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Cowboys to carpools
Times Staff Writer1800s * 1889 Rancher Miguel Leonis, known for his rough ways, becomes the area's first recorded traffic death, after getting sloshing drunk and falling out of his wagon in the Cahuenga Pass. Mothers Against Drunk Cowboys is born. 1897 In the dark of...Tags: Crimes, Henry Fonda, Automotive Equipment, O.J. Simpson, New York
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Bush Gets GOP Platform He Wants
Times Staff WriterPresident Bush got just what he wanted today from Republican platform writers: a tightly controlled, highly conservative statement of party principles that lauds his administration and glosses over internal dissent. The platform drafted by a 110-member...Tags: Minority Groups, Bill Frist, Government, Abortion, Abortion Issue
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Remembering the Freedom Rides 50 years later
![As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-04/61015208-21140457.jpg "As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?\" I ask.")
As the bus leaves Atlanta, Dennis Climpson is eager for conversation. He wants to talk about college football this Sunday morning, but I have a question for him. "Have you ever heard of the Freedom Rides?" I ask.
Fifty years ago next month, a group of 15...Tags: Minority Groups, Trips and Vacations, Tennessee, Georgia, Restaurants
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Oldest Living African-American Dies At 113
ABC26 NewsWhen she turned 113, Mississippi Winn could still stand up on her own and never thought her age was a detriment to her life. The upbeat former domestic worker from Shreveport, known in the city as "Sweetie," died Friday afternoon at Magnolia Manor...Tags: Louisiana, Seattle, Minority Groups, Social Sciences, Los Angeles
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Obama's small step for gay marriage
President Barack Obama has been denounced by Republicans for asserting federal power at the expense of state sovereignty. But last week, he was denounced by Republicans for … not asserting federal power at the expense of state sovereignty. It...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Minority Groups, Government, Charlie Sheen, Human Interest
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Barack Obama reportedly to meet with Mark Zuckerberg
Fast friends? President Barack Obama reportedly will meet with business and technology leaders Thursday in San Francisco. Among those expected to be in attendance: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 26, whose company Obama praised during his State...Tags: Wyoming, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky
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Gardens that soar: Tips for your balcony
![It's your little corner of paradise -- "little" being the operative word.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-08/47973487-05151901.jpg "It's your little corner of paradise -- "little\" being the operative word.")
Tribune reporterIt's your little corner of paradise -- "little" being the operative word. So work it. Turn your balcony into an Eden of your own. Maybe you'll try something like Tina Howard's second-floor balcony in Logan Square. Brussels sprouts share a container with...Tags: Chicago Botanic Garden
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Internet benefits denied, report says
State laws and Realtor business practices are preventing consumers from getting the full benefit of the competition that the Internet was expected to bring to the real estate industry, federal regulators said last week. In a report from the Federal Trade...Tags: Louisiana, Idaho, New Jersey, International Law, Tennessee
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Tribune literary awards go to Sondheim, Franzen, Wilkerson
!["Writing" seems an inadequate word to describe what Stephen Sondheim has done, yet it is the breadth, impact and influence of his writing that have won him the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-08/63765951-07150417-187105.JPG ""Writing\" seems an inadequate word to describe what Stephen Sondheim has done, yet it is the breadth, impact and influence of his writing that have won him the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement.")
Tribune reporter"Writing" seems an inadequate word to describe what Stephen Sondheim has done, yet it is the breadth, impact and influence of his writing that have won him the 2011 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize for lifetime achievement. The 81-year-old composer and...Tags: Fine Arts, Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago Tribune, Human Interest, New York
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Genealogy class sprouts tale of Great Migration
Literary editorWhen Isabel Wilkerson thought of writing about the Great Migration, the movement of the 6 million black Americans who left the Jim Crow South for the North and West between World War I and the 1970s, one of the first places she headed was Chicago's...Tags: Journalism, Louisiana, Minority Groups, Florida, World War I (1914-1918)
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A one-man fundraising machine
Tribune arts reporterThe sign outside the luxurious suite of offices in the NBC Tower bares no corporate name, nor even that of a non-profit entity. It merely declares the presence therein of a purportedly retired individual: John H. Bryan Jr., the former president and CEO of...Tags: General Electric Company, Richard M. Daley, New York, Culture, Political Fundraising
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Slowing a tide of pollutants
Times Staff WriterCall it the slobber stopper. It looks like an elaborate fountain. Water gurgles through a series of red-tiled pools, spillways and chutes within sight of the pedestrian walkway that connects the bluffs of Santa Monica with the Santa Monica Pier. The...Tags: Alternative Energy, Agriculture, Louisiana, Euclid, Bodies of Water
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