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Presidential Medal of Freedom awarded to Bob Dylan, others
WASHINGTON — President Obama pinned the Presidential Medal of Freedom around Bob Dylan's neck as the singer stood in the White House inscrutable in black sunglasses.
"I have to say that I am a really big fan," Obama said as he introduced Dylan, one...Tags: John Paul Stevens, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of Justice, Shimon Peres, Awards and Prizes
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Bob Dylan, Madeleine Albright among Medal of Freedom honorees
WASHINGTON -- Folk singer Bob Dylan and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House on Tuesday afternoon. A number of figures from the struggles and shifts of the 1960s were...
Tags: John Paul Stevens, Shimon Peres, Awards and Prizes, Bob Dylan, Civil Rights
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Feminist to her feet: Shoe shopping with Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers and an committed feminist who now heads her own foundation. For her, even a shoe-shopping expedition can be laden with socio-politics. For Mother’s Day, her son said he was buying her new...
Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Dylan
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Activist Dolores Huerta: 50 years of fighting for human rights
Dolores Huerta runs on righteous ferocity the way cars run on gasoline. The woman who co-founded the United Farm Workers union 50 years ago with Cesar Chavez has harried, prodded, hectored, rallied and protested. She's been arrested more than a score of...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Racism, Immigration, Employment, Civil Rights
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Tuesday's Talk Shows: Paula Deen; Billy Bob Thornton; Josh Brolin
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Wednesday's Talk Shows: Eli Manning; Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger
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On Sunday: Lyndon Johnson, Toni Morrison and the history of cookbooks
Jacket CopyA look at book coverage coming up in this Sunday's L.A. Times.... -
Peter Sellars, Dmitri Hvorostovsky among Opera News Awards winners
Saying that he "took the starch out of the Bugs Bunny version of opera," director Peter Sellars was honored at the Opera News Awards on Sunday. The Pittsburgh-born Sellars accepted the award at the Plaza in Manhattan, sounding appropriately like an...
Tags: Opera (genre), People (magazine)
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Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHome A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" —...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953)
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Bob Dylan, Pat Summitt among 2012 Medal of Freedom recipients
WASHINGTON -- The White House has announced this year’s recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The list of 13 honorees includes musician Bob Dylan, writer Toni Morrison, former Secretary of...
Tags: Gerald Ford, Ceremonies, John Wooden, Shimon Peres, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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This Sunday: John Leonard, AIDS and Carl Hiaasen, too
Jacket CopyJohn Leonard's collected essays, a book on genesis of the AIDS pandemic and another YA book by Carl Hiassen are all part of our Sunday coverage....
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