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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Phineas and Ferb' on Disney Channel
Click here to download TV listings for the week Dec. 2 - 8 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Restless: A woman's placid existence is turned upside-down when her mother reveals that she was recruited as a spy for...
Tags: Boston Celtics, Patrick Malahide, Celebrities, Entertainment, Melissa George
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Pearl Harbor: U.S. remembers a 'date which will live in infamy'
In just over seven minutes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave voice to a nation’s outrage, branding Dec. 7 as a “date which will live in infamy” for Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Within an hour, Congress had...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'
Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Theater, Clint Eastwood, Bill Cosby, Louis Armstrong
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You go, military girls -- to the front lines
Annie, get your gun -- and then fall in, soldier! By 2016, it’ll be "officers and gentlemen and gentlewomen." Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will order the military to open combat roles to women, the last barrier to full engagement. That’s...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Armed Forces, Iraq War (2003-2011), U.S. Congress, Sex Crimes
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Better spies, not more
The Defense Intelligence Agency is planning to dramatically expand the ranks of its covert "collectors" — a.k.a. case officers or, more popularly, spies. It has 500 or so and hopes to double that number. There is nothing inherently wrong with this...
Tags: National Security Agency, Julia Child, Iran's Nuclear Program, U.S. Department of Defense, Police Investigations
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Jack Brooks dies at 89; longtime congressman from Texas
HOUSTON -- Jack Brooks, who spent 42 years in Congress representing his Southeast Texas district and was in the Dallas motorcade in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, has died. He was 89. Brooks died Tuesday night at Baptist Hospital...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Abortion Issue, Armed Forces, Parties and Movements, Justice System
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USC and MOCA are in talks about 'a possible partnership'
Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art and the University of Southern California are in talks about a possible partnership that would link the ambitious private university with the fiscally struggling downtown museum. Responding to Los Angeles Times...
Tags: University of Southern California, J. Paul Getty Trust, Arts, Arts and Culture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Conrad Bain dies at 89; played father on 'Diff'rent Strokes'
While portraying the white millionaire father on the hit TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes," Conrad Bain was often asked whether he enjoyed working alongside such scene-stealing young co-stars as Gary Coleman, who precociously played one of his two adopted...
Tags: Eugene O'Neill, Norman Lear, Todd Bridges, Milton Berle, Entertainment
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On somber anniversary, Biden copes with a new loss
WASHINGTON – Vice President Joe Biden returned to the Senate on Tuesday to swear in Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont as the new president pro tempore, an office he now holds as the chamber’s most tenured member after the passing of Hawaii Sen....
Tags: Patrick Leahy, Daniel Inouye, Joe Biden, Elections, Politics
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Nobel winner Joseph Murray dies; performed first successful kidney transplant
BOSTON — Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who performed the world's first successful kidney transplant and won a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work, has died at age 93. Murray suffered a stroke at his suburban Boston home on Thanksgiving and died at Brigham...
Tags: Cosmetic Procedures, Nobel Prize Awards, Hospitals and Clinics, Twins, Immune System
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Looking Back
Southern California’s love affair with the automobile is expressed annually at the Los Angeles Auto Show, which for over a hundred years has been a barometer of industry trends and public tastes in all things car-related. As a city, Los Angeles...
Tags: Auto Shows, Auto Trends, Manufacturing and Engineering, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Automotive Equipment
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'On the Road' toward mortality: A critic ponders Jack Kerouac
Time is a key element in Jack Kerouac's novel "On the Road." "We know time," the protagonist Dean Moriarty (based on Kerouac's friend Neal Cassady) mutters throughout the book, an invocation and a prayer. That's important for a couple of reasons: It...
Tags: Jack Kerouac, Movies, On the Road (movie), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Entertainment
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