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FACTBOX-U.S. IRS's rich history of scandals, political abuse
ReutersBy Dena Aubin NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - A crisis engulfing the U.S. Internal Revenue Service over its scrutiny of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status adds to a long history of scandal and abuse - both real and alleged - at the tax agency....Tags: Political Corruption, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Internal Revenue Service, White House, Political Dissent
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George Randolph Hearst Jr. dies at 84; L.A. Herald-Examiner publisher
The demise of the Hearst newspaper empire in Los Angeles began in 1962 when publisher George Randolph Hearst Jr. abandoned the morning newspaper market.
Hearst and the company that owned the Los Angeles Times made what some viewed as a back-room deal: At...Tags: Houston Chronicle, World War II (1939-1945), Board of Directors, Korean War (1950-1953), Otis Chandler
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TV This Week: April 21 - 27: 'An Apology to Elephants'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY Ask your doctor if a magic potion is...
Tags: Music, Ashley Jones, ABC (tv network), Sundance Film Festival, Gilmore Girls (tv program)
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Louella Parsons' former home in Northridge is for sale
A Northridge home originally built as a ranch and retreat by renowned Hollywood gossip columnist Louella Parsons has come on the market at $798,500.
The two-story French Colonial, part of a 28-acre farm when it was constructed in 1937, sits on slightly...Tags: Homes, Los Angeles, Periodicals, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California)
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Southern California Close-Ups: Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterYou could spend a solid year sniffing out cool spots for travelers in Venice, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Malibu — scores of hotels, hundreds of restaurants and bars, more than 30 miles of coastline. But you're new to the scene, or you...Tags: Health, Parallel Bars Gymnastics, Music, Arts, Gymnastics
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Barnaby Conrad Jr. dies at 90; bullfighter, artist, saloonkeeper founded Santa Barbara Writers Conference
When Barnaby Conrad was nearly killed in a 1958 bullfight, his celebrity pals were buzzing about it at Sardi's in New York. "Did you hear about poor Barnaby?" Eva Gabor asked Noel Coward in her thick Hungarian accent. "He was terribly gored in Spain."...Tags: Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Fiction, Marilyn Monroe, William Styron
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5 for the road
Hurry up and slow down. That's one way to look at a road trip. You don't hop a plane and zip off halfway around the world. You slide in behind the wheel and get a grip, you feel the planet, you experience the travel. Travel becomes part of the...Tags: Landforms, Ernest Hemingway, Gardens and Parks, Marathon, Architecture
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$600,000-a-month lease hits the market in Beverly Hills
The current luxury real estate market is redefining “extravagant.” First, a 8,930-square-foot house on nine acres in Northern California found a buyer for a state record-breaking $117 million. Then word came that financier Gary Winnick is...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Marion Davies, Arts and Culture, Homes, The Godfather (movie)
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This won't last: Beverly Hills house for lease, $600,000 a month
How much would you pay to live where William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies called home? How steep is too steep to sleep where John and Jacqueline Kennedy honeymooned? OK, rich kids of Instagram, what would you say to a Beverly Hills manse with a...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Marion Davies, Starbucks Corp., Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter
Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...
Tags: Edward Dmytryk, Citizen Kane (movie), Homes, Rentals, Robert Towne
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Herald-Examiner's last man standing
The last edition of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner was published on Nov. 2, 1989, with the headline: "So long, Los Angeles." But 23 years later, one employee has not yet said goodbye. Chuck Lutz hasn't even left the building. "They never told me...
Tags: Clint Eastwood, Jonathan Winters, Eva Marie Saint, Mark Harmon, Sandra Bullock
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The fiscal cliff ... of '32
Close your eyes in Washington these days and you can almost hear the echoes of 1932. Eighty years ago, just like today, a fiscal crisis almost totally dominated the nation's capital. Then, as now, fiscal conservatives demanded immediate action to fix...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Personal Income, Herbert Clark Hoover, White House, Elections
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