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"Animal Factory" author speaks
Dining@LargeSorry for the late notice, but if you want to hear from a guy who's been billed as a modern-day Upton Sinclair, you've got about an hour to get over to East Baltimore.David Kirby is author of a new book,......Tags: Education, Schools
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Rutten: Amazon's shameful California tax dodge
At the turn of the last century, as the robber barons' first gilded age lingered on, many Californians came to regard one powerful enterprise as the symbol of oppressive avarice and of big money's corrupt appropriation of the political process.
That...Tags: Arts and Culture, Amazon.com Inc., Building Material, Elections, Companies and Corporations
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How well do you know your history?
If you are reading this between 8 a.m. and noon today, you probably are not an AP U.S. History student. But could you be? We’ll see. For just over three hours today, students who are attempting to earn Advanced Placement credit in U.S. History...Tags: Arts and Culture, Henry George, Civil Rights, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Freedom of Religion
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Tim Rutten: Paul Ryan's budget blueprint would push the aged into poverty
The hall of mirrors in which our bitterly partisan politics now play themselves out is a curious place. But even by its distorted standards, the reaction to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan's budget blueprint has been odd, particularly the...Tags: Personal Income, Health Insurance Cost, Medicare, Radio, Social Security
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The little guy's first day of kindergarten
Man of the HouseSO WE SAY O WE SAY an Ave Maria and send the little guy off to school for the very first time. Kindergarten . . . the bunny lair of lower education. "Always keep your receipts," I tell him. "OK, Dad." "And save 10% of everything you earn," I say. "OK,...Tags: Ron Howard, Thanksgiving, Alyssa Milano, Nike, Inc., Harry S. Truman
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88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress
Jacket CopyThe Library of Congress' list of 88 books that shaped America includes poetry, novels, nonfiction, a play, a polemic, books of science and grammar, cookbooks and children's books. What's it missing?... -
Former columnist Bill Granger dies at 70
Change of SubjectFrom Daily Herald columnist Burt Constable's obituary: William F. “Bill” Granger, a former Daily Herald columnist, was 70 years old when he died Sunday night at the Manteno Veterans' Home, where he had lived since March 2002. But loved ones,..... -
PST, A to Z: ‘Eames’ at A+D Museum, ‘Sympathetic’ at MAK Center
Culture MonsterText is a central component of two Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, both focused on design: “Eames Designs: The Guest Host Relationship” at the A+D Museum, and “Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist... -
Upton Sinclair House for Sale
The Daily MirrorPhoto courtesy of Cecilia Farnum, Century 21 The Upton Sinclair House at 464 N. Myrtle Ave., Monrovia has been listed for sale at $1.5 million. The 1923 home was designed by Frederick H. Wallis for L.B. Vollmer (d. 1948), owner...... -
Justin Halpern, the Twitter celeb behind "$#*! My Dad Says," urges kids to read
L.A. Times Tech BlogStudies suggest that consuming short blasts of information has led to Web-induced attention deficit, making today's youth more impulsive and impatient and far less likely to log off long enough to leap into the pages of a good book. So...... -
From the Stacks – 'Dancing Bear' (1968)
The Daily MirrorOut of curiosity, I picked up Gladwin Hill’s “Dancing Bear” at the Southern California Library’s book sale. I never met Hill (d. 1992), the New York Times bureau chief in Los Angeles, but I had heard about him at luncheon...... -
New wave of tainted food in China and how inflation could make it worse
Money & CompanyThree years after China was rocked by a massive tainted-milk scandal, the country has again been hit by a wave of food scares in recent weeks. The list includes diseased pigs used for bacon; noodles made of corn, ink and......
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