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Ed Koch's most memorable TV appearances
It seems fitting, if sad, that Ed Koch should pass away on the same day that "Koch," a documentary about his life, opened in Manhattan. Though the three-term mayor of New York City, who died early Friday of congestive heart failure, is best known for...
Tags: Coca-Cola Co., The Tree of Life (movie), Heart Failure, Woody Allen, Michael Bloomberg
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Review: Devastating 'The Central Park Five' details injustice
New York Mayor Ed Koch didn't shrink from calling it "the crime of the century." A TV newscaster talked angrily about evildoers who "blazed a nighttime trail of terror" that culminated in the horrific beating and savage rape of a Central Park jogger on...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Central Park, Movies, Crime, Law and Justice, DNA
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Goldberg: The folly of recall elections
It should surprise no one that I'm opposed to the recall of Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor whose fate will be decided Tuesday. But that's only in part because I support what he's been trying to do in the Badger State. I'm also against recalls as a...
Tags: Republican Party, Gray Davis, Government, Regional Authority, The Wall Street Journal
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Cannes 2012: Ken Burns' 'Central Park Five' explores famous crime
24 Frames“The Central Park Five,” a devastating new documentary directed by Ken Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns that is premiering out of competition at Cannes, examines the truth around the savage beating and rape of a New York jogger. Five black... -
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo: 'We must transform our state government'
Top of the TicketThird in a Ticket series of State of the State speeches: Democrat says New York has the worst tax climate for businesses of any state.... -
University of California President Mark Yudof: The BMOC
Mark Yudof became president of the University of California in 2008. Some timing. Since then, the university has seen its state funding, which accounts for about 13% of its operating budget, cut again and again.
Now Gov. Jerry Brown wants another $500...Tags: Career and Workplace, Science and Technology, University of California, Government, Regional Authority
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Theodore Kheel dies at 96; labor mediator helped resolve thousands of disputes
Theodore Kheel, a New York labor mediator who helped resolve more than 30,000 disputes, including an East Coast longshoremen's strike in 1962 and the city's 114-day newspaper union walkout the next year, has died. He was 96.
Kheel died Friday in New York...Tags: Robert Moses, Career and Workplace, Labor Disputes, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Robert Hilburn's memoir: John Lennon remaking himself, then gone
Hilburn, former pop music critic for the Los Angeles Times, is author of "Corn Flakes With John Lennon (and Other Tales From a Rock 'n' Roll Life)." An excerpt in Sunday Calendar recalled his relationship with Lennon after the Beatles' breakup. In today's...Tags: Central Park, Al Green, Murder, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly
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Percy Sutton dies at 89; civil rights attorney represented Malcolm X
Times Staff And Wire ReportsPercy Sutton, the pioneering civil rights attorney who represented Malcolm X before launching successful careers as a political power broker and media mogul, has died. He was 89. Marissa Shorenstein, a spokeswoman for New York Gov. David Paterson,...Tags: Apollo Theater, Jesse Jackson, Career and Workplace, National or Ethnic Minorities, Justice System
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Live review: LCD Soundsystem commands the crowd of drunk girls (and boys)
Pop & HissThis much is true: If you write a song called âDrunk Girls,â no matter how thick you cake on the layers of irony, you will reap what you sow. Of course, there are other ways to explain the popularity of...... -
A force to be reckoned with
Bill McKibben's writing -- part art, part essay, part journalism with more than a smidgen of harangue -- has framed the thinking on environmental issues for more than a generation. Two new books out this spring, "The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an...Tags: Bible, Robert Frost, Middlebury, Journalism, Activism
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Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Office of the President of the United States is the head of the executive branch of the government. Actor Ronald Reagan occupied the office during the 1980s, which began with a recession after the stagflation of the late 1970s under Jimmy Carter. Nell...Tags: Nell Carter, AMR Corp., Ronald Reagan, Government, Apple iPhone
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