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Hotels, restaurants and activities in San Gabriel Valley
Richard H. Chambers U.S. Court of Appeals (once the Emma Bangs’ boardinghouse and later Vista del Arroyo Hotel), 125 S. Grand Ave, Pasadena; www.gsa.gov/portal/ext/html/site/hb/category/25431/actionParameter/exploreByBuilding/buildingId/825...
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Senate to give Mark Kirk time to heal
— Ted Kennedy had a brain tumor. Joe Biden had two brain aneurysms. Tim Johnson had a rare brain anomaly that led to strokelike symptoms. Lyndon Baines Johnson had a heart attack.
The lawmakers, all stricken while in public office, were afforded...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Mark Kirk, Hospitals and Clinics, Human Body, John F. Kennedy
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Book Review: 'The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Greater Journey Americans in Paris David McCullough Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $37.50 For more than 40 years, David McCullough has brought the past to life in books distinguished by vigorous storytelling and vivid characterizations. He garnered...Tags: Music, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Science and Technology, James Fenimore Cooper, Mary Cassatt
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Michael D. Bell, 35
FEB. 19, 1976-FEB. 21, 2011 Michael Dwayne Bell, 35 of Hagerstown, Md., passed away Monday, Feb. 21, 2011, at Meritus Medical Center near Hagerstown. Born Thursday, Feb. 19, 1976, in Hagerstown, Md., he was the son of Charles Sumner Bell Jr. of...Tags: Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia), Funeral Parlor and Crematorium, Maryland, Human Interest, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland)
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Is the Republican Party progressive?
The Winchester SunIf you listen to talk radio or watch the TV shows of pundits like Glenn Beck and Bill O’ Reilly, you know the most contemptible thing a person can be is not a Satanist or a suicide bomber, but a “progressive.” It is a word that has...Tags: Newt Gingrich, Radio, Minority Groups, George W. Bush, Glenn Beck
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David Herbert Donald dies at 88
Associated PressDavid Herbert Donald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Civil War and American South whose expertise on Abraham Lincoln brought him a wide general audience and reverence from his peers, has died. He was 88. Donald died of heart failure at Beth...Tags: Biography (genre), Wars and Interventions, Literature, Colleges and Universities, Harvard University
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Charlie Kennedy dies at 81; alto saxophonist played in Gene Krupa's big band
Charlie Kennedy, a talented alto saxophonist who was best known for his association with Gene Krupa's big band in the 1940s, has died. He was 81. Kennedy died April 3 of pulmonary disease at his home in Ventura, according to his daughter Lorraine Sutton....Tags: Obituaries, Big Band (genre), Louis Prima, Radio Industry, Staten Island (New York City)
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Obama's bipartisan goal was un-American
The Swampby Frank James So much for bipartisanship. That's how the failure of President Barack Obama's effort to get Republican support for his $787 billion economic stimulus package is being interpreted. But the president was always trying to run against the........Tags: Patrick Leahy, Medical Services, Health, Politics, White House
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Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz
Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...Tags: George W. Bush, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft, Bill Clinton, Massachusetts
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Chicago's Palmer Castle
Chicago TribuneChicago's merchant prince, Potter Palmer, did the unthinkable on this date: He crossed north of the Chicago River and bought part of a filled-in frog pond on what would become Lake Shore Drive, forever changing the fashionable address for chic Chicago....Tags: University of Chicago, Gold Coast, Navy Pier, New York, Defense
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"Rancor"
There is rancor in the hearts of our nation's political writers. Or at least at their fingertips. As the Senate sped toward a crisis over the filibuster of judicial nominees, writers referred constantly to the rancor spreading in U.S. politics. The... -
Chapter Four: The Lash and the Loom
Past the heavy glass doors of the world's most famous jewelry store, two glimmering rings sit waiting to be selected for the proper marriage. One is a diamond-inlaid platinum band selling for $11,700, the other a matching engagement ring priced at $37,...Tags: American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), Crime, Law and Justice, Avon Products Incorporated, Whitney Museum, Wars and Interventions
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