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Notre Dame better cover its bases to avoid another upset loss at USC
Let's see if I've got this straight or crooked: Notre Dame needs one win to get to the national title game and Sports Illustrated puts the Irish on this week's cover? I don't believe in genies or goblins, but the SI cover jinx is real. If you don't...
Tags: Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Baylor Bears, Georgia Bulldogs, Oklahoma Sooners, Heisman Trophy
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Villaraigosa urges 'fiscal cliff' solution, defends Fix the Debt
L.A. NOWL.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa called for a bipartisan deal to avoid the automatic budget cuts and tax hikes that threaten to push the U.S. economy off a so-called "fiscal cliff." During an appearance on CNN Thursday morning, the mayor also defended... -
LAPD plans crackdown to rein in unruly Black Friday shoppers
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Police Department is cracking down to try to avoid incidents that have marred previous Black Fridays. The department plans to deploy dozens of extra officers around the city Friday to make sure frantic shoppers don't get out...... -
Ada Louise Huxtable dies at 91; renowned architecture critic
Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who in two decades of writing for the New York Times became a powerful force in shaping New York City and was better known than many of the architects she was covering and certainly more feared, has died. She...
Tags: New York University, Entertainment Events, Italy, Museum of Modern Art, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Critic's Notebook: Try to believe in the new TV season
For a television critic, the beginning of any new season is a bit like the first days of school, a time of unbroken bindings, neatly ordered notebooks and tantalizing blank pages. Surely this year will be different — every class and teacher, no...
Tags: The Good Wife (tv program), Homeland (tv program), Religion and Belief, MASH (tv program), Entertainment
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LAPD will use choppers, horses, bikes to keep Black Friday calm
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles Police Department is planning to be out in force to prevent Black Friday problems. Helicopters will buzz above some shopping centers, and below, a cavalry of LAPD officers will patrol on bikes and horses. From store rooftops,...... -
Human -- for better or worse
Are people, by nature, kind or rotten? This question has kept philosophers, theologians, social scientists and writers busy for millenniums. A vote for our basic rottenness comes from scholars such as Steven Pinker of Harvard, who has documented how...
Tags: Science and Technology, New York University, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Derelict 112th Congress sets new record for low achievement
The 112th Congress worked hard on just one thing: competing to be known as the most worthless, incompetent, do-nothing gathering of lawmakers in the nation’s history. These political underachievers may well have guaranteed themselves that dubious...
Tags: Politics, George W. Bush, Religion and Belief, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Republican Party
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'Obamacare,' fiscal cliff leads to small business optimism plunge
American small business owners are in a sour mood, with optimism at one of its lowest levels since 1986, but don’t blame Superstorm Sandy. It’s the fiscal cliff’s fault, according to a new report from the National Federation of...
Tags: Barack Obama, Health Insurance Cost, Small Businesses, Religion and Belief, Consumer Confidence
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Mo Yan's 'Pow!' packs a punch, however veiled
-------------------- Pow! A novel Mo Yan, translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt Seagull Books: 386 pp., $27.50 -------------------- This year's Nobel laureate in literature is an author who somehow manages to write books with brazenly...
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CSU professor tangles with John and Ken on Prop. 30
PolitiCalIt is not clear whether Cal State Fresno professor Marn Cha knew what he was getting into when he agreed to be a guest on the conservative John and Ken Show on KFI-AM radio Wednesday. But within minutes on air he would find himself getting yelled at.... -
Costa Mesa to appeal injunction that stopped city from outsourcing
L.A. NOWThe Costa Mesa City Council has voted to appeal an injunction that temporarily stopped them from privatizing some city services....
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