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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: Heroism, Defense, Colin Powell, Theft, George W. Bush
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Mideast violence shows 'Arab Spring' still a work in progress
World NowGlobal Focus: Anti-American violence sweeping the Muslim world has brought a sobering reminder in Washington and the West that the heady revolutions of the Arab Spring that threw out entrenched dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have yet to achieve... -
Baseball: Hart catcher Baggio Saldivar picks Army
Varsity Times InsiderBaggio Saldivar, a standout senior catcher at Newhall Hart, has committed to the U.S. Military Academy West Point. -- Eric Sondheimer... -
Even the best and brightest can be knuckleheads
It seemed at first like a welcome break from political overload. There's nothing like a juicy sex scandal to relieve election fatigue. But this one, it turns out, brims with suggestions of military misconduct and questions of national security that have...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, FBI, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs, U.S. Secret Service
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The story of a Paralympian with full sails before the end
The venue for information gathering for today's column was lunch. Your typist was a fly on the wall. Mary Kate Scandone met Dottie Rountree. That's not exactly Kobe Bryant chatting with Matt Kemp. Actually, as it turned out, it was much better. Scandone...
Tags: Symptoms, Lou Gehrig's Disease, Diseases and Illnesses, Awards and Prizes, Sailing
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Gore Vidal dies at 86; iconoclastic author
Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical "Lincoln" to the satirical "Myra Breckinridge" — and volumes of...
Tags: Pneumonia, Timothy McVeigh, Human Interest, Stephen Boyd, Fiction
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Army officer from Southern California killed in Afghanistan
L.A. NOWA U.S. Army officer from Southern California has been killed in Afghanistan, the Department of Defense announced Friday.... -
Pakistani doctor who helped find Bin Laden gets 33 years in prison
World NowA Pakistani doctor who led a phony vaccination campaign aimed at helping the CIA pinpoint Osama bin Laden’s whereabouts was convicted of treason Wednesday and sentenced to 33 years in prison, a decision that is likely to further erode Washington&#... -
Papers portray Osama Bin Laden as struggling to manage Al Qaeda
World NowFrom his hideout in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden struggled to manage the tentacles of his terrorist organization even as he derided it as amateurish and unfocused, according to declassified documents... -
How Al Qaeda rated the American media -- an 'F' for Fox
World NowFox News “falls into the abyss as you know, and lacks neutrality too.” CNN “seems to be in cooperation with the government more than others.” And “ABC channel is all right; actually it could be one of the best channels, as... -
Bin Laden ordered squads to try to attack Obama's aircraft
World NowWASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden ordered terrorist teams in mid-2010 to blow up the planes of President Obama and Gen. David H. Petraeus, then commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, when they visited Afghanistan or Pakistan, according to a declassified... -
Top U.S. envoy to Pakistan plans to step down this summer
World NowU.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, who has had to help navigate Washington’s uneasy alliance with Islamabad through one of its lowest points since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, plans to step down sometime this summer, U.S. officials...
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