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    May 21, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  1. The go-to guy: Peter Ueberroth

    So here's Peter Ueberroth, L.A.'s Olympic champion, chairman of the Newport Beach investor company the Contrarian Group, sharing his office with someone else -- his border collie, Koot, for Kootenai, the Idaho county where Ueberroth found him abandoned. Koot can be regarded as a small-scale version of the rescues that Ueberroth has been called on to make in his career. Besides formidably managing the 1984 Games, he has ridden to the help of South Los Angeles after the 1992 riots, run Major League Baseball and arranged the buyback of the Pebble Beach golf course from the Japanese. Ueberroth's a Californian by choice, not by birth, like another eminent Californian, John Wooden, whose name is on an award Ueberroth receives next week, one he regards more as encouragement than reward.
    So here's Peter Ueberroth, L.A.'s Olympic champion, chairman of the Newport Beach investor company the Contrarian Group, sharing his office with someone else -- his border collie, Koot, for Kootenai, the Idaho county where Ueberroth found him abandoned....

    Tags: Pete Wilson, Sports, Golf, Major League Baseball, Economy, Business and Finance

    2. Feb 21, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. 'The Essential Engineer' by Henry Petroski

    The Essential Engineer
    The Essential Engineer Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems Henry Petroski Alfred A. Knopf: 288 pp., $26.95 Henry Petroski, who has written several wonderful books about small things (toothpicks, pencils) and large things (bridges,...

    Tags: AT&T Corp., Education, Science and Technology, Engineering, Arts and Culture

    3. Oct 10, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Nobel Peace Prize unleashes partisan war

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    After Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele dismisses Obama's award, Democrats fire back, and the combat continues throughout the day....
    4. Dec 10, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  4. Obama accepts Nobel Peace Prize days after announcing troop surge

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    President Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo today, acknowledging in his speech the hotly debated irony of receiving it as a wartime president. According to a Times article today, Obama’s speech to the Nobel Committee defended his......
    5. Dec 10, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Obama toasts the inventor of dynamite -- Text

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    American Democrat president salutes Alfred Nobel at Obama's prize banquet....
    6. Oct 9, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Obama says Nobel Peace Prize is 'a call to action'

    President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace today for what the Nobel committee called "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples."
    President Obama, who has pledged to place diplomacy ahead of confrontation and reached out to a skeptical world with offers of mutual understanding, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace today for what the Nobel committee called "his extraordinary efforts...

    Tags: Desmond Tutu, The Happiest News!, Defense, Morgan Tsvangirai, Islam

    7. Mar 11, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. How Obama spent his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize

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    Ten U.S. charities get the money from the estate of Alfred Nobel....
    8. Oct 10, 2009 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  8. Prized for his noble words

    Within hours of Friday's announcement that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, commentators and politicians all over the map were denouncing the award as "absurd." At first blush, that seems the only reasonable response, because the...
    9. Oct 11, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. American, Norwegian Share Nobel

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    An American and a Norwegian with ties to UC Santa Barbara will share this year's Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for their work in macroeconomics. The pair, Edward C. Prescott, 63, and Finn E. Kydland, 60, will share the $1.3 million prize for their...

    Tags: European Union, Norway, University of California, Applied Physics, Education

    10. Oct 7, 2011 |Story| Petoskey News

  10. Nobel Peace Prize goes to women's rights activists

    <strong>OSLO, Norway</strong> &mdash; Africa's first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen's autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the importance of women's rights in the spread of global peace.
    OSLO, Norway — Africa's first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen's autocratic regime won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of the importance of women's rights in...

    Tags: Yemen, Civil Rights, World Bank Group, Ghana, Islam

    11. Oct 7, 2011 |Story| Reuters
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    Tags: Yemen, Civil Rights, Hosni Mubarak, Sana'a (Yemen), Human Rights

    12. Nov 30, 2010 |Story| Hola Hoy
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    Tags: Mario Vargas Llosa, William Faulkner, Gustave Flaubert

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