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Israeli lawmaker proposes ban on mosque loudspeakers
World NowQuiet, please: Israeli lawmaker proposes ban on mosque loudspeakers... -
Winter solstice: The cold-weather celebration is hot again
Nation NowWinter solstice is a busy time for a Wiccan priestess. Selena Fox talks winter solstice traditions and why our cold-weather solstice is becoming a hot holiday.... -
Koran protests: What do Marines learn about Afghan culture?
World NowAt least 20 people have been killed, including two American soldiers, as protests rage over the apparent accidental burning of Korans at a U.S.-run military installation north of Kabul. Trying to stem the rage, military officials have promised to train... -
PASSINGS: John Neville, George Gallup Jr., Irving Geller
John Neville
Canadian actor and stage director
John Neville, 86, a British-born Canadian actor and stage director who played the title role in Terry Gilliam's 1988 film "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" and had a recurring role in "The X-Files" TV...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Evanston, Richard Burton, Religion and Belief, Culture
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Does God still belong on our money? [Most commented]
Opinion L.A.In his Friday Op-Ed, Michael Shermer highlighted his displeasure at the House’s recent 396-9 vote to continue printing "In God We Trust" on public buildings and U.S. currency. The law was originally passed in 1956, as a Cold War morale...... -
Illinois Senate debate Mark Kirk vs Alexi Giannoulias
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The increasingly odd political optics of Barack Obama
Top of the TicketThe appearance of Obama miscues is creating a less than helpful image for the man who seeks reelection next year.... -
WEST BANK: Bethlehem glows on Christmas Eve
Babylon & BeyondIn the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, thousands of Palestinians and visitors from all over the world gathered at Manger Square on Christmas Eve to watch Jerusalem's Catholic patriarch, Fouad Twal, lead a procession of...... -
Critic's Notebook: Smithsonian chief digging a deeper hole
Culture MonsterSmithsonian Institution Secretary G. Wayne Clough speaks Thursday afternoon at a Town Hall Los Angeles event at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel on Pershing Square. Arranged last summer, the talk is billed as focusing on initiatives to increase local... -
Temecula residents square off over proposed mosque
L.A. NOWThe Temecula resident leading the challenge to a proposed mosque urged his allies to refrain from lashing out at Islamic religious beliefs, saying that to deny the project based on religion would be "un-American." George Rombach, president of Concerned... -
The Siren's Call: We Three Kings?
![What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in "The God Delusion," of the "formidable power of the brain's simulation software." That's all. Elsewhere, in "The End of Faith," Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that "it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58317719-16172617.jpg "What are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such experiences are a byproduct of our organic wiring, a demonstration, he writes in \"The God Delusion,\" of the \"formidable power of the brain's simulation software.\" That's all. Elsewhere, in \"The End of Faith,\" Sam Harris writes with obvious scorn that \"it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that [God] is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.\"")
Los Angeles TimesWhat are we supposed to think when someone claims he's getting important life-changing news in a dream or from an angel? For some, the reaction is: Get the straitjacket ready. Others, however, will turn to someone like Richard Dawkins, who says such...Tags: University of Oklahoma, Disasters, Radio Industry, Mystery (genre), Jesus Christ
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'I Am an Emotional Creature' by Eve Ensler
I Am an Emotional
Creature
The Secret Life of Girls Around
the World
Eve Ensler
Villard: 150 pp., $20
In this series of monologues, Eve Ensler, author of "The Vagina Monologues," imagines the voices of teenage girls from around the world. "As a...Tags: Rituals, Elections, Ray Bradbury, Forestry and Timber, Barbie (fictional character)
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