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Warren B. Rudman dies at 82; senator co-authored budget-balancing law
Former Sen. Warren B. Rudman, who co-authored a ground-breaking budget-balancing law, championed ethics and led a commission that predicted the danger of terrorist attacks years before 9/11, died Monday at a Washington, D.C., hospital. He was 82. The...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Judges, Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Community colleges' crisis slows students' progress to a crawl
The first course Charity Hansen is taking as a freshman at Pasadena City College is a basic class on managing time, speaking up in discussions, setting ambitious goals and then going after them. If only she could. It's the only class she managed to...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Port of Los Angeles, Values, IKEA, Students
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Review: 'Dead Accounts' with Katie Holmes doesn't add up to serious drama
NEW YORK —The paparazzi lying in wait for Katie Holmes, tabloid bait after her getaway divorce from Tom Cruise, may be the ideal group to review her performance in Theresa Rebeck's "Dead Accounts" at the Music Box on Broadway. Let's just say she...
Tags: Values, Judy Greer, Religion and Belief, David Mamet, Tom Cruise
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The long hike from an Iranian prison to home
Two years ago, Californian and citizen of the world Sarah Shourd was released from prison in Iran after an intense international campaign to free her. A bit more than a year later, that effort, including pressure from the State Department, Oman (the...
Tags: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Noam Chomsky, Political Systems, Iran, Religion and Belief
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Jonathan Santos leads South East through issues toward title shot
When it's time to look back on the high school career of South East quarterback Jonathan Santos, people will remember him as the teenager who was so poised and unyielding at a time of adversity that he inspired teammates and coaches alike. South Gate ...
Tags: Sports, Values, California Interscholastic Federation, College Football, Football
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Taste buds and 'tude: The food and mood link
Research sheds light on how food affects mood and the flip side: how emotions impact taste. All day, food metaphors weave their way into our thoughts about others. Watching someone cut in line may leave a bad taste in your mouth. Your current love may be...
Tags: Loyola University Chicago, Religion and Belief, Psychologists, Health and Medical Professionals, Research
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At Telluride fest, two films cast grim eye on Mideast
TELLURIDE, Colo. -- This mountain resort is literally half a world away from the Middle East, but Israeli-Arab relations were at the top of the agenda at the town's film festival Friday. Two of the first features — one a documentary, the other a...
Tags: French Movies, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Pass the canapés: Now, lobbyists can serve appetizers, not report it
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology, The Pentagon, The Washington Post
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Greek athlete loses Olympic dream over online chatter
World NowA Greek triple jumper lost her spot in the Olympics on Wednesday after tweeting what she later called an “unfortunate and tasteless joke” about Africans in Greece. As her Twitter joke drew more and more attention, the Hellenic Olympic... -
L.A. mayor fundraising has Garcetti, Greuel in virtual dead heat
L.A. NOWL.A. Councilman Eric Garcetti and City Controller Wendy Greuel find themselves neck-and-neck in the money chase for next year's mayoral campaign, according to fundraising records filed with the city's Ethics Commission.... -
Perspective: Gore Vidal, connoisseur of empires
Los Angeles TimesIn March 2003, as U.S. forces were pouring into Iraq, I interviewed Gore Vidal at his elegant home in the Hollywood Hills. The conflict's opening days hadn't gone quite as smoothly as some Pentagon planners had anticipated, and Vidal, a self-described...Tags: The Pentagon, Gore Vidal, Values, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief
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