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Barack Obama retakes oath—and then proceeds to govern
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — In his first full day in the White House, Barack Obama pushed his top military advisers for a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq, and in an extraordinary exercise took the oath of office a second time over concern about a miscue...Tags: Iraq, Government, Julian Barnes, International Relations, Heads of State
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Greer won't quit even with threats of ouster
Orlando SentinelA betting person would look for Republican Party of Florida Chairman Jim Greer to be part of the January unemployment report. A dozen top Republican donors sent an open letter last week urging GOP committee members to oust the embattled Greer at the...Tags: Bill McCollum, Government, Florida, Tampa, Jeb Bush
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Baghdad in U.S. Hands
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterU.S. troops broke Saddam Hussein's 24-year grip on the Iraqi capital Wednesday as cheering, dancing crowds shouted, "Oh, Iraq!" and, with help from the Marines, toppled a four-story statue of the president, dragging its head in the streets while...Tags: Basra (Iraq), Government, Sculpture, Petroleum Industry, Entertainment
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A Russian 'frenemy'
The White House is trying to revive the "reset" with Vladimir Putin's Russia. It is likely to be a wasted effort. The reset is dead not because of someone's ill will or mistakes. It is because Washington and Moscow have reached the limit of...
Tags: Human Rights, Civil Rights, American Enterprise Institute, G8, Hillary Clinton
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Scene & Heard: Steven Spielberg presents Jeffrey Katzenberg with Ambassadors of Humanity award
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThere's no better proving ground for testing a friendship than by starting a restaurant and movie studio together from scratch. At least, that's what Steven Spielberg said before he presented the Ambassadors of Humanity award to his friend and business...Tags: Craig Ferguson, Movies, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Outsourced (tv program), University of Southern California
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Gisele Bündchen talks about modeling, her family and 'Gisele & the Green Team'
![Supermodel Gisele Bündchen has been canonized in British newspaper the Independent as "the biggest star in fashion history." So, since Bündchen (at age 30) already has the making-history thing nailed, she's focused on adding the future to her résumé — specifically, the future of the environment. If you were to ask this 6-foot wonder what her favorite color is, without a doubt, she'd say green.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-12/58210566-10165243.jpg "Supermodel Gisele Bündchen has been canonized in British newspaper the Independent as "the biggest star in fashion history.\" So, since Bündchen (at age 30) already has the making-history thing nailed, she's focused on adding the future to her résumé — specifically, the future of the environment. If you were to ask this 6-foot wonder what her favorite color is, without a doubt, she'd say green.")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesSupermodel Gisele Bündchen has been canonized in British newspaper the Independent as "the biggest star in fashion history." So, since Bündchen (at age 30) already has the making-history thing nailed, she's focused on adding the future to her résumé &#...Tags: Irving Penn, United Nations, Personal Service, Politics, Aromatherapy
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Unfairly throwing the book at the 'Irvine 11'
![The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb. 17 Times Op-Ed article. Reading Chemerinsky's piece, you'd think a group of hysterically angry Muslim men prevented Oren from speaking at all. But the situation, as a look at a <a href="http://bit.ly/d7Japk">video recording</a> of the event makes clear, was much more complicated.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-02/52374802-22150618.jpg "The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb. 17 Times Op-Ed article. Reading Chemerinsky's piece, you'd think a group of hysterically angry Muslim men prevented Oren from speaking at all. But the situation, as a look at a <a href="http://bit.ly/d7Japk\">video recording</a> of the event makes clear, was much more complicated.")
The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb....Tags: Islam, Government, Judaism, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning
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Philippines challenges Chinese claims to waters through tribunal
The Philippines is taking a feud with China to an international tribunal, it announced Tuesday, the latest turn in the simmering dispute over a string of rocky outcroppings in the South China Sea. In a claim shared Tuesday with the Chinese ambassador,...
Tags: International Court or Tribunal, Wildlife, Arbitration, International Relations, China
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World of woe, little hope of relief, await U.N. General Assembly
World NowGlobal Focus: When 120 world leaders and thousands in their entourages gather at the United Nations next week, the woes of the world will be on stage in all their tragic detail: a civil war in Syria, the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran, reignited ethnic... -
U.N. vote on Palestine status inflicts new divides in Europe, NATO
Thursday’s overwhelming U.N. vote to elevate the status of Palestine at the world body inflicts yet another fracture in the facade of Western solidarity, exposing a divide among European Union and NATO member states over U.S. policy in the Middle...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, NATO, International Criminal Court, Mahmoud Abbas, Czech Republic
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Book review: 'The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry'
Los Angeles TimesThe FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry An Anthology Edited by Ilan Stavans Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 729 pp., $50 Here's the answer to a hypothetical "Jeopardy" query: "Who are Pablo Neruda and, um…?" And now, the question:...Tags: Walt Whitman, Gabriela Mistral, James Merrill, Music, Chile
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New Walt Disney World ambassadors announced
Two cast members were named as the next Walt Disney World ambassadors in a ceremony at the Magic Kingdom's Cinderella Castle before the theme park opened on Friday morning.
Norman Vossschulte, who portrays a Jedi Knight at the Jedi Training Academy at...Tags: Walt Disney, Walt Disney World Resort, Politics, Disneyland Park, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry
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