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Obama, Israel: Republicans' 'wedge'
The Swampby Mark Silva Republican congressional leaders are attempting to "drive a wedge'' between President Barack Obama and the politically influential American Jewish community, the way one well-known conservative Republican sees it. Israel is the wedge. The...Tags: Barack Obama, Judaism, Indiana, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture
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Obama's African journey: 'Promise'
The SwampPresident Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, founded with the slavery of Africans and perpetuating legalized racial discrimination well into the 20th Century, addressed the parliament of Ghana today in his first...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Elections, Human Body, Kenya, Journalism
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Drunken Driving Fatalities Decline in 2008
KickingTiresA slow economy and the summer???s high gas prices contributed to a solid decrease in the number of drunken driving fatalities in 2008. According to the Department of Transportation 11,773 people died as a result of alcohol-related vehicle accidents in.......Tags: Road Transportation, Vehicles, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Drunk Driving, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Euthanasia, evil and 'making things up'
The Swampby Mark Silva The doctor is in: Howard Dean, former Democratic National Committee chairman, onetime candidate for his party's presidential nomination, former governor of Vermont - and a physician -- says there is nothing to Republican Sarah Palin's...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Tom Harkin, Health
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Kennedy: 'Greatest senator' -- Obama
The SwampTelevision note: MSNBC will air a planned documentary, The Kennedy Brothers, at 9 pm EDT tonight, in addition to its already scheduled time of 7 pm Thursday as noted below. CNN's Larry King Live will devote its show at 9......Tags: White House, Barack Obama, Delaware, Health, Arts and Culture
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9/11 remembrance bipartisan today
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated There still are a few things that congressional leaders are capable of performing in a bipartisan spirit -- that welcome reminder came with the memorials for the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy recently, and it......Tags: Barack Obama, United Air Lines, U.S. Presidential Election (2008), Unrest, Conflicts and War, New York
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Reader Review of the Week: 2010 Mercury Milan
KickingTiresCan you guess at the car-related tragedies and triumphs that must have occurred in the life of a person who goes by the moniker ???FoMoCo Fan Again???? From the depths of Maine, ???FoMoCo Fan Again??? explains how the 2010 Mercury......Tags: Ford, Passenger Cars, Vehicles, Ford Motor Co., Mercury
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'Cosmopolis' review: Robert Pattinson's most interesting performance by a mile
*** (out of four) None of Robert Pattinson’s roles have fully lined up with his shifty absent-mindedness. In “Twilight,” he tries to make Edward mysterious and tortured, but comes off as vacant. In this year’s “Bel Ami,&...Tags: Paul Giamatti, Cosmopolis (movie), David Cronenberg, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart
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Opera review: 'Heart of a Soldier'
Culture MonsterMark Swed reviews the premiere of Christopher Theofanidis' "Heart of a Soldier," a celebration of the life of Rick Rescorla, who saved 2700 workers at the World Trade Center on 9/11. The audience was moved. But the opera only emphasized the obvious.... -
IRAN: Ayatollah calls government a 'military regime,' calls for clerical revolt [Updated]
Babylon & BeyondAn influential and high-ranking Iranian cleric has issued a scathing denunciation of the Islamic Republic's current leadership, calling on senior Shiite Muslim clergy in the Iranian holy cities of Qom and Mashhad as well as the Iraqi shrine city of...... -
Theater review: 'Peace' at Getty Villa
Culture MonsterThe comedies of Aristophanes???so sanely rebellious, so tastily profane???are perhaps more tantalizing to us moderns than the ancient Greek tragedies. They are also more theatrically elusive, loaded with topical references that require either heavy... -
U.S. Olympic media summit: Time to turn off the cynicism
L.A. Times Olympics BlogReporting from Chicago -- Sometimes we cynical journalists (redundant, I know) moan and roll our eyes when TV networks air those up-close-and-personal features that focus on the incredible obstacles athletes have overcome to reach the Olympics. But...
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