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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Parties and Movements, John Kerry, John McCain, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, White House
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Governors Awards: Jeffrey Katzenberg's phone skills revealed
They all talk about the phone calls — Will Smith, Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks. What binds them is the relentless prodding they’ve all received from Hollywood’s most bullish fundraiser, Jeffrey Katzenberg. At the fourth-annual...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Quentin Tarantino, Michael J. Fox, John Lasseter, Entertainment
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On-stage drama rules the Golden Globes
An unpredictable Hollywood awards season took a few more sharp curves at the Golden Globes: Jodie Foster gave a dramatic and at times cryptic speech, former President Clinton put in a surprise appearance, and all that on-stage drama upstaged the movies in...
Tags: Television Industry, Skyfall (movie), Jennifer Lawrence, Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Quentin Tarantino
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Why the poor favor the Democrats
Speaking to donors after the election, Mitt Romney attributed his loss to President Obama to the administration's strategy of "giving a lot of stuff" to blacks and Latinos, citing in particular "free healthcare" and "amnesty for the children of illegals."...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Parties and Movements, Politics, Career and Workplace, Poverty
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Crunching the numbers: How big was Obama's win?
Just weeks after the election, President Obama has launched a campaign-style drive to gain the upper hand in budget talks with Republicans. How the negotiations play out will provide a much clearer measure of exactly how much clout he gained in...
Tags: Politics, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Mitt Romney
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Golden Globes 2013: Hugh Jackman, Daniel Day-Lewis win actor honors
In an evening with some mild surprises, two favorites won the top actor honors at the Golden Globes: Daniel Day-Lewis for "Lincoln" and Hugh Jackman for "Les Miserables." For playing the 16th president of the United States, Day-Lewis won for best...
Tags: Lena Dunham, Bradley Cooper, Joaquin Phoenix, Steven Spielberg, Christoph Waltz
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Do not pity the rich; they can handle higher taxes
The richest Americans might find lumps of coal in their stockings on Christmas morning and, if not that, then they can definitely anticipate big hangovers on New Year’s Day. The metaphorical coal lumps and hangovers will be thanks to President...
Tags: Politics, Mining, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Congress, Elections
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3 unconventional picks for secretary of State
With the 2012 presidential election over, attention nows turns to the inevitable shuffling of personnel in the Obama administration. Chief among the vacancies will be at the helm of the State Department, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has...
Tags: Turtle Bay, Parties and Movements, John Kerry, Gerald Ford, Harry S. Truman
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Inauguration 2013: Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, deliver big
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticAmid the pomp of Monday’s inaugural ceremonies were a number of visual non-sequiturs, and most of them involved Jay-Z -- at least those not involving the sight of a former American Idol winner up there. There he was, in the same frame as Sen....Tags: Joe Biden, Kelly Clarkson, James Taylor, Entertainment, Music
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Samsung takes the spotlight as CES becomes truly global
LAS VEGAS — For a corpse, the International Consumer Electronics Show was pretty lively. The 2013 trade show, which ended a four-day run Friday, attracted a record 3,250 exhibitors and was on pace to match last year's 156,000 in attendance despite...
Tags: Computer Hardware, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., International CES, Guillermo Del Toro, Electronics
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Renew the Mideast peace process? Not now
Israelis cynically refer to the repeated rounds of violence with the Arabs as "happiness," as in "it's happy today." Before the cease-fire, as Hamas fired 1,000 rockets at Israel, it was indeed very "happy." A diplomatic push put an end to the fighting,...
Tags: National Government, Mahmoud Abbas, Politics, Benjamin Netanyahu, Iran
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Kinsley: The more things change ...
Bill Clinton became president on a platform of "change." Not change in any particular way — just change in the abstract. Like characters in a Chekhov play, Americans found daily life unbearable in some usually unspecified way, and dreamed of escape....
Tags: Kevin Phillips, Medicare, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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