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How will Cheney go down in history?
Today's question: The office of vice president has been regarded as mostly ceremonial. How much (for better or worse) has Dick Cheney changed that? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman digested the candidates' vice president picks.
Cheney: a cautionary...Tags: Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter, Armed Conflicts, Iraq, CNN (tv network)
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Ranking the veeps
Today's question: Give us your list of best and worst vice presidents in recent history. Previously, Lichtman and Edwards debated the proper role of the vice president, discussed how history might treat Dick Cheney and digested the current candidates'...Tags: Democratic Party, Thomas Jefferson, Jimmy Carter, Alexander Hamilton, Corporate Crime
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John Leonard dies at 69; erudite critic was early champion of Toni Morrison and other writers
The Associated PressLiterary and cultural critic John Leonard, an early champion of Toni Morrison, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and many other authors, and so consumed and so informed by books that Kurt Vonnegut once praised him as "the smartest man who ever lived," has died. He...Tags: Upper East Side, Awards and Prizes, Obituaries, Toni Morrison, Health
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The 'assistant president'
Today's question: The Constitution doesn't define the vice president's role beyond a handful of government tasks. What should be the role of the vice president? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman discussed how history might treat Dick Cheney and digested...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Al Gore, Elections
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Castros Cuba
This weekend, Fidel Castro will step down as president of Cuba, defying expectations that only death would part him from the role. The Times has been on the death watch, and before that, on the re-revolution watch, since way back in 1960. Below,...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Firearms, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Romance (genre), Bill Clinton
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Government officials and politicians
Government officials and politicians Spencer M. Williams, 85; federal judge in San Francisco, appointed by President Nixon, who advocated for judges' interests (Jan. 3) Houston I. Flournoy, 78; GOP assemblyman and controller in California who lost the...Tags: Weather Warnings, Collective Contract, Tom Lantos, Weather, Management Change
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Champion of the American novel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterApril 10, 2008 NEW YORK -- The late Norman Mailer, a novelist and cultural provocateur who was rarely at a loss for words, was remembered at a memorial service Wednesday as a man whose deep and abiding commitment to the American novel will be his most...Tags: Sean Penn, Death, Journalism, William Kennedy, Hospitals and Clinics
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Why we read
There's a book I don't remember well, though I can remember precisely where I found it in my elementary school library -- three yards to the right of the door, in the middle of the third shelf from the floor.
I was, and remain, a compulsive reader. Back...Tags: Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Children, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Newspapers
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'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: Death, History, Parties and Movements, French Literature, Communist Party of China
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'Losing Mum and Pup' by Christopher Buckley
Some years ago, when they still lived in Malibu, the late John Gregory Dunne and his wife, Joan Didion, entertained a prominent magazine journalist and author at dinner. It was December and, afterward, they invited their guest to accompany them to their...Tags: Defense, Death, Book, U.S. Army, Armed Forces
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Effect on U.S. Politics Still Felt
Times Staff WriterNo one since Franklin D. Roosevelt reshaped American politics or restored the primacy of the presidency more than Ronald Reagan. Reagan redefined the message of the Republican Party, expanded its reach to working-class voters who had rejected it for...Tags: Democratic Party, Jimmy Carter, Social Sciences, Parties and Movements, George H.W. Bush
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Los Angeles Times Names Michael Kinsley Editorial and Opinion Editor and Janet Clayton Assistant Managing Editor for State and Local News
LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2004 – Michael Kinsley has been named editorial and opinion editor and Janet Clayton has been named assistant managing editor for state and local news, it was announced today by John Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times....Tags: Journalism, Awards and Prizes, CNN (tv network), The Washington Post, Education
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