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Who's messing with whose jobs?
Gov. Jerry Brown ought to cut his Texas brother, Rick Perry, a little slack. Texas Gov. Perry arrived in the Golden State this week trolling for California businesses he could poach and carry home with him in his saddlebags. His trip here comes on the...
Tags: Personal Income, Rick Perry, Taxation, Robert Anderson , Labor Markets
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Texas talk is losing its twang
AUSTIN, Texas — Don Graham, an English professor at the University of Texas at Austin, likes to tell the story of a student who once worked as a cowboy. "Wore hat and boots," Graham says. "He was the real deal." At the end of the academic year,...
Tags: Dallas (tv program), Teaching and Learning, Germany, Larry Hagman, Matthew McConaughey
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Texas track coach Bev Kearney resigns, admits affair with athlete
Bev Kearney, a Hall of Fame track coach at the University of Texas, has resigned due to an "intimate consensual relationship" with a Longhorns athlete in 2002. A statement released by the school Saturday reads in part: "Coach Bev Kearney informed...
Tags: Texas Longhorns, Teaching and Learning, Students, College Sports, Colleges and Universities
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Review: Jim Holt's compelling 'Why Does the World Exist?'
-------------------- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story Jim Holt Liveright: 310 pp., $27.95 -------------------- "How old is the Universe?" Kurt Vonnegut asked in his 1973 novel "Breakfast of Champions." "It is one half-second...
Tags: Steven Weinberg, Separation of Church and State, Philosophy, Authors, Religion and Belief
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Record low number of babies born in Japan
World NowFewer babies were born in Japan last year than in any other year on record, pulling down its population for the third year in a row, according to government statistics released this week. The loss of more than 260,000 people is the biggest drop that the... -
UC files court brief supporting race-based admissions policy
L.A. NOWThe University of California on Monday submitted a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the use of race as a factor in college admissions. UC President Mark G. Yudof and the system’s 10 chancellors filed the “friend of the court”... -
2012 is tragic, but mass shootings not increasing, experts say
As Howard B. Unruh barricaded himself in hisĀ homeĀ against the police -- after finally running out of ammunition -- he got a call from an assistant city editor at a local newspaper who had looked up his phone number. “Why are you killing people?&...
Tags: Interior Policy, Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Gang Activity, Theft
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Western Costume, closet to the stars, turns 100
Los Angeles TimesTo the casual passerby, there's nothing remarkable about the 120,000-square-foot former printing plant fronting a sun-baked stretch of Vanowen Street in North Hollywood. There's nothing to indicate that, just beyond the double doors, gangsters are earning...Tags: Music, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Entertainment, Raiders of the Lost Ark (movie), Sidney Sheldon
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Oldest known Maya calendar, ancient paintings found in Guatemala
World NowIn the remote northeastern corner of Guatemala, archaeologists have found what appears to be the 9th century workplace of a city scribe, an unusual dwelling adorned with magnificent pictures of the king and other royals and the oldest known Maya calendar.... -
John R. Hubbard dies at 92; USC president, historian and diplomat
John R. Hubbard, a historian and former U.S. ambassador to India who was president of USC in the 1970s, died Sunday at his Rancho Mirage home after a long illness, the university announced. The broad-shouldered and outspoken Texas native, widely known...Tags: Saudi Arabia, India, History, Elections, Diplomacy
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Gov. Rick Perry's big donors fare well in Texas
Texas Gov. Rick Perry has powered his political career on the largesse of donors like Dallas billionaire Harold Simmons, who gave the governor $1.12 million in recent years.
And donors like Simmons have found the rewards to be mutual, reaping benefits...Tags: Des Moines (Polk, Iowa), Political Candidates, Business Enterprises, Career and Workplace, Government
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Shel Hershorn dies at 82; photojournalist chronicled '60s tumult
Shel Hershorn, a photojournalist who documented the tumult of the 1960s and then dropped out to live a rustic lifestyle in northern New Mexico, died Sept. 17 at a nursing home in Espanola, N.M. He was 82.
Born in Denver on June 11, 1929, Herbert...Tags: Lee Harvey Oswald, Dallas, Jack Ruby, Newspaper and Magazine, Fine Arts
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