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PASSINGS: Yelizaveta Mukasei, Don Yarborough, Sam Carr, Caro Jones, Keith Floyd, William Garvey, W. Horace Carter
Yelizaveta Mukasei Soviet spy was based in L.A. in '40s Lt. Col. Yelizaveta Mukasei, 97, a Soviet spy who worked undercover in the West with her husband, died in Moscow early Saturday, according to Russian External Intelligence Service spokesman...Tags: Vice (movie), Family, Espionage and Intelligence, Heart Attack, Diseases and Illnesses
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West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd makes history, serving in Congress longer than anyone, ever
Top of the Ticket(UPDATE: 2:02 p. Pacific. A photo of a celebratory Sen. Byrd on the Senate floor minutes ago this afternoon has been added to this item above, courtesy of C-SPAN.) Ever since Jan. 3, 1953, Robert Carlyle Byrd has represented West...... -
Paul V. Coates – Confidential File, Dec. 8, 1959
The Daily MirrorA Civic Confessional on Sin and Stupidity A few miles north of Charleston, South Carolina, on Highway 52, there's a brand new billboard welcoming travelers to the gracious, growing Dixie city. It reads: The Association of South Carolina Klans Knights of... -
Art review: Drew Heitzler at Blum and Poe
Culture MonsterDrew Heitzler's new triptych of three appropriated Hollywood films re-edited and transferred to video is an elaborate, highly stylized bit of historical theater. Think of it as mass-media kabuki. The piece was originally planned as part of the Focus... -
Jack Nelson dies at 80; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter helped raise L.A. Times to national prominence
Jack Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, author and longtime Washington bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, whose hard-nosed coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the Watergate scandal in the 1970s helped...Tags: Mass Media, Hospitals and Clinics, Central Intelligence Agency, Death, Corruption
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PASSINGS
Werner Z. Hirsch UCLA economist Werner Z. Hirsch, 89, a UCLA economist whose work led to the first textbook on the economics of state and local governments, died July 10 of pancreatic cancer at his home in Los Angeles. Hirsch joined UCLA in 1963 as...Tags: Jackson (Hinds, Mississippi), Diseases and Illnesses, Local Government, Death, University of California, Los Angeles
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Off the Shelf: Letting go of a life's work
With emotions wavering between relief and regret, I remove a battered spiral notebook from a metal file cabinet and place it in an acid-free cardboard box open on my office floor. The notebook contains an interview I conducted in December 1984 at a VA...Tags: Hate Crimes, Hospitals and Clinics, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Newspaper and Magazine, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mary Daly dies at 81; radical feminist academician
Mary Daly, a radical feminist philosopher whose piercing critiques of patriarchal culture made her a guiding spirit of the women's movement and a fractious presence at Boston College, where her refusal to admit men to her classes ended a three-decade...Tags: Medical Research, Philosophy, Arts and Culture, Breach of Contract, Corporate Crime
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Robert Byrd, the Senate's finest fiddler
Pop & HissThe late West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd left a complicated legacy of personality and policy, from his early involvement with (and later renunciation of) the Ku Klux Klan to his mastery of Senate procedural arcana to his opposition to the...... -
PASSINGS: Ralph Cousins, Philip Saltzman
Ralph W. Cousins Navy admiral in Vietnam Ralph W. Cousins, 94, a retired Navy admiral who directed naval air operations during the Vietnam War and later became the Navy's second-highest-ranking officer and the top commander of NATO forces, died Aug. 5...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Drama (genre), Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, Alcoa Incorporated
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William Emerson dies at 86; Newsweek journalist covered the South
Associated PressWilliam A. Emerson Jr., who covered civil rights flash points as part of a cadre of gutsy Southern reporters and later served as editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post, has died. He was 86. Emerson, whose health had declined after a stroke, died...Tags: Periodicals, Charlotte, Justice and Rights, Harvard University, Newspaper and Magazine
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With Senate set to consider Kagan, Sen. Sessions blasts her 'expansive view' of federal power
Top of the TicketAlabama's Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues to oppose Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court by President Obama....
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