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Alvin Lee dies at 68; guitar virtuoso with Ten Years After
At the Woodstock music festival in 1969, the British blues-rock band Ten Years After burst onto the U.S. music scene with a searing rendition of "I'm Going Home" featuring the fleet-fingered Alvin Lee whaling away on guitar. When the "Woodstock"...
Tags: Nottingham, Entertainment, George Harrison, Mick Fleetwood, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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Bin Laden kin to face terror-related charges in New York
WASHINGTON -- The FBI and CIA helped capture an Al Qaeda spokesman who was Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law and have flown him to New York City from Jordan to face terrorism-related charges, U.S. officials say. Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, an Al Qaeda...
Tags: Al Jazeera (tv network), Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency
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'Olympus Has Fallen': Live chat with director Antoine Fuqua
Join director Antoine Fuqua and Times staff writer Glenn Whipp for a live video chat about Fuqua's latest film, "Olympus Has Fallen," and his career at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time Thursday. The action thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" stars Gerard Butler as a...
Tags: Olympus Has Fallen (movie), Antoine Fuqua, U.S. Secret Service, Gerard Butler
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Orcutt vs. Caltrans: An American flag too far
The conflict over religious words and images mounted in government spaces has become such a common battleground in the culture wars that, unless you're a conservative cable news channel looking to stir up righteous outrage, it seems barely worth opining...
Tags: Politics, Military Justice, Human Rights, U.S. Military, American Legion
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Wim Vandekeybus asks dancers to dig deep
VENICE, Italy — Over strong espressos and crunchy biscotti in the garden at Hotel La Fenice et des Artistes, choreographer-filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus does not seem like a man who puts his dancers through agonizing paces. Indeed, his adrenaline-...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Italy, Stanley Kubrick, Entertainment, Dance
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Van Cliburn's unusual night at the Hollywood Bowl
Van Cliburn, the world-famous pianist who died Wednesday, made several appearances in Los Angeles through the years, including one unforgettable night at the Hollywood Bowl. A 1994 appearance at the Bowl tied to the World Cup soccer final and leading...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Human Accomplishments, Obituaries
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The court sides with secrecy
When Congress and the executive branch collude to keep Americans in the dark about whether their privacy is being invaded, the Supreme Court should be willing to lift the veil of secrecy — at least to the extent of forcing the government to...
Tags: Laws, Electronics, Trials, Lawyers, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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20 years ago, a bomb killed six people at the World Trade Center
Remember this date: Feb. 26, 1993. Twenty years ago on Tuesday, six people died in a terrorist attack at the World Trade Center in New York. Anniversaries are important, for they help set tragedies apart. The philosopher Walter Benjamin once said what...
Tags: Bombings, Politics, Bill Clinton, National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Personal Data Collection
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Radical cleric in Britain wins another appeal to avoid extradition
LONDON -- The British government Wednesday lost another bid to deport a radical Muslim preacher to face trial in Jordan when a court of appeals rejected a request to reconsider an earlier court decision. After more than a decade of judgments and appeals...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Judges, Trials, United Kingdom
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Travel Show: TSA spokesman details scanner changes
In front of a crowd of more than 100, TSA spokesman Nico Melendez talked at Saturday's L.A. Times Travel Show about changes in progress and changes to come at the 11-year-old agency, a longtime hot button issue for travelers. Melendez, who has been with...
Tags: Travel, Transportation Security Administration, Trips and Vacations, Los Angeles International Airport, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Bring my son, and everyone else's, home from Afghanistan
My soldier son called last month to wish his mother and me a happy Thanksgiving. My iPhone buzzed and there he was, sitting in a gun tower, his smiling face bathed in gauzy infrared light, an M249 machine gun propped at the ready behind him. For...
Tags: NATO, Apple iPhone, Central Intelligence Agency, Armed Forces, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'Carrie Diaries' producer defends leaving twin towers out of show
The decision to not include any shots of the World Trade Center in the new CW drama "The Carrie Diaries," which is set in 1984 New York, was a choice the producers made to potentially spare any viewers of a reminder of the September 11, 2001, terrorist...
Tags: The CW (tv network), The Carrie Diaries (tv program)
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