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Pigs, apes and humans -- we're not so different
Responding to The Times' editorial on Wednesday, "Morsi's hateful speech," which condemned Egypt's president for a 2010 speech in which he attacked Zionists, UC Irvine historian Jon Wiener wrote in a letter published Friday: "Your editorial calling on...
Tags: Judaism, West Bank, Mohamed Morsi, Religion and Belief, United Nations
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Lessons for Obama from reading inaugurals past [Video chat]
Editor's note: Join Hector Tobar and book critic David L. Ulin on the Jacket Copy blog for a live video chat on the literary legacy of American inaugurations in general, and President Obama's 2013 inauguration in particular, on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific....
Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy
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Google this: North Korea open to Western help with Net upgrade?
A freelance diplomatic foray to North Korea by former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Google executive Eric Schmidt has kicked up both controversy and expectations of insights into the inscrutable Hermit Kingdom. State Department officials...
Tags: Jimmy Carter, Kim Jong Un, Burma, Bill Richardson, United Nations
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North Korea's dangerous ambition
North Korea's first successful rocket launch is a truly dangerous development. Although the North Koreans have previously detonated two nuclear devices, until now they have not demonstrated any ability to deliver them. Weaponizing a missile is hard, but...
Tags: Weaponry, Barack Obama, Kim Jong Un, Korean War (1950-1953), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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As 'Chavismo' sputters, a charismatic challenger woos Venezuelans
World NowGlobal Focus: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has loomed larger than life over his oil-rich country for nearly 14 years, doling out health care and houses and university admissions to supporters of his “Bolivarian Revolution” aimed at... -
Israeli threats about Iran -- crying wolf or laying groundwork?
World NowGlobal Focus: They're passing out gas masks in Jerusalem and testing a new text-messaging system for alerting Israelis to incoming rockets. The civil defense preparations follow a week of renewed warnings by Israeli officials that air strikes against... -
For the record
Presidential election: A Nov. 7 editorial incorrectly stated that President Obama was the first president to be reelected with fewer electoral votes than he won the first time. The same was true of Woodrow Wilson, and of Franklin D. Roosevelt in his third...Tags: Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elections, Politics
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Illegal immigrant deportation flights to Mexico City scaled back
A U.S. pilot program designed to deport illegal immigrants by flying them to Mexico City will operate for only two months this year and involve 20 flights, a significant scaling-back of what was billed as a humanitarian effort to avoid deporting people to...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Illegal Immigrants, Charity, International Law
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Daum: Really? First gay president?
It's been a month since President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage and was declared, on the cover of Newsweek, "the first gay president." That's an eternity in politics, but Obama's swing through California last week, which included a...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Ellen DeGeneres, Same-Sex Marriage, Special Olympics, Monica Lewinsky
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Ruggiero Ricci dies at 94; violin virtuoso began as child prodigy
Violinist Ruggiero Ricci held the audience spellbound when he debuted at the Hollywood Bowl in 1932, a "wunderkind" of classical music with marvelous showmanship and beautiful tone. He was all of 13. What he accomplished in the ensuing decades is perhaps...
Tags: Culture, Music, World War II (1939-1945), Smithsonian Institution, The Washington Post
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Southern California Close-Ups: San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on April 24, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. The San Fernando Valley is 260 square miles of suburbia. Actually, make that suburbia on nutritional supplements. And antidepressants. With perhaps a little cosmetic surgery south...Tags: Celebrities, Paul McCartney, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Companies and Corporations, The Galleria
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McManus: Coming clean on drones
In recent weeks, a parade of top officials has given sober, underpublicized speeches explaining why President Obama not only considers "targeted killing" drone strikes against terrorists legal but has massively expanded their use, even approving a...
Tags: Ethics, U.S. Department of Defense, Jane Harman, Yemen, Pakistan
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