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ISRAEL: Guns missing from Israeli prime minister's security detail in U.S.
Babylon & BeyondLuggage belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's security detail crisscrossed America until finally turning up, four handguns short, U.S. sources reported Wednesday. A spokesperson for Israel's General Security Services told Reuters that... -
Science fiction goes political
DAVID WEIGEL is an associate editor at Reason magazine (www.reason.com).Be afraid, conservatives. If you survived the victory speeches of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and allowed yourself to think, "Things can't get any worse," get over it. They can. Two years from now, terrorists under the banner of the "Progressive...Tags: Elections, Arts and Culture, George W. Bush, Harry Reid, Coup d'Etat
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The numbers prove it -- Iraq's a civil war
BARRY LANDO, a former producer for CBS' "60 Minutes," is the author of the forthcoming book "Web of Deceit" about the role of the West in Iraq.SO IS IT A CIVIL WAR in Iraq or isn't it? By the straightforward definition — a war fought between factions or regions within a single nation — the answer seems clearly to be yes. That's why NBC and the Los Angeles Times recently decided to...Tags: Murder, Iraq, Lebanon, Hospitals and Clinics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Traveling through time
Times Staff WriterOnce upon a time, travel was heroic. Stepping outside your home meant drifting with Huck and Jim down the Mississippi south of Cairo. It meant burning and bopping and struggling along with Dean Moriarty in the old car south of Abilene, or dreaming with...Tags: Gaming, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation Industry, Entertainment, Travel
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'Now the Drum of War' by Robert Roper
The American Civil War became known as an "unwritten war" because so few attempted or succeeded in writing anything substantial about it at the time. Yet perhaps this view is only partly true. Emily Dickinson's most prolific outpouring of poems...Tags: Family, Walt Whitman, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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Battlefield Virginia
Hartford Courant Staff WriterFrom the heavy guns of a seacoast fort through battle-scarred Yorktown and the swampy outskirts of Richmond, the Virginia Peninsula tells the story of a massive war campaign and the evolution of warfare. Along this finger of land cut by the York and...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Fort Monroe, Colonial Williamsburg, USS Monitor, Social Issues
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'News From the Empire' by Fernando del Paso; translated from the Spanish by Alfonso González and Stella T. Clark
News From the Empire A Novel Fernando del Paso, translated from the Spanish by Alfonso González and Stella T. Clark Dalkey Archive Press: 710 pp., $18.95 paper "What happens," writes the Mexican novelist Fernando del Paso, "when an author can't escape...Tags: Andrew Johnson, Arts and Culture, Mexico, Government, Crime, Law and Justice
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Barton Gellman's portrait of Dick Cheney, "Angler," among the big winners
Winners of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Friday night before an audience gathered in the Chandler Auditorium of the Los Angeles Times building. Robert Alter, the author of 22 works on the Bible, literary modernism and contemporary...Tags: Arts and Culture, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nazi Party, Brain, Reconstruction
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READER SUBMITTED: Efforts Underway To Honor Fallen Military From Connecticut
StatewideWhat is Memorial Day? Memorial Day is observed on the last Monday of May and falls on May 27 this year. Many people confuse Memorial Day with Veterans' Day. Veterans' Day is celebrated in November to honor all those who have served our country throughout...Tags: Iraq, Afghanistan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest, Memorial Day
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Free Thursday concerts at Fort Monroe, Mariners' Museum begin in June
A popular summer concert series has seemingly escaped looming federal budget cuts. Fort Monroe's Music By the Bay series will begin June 13 and with a performance by the U.S. Fleet Forces Band Wind Ensemble. Concerts take place on Thursday evenings at...
Tags: Music, G. Glenn Oder, Concerts, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Century of firepower
The Daily Independent, Ashland, Ky.A side-by-side comparison of the Model 1873 "Trapdoor" Springfield used by Custer's cavalry and the Model 1860 Henry rifle used by native Americans at the Battle of the Little Bighorn offers insight about the nature of the famous last stand. Members...Tags: Sociology, Firearms, Arts and Culture, Culture
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Centre commencement to be streamed live
Centre CollegeCentre College’s 189th commencement will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday in Newlin Hall of the Norton Center for the Arts. The 2013 graduation exercises will begin with the baccalaureate ceremony, which also will take place in Newlin Hall at 11 a.m....Tags: Arts, Arts and Culture, Education, U.S. Department of State, Wars and Interventions
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