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UCLA football: Bruins get Jermaine Eluemunor, a Brit who can hit
UCLA football coaches want to be a national player in recruiting. But an international player? The Bruins received an oral commitment from Jermaine Eluemunor, a 6-foot-6 tackle from Scranton (Pa.) Lackawanna Community College. He will enroll at UCLA...
Tags: UCLA Bruins, Same-Sex Marriage
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'The Office' stays true to its heart, even after 9 seasons
"The Office" will close its doors Thursday night after eight years and nine seasons. That is not to say that Dunder Mifflin, the paper company in whose Scranton, PA, branch the series has largely been set, is itself going out of business. It's not...
Tags: Ed Helms, Television, Steve Carell, Clark Duke, Amy Ryan
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Farewell party at 'The Office' after 9 years
An old index card reads: Original. Real. Poignant. Those were the first words Greg Daniels jotted down a decade ago as his guide in adapting the daft British TV series "The Office" for an American audience. The ideas on the flimsy card stock proved...
Tags: Phyllis Smith, Creed Bratton, Mindy Kaling, Apple iTunes, Paul Lieberstein
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In Portland, Ore., a garden of pastry delights
PORTLAND, Ore. — Is it possible for an Angeleno to leave home and find love in a region where sunshine is merely a rumor and 50 shades of gray are a daily atmospheric reality? It's helpful if the pursuit of that bliss involves a white-hot...
Tags: Hazelnuts, Dining and Drinking, Authors, Restaurants, Cheese Danish
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Storm system rumbles toward East Coast; tornadoes in South kill 2
A long line of storms stretching from the deep South to upstate New York continued to roll across the nation on Wednesday, with reports of two fatalities in separate tornadoes. It's the traditional dead season for tornadoes, but northern Georgia was...
Tags: New York Weather, Southern U.S. Storms (2011), National Weather Service, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes
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Real veep meets The Onion's Joe Biden
Let's be clear: The real Vice President Joe Biden says he doesn’t drink, definitely has never sported a pony tail, didn't hitchhike his way to the Democratic National Convention, and isn't serving a lifetime ban from Dave & Busters. Nor has he ever...
Tags: Onions, White House, Social Media, Joe Biden, 2012 Democratic National Convention
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reFramed: In conversation with Arthur Tress
FrameworkArthur Tress was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Nov. 24, 1940. He took his first photographs while still in elementary school in 1952. He attended Bard College, where he studied art and art history, world culture and philosophy under Heinrich Bluecher.... -
Book review: 'Panorama City' by Antoine Wilson
-------------------- Panorama City A Novel Antoine Wilson Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 292 pp., $24 -------------------- In fiction, when country naifs ship off to the big city to reinvent themselves, they go to New York or Paris. On the off chance...
Tags: Book, Autism, Roman Polanski, Authors, World War II (1939-1945)
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R. Duncan Luce dies at 87; UC Irvine mathematical psychologist
R. Duncan Luce, a UC Irvine mathematical psychologist who received the National Medal of Science in 2005 for his pioneering scholarship in behavioral sciences, died Aug. 11 at his home in Irvine after a brief illness, the university announced. He was 87....
Tags: Sociology, Colleges and Universities, University of California, Irvine, Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Boys' basketball: Khaliq Bedart-Ghani is headed to Yale
Varsity Times InsiderKhaliq Bedart-Ghani, the starting center for Los Angeles Loyola this past season, will join Yale's basketball team this fall. Six players from last season's team will be playing in college. Julian Harrell is headed to Pennsylvania. Jacob Hazzard is going.... -
University of Missouri Press to close, after 54 years
Jacket CopyThe University of Missouri will pull the plug on its 54 year old press, just the latest in a string of academic publishing casualties... -
Cathie Wright dies at 82; former assemblywoman and state senator
A cardboard elephant in Cathie Wright's Sacramento office during her 20 years in the Assembly and state Senate from 1980 to 2000 summed up the Simi Valley Republican's sense of statecraft: "It's Better to Be a Stomper, Than a Stompee."
"I'm tenacious, I'...Tags: John Burton, Pete Wilson, Regional Authority, Interior Policy, Willie Brown
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