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Ted Forstmann dies at 71; Wall Street financier, philanthropist
Ted Forstmann, a longtime Wall Street financier and philanthropist who was a major player during the wave of corporate takeovers in the 1980s, including the battle for RJR Nabisco in 1988, died Sunday. He was 71.
The cause was brain cancer, according...Tags: Leveraged Buyouts, Investments, Finance, Companies and Corporations, College Sports
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'Pacific Standard Time': Exhibitions to keep an eye on
A few of the 60-plus shows have already opened, but "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980" officially gets launched Oct. 1 and 2 with a trio of major surveys opening at the Getty, MOCA and LACMA. Here's an annotated list of some of the more...Tags: Politics, African Americans, Edward Weston, World War II (1939-1945), The Getty
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Books that address pivotal points in history
"The past is a foreign country," novelist L.P. Hartley wrote, "they do things differently there." And those extra bits of time around the holidays — on a long drive to visit relatives or waiting for the holiday meal to cook — are perfect for...Tags: Poetry, Marco Polo, Princeton University
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Children and young adults
Abarat
Absolute Midnight
Clive Barker
Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, $24.99, ages 13 and up
In the third installment of this lavish series, a teen girl is menaced by a powerful sorceress in a mystical fantasy world.
The Annotated Peter Pan
J.M....Tags: A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Epiphany, Peter Yarrow, Charles M. Schulz, Duke Ellington
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Malcolm Wallop dies at 78; was Republican U.S. senator
Former Wyoming Sen. Malcolm Wallop, who became a leading conservative voice during the Reagan era in fighting for space defense and a tough anti-communist policy in Central America, died Wednesday. He was 78.
Wallop died at his ranch home near the...Tags: Dick Cheney, U.S. Army
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Economic insecurity rising, new indicator shows
Money & CompanyMore than one in five Americans experienced economic insecurity during the recession, meaning they had an economic loss without an adequate safety net to replace that loss, according to a new report from the Rockefeller Foundation.... -
Weak stock market may be hurting weak economy, report suggests
Money & CompanyA new report from Merrill Lynch suggests the answer may be yes -- that the stock market is weighing on the economy because its acute fluctuations are so psychologically unsettling.... -
Restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila finds a painting that needs a buyer, preferably a carnivore (she's on a money diet)
Daily DishI just discovered illustrator Giselle Potter has a site on Etsy where she sells some of her paintings and illustrations. She's illustrated a number of children's books, including "The Boy Who Loved Words," "The Brave Little Seamstress" and "The Littlest..... -
Africa's most influential celebrity is author Chinua Achebe
Jacket CopySnooki is a celebrity who writes books. In Africa, on the other hand, writing literary books can make you a celebrity.... -
New class of Whiting Award winners announced
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Book review: 'My Faraway One'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMy Faraway One Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz: Volume One, 1915-1933 Edited by Sarah Greenough Yale University Press: 832 pp., $39.95 At the beginning of their correspondence, in 1915, she addressed him as Mr. Stieglitz....Tags: Book, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, Photography, Human Interest
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