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Charles Colson dies at 80; Watergate felon and prison reformer
WASHINGTON — Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, who died Saturday at age 80 in northern Virginia, was two people.
He was Richard Nixon's "hatchet man," the president's "evil genius," who by his own admission was "ruthless in...Tags: Trials, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Democratic Party, Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Wars and Interventions
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Tony Blankley dies at 63; press secretary to Speaker Newt Gingrich
Reporting from Washington -- Tony Blankley, who gained notoriety as press secretary for Newt Gingrich during the Republican takeover of Congress in the 1990s and later as a conservative commentator on radio and television, has died. He was 63.
The...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Stomach Cancer, Radio, Radio
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Goldberg: The right candidate
On Saturday, Texas Gov. Rick Perry got into the race for the GOP presidential nomination, and within 24 hours, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty got out.
Perry didn't exactly chase Pawlenty out of the race; the Iowa straw poll (in which T-Paw finished a...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Michele M. Bachmann, Regional Authority, Rick Perry
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Newton: A new voice atop L.A.'s teachers union
Warren Fletcher wrapped up his work three weeks ago as an English teacher at City of Angels and moved over to the headquarters of United Teachers Los Angeles, where he is the union's new president. He missed his first negotiating session because he had to...Tags: Politics, Antonio Villaraigosa, Regional Authority, Career and Workplace, Unions
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Rupert Murdoch attack joins the pantheon of pie throwing
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Meghan Daum: Obama's fast brain vs. slow mouth
Apparently, a lot of people consider President Obama to be bumblingly inarticulate. "The guy can't talk his way out of a paper bag!" a reader wrote to me recently. "Sarah Palin is a brilliant speaker. It's the president whose sentences are undiagrammable,...Tags: Education, Woody Allen, CNN (tv network), Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton
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Upbeat mood at Book Expo America
Los Angeles Times— What makes Jane Fonda say "wow"? A bigger-than-capacity crowd of more than 200 booksellers waiting to hear about her latest, "Prime Time: Creating a Great Third Act," a rousing manual for aging well. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Book...Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Jack Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Diane Keaton, Book
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Leonard Kastle dies at 82; writer-director of 'The Honeymoon Killers'
When Leonard Kastle's debut movie as a writer and director, "The Honeymoon Killers," was released in 1970, critics raved over the grimly realistic, low-budget, black-and-white crime drama about a lowlife lothario and his overweight nurse lover whose...Tags: Crimes, Celebrities and Health Issues, Opera (genre), Marriage, Tony Lo Bianco
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James J. Kilpatrick dies at 89; newspaper columnist and arbiter of language
James J. Kilpatrick, a nationally syndicated columnist whose strongly conservative viewpoints on politics, law and language appeared in hundreds of newspapers over the last five decades and made him a popular, even parodied, television pundit, died Sunday...Tags: Crimes, Newspaper and Magazine, Dan Aykroyd, Entertainment, Periodicals
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Helen Chaplin dies at 97; longtime senior executive at Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel
Helen Chaplin, a sprightly senior executive at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel for more than 40 years who won the hearts of European royalty, heads of state, political pundits and A-list celebrities by attending to their whims as guests, has died. She...Tags: Elvis Presley, PBS (tv network), Celebrities, Norway, Heads of State
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America's hometowns, found in New England
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIt's autumn in New England The days are getting shorter. Wood piles are stacked high. Geese are flying south, and Indian corn is hanging from the door. People in new L.L. Bean flannels stop their cars in the middle of the road snapping pictures or...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Salt, Cornwall, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Wetlands
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