Justice System
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Review: 'All the President's Men Revisited' looks back in wonder
"All the President's Men Revisited," which premieres Sunday on Discovery Channel, returns us to those thrilling days of yesteryear when everyone read newspapers and the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government were capable of acting out of...
Tags: Movies, White House, Richard Nixon, All the President's Men (movie), Bob Woodward
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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Finding Kalman' on KVCR
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 14 -20, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Fashion Star Im this new episode, the...
Tags: Politics, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Zachary Knighton, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kim Kardashian
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Can Twitter help the media's misinformation problem?
The Boston Marathon bombing on Monday provoked some lamentable knee-jerk reactions and unverified claims that were spread far and wide by the media -- in traditional news outlets and social media alike. (I’d link to some of the worst offenders,...
Tags: Sports, Twitter, Inc., Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Social Media
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George W. Bush Presidential Library opens this week, chads and all
President Obama and all four living ex-presidents will attend the official dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on Thursday on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas. According to the website, the library's mission...
Tags: Politics, Condoleezza Rice, Gun Control, George W. Bush, White House
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Education advocate Michelle Rhee fends off accusations
Michelle Rhee, head of an influential education advocacy group that backs using student test scores to evaluate teachers, this week fended off accusations that she failed to pursue evidence of cheating when she ran the District of Columbia school system....
Tags: Michelle Rhee, Students, Antonio Villaraigosa, Teaching and Learning, Prosecution
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With new presidential library, George W. Bush back in public eye
WASHINGTON — President Obama, the four living ex-presidents and thousands of others head to Dallas on Thursday for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The challenge facing library officials will be to keep the...
Tags: Politics, University of Louisville, Arts and Culture, University of Pittsburgh, Museums
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National GOP campaign arm withdraws Sanford's financial support
WASHINGTON -- Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s comeback try encountered severe turbulence Wednesday when the National Republican Congressional Committee withdrew its financial support less than three weeks before a special election for...
Tags: Politics, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, POLITICO LLC, Regional Authority, Mark Sanford
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Boston bombings: Muslims fear another 'hysteria'
We will know soon enough who unleashed Monday’s grotesque violence on Boston. But it is fair to say that many Muslims who heard that explosions had marred the end of the Boston Marathon had a simple, poignant thought: Please don’t let it be...
Tags: FBI, Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Islam
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