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Korea's Kims: A Confucian dynasty where family runs deep
The death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il has taken the world by surprise, but it is no surprise that his son, Kim Jong Un, is his likely successor. This is despite the fact that Marxist-Leninist theory that is said to underlie the Pyongyang...Tags: Pyongyang (North Korea), Kim Jong Un, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Television
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Mexico archaeologists may have found 1st Pyramid of Sun offering
World NowArchaeologists in Mexico say they have found a ceremonial offering that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago to consecrate the Pyramid of the Sun before its construction... -
Rhodes Scholar seeking role in world health
Daily American Sunday EditorThe link between Tanzania and Somerset County has never seemed all that great, but Cory Rodgers — recently named a Rhodes Scholar — is learning no part of the world is too far away to avoid having an impact on another. The 22-year-old...Tags: Health Treatments, Health Organizations, Arts and Culture, Hospitals and Clinics, Africa
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Another Mayan Reference to 2012 Revealed
KTLA NewsMEXICO CITY -- According to translations of Mayan inscriptions, the Earth is going to experience major disaster on either December 21 or 23 of 2012. The archaeological institute in Mexico has long downplayed theories that the Mayas predicted an...Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, KTLA, Mexico
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Katherine Siva Saubel, preserver of Cahuilla culture, dies at 91
![Katherine Siva Saubel, an elder of the Cahuilla Indian tribe of Southern California, once described herself as "just a voice in the wilderness all by myself." She meant that she had few people with whom she could speak the Cahuilla language or sing the songs that conveyed her people's ancient stories.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-11/65896715-05202712-187105.jpg "Katherine Siva Saubel, an elder of the Cahuilla Indian tribe of Southern California, once described herself as "just a voice in the wilderness all by myself.\" She meant that she had few people with whom she could speak the Cahuilla language or sing the songs that conveyed her people's ancient stories.")
Katherine Siva Saubel, an elder of the Cahuilla Indian tribe of Southern California, once described herself as "just a voice in the wilderness all by myself." She meant that she had few people with whom she could speak the Cahuilla language or sing the...Tags: Fiction, Concerts, Native Americans, University of California, Los Angeles, Language
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Book review: 'The Good Muslim' by Tahmima Anam
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Good Muslim A Novel Tahmima Anam Harper: 297 pp., $25.99 Maya Haque is one of the century's most interesting characters: prickly, passionate, tender, selfless, headstrong, devoted, belligerent, idealistic, naive, wise. "The Good Muslim" is Maya'...Tags: John Lennon, Rape, Civil Unrest, Jimi Hendrix, Politics
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Naperville man dies after hit-and-run road rage
A Naperville man who was run down last week in a road rage incident in Chicago's Washington Park neighborhood has died, officials said today.
Mandeep Bedi, 23, was riding in a car driven by his wife last Friday when she got into an argument with a...Tags: Road Transportation, Transportation, Colleges and Universities, Vehicles, University of Chicago
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Stolen mummy to return home to UM medical school
The 200-year-old mummified remains of a small child are making their way back to the University of Maryland School of Medicine after an absence in which they were posted for sale on eBay and languished for almost five years in a Michigan police evidence...Tags: Auction Service, University of Maryland, College Park, Arts and Culture, Television, Students
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Centre alum is featured act at local comedy gig
jenb@amnews.comSean Smith wasn’t performing comedy when he was a student at Centre College. That came after his graduation in 2004. At Centre, he was studying anthropology and sociology, hosting talent shows and date auctions, and giving speeches. Smith is the...Tags: Social Sciences, Sociology, Dave Chappelle , Will Ferrell, Comedy (genre)
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Laura Elizabeth McGrath
Baltimore Sun reporterLaura Elizabeth McGrath, a Columbia-based affordable housing advocate, died of colon cancer Sept. 22 at her Hyattsville home. The former Northeast Baltimore resident was 46. Born in Baltimore and raised in Gardenville on LaSalle Avenue, she was a 1982...Tags: Christianity, Fannie Mae, University of Maryland, College Park, Roman Catholicism, Leesburg
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Alan Mootnick dies at 60; gibbon expert and conservationist
Alan Mootnick, a self-taught primate specialist who rose to become a leading authority on gibbon biology and conservation, died Friday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications following heart surgery, relatives said. He was 60.
A...Tags: Conservation, Wildlife, Science, Environmental Issues, Los Angeles Times
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Egyptians race to capture the spirit of Tahrir Square
The questioner reads evenly from a script.
"Please give me your name and your age."
"My name is Sameh Eldesoky and I am 21 years old."
Eldesoky sits back, hands on his knees, trying to relax, trying to forget that a tiny microphone is clamped to the...Tags: National Government, Activism, Los Angeles Times, Demonstration, Government
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