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Americans expect a recession but also survival
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans are more worried about the nation's fiscal health than they are about their own pocketbooks, with a sizable majority believing the country is on the road to recession, a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found. The anxiety Wall Street is...Tags: Adults, Finance, Moody's Corporation, Petroleum Industry, White House
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Tornadoes tear across Southern states, killing at least 44
Crews went door-to-door today searching debris for more victims of deadly tornadoes that ripped the roof off a shopping mall, pummeled mobile homes and blew apart warehouses as they tore across four states. At least 44 people were killed throughout the...Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Metal and Mineral, Vehicles, Hospitals and Clinics
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Odetta Holmes dies at 77; folk singer championed black history, civil rights
Odetta, the classically trained folk, blues and gospel singer who used her powerfully rich and dusky voice to champion African American music and civil rights issues for more than half a century starting in the folk revival of the 1950s, has died. She was...Tags: Social Issues, Civil Rights, Janis Joplin, Harry Belafonte, Arts and Culture
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Charles Morgan Jr. dies at 78; lawyer challenged racism in the South
Charles Morgan Jr., a civil rights lawyer who challenged the racism of his native South and won numerous landmark cases for equal rights before the U.S. Supreme Court, died Thursday at his home in Destin, Fla. He was 78 and had Alzheimer's disease.
In...Tags: Richard Nixon, Social Issues, U.S. Supreme Court, Colleges and Universities, Discrimination
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Unfinished business
DAVID J. GARROW, a senior fellow at Cambridge University, is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.TWO WEEKS AGO, the House of Representatives voted 422 to 2 to pass a bill called the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act. It would authorize up to $13.5 million a year in new federal spending for investigations into "cold case" killings like...Tags: Eldridge Cleaver, Memphis, Social Issues, Civil Rights, Witnesses
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Rare snow blankets South as East braces for storm
A potent March snowstorm blanketed much of Alabama with up to 4 inches of snow today, covering Civil War statues and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of church services. The storm headed toward the Northeast and threatened to drop up to a foot of...Tags: Transportation, Michael Bloomberg, Air Transportation Delays, Weather Reports, Travel
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Pellicano lawyers act to shift case's focus
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDefense attorneys for Anthony Pellicano have asked prosecutors for documents they say will show that authorities first investigated the Hollywood private eye for allegedly audiotaping an FBI agent. The government has said the long-running probe stemmed...Tags: Office Equipment and Supplies, Corporate Crime, Prosecution, Lawyers, Organized Crime
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Super Tuesday looks close for Democrats
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBarack Obama gained a burst of momentum from his landslide victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday and an expected endorsement today from Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. But now, the Illinois senator faces a monumental contest that does not...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Primaries, Crime, Law and Justice, Advertising, African Americans
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Nat King Cole is reinterpreted on 'Re: Generations'
It was 50 years ago that Nat King Cole went to Brazil and was greeted with staggering street-side ovations. "There was so much affection, it's hard to describe what it was like," said Carole Cole, one of the late singer's daughters. "It was almost like...Tags: Black Eyed Peas (music group), Family, Electronics, Louis Armstrong, Science and Technology
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Working without a net
Economists -- and what few friends the Bush administration still has -- seem flabbergasted at how bleak Americans have grown about their economic prospects. True, gasoline has shot past $4 a gallon. And house prices keep dropping. And unemployment is...Tags: Social Issues, Colleges and Universities, Politics, Insurance, Health and Safety at School
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Stylish gift ideas
We asked a variety of tastemakers to tell us about their versions of 'The One,' the go-to gift they'll turn to this season. Jenni Kayne, fashion designer L'Artisan Parfumeur amber balls, $75 for the small size, luckyscent.com. "They are earthy and...Tags: FedEx Corporation, The Martha Stewart Show (tv program), Barnes & Noble, Inc., Entertainment, Barney's New York Incorporated
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The Rev. James L. Bevel dies at 72; civil rights activist and top lieutenant to King
The Rev. James L. Bevel, a fiery top lieutenant of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and a force behind civil rights campaigns of the 1960s whose erratic behavior and conviction on incest charges tarnished his legacy, has died. He was 72.
Sherrilynn Bevel,...Tags: Memphis, Colleges and Universities, Civil Rights, Fraud, Jesse Jackson
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