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Lakers column: In the Lakers FYI column in the April 19 Sports section, an item about Lakers radio broadcaster Mychal Thompson and his son Klay, a guard who plays for Golden State, referred to Cleveland forward Tristan Thompson as another of Mychal's...Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Tristan Thompson, Golden State Warriors, Jumping the Broom (movie)
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Word of Mouth: South Korea's 'My Way' tries to find a way in U.S.
More than 1.7 million Korean Americans live in the United States, and CJ Entertainment America is seeking to lure a good percentage of them — as well as the wider art house cinema crowd — to theaters starting Friday for "My Way," touted as the...
Tags: Japan, A Separation (movie), Latvia, South Korea, Wrath of the Titans (movie)
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Murray Seeger dies at 82; L.A. Times reporter led Moscow bureau
Murray Seeger, a Los Angeles Times foreign correspondant who served as Moscow bureau chief in the early 1970s and was later director of information for the AFL-CIO, has died. He was 82.
Seeger, who lived in Silver Spring, Md., died of pneumonia Monday in...Tags: Russia, Federal Reserve, Radio, News Media, Media Industry
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Taking a nostalgic ride on the world's oldest roller coasters
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterReporting from Lakemont Park in Altoona, Pa.-- My current travels across the great American roller-coaster belt will put me aboard five of the oldest operating coasters in the world, including the very oldest at little Lakemont Park here in Altoona....Tags: Folklore and Mythology, Amusement and Theme Parks, Coney Island, Thomas Edison, Railway Transportation
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Beet poetry
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Salt, Potatoes, Sour Cream, Foods and Beverages, Balkan Peninsula
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Music review: Gidon Kremer and his Kremerata Baltica take a spiritual plunge [updated]
Culture Monster“I love beautiful women,” Gidon Kremer wrote in 1995 at the end of his memoir “Splinters of a Childhood.” “Obviously I shall have a lot of unpleasantness because of this.” Still the Latvian violinist -- who appeared with his chamber...... -
Firefighters rescue deer stranded on Baltic Sea ice floe
L.A. UnleashedWARSAW, Poland -- Polish firefighters dodged treacherous sheets of ice in a risky after-dark rescue of a terrified deer stranded on a floe in the Baltic Sea, a spokesman said Wednesday. The rescue team faced serious hazards navigating among the...... -
Is NATO reaching too far east?
Today's question: Did the U.S. overplay its hand in Eastern Europe when Russia was weak and reeling from the collapse of the Soviet Union? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed the extent to which Russia wants to exert control over former Soviet...Tags: Russia, George H.W. Bush, NATO, Upper West Side, Nokia Corp.
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PASSINGS
Arnold Meri Genocide trial subject Arnold Meri, 89, a decorated Red Army veteran charged with genocide for deporting hundreds of his Estonian countrymen to Siberia in 1949, died Friday at his home in Tallinn, Estonia. In 2007, Estonian prosecutors...Tags: Crimes, Estonia, Lawyers, International Court or Tribunal, Deportation
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What's NATO worth?
Today's question: How far east should NATO expand? Should the United States concede Russian dominance over the Caucasus in exchange for admitting, say, Ukraine into NATO? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed Russia’s membership in G-8 and...Tags: Russia, Wars and Interventions, Latvia, George H.W. Bush, NATO
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What does Putin want?
Today's question: Should the world prepare for an era of expanding Russia hegemony? How should the U.S. and its allies respond? All week, Andrew Meier and Michael C. Moynihan discuss post-Cold War Russia. Putin's push for Western acceptance Point: Andrew...Tags: Crimes, Russia, Wars and Interventions, Sting, NATO
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Stand up to Russia
It took the Red Army -- excuse me, the Russian army -- only two days to secure Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Now Russia is pressing its attacks into the heart of Georgia, threatening to cut the major east-west highway and vital oil pipeline. Moscow's...Tags: Yom Kippur, Crimes, Russia, Estonia, Politics
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