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University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
May Day: A complicated path from massacre to workers to loyalty
Politics makes strange bedfellows and even stranger ironies. Take May Day, a holiday that was as much born in the U.S.A. as Bruce Springsteen but was spurned by Americans in the 20th century because the elites feared it was too radical. If you think...
Tags: Holidays, Bruce Springsteen, Occupy Wall Street, Massacres, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Frank Gehry defends Eisenhower memorial design
Culture MonsterFrank Gehry didn't attend Monday's Congressional hearing about his design for the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial in Washington. But the Los Angeles architect sent a letter defending his controversial conception of the public memorial, while also... -
Presidential campaign inevitably boosts war with Iran
Who’s ready to go to war with Iran?
Oh, I forgot. Since we now have an army of professionals, none of the rest of us is actually required to go to war. And, since we now allow commanders-in-chief to unilaterally send that army into battle...Tags: Politics, Ron Paul, National Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mitt Romney
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As prices rise, which president faced the worst at the gas pump?
Times Staff WriterSome respite. After a day or so in which prices dropped by a negligible amount, the national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is again on the rise, up 0.9 cents overnight and up 3.4 cents since last week to $3.801. In California, the price rise...Tags: Richard Nixon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, George H.W. Bush, Environmental Issues
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Eisenhower Memorial Commission throws support behind Gehry
Culture MonsterThe committee that first selected Frank Gehry to design a planned Eisenhower Memorial in Washington, D.C., confirms its support for his design, which was questioned by Eisenhower's family.... -
Eisenhower Memorial Commission sticks with Frank Gehry design
The Eisenhower Memorial Commission is sticking with Frank Gehry’s design, despite the Eisenhower family's objections. Commission members are "unanimous in their total and unqualified support’’ for the Los Angeles architect's vision...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Frank Gehry, Sculpture, JetBlue Airways, Arts and Culture
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Eisenhower Memorial opponents' McCarthyite attack
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight looks at the McCarthyite attack on the Eisenhower Memorial design for Washington, D.C.'s, National Mall.... -
A Hero Among the Stars
Each year, the president of the Tournament of Roses Assn. selects a prominent public figure to personify the event’s chosen theme as its honorary Grand Marshal. The Grand Marshal rides at the front of the Rose Parade and tosses the coin before the...Tags: Entertainment Events, Rose Bowl Game, Hudson River, International Military Interventions, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Jean Smith dies at 93; Junior League president and Nancy Reagan confidant
Jean Webb Vaughan Smith, a member of the Reagans' inner circle who championed volunteerism as national president of the Assn. of Junior Leagues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes, her family said. She was 93.
Smith joined the Junior...Tags: Justice System, Justice System, Nancy Reagan, Lawyers, American Red Cross
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Robert A. Citron dies at 79; space visionary
Robert A. Citron, an aerospace engineer and intrepid entrepreneur, whose boyhood fantasy of traveling beyond Earth inspired pioneering ventures to commercialize space, died Jan. 31 at his home in Bellevue, Wash. He was 79.
The cause was complications...Tags: Technology, Companies and Corporations, Conservation, Manufacturing and Engineering, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Arts on TV: Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Doctor Who; Sonny Rollins
Culture MonsterArts TV programming this week...
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