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But then a funny thing happened
I was on my way to a stand-up comedy gig in some Godforsaken place about three hours out of Los Angeles, and I asked the headliner, who was driving and rolling a joint simultaneously, if he knew anybody who might be able to tolerate me. He'd been...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Stand-up Comedy, Alzheimer's Disease, Entertainment
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Review: 'Valentino's Ghost' hits media's portrayal of Arabs, Muslims
Writer-director Michael Singh's documentary "Valentino's Ghost" connects the United States' Middle East foreign policy agenda to the American media's often negative portrayals of Arabs and Muslims. It's a provocative, absorbing — and at times...
Tags: Gore Vidal, Religion and Belief, Lawrence of Arabia (movie), Tarsem Singh, Douglas Fairbanks
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Bringing drones out of the shadows
The use of unmanned aircraft to kill suspected terrorists, a practice that has dramatically escalated during the Obama administration, is receiving fresh and welcome scrutiny in Congress and elsewhere even as the number of drone strikes seems to be on the...
Tags: Georgetown, Afghanistan, Politics, U.S. Department of Defense, Crime, Law and Justice
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Review: 'Star Trek Into Darkness' ramps up action, leaves room for heart
"Star Trek Into Darkness," bursting at the seams with enemies, wears its politics, its mettle, its moxie and its heart on its ginormous 3-D sleeve. Director J.J. Abrams and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise try to build a better sequel with action...
Tags: Karl Urban, Emergency Incidents, Damon Lindelof, John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch
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Judge orders JPL to drop discipline over scientists' email
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security checks for JPL employees....Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Work Relations, NASA, George W. Bush, Career and Workplace
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Letters: Benghazi and partisanship
Re "Lawmakers hear official's account of Benghazi events," May 8 After failing to connect President Obama to any real scandals, Republicans have resurrected the 8-month-old attack in Benghazi, Libya. This, while also taking a shot at Hillary Rodham...Tags: Darrell E Issa, Benghazi, Politics, U.S. Military, Barack Obama
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New York's One World Trade Center spire finally goes up
New York City can once again claim to be home to the tallest building in the country, and the Western Hemisphere for that matter. On Friday, workers topped off the new One World Trade Center building with a spire making the structure 1,776 feet tall,...
Tags: Employees, Politics, Government, Career and Workplace, One World Trade Center
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Christopher Shinn's plays explore what victims do next
NEW YORK — David Mamet has his hustlers, Edward Albee his domestic warriors, Tony Kushner his brilliant self-flagellators. If playwright Christopher Shinn has a signature character, it is the manipulative victim — the half-sympathetic, half-...
Tags: Genetics, Health Treatments, Ewing's sarcoma, Chemotherapy, Biology
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Catholic 'Sharia' in Pittsburgh
In the post-9/11 culture wars over Islamic fundamentalism, American conservatives — properly — have condemned attempts in Muslim countries to punish blasphemy or insults to the prophet Muhammad. It will be interesting to see if they are...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Politics, Trials, Festive Events, Health Insurance Cost
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World Trade Center reaches new heights with permanent spire
A spire set atop One World Trade Center on Friday was greeted with cheers from workers high in the air and spectators from the street below. The 408-foot spire, draped in an American flag, brought the New York City structure to a height of 1,776 feet,...
Tags: One World Trade Center, Today (tv program), Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Statue of Liberty
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Ridiculous Republican rhetoric undermines Benghazi probe
Republicans could make an easy hit on the Obama administration by highlighting the State Department’s apparent bureaucratic blundering during and after the deadly terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last fall, but they...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Elections
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