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Steve Alford has big legacy to fill
Steve Alford was formally introduced as UCLA's basketball coach Tuesday, at center court in Pauley Pavilion. He mentioned John Wooden three times during his first three minutes in the Westwood spotlight. Athletic Director Dan Guerrero noted the...
Tags: Iowa Hawkeyes, Big Ten Conference, UCLA Bruins, Health and Safety at School, Assault
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Frank Pooler dies at 86; choral director mentored the Carpenters
Frank Pooler, a longtime choral director at Cal State Long Beach who is credited with helping the 1970s pop group the Carpenters develop their signature sound, has died. He was 86. Pooler died Jan. 19 in his Los Alamitos home after a short battle with...
Tags: Obituaries, Students, The Carpenters (music group), California State University, Long Beach, Religious Festivals
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PASSINGS: Dyer Brainerd Holmes, T.S. Cook, Joel Schaeffer
Dyer Brainerd Holmes NASA manned space flight director Dyer Brainerd Holmes, 91, director of manned space flight for NASA when Americans were making their early forays into space in the early 1960s, died Friday at a hospital in Memphis, Tenn., of...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nuclear Power, Aerospace Manufacturing, Los Angeles Unified School District, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)
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What will a new hip cost? Few hospitals quote a price, study finds
Only 16% of U.S. hospitals surveyed in a recent study gave a complete price quote for a common hip surgery, highlighting the obstacles many patients face in comparison shopping. Pricing information remains difficult to obtain from medical providers...Tags: Prices, Medical Research, Hospitals and Clinics, American Medical Association, Hip Replacement
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The Siren's Call: Inner journeys and mental travelers
Visionaries. Blake had a special name for them: "Mental Travellers." Their bodies might be enslaved, but not their minds, which roamed and saw things "cold earth wanderers never knew." If you consider yourself one of these travelers, you're in good...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Nick Owchar, World War II (1939-1945), Travel, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth
Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...
Tags: Poetry, Authors, Breads, Wallace Stegner, Truman Capote
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Earl Rose dies at 85; Dallas medical examiner on JFK case
Dr. Earl Rose, the medical examiner in Dallas when President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died Tuesday at a retirement community in Iowa City, Iowa. He was 85. Rose's wife, Marilyn, said he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and then...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Jack Ruby, Oliver Stone, Alzheimer's Disease, Bethesda (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Herbert Nipson dies at 95; helped broaden Ebony magazine's audience
When Herbert Nipson joined Ebony magazine's editorial staff in 1949, the publication, founded just four years earlier in Chicago, had a target readership of urban African Americans, and its stories reflected that sensibility. But as the civil rights...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Clearfield (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, Colleges and Universities
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National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced
Jacket CopyThe White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor...... -
Juan Felipe Herrera appointed California poet laureate
Jacket CopyJuan Felipe Herrera was appointed California poet laureate by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. His 2008 collection "Half of the World in Light" was a winner of that year's National Book Critics Circle award in poetry.... -
Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Diplomacy, Time Warner Inc., Bob Dylan, Parties and Movements, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated
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Philip Levine 'stunned' to be named next U.S. poet laureate
Los Angeles TimesPhilip Levine, the Pulitzer Prize winner who was named the nation's next poet laureate Wednesday, has spent much of his career listening and reflecting on the voices of America. In his new job he said he has one main goal. "I want to bring poetry to...Tags: Poetry, Politics, Career and Workplace, Stanford University, New York University
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