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Friday's TV Highlights: 'Shark Tank' on ABC
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Undercover Boss Following last week'...
Tags: Zach Galifianakis, The Washington Post, Colin Morgan, Alex O'Loughlin, Maggie Q
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David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC
David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Iraq, U.S. Army, Woodrow Wilson, Central Intelligence Agency
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Woodrow Wilson, Tampa, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI
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Football: Kicker Jonathan Kim will soon join brothers at Army
Varsity Times InsiderKicker Jonathan Kim of Torrance Bishop Montgomery has accepted an appointment to the West Point prep school this fall with the intention of enrolling at Army in 2014. If everything goes as planned, Kim will become the third family member...... -
'Disconnect' is a 'grand experiment' for Henry-Alex Rubin
Movie directors can come across as all sorts of personalities — arrogant, collegial, mercurial, dictatorial. Filmmaker Henry-Alex Rubin arrived on the set of "Disconnect", his first narrative feature, striking an unusual pose: clueless. "I have no...
Tags: David O. Russell, Andrea Riseborough, Max Thieriot, Kevin Macdonald, Reebok Ltd.
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With Al Qaeda shattered, U.S. counter-terrorism's future unclear
WASHINGTON — Skilled in tracking foreign terrorists, Jarret Brachman once was a sought-after expert on Al Qaeda, advising several federal agencies and speaking regularly around the country. Now the former research director of the Combating...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, Pakistan, Al-Qaeda, Central Intelligence Agency, FBI
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At Army base, an aggressive campaign against suicide
FT. BLISS, Texas — Army Pvt. John Jeffery stumbled into Kyle Boswell's barracks room at Ft. Bliss before dawn one day in February, his eyes glassy. "I've done something," Jeffery mumbled to his buddy. "I can't tell anyone. It's going to happen."...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Vicodin (drug), Iraq, Pharmaceuticals, Health
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Lessons from a five-star president
As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in....
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, International Military Interventions, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Wars and Interventions, Entertainment
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Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who presided over the swift and devastating 1991 military assault on Iraq that transformed the Middle East and reminded America what it was like to win a war, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 78. The...
Tags: Kuwait, Technology, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Iraq, Tampa
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Fred Kaplan's 'The Insurgents' takes on Petraeus and policy
-------------------- The Insurgents David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War Fred Kaplan Simon & Schuster: 400 pp, $28 -------------------- Everyone knows — or thinks they know — about the influence exerted by the...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), Mosul (Iraq), International Military Interventions, Iraq, Entertainment Events
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Charles Durning dies at 89; Tony winner also got Oscar, Emmy nods
Charles Durning, a Tony Award-winning actor whose prolific work in films and television included supporting roles in the classic comedy "Tootsie" and the TV sitcom "Evening Shade," died Monday. He was 89. Durning, a decorated veteran of World War II,...
Tags: Denis Leary, The Washington Post, Entertainment Events, Smallpox , Burt Reynolds
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Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dies at 78
Retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, who topped an illustrious military career by commanding the U.S.-led international coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait in 1991 but kept a low public profile in controversies over the second Gulf...
Tags: Baghdad (Iraq), The Washington Post, Tampa, Engineering, The Pentagon
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