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    Oct 12, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  1. Occupy Wall Street shifts from protest to policy phase

    How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment?
    How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or as (that all-purpose insult) "un-...

    Tags: Herman Cain, Finance, Manhattan (New York City), JPMorgan Chase & Co., Demonstration

    2. Sep 22, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. Book review: 'Making Our Democracy Work' by Stephen Breyer

    The United States Supreme Court likes its mystery: Cases are argued in public, briefs are available for all to read, but its real work is carried out in conferences attended by the nine justices alone. So private are those deliberations that in the rare instances when they are interrupted, it is by a knock on the door; the junior justice, by tradition, answers, is passed a note, closes the door, and then delivers the news to the brethren.
    Los Angeles Times
    The United States Supreme Court likes its mystery: Cases are argued in public, briefs are available for all to read, but its real work is carried out in conferences attended by the nine justices alone. So private are those deliberations that in the rare...

    Tags: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Philosophy, Personal Weapon Control, World War II (1939-1945), Local Government

    3. Jan 8, 2006 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Alito's moment

    SUPREME COURT nominations are as old as the republic, but the modern history of the battles over court appointments begins in 1987. That's when the Senate rejected Robert H. Bork, the conservative appellate judge who President Reagan nominated to replace Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr., the swing-voting centrist on what was then, as now, a closely divided court.
    a lawyer in private practice, is the author of "Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court."
    SUPREME COURT nominations are as old as the republic, but the modern history of the battles over court appointments begins in 1987. That's when the Senate rejected Robert H. Bork, the conservative appellate judge who President Reagan nominated to...

    Tags: George W. Bush, Philosophy, Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Civil Rights

    4. Jun 14, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Another J. Edgar Hoover?

    KENNETH D. ACKERMAN is author of "Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties."
    WHAT created J. Edgar Hoover? He reigned with an iron fist as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, until the day he died in 1972. By then, Hoover had evolved into an untouchable autocrat, a man who kept secret files on millions of...

    Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights, Albert Einstein, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI

    5. Jan 2, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Starr hasnt changed his stripes

    In his glowing profile of Kenneth Starr, Jim Newton says: "Starr is neither monster nor prude. ... he speaks most eloquently on the notions of service and compassion. ... Today, he describes himself as 'an encourager and a facilitator,' referring to that...

    Tags: Alaska, Bill Clinton, Drugs and Medicines, Crime, Law and Justice, Local Government

    6. Aug 12, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Faceoff: Mount Rushmore vs. the Crazy Horse Memorial

    <i>Black Hills, S.D.</i>
    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    Black Hills, S.D. Borglum or Ziolkowski? Within a day of arrival in the Black Hills of South Dakota, you'll run into this question, probably somewhere along U.S. 16 as you roll between two of the largest sculpted mountains on the face of the Earth....

    Tags: Calvin Coolidge, Immigration, Golf, Treaties, World War II (1939-1945)

    7. Jan 8, 2009 |Story| Chicago Tribune
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    8. Apr 20, 2003 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  8. He has been long shot before

    Sentinel Staff Writers
    Few held much hope for Bob Graham when he set out to run for governor of Florida 25 years ago. The son of a well-to-do dairyman who also had run for governor, Graham was bright and driven to succeed. Yet he appeared aloof, and even friends wondered how...

    Tags: Executive Branch, Golf, Beaches, University of Florida, U.S. Senate

    9. May 14, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'With All Deliberate Speed'; 'Confessions of a Burning Man'

    Times Staff Writer
    Peter Gilbert's excellent documentary, "With All Deliberate Speed," does more than simply mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark civil rights decision Brown vs. Board of Education. Rather than merely chronicling the events leading up to the May 17,...

    Tags: Cinema Industry, Civil Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Movies, NAACP

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