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Raoul Wallenberg, Lena Horne, Jack Nicklaus: Gold medals for all?
WASHINGTON -- World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, singer Lena Horne and golfer Jack Nicklaus would be added to the list of Congressional Gold Medal recipients under measures that have cleared the House. The action comes as the House prepares to vote this...
Tags: Mark Twain House and Museum, George Washington, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Awards and Prizes
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Government officials and politicians
Government officials and politicians Spencer M. Williams, 85; federal judge in San Francisco, appointed by President Nixon, who advocated for judges' interests (Jan. 3) Houston I. Flournoy, 78; GOP assemblyman and controller in California who lost the...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Local Elections, Agricultural Research and Technology, Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Natural Resources
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Bashing Bush with Greenspan
'While there are significant long-term risks associated with such contractual arrangements, the well-informed actor, motivated by some historically recognized intangibilities -- maximization of regalement, binary association, et al -- finds that those...Tags: Washington Post Co., Politics, Wars and Interventions, International Military Interventions, National Government
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The genocide vote: Now is not the time
As one whose own family was decimated by the Holocaust, I respond very personally to charges that I would deny the existence of savage acts of inhumanity against a group of people because of ethnic, religious or racial differences -- be they Jews,...Tags: Crimes, Genocide, Christian Orthodoxy, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Christianity
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Letters to the editor
Insurance profits versus patients Re "Doctors balk at request for data," Feb. 12 The attempt by Blue Cross to enlist doctors as informants was an effort to prevent those sick enough to require coverage from getting it. This letter to doctors was only...Tags: Crimes, Companies and Corporations, Behavioral Conditions, Science and Technology, History
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Fair elections for Pakistan
Since 9/11, the United States has placed greater importance on backing a Pakistani leader who will fight Islamic terrorism than on encouraging democracy for that troubled nation. The result is a country that is no more democratic and is now dangerously...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Elections, Politics, National Security, Defense
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Passport problems? Call your congressman
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you need help with your passport, do not e-mail your congressional representative's office. Call. This list of California House members (with their district number) was compiled using the contact information on each representative's website. --------...Tags: Sam Farr, John T Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Susan A. Davis, Colleges and Universities
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Far-right band in Hungary a symptom
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThey wear black-vested uniforms and rally for the fatherland. Their red and white striped armbands remind many here of the fascist thugs who did the Nazis' dirty work in wartime Hungary. Formed last year, the Hungarian Guard is the latest specimen of...Tags: Crimes, Czech Republic, Slovakia, European Union, Religious Conflicts
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Diary of a trip through passport application limbo | 7/24 Update
Los Angeles Times Travel EditorEditor's note: Click here to read the diary entries from the first 75 days of Catharine's passport saga. You buy your air ticket and book the hotel for that overseas vacation. Oh no -- your passport is about to expire. With processing delays lasting...Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Department of State, Politics, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Yahoo to pay Chinese families
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA week after lawmakers shamed its executives as moral "pygmies," Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday reached an out-of-court settlement with the families of two Chinese journalists thrown into jail for dissidence after the company disclosed their identities to local...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Computer Networking and Internet, Human Rights, Yahoo! Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Passport application limbo diary: Bush signs Passport Backlog Reduction Act
Los Angeles Times Travel EditorEditor's note: Click here to read the diary entries from the first 75 days of Catharine's passport saga. You buy your air ticket and book the hotel for that overseas vacation. Oh no -- your passport is about to expire. With processing delays lasting...Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Commuting, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Personal Data Collection
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Times Staff WriterRead-only summary seames rimmed for web, 76894 Read-only web_hed Passport problems? Call your congressman Read-only dpt_kicker Read-only txt If you need help with your passport, do not e-mail your congressional representative's office. Call. This...Tags: Sam Farr, John T Doolittle, Jerry Lewis, Susan A. Davis, Colleges and Universities
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