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Letters: Government surveillance and safety
Re "Brave new world of snooping," Editorial, June 7 Aldous Huxley works well, and let's not forget George Orwell. But when studying the latest shock over vast and secret government spying, there is little time to unpack literary lessons. Covert...Tags: Verizon Communications
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Harvey Fierstein is marathon man of awards season
An entertainment kingpin named Harvey with a voracious appetite for awards campaigning? And an involvement in multiple hit productions? Hollywood veterans would immediately think of Harvey Weinstein. But the description fits another Harvey: Fierstein,...
Tags: Audra McDonald, Times Square, Tony Awards, Music, Entertainment
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Rob Lowe will play JFK in 'Killing Kennedy'
Rob Lowe made a major impression with viewers over the Memorial Day weekend playing Liberace's plastic surgeon in the HBO film "Behind the Candelabra." Now he's following that up with another eye-catching role, as John F. Kennedy in National Geographic...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Comedy Central (tv network), Entertainment, Arrested Development (tv program) , Ginnifer Goodwin
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Review: A pleasant 'Cooperstown,' but questions stand out
Jackie Robinson never appears in Brian Golden’s “Cooperstown,” currently enjoying its West Coast premiere at the Road Theatre Company’s shiny new second stage, but the very idea of him is enough to catalyze powerful changes for the...
Tags: Sports, Jackie Robinson, Baseball, National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, Dwayne Johnson
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This presidential database loves running and Legos
Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and running so fast across the living room to flip onto the couch that his feet end up pointing at the ceiling. He also loves the presidents — especially 11 and 33. Arden knows all 44 U.S. presidents. In order....
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Chester Alan Arthur, Government, Harry S. Truman, John Adams
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Ken Venturi dies at 82; golfer had dramatic win in 1964 U.S. Open
Ken Venturi, who won the 1964 U.S. Open golf championship in dramatic fashion and became a longtime television commentator, died Friday in Rancho Mirage. He was 82. Venturi, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame earlier this month, died at...
Tags: Sports, Fatigue, Golf, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open (golf)
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Abraham Lincoln exhibition opening in June at Reagan Library
Did Daniel Day-Lewis leave you with the urge for more Abraham Lincoln? A new exhibition devoted to Lincoln -- featuring 250 historical artifacts, as well as sets and costumes from last year's Steven Spielberg movie starring Day-Lewis as the 16th...
Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Steven Spielberg
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Goldberg: Niall Ferguson's blooper
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...
Tags: Philosophy, Gays and Lesbians, Religion and Belief, Sonia Sotomayor, Awards and Prizes
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Loyola sprinters pass test without a glitch
For those who run relays in track and field, passing the baton can be scarier than a scene from "A Nightmare on Elm Street." Just ask sprinter Morgan Simon of Los Angeles Loyola High. He remembers suddenly dreaming about dropping the baton. "I looked...
Tags: Track and Field
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City Beat: An authority on the presidents at age 5
Arden Hayes is 5. He loves Legos and doing flips onto the living room couch. He also loves our nation's presidents. He knows all 44 in order and can tell you something about any one of them. Arden knows a lot about the presidents because he reads a...
Tags: Benjamin Harrison, Twitter, Inc.
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‘White House Down’ trailer sees Roland Emmerich back in action mode
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesRoland Emmerich is destroying the White House all over again in the new trailer for his summer action event film ......
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