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Emanuel says school fixes will take time
Clout StPosted by John Byrne at 3:35 p.m. Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is urging patience as he prepares to tackle Chicago schools, telling a room full of high school students today that he won't be able to immediately improve things after he...... -
Mayor Emanuel's inaugural speech
Change of SubjectToday, more than any other time in our history, more than any other place in our country, the city of Chicago is ready for change. For all the parents who deserve a school system that expects every student to earn...... -
Read Rahm Emanuel's inaugural speech
Clout StPosted by Tribune staff at 11:50 a.m. Here is new Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's inaugural speech as prepared for delivery: Honored guests, Mr. Vice President, Dr. Biden, Mayor Daley, First Lady Maggie Daley, Members of the City Council and other...... -
Paperback Writers: Sunlight and shadow in 'Los Angeles in the 1930s'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesCreated by FDR in 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Writers' Project (a small part of the wider Works Progress Administration) was a make-work agency that gave jobs to about 6,500 writers, editors and researchers before closing shop...Tags: James Robert Thompson, Photography and Video, History, Book, Entertainment
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Book review: 'Letters,' Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLetters Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor Viking: 608 pp, $35 Saul Bellow, being Saul Bellow, coined literary profit from emotional tumult. From personal pain came self-exploration and impish bons mots, poured into the heightened confessional of...Tags: Puerto Rico, Awards and Prizes, Philip Roth, Nobel Prize Awards, Martin Amis
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Fall preview: Publishing
Los Angeles TimesNot that long ago, e-books were an oddity: Devices were expensive, and those who invested in them struggled to find something good to read. But the age of preferring paperbacks is starting to look like the late era of CDs — e-books are ascendant....Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Science and Technology, Lifestyle and Leisure, Book, Google Inc.
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It's culture, not just class size
In his Blowback, "Stop cheering on charter schools," Mathew C. Taylor mentions California's high teacher-student ratios as problematic for the state. Other union leaders and Los Angeles school administrators also needle teachers with the ever-looming...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Culture, California, Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles
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Reasons to shiver: New in paperback
"The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. III" edited by Philip Gourevitch (Picador) "Have you found any professional criticism of your work illuminating or helpful? Edmund Wilson, for example?" asks Julian Jebb, the guy sent by the Paris Review to interview...Tags: University of California, Graham Greene, Criminals, England, Book
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Walter Mosley's Secret Stories
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMidafternoon, and we are sailing. The wide span of Century Boulevard seems vast in its possibilities, a seductive expanse with room to roam or expand. At quick glimpse, it is sparkling, but a brief pause at a light reveals something quite different--a...Tags: Television, Mortgages, Denzel Washington, Metal and Mineral, Vermont
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More than a curiosity
A Father's Law By Richard Wright HarperPerennial, 268 pages, $14.95 paper Modern American literature changed forever in March 1940 with the publication of Richard Wright's first novel, "Native Son." After the book's huge success, Wright spent the...Tags: George Mason, James Baldwin, Crime, Law and Justice, NPR, Criminal Laws
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Their Particular Brand of Dysfunction
TIMES FILM CRITICWatching "The Royal Tenenbaums" is as close as we're likely to get to being kidnapped by extraterrestrials and spirited away to their strange world. No, nasty probes are not in evidence, but there's no doubt you're in the presence of an extremely...Tags: Cinema Industry, Children, Celebrities, Gene Hackman, Sprague
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'Idlewild'
![The air around OutKast's "Idlewild" is humid and thick as gravy, and I'm not talking about the summer haze enveloping the fictional Southern town where the film takes place. The movie starring hip-hop's top duo and the sort-of soundtrack sharing its name — both out this week — are being greeted with a grim earnestness that seems quite overblown, given that pop stars are always making entertainingly flawed cinematic forays and off-kilter soundtracks to go with them.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-08/25008323.jpg "The air around OutKast's "Idlewild\" is humid and thick as gravy, and I'm not talking about the summer haze enveloping the fictional Southern town where the film takes place. The movie starring hip-hop's top duo and the sort-of soundtrack sharing its name — both out this week — are being greeted with a grim earnestness that seems quite overblown, given that pop stars are always making entertainingly flawed cinematic forays and off-kilter soundtracks to go with them.")
Times Staff WriterThe air around OutKast's "Idlewild" is humid and thick as gravy, and I'm not talking about the summer haze enveloping the fictional Southern town where the film takes place. The movie starring hip-hop's top duo and the sort-of soundtrack sharing its...Tags: Dance, OutKast (music group), Moby, Prince (music artist), Dancing
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