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U.S. turns over troubled dam project to Afghanistan
KAJAKI, Afghanistan — After struggling for more than a decade to upgrade a huge hydroelectric plant in a volatile region that saw heavy American losses in fighting with the Taliban, the United States is trying a new approach: Let the Afghans take...
Tags: Engineering, Rebellions, Hydroelectricity, Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Barack Obama
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U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghan provinces is unfinished work
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan — At the doorstep of the U.S.-funded schoolhouse in this mountain-fringed northern town, Ghulam Nabi crouched in the mud and scooped up two rocks. He needed them, the school engineer explained, to scare off the building's...
Tags: Hamid Karzai, NATO, War in Afghanistan (2001-present), Pakistan, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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Iranian general reportedly assassinated while traveling from Syria
BEIRUT -- A high-ranking member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps was assassinated this week while traveling from Syria to neighboring Lebanon, Iranian media reported Thursday, in the strongest indication to date that senior Iranian military...
Tags: Bashar Assad, Lebanon, Rebellions, Beirut (Lebanon), Assassinations
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Protecting the right to vote
Since their historic victories in the 2010 midterm elections, Republicans across the country have passed an array of voting laws — to require photo identification, to make it more difficult to register, to reduce periods of early voting or to...
Tags: Dressing and Stuffing, Interior Policy, Personal Data Collection, Voting, Laws
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Billions for Japan tsunami recovery went elsewhere, reports find
World NowBillions of dollars meant to help Japan recover from its devastating tsunami went to government projects that had little or nothing to do with the disaster, new analyses of its spending show. Japanese politicians have questioned why millions went to a... -
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Afghan suicide bomb attack kills 4 civilians; 3 Britons injured
World NowA suicide car bomber who took aim at a Western convoy in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed four Afghan civilians and injured more than 30 other people, including three British nationals who were involved in reconstruction work, Afghan and British... -
Dance review: Pacific Northwest Ballet premieres a reconstruction of 'Giselle' in Seattle
Culture MonsterLaura Bleiberg reviews the Pacific Northwest Ballet premiere of a reconstructed 'Giselle' in Seattle... -
As Japan seeks to finance reconstruction, U.S. debt costs could rise
Japan's need to raise huge amounts of money for reconstruction after the disastrous earthquake raises the prospect of higher U.S. costs to finance its own budget deficit and ultimately higher costs to American consumers on financing everything from houses...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Credit and Debt, Nuclear Power, Tsunamis, Disasters and Accidents
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Book review: 'Inherently Unequal' by Lawrence Goldstone
Special to the Los Angeles TimesInherently Unequal The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court, 1865-1903 Lawrence Goldstone Walker & Co.: 242 pp., $26 In the years immediately following the Civil War, America appeared to possess the will and the means to end racial...Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Republican Party, Wars and Interventions, Book
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Troubles at the Russian jewel, the Bolshoi Theatre
Culture MonsterA sex scandal and other problems at the Bolshoi Theatre.... -
Q&A: Dr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl on recovery efforts in Haiti
L.A. NOWDr. Paul Farmer and Ophelia Dahl talk about their work on recovery efforts in Haiti with Los Angeles Times' reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske. Farmer and Dahl are in L.A. to attend the "Haiti Stories" conference at UCLA on Saturday....
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