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Book review: 'The Adjustment' by Scott Phillips
Jacket CopyScott Phillips' fourth novel "The Adjustment" takes place in a landscape of such moral bleakness that there is nowhere to go but down: Yep, it's noir.... -
GLAAD and National Hispanic Media Coalition's boycott of 'Jose Luis Sin Censura' gains traction
Company TownA months-long campaign by the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and the National Hispanic Media Coalition to protest the Liberman Broadcasting talk show "Jose Luis Sin Censura" has picked up steam, with one major TV station agreeing to drop...... -
Monster Mash: Titian masterpiece believed damaged; expert changes mind on alleged Ansel Adams negatives
Culture Monster-- Waterlogged: "David and Goliath," a painting by the Renaissance artist Titian, is believed to have sustained damage after firefighters sprayed water at a Venice basilica. (Agence France-Presse) -- Changing his mind: An expert says he made a mistake... -
Billionaire Koch brothers back suspension of California climate law
GreenspaceA company owned by oil billionaires Charles and David Koch has contributed $1 million to Proposition 23, a November ballot initiative to suspend California’s groundbreaking 2006 global-warming law. The contribution came from Flint Hills Resources LP,... -
William P. Foster dies at 91; conductor broke racial barriers and revolutionized marching band style
At the University of Kansas in the late 1930s, William P. Foster was barred from joining the marching band because he was black.
When he graduated in 1941, he aspired to direct a band but the school's dean of music told him "there were no jobs for...Tags: Louisiana State University, McDonald's, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Columbia University, Music
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Camp Pendleton Marine 'couldn't stand the thought' of his battalion in Afghanistan without him. Now he's coming home severely wounded
L.A. NOWWhen the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Reconnaissance Battalion was set to deploy to Afghanistan, Sgt. Jonathan Blank could have remained stateside. Blank was close to finishing his active duty. But to make sure he could deploy with his buddies, he extended...... -
Prop. 23: Why did Valero launch a campaign against California's climate law?
GreenspaceIn the most closely watched environmental election fight in the country, national conservation groups, Silicon Valley moguls, Hollywood celebrities and California politicians have waged a scorched-earth campaign against Valero Energy Corp., the nation's... -
Where's the historical IQ in this O.C. GOP woman? It's MIA
Opinion L.A.Kansas wasn't that populous a state in the 1950s and '60s -– a couple of million people, smaller than Orange County -- so I wonder whether Marilyn Davenport ever ran into some of her fellow Kansans: Wichita folks by the...... -
With no opponent and barely 558 days left, Obama has already become Campaigner-in-Chief
Top of the TicketFull text of Obama 's new fundraising stump speech with commentary on his unusual Wednesday.... -
PASSINGS: Ronald W. Walters, Kathleen Fetzer, Jill Jackson
Ronald W. Walters
Scholar, author and political analyst
Ronald W. Walters, 72, a longtime political analyst and scholar at Howard University and the University of Maryland who was a leading expert on race and politics, died Sept. 10 at a hospital in...Tags: Howard University, Jesse Jackson, Lungs and Airways, Children, University of Maryland, College Park
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Book review: 'Bound' by Antonya Nelson
Los Angeles TimesBound A Novel Antonya Nelson Bloomsbury: 232 pp., $25 One pleasure of reading Antonya Nelson is that she brings the careful language and control of literary fiction to uncontrolled, rough-and-tumble lives. Mixing the admittedly bourgeois undertaking...Tags: Book, Raymond Carver, Teen-agers
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One Mexico border city is quiet, maybe too quiet
In Tijuana, schoolchildren get lessons on how to duck during gangland shootouts. Ciudad Juarez cops patrol with military escorts, and the morgue there is spilling over with gunshot victims.
But here in Mexicali, people fear the desert sun more than...Tags: Crimes, Police Arrests, Drug Trafficking, Mexico, Seizures
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