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READER SUBMITTED: Rotary Signature Project Unfolds
East HartfordIn what has become the signature project of her year as President of the East Hartford Rotary Club, Sheryl O'Connor and East Hartford Rotarians will soon present the Town of East Hartford with a new Bookmobile to be used in supplying books and other media...Tags: East Hartford, Rotary International, Goodwin College, Skype
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Review: 'The Revolutionary Optimists' go inside impoverished India
The inspiring documentary "The Revolutionary Optimists" profiles a memorable quartet of youngsters from India whose attempts to effect change in their impoverished neighborhoods — as well as within themselves — offer a vital snapshot of...
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The typewriter lives on in India
It's a stultifying afternoon outside the Delhi District Court as Arun Yadav slides a sheet of paper into his decades-old Remington and revs up his daily 30-word-a-minute tap dance.
Nearby, hundreds of other workers clatter away on manual typewriters amid...Tags: Indira Gandhi, Fine Arts, Theft, Economy, Business and Finance, Google Inc.
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George Platt, theatrical producer
George Platt, a former New York theatrical producer who became a promotions director for a garden supply firm, died of renal failure Oct. 6 at Envoy Rehabilitation and Nursing in Pikesville. He was 90 and lived in Owings Mills.
Born in Baltimore, he...Tags: Chris Sarandon, Hal Linden, Stamford, Carroll O'Connor, Benny Goodman
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Friday morning news from around the world
![<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'</strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/340227220-09033331.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\"><strong>Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'</strong></span>")
Years after vanishing in Iran, retired FBI agent appears in hostage video: 'Please help me'
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished years ago in Iran, issued a plea to his kidnappers Friday and, for the first...Tags: Bars and Clubs, India, Afghanistan, National Basketball Association, National Government
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89 as staff flees
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Fleeing medical staff abandoned patients to a fire that killed 89 people Friday as black smoke poured through the seven-story hospital in this city in eastern India, officials said. Six administrators were arrested....Tags: Witnesses, Health, India, Fires, Disasters and Accidents
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Fire at Indian hospital kills 89, injures dozens [Updated]
World NowFire Kolkata India Fire: Fire at Hospital in Kolkata kills 89; among India's worst such tragedies.... -
12 spine-tingling short stories
Tribune reporterWith Halloween right around the corner, I think it's the perfect time to grab some fun-sized candy bars (I suggest 100 Grand), snuggle up with a good short story and get scared stiff. I asked the authors and editors I spoke with about the state of the...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Casino and Gambling Industry, Tourism and Leisure, Travel, Dining and Drinking
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William A. Rusher dies at 87; conservative theorist and publisher of National Review
William A. Rusher, a leading theorist and organizer of the modern conservative movement who helped William F. Buckley Jr. build the National Review into one of the American right's most influential journals, died Saturday at a retirement home in San...Tags: William F. Buckley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Connecticut, Entertainment, PBS (tv network)
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Cuisines of two Indian cities
![ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as "The Calcutta Kitchen," by London-based writer Simon Parkes and restaurateur-chef Udit Sarkhel, and "My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking," by anthropologist-chef Niloufer Ichaporia King of San Francisco, are now bringing regional Indian cuisines home for all of us.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-07/31089257.jpg "ON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as "The Calcutta Kitchen,\" by London-based writer Simon Parkes and restaurateur-chef Udit Sarkhel, and \"My Bombay Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Parsi Home Cooking,\" by anthropologist-chef Niloufer Ichaporia King of San Francisco, are now bringing regional Indian cuisines home for all of us.")
Special to The TimesON the Indian restaurant circuit, it's mainly generic Indian fare on the menu, with a heavy northern bias. To experience the diversity of India's culinary landscape, your best bet is to be invited to someone's home. Happily, recent cookbooks such as...Tags: Mangos, Catfish, Cilantro, Electrical Appliance, Government
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"A Blue Hand" by Deborah Baker
By Wendy Smith nyone familiar with "In Extremis," her Pulitzer Prize-nominated biography of poet Laura Riding, knows Deborah Baker has little interest in conventional lives or conventional narrative. Her new book, "A Blue Hand," which mostly follows...Tags: India, Timothy Leary, Buddhism, Poetry, Jack Kerouac
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'Born Into Brothels'
!["Born Into Brothels" shatters expectations and confounds preconceptions. A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it. Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not just because of the good it does but because of how unexpectedly good, even buoyant, it makes you feel.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-01/16035484.jpg ""Born Into Brothels\" shatters expectations and confounds preconceptions. A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it. Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not just because of the good it does but because of how unexpectedly good, even buoyant, it makes you feel.")
Times Staff Writer"Born Into Brothels" shatters expectations and confounds preconceptions. A documentary that changed the lives both of subjects and filmmakers, it will reorder the worldview of whoever sees it. Seven years in the making, it demands to be experienced not...Tags: India, Photography, Prostitution, Movies, Social Issues
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