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Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: Day 2 in photos
L.A. UnleashedThe Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the invite-only affair that is the most prestigious dog show in the U.S., ended Tuesday night with the crowning of an odds-on favorite, Sadie the Scottish terrier, as Best in Show. But Westminster is...... -
Police investigate hood found on UC San Diego statue
L.A. NOWA Ku Klux Klan-like hood was fashioned from a pillowcase and placed on a statue outside UC San Diego’s main library, in what may be another racially provocative incident at the beach-side campus, officials said Tuesday. University police say they...... -
The Klan is still dead
DAVID J. GARROW, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.RECENT NEWS headlines announce a revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Christian Science Monitor warns that the KKK "appears to be on the rise again after years of irrelevance." The Associated Press reports that white supremacists are "significantly more...Tags: Sexual Assault, Charlotte, Juvenile Delinquency, Immigration, Crimes
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Phil, the unlovable loser
GARRY SOUTH is a Democratic strategist who managed Gray Davis' 1998 and 2002 campaigns for governor and was senior advisor to the Steve Westly for governor campaign.DO VOTERS HAVE TO love you to elect you? That's a question all political candidates and strategists ponder from time to time. Tuesday's debacle in the California governor's race provides some food for thought on this count. In elections for high...Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Crimes, Democratic Party, Government, History
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Senate careers branch differently for Clinton, Obama
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Senate long has been considered a poor springboard to the White House. But it provided a crucial step in the political rise of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, giving them a priceless chance to burnish their records and shore up weaknesses...Tags: Values, Political Fundraising, Hillary Clinton, Diplomacy, Paris Hilton
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Letters to the editor
The problems with Pakistan Re "Pakistan's problems start at the top," Opinion, Nov. 18 Pervez Hoodbhoy's article on Pakistan bears indirectly on U.S. foreign policy during the last 25 years, mainly its shortsighted pragmatism. President Bush's support...Tags: Civil Unrest, Criminals, Entertainment, Hugo Chavez, U.S. Department of State
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'Breach of Peace' fills in the blanks on the 'Freedom Riders'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterJuly 6, 2008 The story was already written: Vividly rendered on those young faces -- excited, angry, naive, fearful, idealistic. But it was only the first leg of their journey. That's what first struck Eric Etheridge when he first laid eyes on a trove of...Tags: Justice and Rights, Heroism, Photography, Civil Rights, Crimes
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Joe Frazier, not Muhammad Ali, gets the center ring in HBO's 'Thrilla in Manila'
Smokin' Joe is on the phone and upside my head, joking, singing and jawing once again about the fight of the decade, of the century, some would say of all time: the so-called "Thrilla in Manila."
Justifiable or not, hyperbole was the order of the day...Tags: Madison Square Garden, Entertainment, HBO (tv network), Drama (genre), Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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Black comics on Obama's win
Tommy Davidson's centerpiece joke about President-elect Barack Obama at a Los Angeles comedy club over the weekend "killed" -- in more ways than one.
Davidson, who was a regular on Fox's hip sketch comedy show "In Living Color," bounded on stage Friday...Tags: Michelle Obama, Entertainment, Clay Aiken, Government, African Americans
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Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96
Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96.
Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago, his...Tags: Justice and Rights, Mark Twain, Entertainment, George W. Bush, Civil Rights
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Go away? Why should she?
This is not how the story line was expected to go, dammit, and the impatience of the (mostly male) punditocracy is palpable. Doesn't Hillary Clinton know she was supposed to lose decisively in Ohio or Texas last week so that Barack Obama could unify the...Tags: Health, Family, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, South Park (tv program)
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A religious left?
Today, Cannick and Perlstein discuss the compatibility between progressive politics and religious values. Previously, they debated reasons for the Democratic Party's apparent strength. Later in the week, they'll discuss national security, whether the...Tags: Values, George W. Bush, Religious Texts, Christianity, Larry Craig
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