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Ryan Crocker says U.S. is fumbling on Iran's nuclear program
WASHINGTON — Ryan Crocker has long been viewed as America's indispensable diplomat in the Muslim world. President George W. Bush named him ambassador to Iraq in 2007 to rescue a failing policy, and four years later, President Obama dispatched him to...Tags: Ed Royce, George W. Bush, Pakistan, Iraq, White House
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Women becoming priests without Vatican's blessing
SAN FRANCISCO — The priest will be ordained in a purple Lutheran church. The Communion bread, symbolizing the body of Christ, will be gluten-free. The congregation will pray to "our mother our father in heaven." But the real departure from Roman...
Tags: Mother's Day, Gays and Lesbians, Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Vatican City
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'The Internship,' now starring ... Google
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson may be the big names in the new comedy "The Internship," but the real star of the film is Google. The company campus in Mountain View, Calif., is the setting for the movie in which Vaughn and Wilson play down-on-their-luck...
Tags: Shawn Levy, Entertainment, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Science and Technology, Vince Vaughn
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Rama Burshtein's Orthodox tale 'Fill the Void' is from the inside
Israeli writer-director Rama Burshtein felt a lot of pressure graduating from the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem two decades ago because everyone expected great things from her. "They said, 'She is a promise,"' recalled Burshtein,...
Tags: Tel Aviv (Israel), Christianity, Fill the Void (movie), Movies, Israel
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Bringing the history of Jews in L.A. into clearer focus
What is the Jewish experience in Los Angeles? "Nobody even thinks about Jews being here or, if they do, maybe they think about Hollywood," said Karen Wilson, guest curator at the Autry National Center. "They might possibly, if they're local, think about...
Tags: Tel Aviv (Israel), Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Academy Awards, Living Things (music group)
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Boy Scouts set to vote on lifting gay youth ban
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- Thursday’s vote on whether to lift the ban on gay youths in the Boy Scouts of America could symbolize a cultural shift. Texas businessman Barry Price was so disturbed by the prospect that he joined a protest Wednesday,...
Tags: Elections, Social Issues, Politics, Lobbying, Barack Obama
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After London attack, Britain officials begin intelligence review
LONDON — British authorities on Thursday began combing through their intelligence files and evidence from the attack site to determine whether the apparently terrorism-related killing of a young soldier on a London street could have been prevented....
Tags: Terrorism, BBC, David Cameron, Politics, Government
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Review: Transfixing 'Fill the Void' looks at love by arrangement
A mother and daughter anxiously scan the aisles of an Israeli supermarket. They're not looking for fresh produce but rather a clandestine glimpse of a young man a matchmaker has proposed as a potential husband for the daughter. The mother's eye is...
Tags: Jane Austen, Film Festivals, Human Interest, Israel, Marriage
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Obama reveals conflicted thinking on drone strikes
WASHINGTON — At times defensive, solemn, lawyerly and personal, President Obama on Thursday offered a rare glimpse of the burden that the nation's fight against terrorism has placed on the man who leads it. In a speech spanning nearly an hour, the...
Tags: Defense, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, U.S. Department of Justice, Career and Workplace, Islam
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Activists rally against potential L.A. Times sale to Koch brothers
About 100 activists rallied in Beverly Hills on Thursday evening to protest a potential sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to the politically conservative Koch brothers. Part of the group -- a collection of environmentalists,...
Tags: Activism, Oaktree Capital Management, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine, Politics
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Television review: 'Save Me,' with Anne Heche, goes unrescued
If there were an Emmy for Most Disturbingly Apt Title of Series, NBC's new comedy "Save Me" would win hands down. It just works on so many levels. "Save me" is certainly the phrase that surges to a critic's mind moments into the ludicrous machinations...
Tags: Madison Davenport, Interreligious Dialogue, Save Me (tv program), The Office (tv program), Michael Landes
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George Packer chronicles American boom and bust in 'The Unwinding'
George Packer's new nonfiction book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," has many of the qualities of an epic novel. Packer's subject is the last 35 years of U.S. history, the decades that gave us the conservative "Contract With...
Tags: Book, Martin Luther King Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Authors, Real Estate
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