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The Rev. Louis H. Evans, organizing pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church, dies at 82
The Rev. Louis H. Evans Jr., the organizing pastor of Bel Air Presbyterian Church who went on to lead the congregation of the National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C., where Ronald Reagan worshiped while he was president, has died. He was 82. --...Tags: Children, Lou Gehrig, Death, Obituaries, Colleges and Universities
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The Rev. George M. Docherty dies at 97; led push to include 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance
From Times Wire ServicesThe Rev. George M. Docherty, credited with helping to push Congress to insert the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance, has died. He was 97. Docherty, who had been in failing health for about three years, died on Thanksgiving at his home in...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Abraham Lincoln, Television Industry, White House, Colleges and Universities
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Fidel's slow fade
In the early '90s, when I was living in Havana with my family, my eldest daughter, Bella, who was then about 6 years old, came home from school one afternoon in a state of excitement. She asked me, in Spanish: "Daddy, do you know what 'amor' means?" I...Tags: Entertainment, National Government, Government, Raul Castro, Foreign Aid
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They're Republican red, and true blue to Obama
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterChatter bounces off the bare walls and checkered linoleum floor as Josh Pedaline and other Barack Obama supporters burn through their call sheets. A map of Delaware County splays across a tabletop. Another table is laden with cookies, pretzels and...Tags: Colin Powell, YouTube, University of Iowa, Gun Control, Referenda
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'Justice'
The motto "Equal Justice Under Law" appears on the west facade of the Supreme Court building, not the White House. But presidents have played an important rolein making good on that aspiration. It was the court that ordered desegregation of public...Tags: Discrimination, Assault, White House, Local Government, Elections
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A Congo lesson for Bush
ADAM HOCHSCHILD is the author, among other books, of "King Leopold's Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa." It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and hDEAR MR. PRESIDENT: Your interview in the Washington Post made headlines across the country Wednesday because you continued to talk about "victory" in Iraq — a hint that you may increase the number of American troops there. But it caught my eye...Tags: Iraq, Halliburton Company, Africa, Congo, History
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Cuba, suspended in time
Times Staff WriterFATHER John Bakas walked the crowded cobblestone streets of Old Havana, dined on spicy red beans and rice at an outdoor cafe and led vesper services at a 2-year-old Greek Orthodox Church near Havana Bay. Several members of his congregation, St. Sophia...Tags: National Government, Labor Legislation, Restaurants, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Foreign Aid
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Herbert York dies at 87; scientist and arms-control leader
Herbert York, a leading physicist in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II who later became an arms-control advocate and founding chancellor of UC San Diego, has died. He was 87. York died Tuesday at Thornton Hospital in San Diego, the...Tags: Science, Applied Physics, Clark Kerr, Science and Technology, Defense
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Privilege has its limits
WITH PRESIDENT BUSH invoking executive privilege to prevent former aides from testifying about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, and congressional Democrats hinting at a cover-up, it seems naive to ask why the branches of government can't just get...Tags: Richard Nixon, Government, White House, Local Government, George W. Bush
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Being more like Ike
It may be possible to forgive a president for failing to understand the present or to foresee the future, but it is harder to forgive a total lack of interest in the past. The Bush administration has displayed a peculiar disinterest in previous...Tags: Richard Nixon, Korean War (1950-1953), Government, Ulysses S. Grant, White House
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Because we could not stop for death...
To shorten the long waits between a death penalty conviction and an execution 17 years in this state the California Supreme Court asked on Monday for a constitutional amendment that would let lower courts handle some of the load. The lengthy wait time...Tags: Criminal Laws, History, Criminals, Local Government, Arts and Culture
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Resurrecting the moderate Republican
Sixty years ago last month, I watched my parents pull the curtains of their voting booths in a Michigan town hall basement to vote for the man who lost the 1948 presidential election. He was Thomas E. Dewey, a Republican widely expected, even by the...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Humphrey Bogart, George W. Bush, Local Elections, Organized Crime
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