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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...
Tags: Nazi Party, Johns Hopkins University, Religion and Belief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Government
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Syria blames Israel for new explosions in Damascus
BEIRUT -- Huge explosions were reported early Sunday in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and state-run media blamed Israel for a strike on a defense research facility outside the capital. State television said Israeli rockets had targeted a research...
Tags: Lebanon, Government, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics, Wars and Interventions
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Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction
First they put a lid on it, and now they're pulling the plug. Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, a fixture on the Southern California live music scene for more than 40 years, will close in September and be demolished to make room for the new...
Tags: Media Industry, Donna Summer, Music, Live Nation, Staples Center
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Sex harassment scandal rocks the peace of Bikram yoga world
They just keep coming and coming and coming. Not illegal immigrants. Yoga scandals. Last week, it was Lululemon Athletica’s “Pantsgate.” This week, it’s a sexual harassment lawsuit against Choudhury, father to the Los...
Tags: Shirley MacLaine, Raquel Welch, Sex Crimes, Physical Fitness and Exercise, John McEnroe
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Richard Nixon's grandson tours China to recall historic 1972 visit
BEIJING — “He would be amazed,” exclaimed Christopher Nixon Cox, digging into a plate of fried rice over lunch in a starkly modern restaurant with black-clad waiters and white walls at the foot of the Great Wall of China. Cox was...
Tags: Travel, Trips and Vacations, Human Interest, China
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Baseball books cover the bases
George Plimpton knew the score. A generation or so ago, the late Paris Review editor developed what he called the "Small Ball Theory" of sports writing, which posits "a correlation between the standard of writing about a particular sport and the ball it...
Tags: Jackie Robinson, College Baseball, Baseball, Walter Johnson, Major League Baseball
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On pot laws, respect the states
It may be surprising, but no state is required to have a law making possession of marijuana, or any drug, a crime. Therefore, any state can legalize some or all marijuana possession if it chooses. The federal government, if it chooses, can enforce the...
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, Eric Holder, Medical Marijuana Therapy, U.S. Department of Justice, University of California, Irvine
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Study up for this quiz on presidential libraries
President George W. Bush’s presidential library, built on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, will host its invitation-only dedication Thursday. Former presidents have long donated their records and documents to libraries built to...
Tags: The Washington Post, Culture, Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Ceremonies
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Review: 'All the President's Men Revisited' looks back in wonder
"All the President's Men Revisited," which premieres Sunday on Discovery Channel, returns us to those thrilling days of yesteryear when everyone read newspapers and the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government were capable of acting out of...
Tags: Bob Woodward, Entertainment, The Washington Post, Movies, All the President's Men (movie)
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CNN Films acquires SXSW doc 'Our Nixon' to air on the network in August
Richard Nixon is hot again. Fresh on the heels of Discovery Channel's critically acclaimed documentary "All the Presidents Men Revisited," about the scandal that brought down President Nixon and the movie it inspired, CNN Films and Cinedigm have...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Entertainment, Page One: Inside the New York Times (movie), Roger Ebert, Film Festivals
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Roy Brown dies at 96; designer of Ford's Edsel
When Ford launched plans in the early 1950s for a medium-priced car so distinctive it would grab attention from blocks away, the challenge fell to Roy Brown to design it. The concept he came up with blared individuality. It shunned the tail fins that...
Tags: Pneumonia, Cadillac, Manufacturing and Engineering, Volkswagen, Parkinson's Disease
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Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments
Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, World War II (1939-1945), Hospitals and Clinics
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