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George Steinbrenner dies at 80; owner of New York Yankees
George Steinbrenner, who made his name synonymous with the revival of the New York Yankees as a dominant baseball team and leveraged multiple championships into business ventures that forever changed the economics of the sport, has died. He was 80....Tags: ESPN (tv network), Brooklyn Nets, Thomas Hardy, Employment, Howard Cosell
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PASSINGS: Billy Loes, Dorothy Elizabeth Watson, Qian Weichang, Al Goodman
Billy Loes
Starting pitcher for Brooklyn Dodgers
Billy Loes, 80, who pitched on three pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers teams in the 1950s, died July 15 at a hospice in Tucson, said his wife, Irene. He had diabetes for several years and had open heart...Tags: Diabetes, National League, Baltimore Orioles, Family, Children
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The Incomparable Stan Freberg
The Daily MirrorYoung persons: If you have never heard of Stan Freberg, you are in for a delight. His comedy sketches from the 1950s and â60s were sharp, clever and polished and many of them make âSaturday Night Liveâ look like a high school talent show. Speaking... -
Discoveries: 'The People Who Watched Her Pass By' by Scott Bradfield
The People Who Watched Her Pass By
Scott Bradfield
Two Dollar Radio: 146 pp., $14.50
Salome Jensen is 3 years old and brilliant. She is also brave and unforgettable. One day, the guy who fixes the hot water heater takes her away from her family to live...Tags: Demographics, Chuck Close, Liza Minnelli, Health, Television Industry
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It's fan appreciation day in Yankee Stadium for Angels DH Hideki Matsui
The Fabulous ForumHideki Matsui received a rousing standing ovation in Yankee Stadium onTuesday when the Angels designated hitter, who earned World Series most valuable player honors with the Yankees last fall, was presented with a World Series ring in a ceremony before...... -
Peanuts and 'roids
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.Baltimore Oriole slugger Rafael Palmeiro served up a steroid-enhanced scandal-ball, and cartoonists blasted it out of the park. But critics, like Yankees, be damned. Today, Mom is on Paxil and Botox, and apple pie leaks pesticides and additives. So if...Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Rafael Palmeiro, Cartoons, Entertainment
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At least Bush wants to win
jgoldberg@latimescolumnists.comAMERICANS ARE torn between two irreconcilable positions on the Iraq war. Some want the war to be a success — variously defined — and some want the war to be over. Conservatives are basically, but not exclusively, in the "success" camp....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Edward M. Kennedy, International Military Interventions, John Kerry, Harry Reid
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'The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War' by David Lebedoff
Special to The TimesIN "The Same Man: George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh in Love and War," David Lebedoff has pulled off a literary feat. It isn't possible to find two 20th century literary peers who, at first glance, seem more different in ambition, temperament and subject...Tags: England, Brideshead Revisited (movie, 2008), Death, Jimi Hendrix, Biography (genre)
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The Boss, Sinatra among N.J. Hall of Fame's first inductees
Pop quiz: What comes to mind when you think about Yogi Berra, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Toni Morrison? Brilliant minds, inspiring souls, trailblazers -- all are likely responses.
And ... New Jersey?
Yep. They all have strong ties to the oft-...Tags: Vince Lombardi, Toni Morrison, White House, Bruce Springsteen, National Football League
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Keeping an eye on city coffers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe gig: As city treasurer, De Foor serves as the primary banker, investor and custodian of public funds for Los Angeles and oversees its $7.5-billion investment program. Education: Bachelor's in business administration, University of Notre Dame; MBA,...Tags: Social Issues, American Red Cross, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, University of Southern California, University of Notre Dame
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Fireproofing the Ivory Tower
Today, Shermer and Lukianoff finish their Dust-Up with a discussion on lifetime tenure for professors. Previously, they discussed allegations of instructor bias in classrooms, whether it's proper for schools to set limits on the expression of their...Tags: Minority Groups, Christianity, Censorship, Book, Colleges and Universities
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Gus Triandos: Baltimore's first sports hero
The year was 1959. I was 12 and shy to a fault. But an almost close encounter with my baseball hero, Gus Triandos, would change my life forever. Big Gus exploded onto the Baltimore baseball landscape, and into the lives of countless youngsters like me,...
Tags: Museums, Brooks Robinson, Baltimore Orioles, American League, Sports
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