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Bell's neighbors no strangers to public corruption
They flooded Bell City Hall with requests for public records and packed a council meeting with an overflow crowd. They collected signatures demanding an audit of city officials' salaries and vowed to boot their handsomely paid politicians out of office....Tags: Sports, National or Ethnic Minorities, Prosecution, Citizens Initiative and Recall, Local Government
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Szeto Wah dies at 79; Hong Kong democracy activist
Associated PressVeteran Hong Kong democracy activist Szeto Wah, a leading campaigner for the victims of Beijing's 1989 crackdown on protesters at Tiananmen Square and a voice for mainland dissidents, died Sunday of lung cancer at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong...Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Human Rights, Democratic Party, Activism
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Myanmar's dazzling shrines to Buddha
Special to the Los Angeles TimesAs I sat on a high ledge of the 734-year-old Mingalarzedi Temple, looking out over the hundreds of ancient temples around Bagan, I wondered how long it would take a visitor to see them all. Archaeologists say there once were about 5,000 temples, but...Tags: Travel, Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Building Material, Aung San Suu Kyi, Homes
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At last, Peter Sellars will play at the Met
Watching Peter Sellars rehearse is to observe a man possessed. Last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, L.A.'s reknowned theater director was fine-tuning "Nixon in China," which opens Wednesday. The new production of the John Adams opera, about the pre-...Tags: Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Earl Jones, Harold Pinter, Music Theater, Elections
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Sierra Leone's crises have global reach
When the power went out that night, Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie was operating on his fifth patient of the day in a maternity hospital with a shortage of antibiotics and running water. His colleague was doing an emergency caesarean in the next room. In the...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Building Material, Diseases and Illnesses, Gold and Precious Material, Dallas
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Asia travel: Five trends to watch
Special to the Los Angeles TimesGeopolitics. Rhinoplasty. Who knew those would be among the hottest topics in Asia for 2011? It was news to me, and I've been going back and forth to Asia for a quarter-century, with trips to Japan and China last year alone. To see what the Asia...Tags: Travel, Air Transportation Industry, Aung San Suu Kyi, Transportation Industry, Travel Alerts
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Samuel Ruiz dies at 86; Mexican bishop championed rights of Maya Indians
For 40 years as a bishop in Mexico's impoverished Chiapas state, Samuel Ruiz championed the rights of the long-suffering Maya Indians who dominate the lush region. He learned their languages and adopted their customs into Roman Catholic practice.
He also...Tags: Retirement, Reformed, Mexico City, Rebellions, Roman Catholicism
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More bombs bursting in Libya. What for?
Wait a minute. How did this happen? A month or so ago, massive bombing of Libya was on no one's agenda. Libya's government was just as tyrannical and its leader was just as loony then as now. Other governments around the world were even worse, and still...Tags: George W. Bush, CNN (tv network), Saudi Arabia, Hillary Clinton, Treaties
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DVD pirates running rampant in China
Los Angeles TimesPoking around a pirate DVD shop down the block from the Apple Store in central Beijing one recent afternoon on her lunch break, Zhou Xin eyed the floor-to-ceiling selection of Oscar-nominated films, indie flicks and B-movies such as "Nude Nuns With Big...Tags: Avatar (movie), Apple iTunes, Entertainment, Blockbuster, Colleges and Universities
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Book review: 'Eisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis — Suez and the Brink of War' by David A. Nichols
Los Angeles TimesEisenhower 1956: The President's Year of Crisis — Suez and the Brink of War. David A. Nichols Simon & Schuster: 346 pp., $28 As the Middle East has trembled in recent weeks, the Obama administration has struggled for a coherent and forceful...Tags: Stress, Foreign Aid, Elections, Egypt, Republican Party
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SYRIA: Siege continues on Dara as tensions rise ahead of protests [Video]
Babylon & BeyondThe weeklong siege on the flashpoint southern Syrian city of Dara continues, with military reinforcements continuing to deploy along its outskirts. Telephone lines, electricity and water supply are cut off to the city, a center of the earliest and most......
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