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James R. Browning dies at 93; led 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
James R. Browning, the rural Montana native who rose to head the powerful U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and unified its diverse judges in campaigns to enlarge the bench and protect the sprawling circuit from division, has died. He was 93.
Browning...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Army, Antitrust Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Judges
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Vladimir Putin, Russia's new czar guy
He’s back: Vladimir Putin was inaugurated Monday to his third term as president of Russia. One thing about the Russians -- they like their strongmen. First the czars, then Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev and that lovable bear of a guy, Brezhnev. OK,...
Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Riots, Vladimir Putin, France, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Mikhail Gorbachev says DVD can help cool U.S.-Russia relations
24 FramesMikhail Gorbachev, who once ran the Soviet Union during the Cold War, is touting the home-video release of “Cold War,” the massive documentary about the epic conflict.... -
Home theater: Robert Pattinson makes ladies swoon in 'Bel Ami'
24 FramesIn this new column on 24 Frames, we look at some of the most interesting titles coming to VOD, DVD and Blu-ray. This week, "Twilight" heartthrob Robert Pattinson makes ladies swoon in the French period drama "Bel Ami."... -
Putin's Pyrrhic victory
Vladimir Putin is poised to win more than 50% of the vote Sunday and thus be "elected" president of Russia again. That's not surprising: He has barred every pro-democracy opposition leader from running and limited the overwhelming majority of Russian...Tags: Media Industry, Arab Spring, Politics, Vladimir Putin, Theft
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Will The Lady rule Burma?
If Aung San Suu Kyi is elected to Burma's parliament on Sunday, the world will inevitably ask: Has Asia's Nelson Mandela finally met her President F.W. de Klerk? Or, if you prefer a European comparison, has Asia's Vaclav Havel met her Mikhail Gorbachev?...
Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, China, Lower House, Prisons
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How to handle China's Xi Jinping
Individuals make history. If the last leader of the Soviet Union had not been Mikhail Gorbachev, the world would be a different place. So the character and views ofChina's leader-designate, Xi Jinping, who is visiting the United States, do matter. After...Tags: University of Oxford, Religion and Belief, China, Xi Jinping, John Wayne
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Left in the Past
LA Times MagazineRoy M. Brewer explores Ronald Reagan’s far-from-conservative early days—hear the former president in archival tapes... -
Photographing the American Wall
Culture MonsterPhotographing The American Wall along the Mexican border... -
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Yelena Bonner dies at 88; wife of Andrei Sakharov was a Soviet human rights activist
Reporting from Moscow -- Yelena Bonner, human rights activist and widow of Soviet dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov, has died. She was 88.
Bonner died Saturday afternoon in Boston after a long illness, said her daughter, Tatiana...Tags: Communist Party, Nobel Prize Awards, Moscow Airport Bombing (2011), Demonstration, Human Rights
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Osama bin Laden, born to privilege, dies a pariah
Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that exalted violence against non-believers, and the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West,...Tags: Religion and Belief, Egypt, Revolutions, Firearms, Services and Shopping
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