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Army leaders are reviewed in 'The Generals'
-------------------- The Generals American Military Command from World War II to Today Thomas E. Ricks Penguin Press: 556 pp., $32.95 -------------------- Deep in his impressive, disturbing study of U.S. Army leadership, "The Generals: American...
Tags: The Wall Street Journal, Wars and Interventions, The Pentagon, Afghanistan, U.S. Army
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Arthur K. Snyder dies at 79; longtime L.A. councilman
Former Los Angeles City Councilman Arthur K. Snyder, a famously colorful figure who spent nearly two decades in office while contending with an array of personal, legal and political troubles, died Wednesday. He was 79. Snyder died in his sleep at his...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Politics, Misdemeanors, Netherlands
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Blown away by the attacks on wind-power subsidy
To hear business leaders and political candidates talk, proper industrial policy comprises only three elements: a fair tax system, a level playing field and "certainty." So why is it that all three are about to be thrown out the window as a sop to oil,...
Tags: Energy Saving, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, David Koch, Taxation
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Toni Morrison leads U.S. delegation at Festival America in France
VINCENNES, France -- I am one of about five dozen invitees to the biennial Festival America book fair just outside Paris. Toni Morrison is the guest of honor at the event, which brings together authors from the Americas. Jennifer Egan is here too, along...
Tags: James Baldwin, Arts and Culture, Wars and Interventions, Book, France
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Larry E. Grant dies at 86; co-founder of L.A. Kingdom Day Parade
The Kingdom Day Parade always started with Larry E. Grant cruising down a boulevard in South Los Angeles with a procession of colorful floats, marching bands and dance troupes trailing behind. Grant traveled the three-mile route on the back of a...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Civil Rights, Republican Party, Heart Failure
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, United States Naval Academy, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, College Sports, Technology
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Barolo giant Aldo Conterno dies at 81
Daily DishThe great barolista Aldo Conterno is gone. Born in 1931, he was 81 years old.... -
Ignazio Vella dies at 82; 'godfather of artisanal cheese'
As the elder statesman of artisanal cheeses, Ignazio "Ig" Vella gave pointed advice to those who wanted to follow him into the handmade cheese business: "Don't be stupid."
He was a gruff straight shooter, and the salvo was his way of warning that success...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Homes, Human Interest
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Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant
Los Angeles Times Book CriticHome A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" —...Tags: Toni Morrison
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Home theater: Channing Tatum, Tim and Eric top new releases roster
24 FramesChanning Tatum romantic drama 'The Vow' is among the new films coming to VOD and DVD and Blu-ray this week... -
Ulu Grosbard dies at 83; Tony-nominated stage, film director
Ulu Grosbard, a Tony-nominated stage director who also worked in film, directing such movies as "True Confessions" and "The Deep End of the Ocean," died late Sunday or early Monday in New York City, according to his family. He was 83.
During a five-...Tags: Drama (genre), Wars and Interventions, David Mamet, Treat Williams, Meryl Streep
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Harry Crews dies at 76; Southern writer with darkly comic vision
Harry Crews, a rough-hewn Southerner who drew a keen following with novels that describe a Hieronymus Bosch landscape of grotesques — characters who are tossed into rattlesnake pits, walk on their hands, croon lullabies to a skull and literally...Tags: Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities, College Sports, E.E. Cummings, Fort Lauderdale
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Original site for Korean War (1950-1953) topic gallery.
