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Women becoming priests without Vatican's blessing
SAN FRANCISCO — The priest will be ordained in a purple Lutheran church. The Communion bread, symbolizing the body of Christ, will be gluten-free. The congregation will pray to "our mother our father in heaven." But the real departure from Roman...
Tags: Social Issues, Anglicanism, Feminism, Same-Sex Marriage, Abortion
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John Fogerty takes a new tack with his classic songs
When John Fogerty's wife, Julie, suggested over dinner one night that he revisit his catalog of Creedence Clearwater Revival songs with artists he admires today, he wasn't about to let the music take a back seat to technology. "I realize nowadays with...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Brad Paisley, U.S. Army, Music Industry, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
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Bringing the history of Jews in L.A. into clearer focus
What is the Jewish experience in Los Angeles? "Nobody even thinks about Jews being here or, if they do, maybe they think about Hollywood," said Karen Wilson, guest curator at the Autry National Center. "They might possibly, if they're local, think about...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Academy Awards, Awards and Prizes
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Orb trainer Shug McGaughey has Triple Crown reminders 'every day'
BALTIMORE — Wednesday morning at Pimlico race track was similar to most mornings for Claude McGaughey III. Except there were lots of reporters around, which made it different. McGaughey is a thoroughbred horse trainer, currently the one in the...
Tags: Pimlico, Churchill Downs, Sports Illustrated, Triple Crown, Breeders' Cup
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The Vietnam syndrome
Thirty-eight years ago last week, I was among the last CIA officers to be choppered off the U.S. Embassy roof in Saigon as the North Vietnamese took the country. Just two years before that chaotic rush for the exits, the Nixon administration had withdrawn...
Tags: U.S. Embassy, Police Investigations, Central Intelligence Agency, David Petraeus, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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Vietnam veterans' new battle: getting disability compensation
Vietnam veteran John Otte did his best to forget the war. He got married, raised two sons and made a career working at credit unions. But as Otte neared retirement, memories of combat flooded back. Starting in 2005, he filed a series of claims with...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Heart Disease, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Cleveland State University
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The boys of summer, past and present
The integration of Major League Baseball, so heroically carried by Jackie Robinson and ingeniously engineered by Branch Rickey, occupied one spring and summer season in 1947. The boys of summer occupied the baseball seasons of the early 1950s, the...
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Helicopter crew killed in Vietnam in '67 to be buried at Arlington
The remains of a Navy helicopter pilot from Huntington Park who was shot down and killed in Vietnam nearly 46 years ago have been identified, the U.S. Defense Department announced Tuesday. Lt. Dennis W. Peterson will be buried Thursday in Arlington...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense
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‘Star Trek Into Darkness’: Pine, Quinto on film’s real-world parallels
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times“Star Trek” has always been about more than a spaceship crew hurtling through the cosmos — over the decades, the ...... -
Young Vietnamese Americans learning the lessons of Black April
One girl gasps as the grainy black-and-white footage rolls: Women are screaming, thrusting their babies at soldiers boarding a helicopter. In the next scene, hundreds of refugees packed in the belly of a rickety boat rock in the ocean, desperately...
Tags: Politics, Justice and Rights, Lobbying, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions
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Sam Jameson dies at 76; former longtime L.A. Times correspondent
Sam Jameson, a former longtime Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent with a deep knowledge of and close personal affinity for Japan, his professional and personal base for half a century, died Friday at a Tokyo hospital. He was 76. The cause of...
Tags: Heart Failure, Tokyo (Japan), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Chicago Tribune
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Review: REDCAT's Christian Wolff programs a lesson in virtuosity
An authority on Euripides, Christian Wolff is a retired professor of Greek and Latin classics (along with Marxist literature), having taught at Harvard and Dartmouth for many years. He is also one of America's most unpredictable, most venturesome,...
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