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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: Pneumonia, Fatigue, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open (golf), Golf
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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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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: George H.W. Bush, Franklin Pierce, Presidents of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, George Washington
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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, Federal Reserve, Religion and Belief, Ethics
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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 ...... -
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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The 20 greatest Dodgers of all time, No. 17: Branch Rickey
Beginning April 11, we asked you to list your choices for the 10 greatest Dodgers of all time. You could vote via comment, Facebook, Twitter or email. And vote you did. From then until April 21, when voting closed, we received an amazing 12,231 ballots....
Tags: St. Louis Cardinals, Baseball, Voting, Los Angeles Dodgers, Jackie Robinson
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With new presidential library, George W. Bush back in public eye
WASHINGTON — President Obama, the four living ex-presidents and thousands of others head to Dallas on Thursday for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The challenge facing library officials will be to keep the...
Tags: The Washington Post, University of Pittsburgh, Gerald Ford, Iraq War (2003-2011), Television Industry
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Now in Congress: Bills to expand Yosemite for first time in 75 years
WASHINGTON -- Yosemite National Park would grow by about 1,600 acres, its first expansion in 75 years, to shield its western boundary from potential development under legislation introduced in Congress Tuesday. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who...
Tags: Tom McClintock, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, National Parks, Environmental Issues
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Tax Day quiz: Honest Abe? Tricky Dick? Machine Gun Kelly?
You might describe April 15 as America’s “anti-holiday.” As Joseph Thorndike, a historian and director of the Tax History Project, put it, Tax Day is "something we all share but not something any of us want to do." In fact, Americans...
Tags: Personal Income, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Taxation, Politics
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Some post office locations to be open later on tax day
It’s tax day, and for those scrambling to get their forms postmarked in time, the U.S. Postal Service is making things a little easier. Some post offices will have extended hours to help last-minute filers make the midnight deadline. Federal tax...
Tags: Mail Order Industry, Taxation, U.S. Postal Service, Politics, Internal Revenue Service
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Letters: FDR, Jews and the war
Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...Tags: The Holocaust (1934-1945), Cambodia, Religion and Belief, Jimmy Carter, Nazi Party
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