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Porn video shot on Coliseum grounds
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum field is the place where the USC Trojans play football, two Summer Olympics were staged, John F. Kennedy accepted the Democratic presidential nomination and Pope John Paul II celebrated Mass. It was also a location for...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Lawyers, Law Enforcement, Pornography, Justice System
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Paul Fussell dies at 88; social historian and critic
For social historian and critic Paul Fussell, the most enduring moments of truth came as a 20-year-old platoon leader in France during World War II. German shrapnel tore up his back and thigh. The blood and guts of fellow soldiers were spewed on him....
Tags: Car Guides and Reviews, Literature, Rutgers University, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sociology
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TV This Week for May 27 - June 2: 'Hemingway and Gellhorn' on HBO
Show TrackerClick here to download TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 27 - June 2 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies...... -
Memorial Day: How much do you know about the holiday's history?
Los Angeles Times Travel editorMemorial Day is a day off for many of us, so as you’re lighting the fire and throwing another burger on the grill, consider this quiz, which talks about the meaning of the day. If you get all 10, well, pop open a beverage and have another dog. 1....Tags: Grateful Dead (music group), Wars and Interventions, Holidays, Memorial Day, Armistice Day
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Navy commissions the high-tech San Diego
SAN DIEGO — The $1.3-billion ship is billed as the most technologically advanced of any in its class in the U.S. Navy, with stealth capability and a state-of-the-art communications system.
But the commissioning ceremony Saturday that made the San...Tags: U.S. Navy, Navy Pier, World War II (1939-1945), Tourism and Leisure, Cruises
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New tomb at Arlington? Plan focuses on Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond
WASHINGTON -- The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery, dedicated in 1921 and guarded around the clock, has long been among the most visited sites in the nation's capital. It would be joined by a Tomb of Remembrance for the unidentified...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, U.S. House of Representatives, Afghanistan, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Department of Defense
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Movie review: The glorious 'Grand Illusion'
Jean Renoir's 1937"Grand Illusion," one of the most admired — and one of the most feared — films ever made, returns to theatrical screens in a fine digital restoration taken from the original camera negative just in time to celebrate its...
Tags: Grand Illusion (movie), Unrest, Conflicts and War, France, Germany, Movies
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L.A. Coliseum panel OKs deal to transfer control of venue to USC
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission, teetering on the brink of financial ruin, approved a controversial deal Monday to surrender day-to-day control of the historic venue to USC.
The 8-to-1 vote would virtually end public stewardship of the 88-...Tags: Lawyers, Bankruptcy, Politics, Mark Ridley-Thomas, College Sports
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Europe's anti-austerity vote offers lessons for U.S. policymakers
The European elections have concluded and the results are clear: Voters in France and Greece are a lot smarter than economic policymakers in the United States. Or at least they're a lot more attuned to the folly of relying on austerity as a tool of...Tags: Republican Party, Labor Markets, Unemployment, Public Finance, Science and Technology
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Movie review: Aliens can have this 'Battleship'
"Battleship"is not the first major motion picture to be based on a board game — who could forget 1985's benighted "Clue"? — but it is surely the most expensive. With every superhero more celebrated than Amazing-Man or the Chameleon already...
Tags: U.S. Navy, NASA, Rihanna, Harlem Globetrotters, Battleship (movie)
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Review: Albright's 'Prague Winter' mixes the personal, historical
Tribune newspapers"Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948" Madeleine Albright Harper: 480 pp., $29.99 Madeleine Albright is a formidable figure. She was a member of the National Security Council and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. When she...Tags: BBC, World War II (1939-1945), Religion and Belief, Nazi Party, Judaism
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Parks seeks to halt vote on Coliseum deal with USC
Citing a state investigation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum's top executive, City Councilman and stadium Commissioner Bernard C. Parks demanded Friday that a Monday vote on surrendering stewardship of the venue to USC be canceled. Parks also...
Tags: Politics, Trials, College Sports, Zev Yaroslavsky, Elections
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