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Two sides to Sonia Sotomayor
It did not take long after moving 60 miles from the ethnically diverse neighborhoods of the Bronx to the campus of Princeton University for Sonia Sotomayor to make it clear she was not happy with the way the overwhelmingly white, male school was run....Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas, Legal Service, Minority Groups, U.S. Senate
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Jona Frank's 'Boys in Progress' at DNJ Gallery
As the youngest of four children and the only girl, Jona Frank spent a fair amount of her youth forced to sit and watch her older brothers at hockey games, piano recitals or at church as they served Mass as altar boys. And those observational skills would...Tags: Metallica (music group), University of Southern California, Photography, Arts and Culture, Surfing
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'The Wilderness Warrior' by Douglas Brinkley
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the
Crusade for America
Douglas Brinkley
Harper: 960 pp., $34.99
Reviewing several Roosevelt biographies in 1920, H.L. Mencken reported that he had found more "gush" than "sense." Douglas Brinkley's...Tags: Roosevelt, Animals, Walt Whitman, Forestry and Timber, White House
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'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith
Changing My Mind
Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith
The Penguin Press: 306 pp., $26.95
Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster...Tags: Zora Neale Hurston, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Book, Charles Dickens, United Kingdom
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'Nightlight' lampoons 'Twilight' craze
Strange things happen when a book series sells 70 million copies. Fan sites are built, only to crash with onslaughts of visitors. Movies are made, drawing unruly mobs of screaming fans. Entire towns are invaded by giggling, teenage girls.
Today, just...Tags: Twilight (book), Internal Revenue Service, Stephenie Meyer, Entertainment, Gaming
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'Lit' by Mary Karr
Lit
A Memoir
Mary Karr
Harper: 390 pp., $25.99
"Any way I tell this story is a lie," reads the first line of "Lit" by poet and memoirist Mary Karr. It's an ironic beginning for a writer who rose to fame on "The Liars' Club," a book recounting her...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Family
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Harry Lucey, a forgotten artist, brought doomed characters to life
The Hero ComplexFORGOTTEN COMIC BOOK ARTISTS, PART 1: HARRY LUCEY The American comic book has produced a massive mountain of brightly hued pop culture since the 1930s and the peak moments of the medium have been appropriately celebrated -- but what about...... -
The immigrant experience can be tough. Share your stories of struggle, success
L.A. NOWRecent news events had Times columnist Hector Tobar reflecting about UCLA and the immigrant experience: First there was the stunning public fall of Nancy Salas, another 22-year-old daughter of Salvadoran immigrants whose mother cleaned houses. Hoping to... -
New DreamWorks book on what went wrong: 'The whole company's mandate was: Give Steven what he wants'
The Big PictureAs I read Nicole LaPorte's lively new history of DreamWorks, "The Men Who Would Be King," I found myself transported to a time long, long ago, an era so far gone that when DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg once complained to...... -
Theater review: 'South Pacific' at the Ahmanson Theatre
Culture MonsterâSouth Pacificâ has a way of making grown men cry. Kenneth Tynan started his 1951 review of the musicalâs London premiere with the confession, âI wept, and there is nothing in criticism harder than to convey oneâs gratitude for that.â...... -
NY Times 2 Twitter: No Tweet here
Top of the TicketNewspaper bans the word Tweet as not socially acceptable yet. But it's OK here, u betcha....
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