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Hiltzik: Of IBM, Ralph Bunche, and the Masters
As the first threesome prepares to tee off at the Masters Tournament this morning, it's proper to keep the spotlight on the tournament's biggest commercial sponsors--AT&T, Exxon Mobil, and IBM--for their complicity in the unsavory history of...
Tags: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Masters Tournament, Forest Hills, John F. Kennedy, IBM
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Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education
The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908, there was no question where he was headed: to...
Tags: Regional Authority, Unemployment, Nobel Prize Awards, University of California, Berkeley, Jerry Brown
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Free eye exams for some students as vision carrier's mobile clinic visits 6 L.A. schools
L.A. NOWFor dozens of Locke High School students, the mobile eye clinic that rolled onto their campus Monday morning was a sight for poor eyes. Optometrists will conduct free eye exams for 30 to 40 students with suspected vision problems and...... -
Jim Murray on John Wooden, Aug. 10, 1972
This column on John Wooden, written by the late Jim Murray, was originally printed in the Aug. 10, 1972 edition of the Los Angeles Times.
You picture the man who is, demonstrably, the world's greatest basketball coach, and there comes to view a guy...Tags: John Wooden, Education, Raquel Welch, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Personal Service
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Live Review: Salute to Jazz at the Grammy Museum
Pop & HissThe Recording Academy started ramping up for Sunday’s Grammy Awards on Tuesday night, honoring influential guitarist and educator Kenny Burrell as part of its annual Salute to Jazz. Held in the Grammy Museum’s cozy performance space, the evening... -
Whats causing the gap?
Today, Rothstein and Ali look for causes of the achievement gap. Previously, they debated whether it's worth trying to close the gap and assessed the value of the No Child Left Behind Act. Later in the week, they'll discuss reforms to boost students'...Tags: Asthma, Health Insurance, Lungs and Airways, Academic Progress, Teachers
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State hustled to succeed
Times Staff WriterCalifornia first marched itself into the big, bruising realm of higher education with a mortarboard on its head and a chip on its shoulder. For all the braggadocio of 19th century California, for all the superlatives churned out to entice tourists and...Tags: Education, Ronald Reagan, History, World War II (1939-1945), Continuing Education
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'City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles' by Mike Davis
Alex Raskin is an Assistant Editor of the Book ReviewThe freeway has been a favorite metaphor for writers trying to fathom Los Angeles for so long that opinions about this town can be virtually divided into day and night views. The night watchers tend to celebrate its long streams of pale yellow light,...Tags: Crimes, Drug Trafficking, Central Park, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Fred Allen
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