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Fashion that's perennially preppy
Los Angeles TimesNEW YORK — The quintessential Ivy League look, born on college campuses more than a century ago and epitomized by tweed jackets, seersucker suits, khaki trousers and button-down oxford-cloth shirts, hit the peak of its popularity in the mid-1950s,...Tags: Ralph Lauren, Companies and Corporations, Human Interest, Arts and Culture, Museums
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Sandy Hook teacher Victoria Soto is given a hero's farewell
They had to bury Vicki Soto on Wednesday and took care in doing so. Soto -- her full name was Victoria Leigh Soto -- lived in Stratford, Conn., about a 40-minute drive from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where she taught first grade. She liked the...
Tags: Paul Simon, FBI, Adam Lanza, Heroism, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Charter group, but not L.A. Unified, finalist for Race to the Top
L.A. NOWA local charter school organization is a finalist for a high-profile federal grant, but the Los Angeles Unifed School District failed to qualify in the same competition. Green Dot Public Schools, which operates 18 charter schools, remains in the running..... -
Teacher pleads guilty to having sex with 17-year-old ex-student
L.A. NOWA San Diego County high school teacher pleaded guilty Thursday to having sex with a former 17-year-old student.... -
No local winners for Race to the Top education grants
L.A. NOWSouthern California schools have been shut out of a high-profile federal grant competition, according to results announced Tuesday. The one regional finalist for the latest round of Race to the Top grants was a charter school organization, Green Dot... -
Halloween experiment shows Michelle Obama's health campaign works
As President Obama and Mitt Romney make a last-minute push for votes, First Lady Michelle Obama can already chalk up a small victory for her campaign to fight childhood obesity. In a semi-scientific study conducted on the front porch of a Yale University...
Tags: Government, Elections, Mitt Romney, Halloween, Demographics
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Joan Roberts dies at 95; female lead in original 'Oklahoma!'
Joan Roberts, who originated the female lead role of Laurey in the 1943 Broadway production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's long-running hit musical "Oklahoma!" and made a final return to Broadway after a more than five-decade absence in a 2001 revival of...
Tags: Long Island, Nanette Fabray, Stamford, Arts and Culture, Movies
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Ernest Borgnine dies at 95; won Oscar for 'Marty,' showed comic side in sitcom
Ernest Borgnine seemed born to play the heavy when he burst onto the Hollywood scene as "Fatso" Judson, a sadistic stockade sergeant who viciously beats a private to death in the 1953 movie "From Here to Eternity." But two years later came the title role...
Tags: Celebrities, David Johnson, ABC (tv network), Awards and Prizes, Academy Awards
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John J. Merrick dies at 93; longtime Malibu judge, civic leader
When Beverly Hills attorney John J. Merrick was elected judge of the Malibu Judicial District in 1964, it was considered only a part-time job: The population of the area stretching from the ocean to Calabasas didn't warrant a full-time municipal judge....
Tags: Celebrities, Family, Marriage, Comedy (genre), Judges
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Oceanside teacher accused of having sex with student
L.A. NOWA 34-year-old teacher at Oceanside High School has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a 17-year-old student.... -
Margot Feuer dies at 89; helped create Santa Monica Mountains park
After Margot Feuer moved to the hills of Malibu in 1965, she was "catapulted into community action" by the threat of development in the surrounding Santa Monica Mountains. The terrifying proposals included building a nuclear power plant in an isolated...Tags: Long Island, Human Interest, Gardens and Parks, Nuclear Power, Activism
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Is Machu Picchu reaching its peak?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the top of the mountain, where an attendant will take your $46 ticket, foot traffic is steady and cellphone reception is excellent. At the bottom of the same mountain, the town teems with pizzerias, tourists chatter in half a dozen languages and a...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Peru, Geography, U.S. Senate, Lima (Peru)
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