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Bolivia, angered by Kerry, says it is ejecting U.S. aid agency
This post has been updated. Please see the notes below for details. Bolivian President Evo Morales declared Wednesday he was expelling the U.S. Agency for International Development from the country, accusing the aid agency of conspiring against his...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Evo Morales, National Government, Mexico, Government
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Arab American exhibit on display in Little Tokyo
L.A. NOWA traveling exhibit highlighting often forgotten Arab immigrants is being displayed in Little Tokyo, sharing the work of a community and its contributions to history since the American Revolution. "Patriots and Peacemakers: Arab Americans in Service to... -
Dan Goods, JPL's science seer
When artist Dan Goods arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they gave him a six-month shot. In May, he'll have been there 10 years as JPL's "visual strategist." He glued soda bottles to the roof of his Taurus to create music on an m.p.h. pipe organ....
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Music, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Entertainment
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PASSINGS: Michael Parrish, Bobby Sharp
This article has been corrected. See note below for details.Michael Parrish Former editor of the Los Angeles Times magazine Michael Parrish, 67, who oversaw the reinvention of the Sunday magazine in the Los Angeles Times in the mid-1980s, died Friday of liver failure while under hospice care in the Los Angeles...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Ray Charles, Music, Entertainment, Newspapers
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Gavin Newsom says the revolution will be digitized
-------------------- Citizenville How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government Gavin Newsom with Lisa Dickey Penguin Press: 272 pp., $25.95 -------------------- California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom has a lot more time on his hands than...
Tags: Fidel Castro, Al Gore, Arts and Culture, Regional Authority, Same-Sex Marriage
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Midge Turk Richardson dies at 82; ex-nun and Seventeen editor
Midge Turk Richardson, a former nun and parochial school principal in Los Angeles who cast off her habit for the world of New York publishing, where she reigned for nearly two decades as editor of Seventeen magazine, has died. She was 82. Richardson,...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, New York University, Vatican City, Periodicals, Christianity
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So close, so far, so close
I was just months away from marrying my high school sweetheart and shipping off to the Peace Corps. I'd had a bright five-year plan that included teaching English in a faraway land. The idea of a new culture and new life filled me with the sense that...
Tags: Chile Earthquake (2010), Chile
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Clinton praises ambassador to Libya, calls attackers 'savage group'
World NowSecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said officials are investigating the killing of U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and other Americans.... -
Slain U.S. ambassador to Libya remembered for his languages, service
L.A. NOWChristopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya killed in an attack on the consulate there, was raised in a musical San Francisco Bay Area family and played the saxophone “about at the Bill Clinton level,” his stepfather joked in a tribute... -
Slain Libyan ambassador described as 'unflappable' by his brother
World NowSlain ambassador Chris Stevens first became interested in international affairs back at Piedmont High School in the East Bay, according to his younger brother Tom.... -
O.C. voter turnout far behind 2008, but mail-in ballots up
L.A. NOWJust over 19% of registered Orange County voters had cast ballots by 3 p.m. Tuesday, a notable drop from the 2008 elections, county officials said.... -
PASSINGS: Jim Flick, Jack Hood Vaughn
Jim Flick Longtime golf instructor Jim Flick, 82, a golf instructor for more than 50 years whose clients included Tom Lehman and Jack Nicklaus, died Monday at his home in Carlsbad, Calif., of pancreatic cancer, his family said. Flick taught golf in...
Tags: Pancreatic Cancer, Golf, University of Michigan, Wake Forest University, Obituaries
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