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Dennis Rodman urges Barack Obama to call his new BFF Kim Jong Un
It’s a real-life scenario so bizarre and outlandish it seems like it was dreamed up by the writers of “South Park” or “30 Rock”: Retired NBA player turned C-list reality star Dennis Rodman travels to North Korea, becomes...
Tags: Politics, Human Rights, George Stephanopoulos, Harlem Globetrotters, Kim Jong Il
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McManus: Republican 'autopsy' reveals a divide in the party
It's never too early to start thinking about the next presidential race — especially if you're a political party that has managed to lose the popular vote in five of the last six elections, as the Republican Party has. Hence the remarkable...
Tags: Immigration, Politics, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump, Republican Party
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The winner of the Obama presidential library: Chicago or Hawaii?
Future historians of the Barack Obama presidency, where would you rather travel? To that perpetually sunny corner of Polynesia where our 44th president was born? Or to the windy city on Lake Michigan he most recently called home? Barack Obama’s...
Tags: Politics, University of Chicago, Ronald Reagan, Michelle Obama, Education
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Schwarzenegger, your He-Man days have come and gone
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesCOMMENTARY Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent decision to return as executive editor of Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazines makes one thing ...... -
Bill and Hillary Clinton pay respects to Ann Richards on Broadway
It was a VIP guest list that few Broadway productions could dream of. Former President Clinton and former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton paid a visit Tuesday to "Ann," the one-woman biographical play about former Texas Gov. Ann Richards...
Tags: Politics, Hillary Clinton, Gabrielle Giffords, Netherlands, Meryl Streep
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Margaret Thatcher death: Tributes, criticism from around the world
In Britain and around the world, supporters of the late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated her legacy Monday. Even some of her sharpest critics said she defined an era in British public life -- if not always for the right reasons. Among those...Tags: Politics, Human Rights, John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, David Cameron
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Dow rises for ninth straight day; best streak in 16 years
The new pope did not bless the Dow or the rest of the stock market Wednesday. But he didn't have to - stocks are rising without any divine intervention. The Dow Jones industrial average rose for the ninth straight day Wednesday, its longest such...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Credit Ratings, Consumers, O.J. Simpson, Stock Market
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Hoping to break the stalemate, Obama takes GOP senators to dinner
President Obama had a dinner date Wednesday night with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Politics, Ronald Reagan, CNN (tv network), Bob Corker, Republican Party
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Goldberg: What 'the Iron Lady' forged
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...
Tags: Politics, Conservative Party (UK), Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, Political Systems
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Conservatives mourn, praise 'hero' Margaret Thatcher
WASHINGTON -- As news of the death of Margaret Thatcher came in Monday, tributes flowed from conservative leaders across the Capitol, showing the lasting influence the "Iron Lady" on the personal careers of many American lawmakers. “Lady...
Tags: Politics, Tea Party Movement, Ronald Reagan, Political Systems, Government
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TED 2013: Larry Brilliant reflects on impact of his TED Prize
Among those in Long Beach for TED 2013 this week is Larry Brilliant, former head of Google.org. Brilliant was an influential epidemiologist and technologist whose life and career was altered in 2006 when he received the TED Prize. The TED Prize was one...
Tags: Health Organizations, Epidemics and Plagues, Diseases and Illnesses, Larry Page, Polio
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20 years ago, a bomb killed six people at the World Trade Center
Remember this date: Feb. 26, 1993. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, six people died in a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York. Anniversaries are important, for they help set tragedies apart. The philosopher Walter Benjamin once said what...
Tags: Politics, Bombings, Purim, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Personal Data Collection
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