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Letters: Liberals-only UC?
Re "When academics are advocates," Opinion, May 20 It's regrettable that John M. Ellis and Charles L. Geshekter of the California Assn. of Scholars, which produced a report purporting to show a liberal bias in University of California instruction, have...
Tags: Republican Party, Education, Politics, Democratic Party, University of California, Los Angeles
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Tom Wicker dies at 85; longtime New York Times journalist
Tom Wicker, a former New York Times political reporter, columnist and Washington bureau chief who covered President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas and became part of the news as a mediator during the 1971 Attica prison riot in upstate New York, has...Tags: Heart Attack, Documentary (genre), Riots, Newspapers, Literature
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My feud with Oscar host Billy Crystal: It's time to bury the hatchet
24 FramesIs it time for me to bury the hatchet with Oscar host Billy Crystal?... -
Question of the day: Where does Bobby Cox rank in the pantheon of MLB managers? [Updated]
The Fabulous ForumWriters from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune Winning with the Yankees is one thing. Winning...... -
America, 2008 and 2009
In this space a year ago, we published nine editorials over three weeks in which we attempted to analyze the race for the presidency in the context of enduring, essential American values. Where, we asked, does a belief in liberty as the founders...Tags: Crimes, Republican Party, Values, Same-Sex Marriage, Bernard Madoff
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The GOP's McCarthy gene
Ever since the election, partisans within the Republican Party and observers outside it have been speculating wildly about what direction the GOP will take to revive itself from its disaster. Or, more specifically, which wing of the party will prevail...Tags: Republican Party, John Kerry, Walt Disney, Roman Catholicism, Sean Hannity
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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 2, 1959
The Daily MirrorOath Era Harvard and Yale, you may have read, withdrew recently from the federal student loan program in protest over the required loyalty oath. Their action meant a substantial sacrifice, involving more than $500,000. It also brought into focus again... -
President Visits L.A.!
The Daily Mirror“It’s a Letter From Washington.” Jan. 28, 1960: ALGIERS (UPI) “Police and troops opened fire today on hundreds of Moslems who surged into the streets of the western Algerian city of Mostaganem shouting 'long live De Gaulle.' “The shooting was... -
LA Times announces 2009 Book Prize finalists
Jacket CopyThe Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for its 2009 Book Prizes: for the first time, graphic novels will be in competition for an LA Times Book Prize of their own. There are now 10 competitive categories: biography, current...... -
Communism's grim toll
ROBERT SERVICE is a professor of Russian history at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and author of the recently released "Comrades!: A History of World Communism."WHEN President Bush declared, at Tuesday's dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, that communist regimes had been responsible during the 20th century for taking the lives of 100 million innocent people, he did not so much...Tags: Cuba, Natural Resources, History, Mikhail S Gorbachev, Disasters and Accidents
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The Times' Joe McCarthy
In his Feb. 26 , Jonah Goldberg provides us with textbook examples of the logical fallacies employed to such good effect by Joseph McCarthy and his minions in the 1950s. I thought we had driven a stake through the heart of McCarthyism, and that Red-...Tags: Crimes, Georgetown, Armed Forces, University of Illinois at Chicago, Hillary Clinton
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Carl Karcher, 90; entrepreneur turned hot dog stand into a fast-food empire
Special to The TimesCarl Karcher, who parlayed a single hot dog pushcart into a chain of more than 1,000 fast-food restaurants bearing his name, died Friday. He was 90. The affable, burly entrepreneur, known to millions as the jovial television pitchman for the Carl's Jr....Tags: Civil Rights, McDonald's, Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Economy, Business and Finance
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