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Activist files more complaints against Mike Feuer campaign
A Westside activist who has previously complained to authorities aboutĀ former lawmakerĀ Mike Feuer and his campaign for Los AngelesĀ city attorney has filed additional documents with state and local government watchdog agencies accusing Feuer of more...
Tags: Carmen Trutanich, Values, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Primaries
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Still jonesing for 'West Wing'? Try Danish import 'Borgen'
Los Angeles Times Television CriticThrusting an intelligent idealist into a leadership position is a time-honored method of chronicling the corruptive natureĀ of power, particularly the political variety. (Please seeĀ "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington") In recent years, television writers have...Tags: Television, Values, Denmark, Religion and Belief, Downton Abbey (tv program)
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John le Carre's 'A Delicate Truth' isn't gentle with war on terror
John le CarrƩ's novels have responded brilliantly to the absence of the Cold War, which was, from 1963's classic "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" to "The Secret Pilgrim" in 1990, their traditional domain. In one sense, though, whether set before or...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Values, United Kingdom, Whitehall
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Pakistan, Values, Authors, Dismemberment
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Newton: The mayoral money trap
There are good reasons for most of the city's campaign finance laws. Individual contribution limits are intended to keep a single donor from purchasing the support of a candidate. Public financing is intended to level the playing field between...
Tags: Local Elections, Values, Political Fundraising, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti
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Greuel has fraction of Garcetti's cash in race's last days, reports show
Wendy Greuel had roughly one-tenth of the cash on handĀ of her rival Eric Garcetti as she headed into the final two weeks of the mayoral election, according to new campaign finance reports. Greuel, the city’s controller, reported raising nearly...
Tags: Values, Polls, Political Fundraising, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti
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Vermont House OKs right-to-die bill; governor expected to sign it
Vermont is on track to become the fourth state to allow severely ill patients to end their lives under medical supervision. The state’s House of Representatives voted 75 to 65 on Monday night to approve the “Patient Choice at End of Life&...
Tags: Suicide, Values, Religion and Belief, U.S. Senate, Assisted Suicide
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O.C. supervisors deny $20,000 increase for grand jury
The first grand jury report described Orange County as being a "hotbed of corruption, conflict of interest and abuse of authority" while the next blamed political leaders for the "implosion" of the county's health plan for the poor. This week, jurors...
Tags: Sex Crimes, Justice System, Sexual Misconduct, Values, Janet Nguyen
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Goldberg: Niall Ferguson's blooper
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...
Tags: Family Planning, Sonia Sotomayor, Philosophy, Milton Friedman, Values
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PTC, Morality in Media press Congress over FCC indecency rules
Angry about a proposal to relax the Federal Communications Commission's rules regulating indecent content on broadcast television and radio, the Parents Television Council and Morality in Media areĀ pressing Congress to stop the regulatory agency in its...
Tags: Federal Communications Commission, Values, Janet Jackson, Entertainment, Religion and Belief
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Obama, at Ohio State, calls on graduates to be active citizens
WASHINGTON — Speaking to the graduating class of Ohio State University in Columbus on Sunday, President Obama called on the students to embrace the school’s motto, “education for citizenship,” and to press the government to act....
Tags: U.S. Army, Values, The Ohio State University, Religion and Belief, Berlin Wall's Fall (1989)
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Respect Boston's pain, bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev somewhere else
What kind of power do the living have over the dead? It’s a question that a Massachusetts town answered Sunday, when Cambridge City Manager Robert W. Healy said he would not allow Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the alleged mastermind of the Boston Marathon...
Tags: Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Lee Harvey Oswald, Values, Sports, The Boston Globe
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