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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: Elections, World War II (1939-1945), Robert Byrd, Lyndon B. Johnson, Heart Problems
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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), Human Interest, Maryland, Washington, DC, Funeral Parlor and Crematorium
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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: Isadora Duncan, The Washington Post, Music, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Brooklyn Bridge
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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: California, Elections, Television Industry, George W. Bush, Philosophy
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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: Elections, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, Ricky Martin, James Monroe
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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: Armed Forces, University of Chicago, Chicago Tribune, Rivers, Defense
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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: Death, Obituaries, Louis Prima, Staten Island (New York City), Big Band (genre)
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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: Social Issues, Barack Obama, Private Health Care, Arts and Culture, Dick Cheney
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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: Harvard University, Colleges and Universities, Journalism, John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln
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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: Edgar Allan Poe, Colleges and Universities, Pomfret, Tiffany & Company, Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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...
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