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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: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Houston Chronicle, Korean War (1950-1953), Newspaper and Magazine, Los Angeles Times
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Rick Atkinson talks "The Guns at Last Light"
World War II lasted six years, but Rick Atkinson needed 14 years to complete his massive trilogy on the conflict. That turned out to be time well spent. Now the wait for the concluding volume of “The Liberation Trilogy,” his magisterial...
Tags: Germany, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Chicago Sun-Times, U.S. Army, The Washington Post
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Wiesel speaks to sanctity of learning, power of memory
Elie Wiesel didn't need Holocaust deniers to lend immediacy to his discussion about the importance of learning and memory, but there they were anyway, three men standing outside the Symphony Center Sunday morning holding an anti-Semitic banner and barking...
Tags: Judaism, Chicago Tribune, Awards and Prizes, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Chicago Humanities Festival
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Voice of the People, May. 12
Queen for a day Whenever I read anything about the queen of England, I ponder how different my life is (and was) from hers. We are about the same age. I am not at all envious of her, but there are a few instances where I wouldn't mind trading places...Tags: Values, Alzheimer's Disease, Crosswords, Religion and Belief, Mother's Day
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Bioterror defense still weak
Tribune science reporterAs evidence that the nation's public health system has begun to make profound changes to deal with bioterrorism, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention point to something seemingly trivial: Some physicians have called in to report...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Plastic Surgeons, Entertainment, Science, Johns Hopkins University
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Russian space program is handed new responsibility
Sun Foreign StaffMOSCOW -- The technicians and cosmonauts working in Russia's once-glorious space program were laboring in obscurity a week ago, ignored by the world they had once astonished. Today, the fate of the $100 billion International Space Station, and the...Tags: Russia, Space Programs, Technology, Finance, Washington (U.S. state)
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A big surprise on gas
Barack Obama thinks the government should intervene on gas prices to "give families some relief," and last week called for releasing 70 million barrels of crude from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. John McCain proposes an end to the ban on offshore...Tags: Cato Corporation, California, Petroleum Industry, Consumers, Family
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Justice, 64 years later
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was a crime so improbable that many had trouble believing it could have happened at all: Three black soldiers stood accused of lynching an Italian prisoner of war, found dangling from a wire on an obstacle training course at Ft. Lawton in the middle of...Tags: Heads of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Los Angeles Times, U.S. Army, Lawyers
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Veterans honored for liberating France nearly seven decades ago
Nearly 70 years after they risked their lives on the blood-soaked battlefields of Europe, a proud contingent of South Florida veterans of World War II was honored for their valor Sunday in a ceremony cloaked in patriotism and solemn with emotion. "That...
Tags: Culture, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, U.S. Army, Human Interest
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Route 66 landmark hotel reopens in Carthage with nostalgic authenticity
news@ky3.comCARTHAGE, Mo. -- One of the halfway stops on the Mother Road re-opened on Tuesday with a ribbon cutting and nostalgia. Spared from foreclosure and demolition, the Boots Motel is back in business. Four million cars were rolling off Detroit's assembly...Tags: Family, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Hotels and Accommodations, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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Author Judy S. Walter looks to inform youth about Holocaust
Name: Judy S. Walter City in which you reside: Chambersburg, Pa. Day job: Retired teacher Book title: "Nightmare in Europe" Genre: Historical nonfiction Short synopsis of book: "Nightmare in Europe" is a concise, easy-to-understand book about the...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Germany, Judaism, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Unique German bomber to be lifted from English Channel
ReutersLONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Work to salvage the sole surviving German Dornier Do-17 bomber plane flown in the Battle of Britain in World War Two began on Friday, more than 70 years after it crashed into the English Channel. Project managers said the plane,...Tags: England, Museums, Arts and Culture, United Kingdom
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