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Dodge Morgan dies at 78; first American to sail solo around the globe with no stops
Dodge Morgan, the first American to sail solo around the globe without stopping — and in record time — died of complications from cancer Tuesday at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He was 78.
Morgan set a world record in 1986 when he...Tags: Sailing, Around The World Sailing
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Jonathan Togo doesn't follow a script when it comes to home design
Jonathan Togo, the 33-year-old actor who returns to "CSI: Miami" as investigator Ryan Wolfe when the new season premieres Oct. 3, is bemused by the celebrity real estate racket. Instead of buying into the hype that he needs more house, more furnishings...Tags: Arne Jacobsen, Entertainment, Furniture, Metal and Mineral, Real Estate Buyers
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Mary Daly dies at 81; radical feminist academician
Mary Daly, a radical feminist philosopher whose piercing critiques of patriarchal culture made her a guiding spirit of the women's movement and a fractious presence at Boston College, where her refusal to admit men to her classes ended a three-decade...Tags: University of Notre Dame, Health, Culture, Christianity, Health and Safety at School
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Jay Leno's new time slot wreaks havoc for NBC affiliates
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBaltimore may be called Charm City, but for WBAL -- the local television station that carries NBC's "The Jay Leno Show" -- there isn't much to smile about lately. Usually, WBAL is in a neck-and-neck race for viewers against arch rival WJZ. But since...Tags: Comcast Corporation, Entertainment, Television, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno
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Senate panel and House vote to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' -- will it change anything?
Comments BlogA proposal to repeal the longtime ban on gays serving openly in the military leaped two crucial hurdles Thursday, with the House of Representatives and a key Senate committee endorsing a compromise to end the "don't ask, don't tell" policy....... -
Robert Pound dies at 90; Harvard physicist
Los Angeles TimesRobert Pound, a Harvard physicist whose elegant experiments confirmed a key part of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity and who helped lay the groundwork for the magnetic resonance imaging technology now widely used in medicine, died April 12 at a...Tags: Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize Awards, Radio Industry, Science and Technology, Education
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Despite controversies, OneUnited chief executive hopes to raise private equity
Money & CompanyThe bank involved in the Maxine Waters ethics case says it's the leading Internet and interstate bank for black Americans, although its chairman's past run-ins with the law and denials of wrongdoing have made news for other reasons this week....... -
Dr. Stanley van den Noort dies at 79; UC Irvine neurologist
Dr. Stanley van den Noort, the UC Irvine neurologist who championed the early treatment of multiple sclerosis patients and who, as dean of the university's school of medicine, fought a 12-year losing battle to construct a major teaching hospital on...Tags: Family, Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Research, University of California, Irvine
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Paul Samuelson dies at 94; 1st American to win Nobel in economics
Times Staff And Wire ReportsPaul Samuelson, the first American to win a Nobel Prize in economics, the author of a landmark college textbook on the subject and a presidential advisor who helped shape tax policy in the Kennedy administration, has died. He was 94. --------------------...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Economic Policy, Money and Monetary Policy, Government, Awards and Prizes
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Prop. 8 cuts both ways
California is America's incubator, the place where transforming trends in culture, clothing, commerce and -- unfortunately -- politics often begin. Proposition 13 ignited a national anti-tax fervor; Proposition 187 inflamed anti- immigrant sentiment. Most...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Christianity, Government, Church and State Relations, Elections
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Marriage act faces lawsuit
The first state to legalize gay marriage became the first to challenge the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, contending that the 1996 law interferes with Massachusetts' right to define and regulate marriage. The law defines marriage as a union between a...Tags: Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Gays and Lesbians, Marriage, Minority Groups
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Thomas P. O'Malley dies at 79; former president of Loyola Marymount University
Thomas P. O'Malley, an engaging and scholarly priest who headed Loyola Marymount University during a period of significant expansion in the 1990s, died in Boston on Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack. He was 79.
His death was announced by Boston...Tags: John Carroll, Health and Safety at School, Social Issues, Awards and Prizes, Death
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