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Brand X Files: Alicia Keys marries. Have elites abandoned us? Lindsay Lohan in rehab for meth addiction?
Brand XAlicia Keys marries producer Swizz Beatz: Wedding in Corsica officiated by Dr. Deepak Chopra. Guests reportedly include Bono and Queen Latifah. (N.Y. Post) The new normal: Growth is slowing, and the odds are that unemployment will rise, not fall, in the... -
Walter Cronkite dies at 92; longtime CBS anchorman
Walter Cronkite, the television newsman whose steady baritone informed, reassured and guided the nation during the tumultuous 1960s and '70s and who was still regarded as "the most trusted man in America" years after leaving his CBS anchor chair, has...Tags: Journalism, History, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Retirement, 60 Minutes (tv program)
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Hearst's Mount Vernon West
A big splash. That's what media mogul William Randolph Hearst made when he finished his Santa Monica beach house in 1931. Its gilded rooms and swimming pools impressed the neighbors, but Hearst had it built to impress the nation.
From the end of the...Tags: William Randolph Hearst, Harold Lloyd, Martha Washington, Marion Davies, Sports
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Presidents Day: A new C-SPAN book recounts where they all end up
Top of the TicketGravesites of the presidents details as much about their lives as their final resting places.... -
Presidents Day: A perfect example of Congress' meddling
Top of the TicketPresidents Day is a perfect example of the dangers of a proactive Congress. For one thing, there's the title. Is it President's Day, Presidents' Day or Presidents Day? The sad saga of legislative overkill began in 1885, when Congress made...... -
Voters think George Washington lied. Honest Abe too.
Top of the TicketToday is the 278th anniversary of George Washington's birth. The father of our country won plaudits from historians for declining a third term as president, along with the wigs and titles that would have marked the presidency as a continuation...... -
Obama confers arts and humanities medals on big names, including Dylan and Eastwood
Culture MonsterAfter deliberating for hours on healthcare in Thursday's summit, President Obama turned to the arts, entertainment, literature and scholarship, conferring the National Medal of Arts -- the nation's highest award in the field -- on 12 recipients and the... -
Brand X Files: Hugh Laurie stressed out. Celeb cheaters TV show? iPad struggles at colleges
Brand X'House' star Hugh Laurie overworked, stressed out: "Staying in Hollywood has put strain on my marriage," the popular British actor says. (Daily Mail) Tiger Woods and Jesse James 'mistresses' get reality TV offer: Michelle "Bombshell" McGee and Jamie... -
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi likes Elvis, also dancing, not so much George W. Bush
Top of the TicketDemocrat Pelosi says she will never run for the presidency.... -
On the side streets of Philadelphia, freedom still rings
Special to The Los Angeles TimesPhiladelphia The neon-streaked National Constitution Center dazzled. The historic red-brick Independence Hall stirred. But it wasn't until I stepped onto the rickety back porch of a Quaker house in northwest Philadelphia that I felt transported. It was...Tags: John Adams, Constitutional Issues, Tourism and Leisure, Metal and Mineral, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Holding New Hampshire's primary in place
Times Staff WriterConcord, N.H. — BILL Gardner was at it again, mucking up Democrats' timetable for picking their presidential nominee by insisting on the date he wanted for New Hampshire's vote. So one day, frustrated party leaders sent an emissary to the state...Tags: Nashua Corporation, History, Primaries, Katharine Hepburn, Laws
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'The better angels' side with Obama
A lively debate has developed in these pages and in the blogosphere about the viability of Barack Obama's politics of hope. Critics of Obama's promise to bring us together -- blue states and red, young and old, women and men, blacks and whites -- have...Tags: John Adams, Constitutional Issues, History, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln
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