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For South Korea, no respect, no Kaesong
It's time for South Korea to face facts: The Kaesong experiment has failed. The ideologically motivated joint business venture with North Korea known as the Kaesong industrial complex is not economically viable, nor has it achieved any of its political...
Tags: South Korea, Career and Workplace, Human Rights, Heritage Foundation, Park Geun-hye
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'Scandal' has become must-tweet TV
ABC's "Scandal" revolves around a beautiful, law-breaking Washington power-fixer with killer instincts and a matching wardrobe. She's madly in love with the very flawed president of the United States, who, among other things, recently murdered a Supreme...
Tags: Television, ABC (tv network), Downton Abbey (tv program), Guillermo Diaz, Bill Clinton
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McManus: Obama's Gitmo woes
President Obama sounded genuinely outraged last week when he talked about the Kafkaesque situation at the Guantanamo prison camp, where the United States has been holding 166 men without trial for terms that are, at this point, officially endless. "It's...
Tags: Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Career and Workplace, U.S. Department of State, Joe Biden
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Five American soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Five American soldiers were killed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb, officials said. The powerful explosion took place about 2 p.m. when an American armored vehicle hit the device in the...
Tags: Afghanistan, Kabul (Afghanistan), Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Hamid Karzai
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Terror database too vague to flag Boston suspect
WASHINGTON — When a Russian intelligence service told the CIA that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had become an Islamic radical looking to join underground groups, the agency put his name in the government's catch-all database for terrorism suspects. The...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Police Investigations, U.S. Department of State, Law Enforcement
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: Kabul (Afghanistan), Afghanistan, Police Investigations, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
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Bear cub rescued after getting stuck in unlocked truck
We're pretty sure Meatball the bear wasn't trying to make a great escape. Maybe it was his alter ego? A bear cub had to be rescued Wednesday evening after somehow managing to get stuck in an unlocked truck in Truckee, a town outside north Lake Tahoe,...
Tags: David Petraeus
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev met with militants in Dagestan, official says
Russian intelligence officials believe Tamerlan Tsarnaev may have met with militants while living in a Russian province in 2012, a U.S. counter-terrorism official told the Los Angeles Times on Thursday. Tsarnaev, 26, one of the two brothers accused of...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism, FBI, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
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Boston suspects planned July 4 attack, official says
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, told investigators that the pair had originally planned to mount an attack on the Fourth of July, a U.S. counter-terrorism official said Thursday. Meanwhile, another counter-...Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Terrorism, FBI, Sports
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Anonymous note threat at Pasadena High prompts extra security
Police are beefing up security at Pasadena High School on Thursday and Friday in response to an anonymous note threatening violence on the campus, school and public safety officials said. The note did not specify who might commit violence and the writer...Tags: Safety of Citizens, Government, Politics, David Petraeus, Health and Safety at School
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DWP workers tops in city with total pay averaging nearly $100,000
Employees at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power earned average total pay of nearly $100,000 in 2011 -- more than 50% higher than the average total pay of all other city employees, a Times analysis of payroll data found. That pay is also about...Tags: Career and Workplace, Unions, Local Elections, David Petraeus
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David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC
David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...
Tags: U.S. Army, Princeton University, FBI, Colleges and Universities, Woodrow Wilson
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