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TV Picks: 'Futurama,' 'The Hustle,' child activists, 'Wilfred'
Los Angeles Times Television Critic"Futurama" (Comedy Central, Wednesdays). Science fiction and comedy are "like that." (Writer crosses fingers to indicate closeness.) Each takes emerging facts to their extreme, often absurd conclusions; both are fundamentally philosophical —...Tags: Entertainment, PBS (tv network), Vaccines, Scrubs (tv program), John DiMaggio
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Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India
The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...
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The typewriter lives on in India
It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...Tags: Indira Gandhi, Fine Arts, Symbols and Symbolism, Government, Theft
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]
World NowFire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies.... -
William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review
William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...Tags: Entertainment, PBS (tv network), Lauren Bacall, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elections
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'A Dead Hand: A Novel' by Paul Theroux
Paul Theroux's contribution to the revival of contemporary travel writing is so seminal that casual readers may be inclined to forget that most of his rather astonishingly prodigious output has been literary fiction.
"A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta" is...Tags: Travel, Bono, Trips and Vacations, Brad Pitt, Social Issues
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PASSINGS: Jyoti Basu, Joe Shannon
Jyoti Basu
Communist statesman of India
Jyoti Basu, 95, a veteran communist leader who in 1996 came close to becoming India's prime minister, died Sunday in Calcutta of multiple organ failure, a party spokesman said. Basu became chief minister of West...Tags: National Government, Communist Party of China, Birmingham , World War II (1939-1945), Manmohan Singh
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Cuisines of two Indian cities
Special to The TimesON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...Tags: Potatoes, Metal and Mineral, Kenya, Islam, Building Material
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Ali Akbar Khan dies at 87; sarod player helped bring Indian music to U.S.
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan, the master Indian musician and composer who was a pivotal figure in introducing the music of his homeland to the West, has died. He was 87. The legendary sarod player and teacher died of kidney failure Thursday night at his home...Tags: Entertainment, Music Industry, Ravi Shankar, Museum of Modern Art, India
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George Platt, theatrical producer
George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
Born in Baltimore, he...Tags: Entertainment, Maryland State Police, Benny Goodman, Steve McQueen, Phyllis Diller
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Friday morning news from around the world
Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...Tags: National Government, The Pennsylvania State University, Concerts, Islamabad (Pakistan), Elections
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....Tags: Prosecution, Disasters and Accidents, Witnesses, Hospitals and Clinics, Fires
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