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Scoreboard: Aug. 8
TODAY AMATEUR BASEBALL Class B State Tournament at Mitchell Clark vs. Akron, Iowa, 6 p.m. Milbank vs. Harrisburg, 8 p.m. SOFTBALL Men's 12-Inch Slow Pitch at South Complex 6:30 p.m. - Johnson Drywall vs. Hart Farms/Kippley Tax Service/...Tags: Frontier League, Clint Robinson, Chicago White Sox, Table Tennis, Kevin Hardy
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Scoreboard - Feb. 22, 2012
TV SPORTS Soccer-UEFA Champions League, Bayern Munich at Basel, 1:30 p.m. (FXSP) Men's College Basketball-Nebraska at Purdue, 5:30 p.m. (Big 10 Network); West Virginia at Notre Dame, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); James Madison at Drexel, 6 p.m. (ESPNU); Michigan...Tags: Dallas Cowboys, Vera Dushevina, Colorado Avalanche, Pauline Parmentier, Sergiy Stakhovsky
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Scoreboard -- April 23, 2012
TV SPORTS Cycling--Tour de Romandie, Prologue, same-day tape, 4 p.m. (NBCSN) Bowling--Women's USBC Queens, 6 p.m. (ESPN2) NHL Hockey--Playoffs, Florida Panthers at New Jersey Devils, 6:30 p.m. (NBCSN) NBA Basketball--Miami Heat at Boston Celtics,...Tags: Clint Robinson, Chicago White Sox, Atlantic Division (NHL), Cincinnati Reds, Bradley Braves
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From the archives: Rushdie Issues Apology
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLONDON -- Author Salman Rushdie, whose controversial novel, "The Satanic Verses," inspired outraged Iranian Muslims to put a $6-million price on his head, apologized Saturday for the "distress" his work has meant "to sincere followers of Islam." But...Tags: Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie, Books, Los Angeles, United Kingdom
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From the archives: Khomeini Renews Call for Death of Rushdie
![CAIRO -- Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, overruling his president and other Iranian moderates, declared Sunday that British author Salman Rushdie must be killed and sent "to hell" for writing "The Satanic Verses," a novel that many Muslims believe blasphemes Islam. In a harshly worded statement that seemed certain to set the stage for a major conflict with Britain and other Western nations, the 88-year-old Iranian patriarch rejected Rushdie's apology to Muslims on Saturday and said the Indian-born author could "never be forgiven" even if he repents. "Even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of all time, it is incumbent upon every Muslim to employ everything he has, his life and wealth, to send him to hell," Khomeini said in a statement released by the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The Iranian ruler also said that, while it is every Muslim's religious duty to try to kill Rushdie, Iran would also handsomely reward any non-Muslim assassin who got to the author first. Several Iranian clerics, responding to Khomeini's initial call last week for Rushdie's assassination, have already posted bounties of nearly $6 million on the 41-year-old author's head. "If a non-Muslim becomes aware of his whereabouts and has the ability to execute him faster than a Muslim, it is incumbent upon Muslims to pay a reward or a fee for this action," Khomeini said. Khomeini's uncompromising remarks seemed bound to further incite a passionate controversy raging throughout the Muslim world--and, most significantly, even in Iran itself--over Rushdie's critically acclaimed but heretofore obscure novel. The controversy also seemed certain to increase Iran's isolation, not only from the West but from the Arab world, where Islamic scholars--while sharing Iran's indignation over the book--have condemned its calls for the author's murder. "Khomeini has the right to condemn the book, but not the man," a prominent Egyptian Islamic intellectual said, echoing a sentiment expressed throughout the Arab world, where the controversy over "The Satanic Verses" has generally been muted. Like a number of diplomats and other specialists who follow events in Iran, this scholar said that the controversy over the Rushdie book in Iran appears to be rooted more in politics than religion, reflecting an ongoing power struggle within the leadership over the course that the Iranian revolution--emerging as the loser from a long and costly war with Iraq--will take. This view was reinforced by a number of conflicting signals over the Rushdie affair emanating from Tehran over the past few days. On Friday, only three days after Khomeini sentenced Rushdie to death, Iranian President Ali Khamenei sought to defuse the crisis by suggesting that the author could be "pardoned" if he repented and publicly apologized for the book. The following day, Rushdie, who is under 24-hour police protection at a secret location in Britain, issued a statement through his London literary agent expressing "profound regret" for "the distress that publication (of his novel) has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam." IRNA, in a series of contradictory reactions that appeared to reflect political conflict in Iran, subsequently rejected Rushdie's apology, then accepted it and finally rejected it again. On Sunday, in another indication of the conflict being waged in Iran, two Tehran newspapers strongly criticized the clerics who have put a multimillion-dollar bounty on Rushdie's life. "To pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act," the newspaper Ettelaat said. Alluding to the power struggle, the English-language Tehran Times added that those offering a reward for Rushdie's slaying "were demeaning their religion for the sake of domestic political opportunism." Radical Strategy Seen Within the context of this divisive debate, the fact that Rushdie's fate seems to have become suddenly entwined with that of the Iranian revolution has less to do with the religious controversy surrounding "The Satanic Verses" than with what Iran specialists view as an attempt by Iranian radicals to abort their country's gradual reopening to the West following last year's cease-fire with Iraq. "What is taking place in Iran right now is a struggle between those who want to rebuild the state and those who want to remain revolutionaries," said Fahmy Hueidy, a prominent Egyptian writer on Islamic affairs and an Iran specialist who has just returned from a visit to Tehran. "The hard-liners, who have been forced to keep a low profile since the cease-fire with Iraq, have found in this (Rushdie controversy) a pretext for inciting the situation," he added. While the uproar over the Rushdie affair clearly poses a threat to efforts by Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani and other leading moderates to normalize Iran's ties with Britain, France and other Western nations, President Khamenei's conciliatory remarks on Friday were seen by most observers as an indication that the pragmatists had more or less regained control of the situation. However, Khomeini's fiercely uncompromising statement appeared to deal a heavy blow to these expectations and cast new doubts on Iran's postwar course. While he avoided naming him by shifting the blame to the foreign press, Khomeini nevertheless appeared to sharply rebuke Khamenei's efforts to end the crisis by contradicting the president's offer of a pardon to Rushdie. 'This Is Denied, 100%' "The imperialist foreign mass media are falsely alleging that officials of the Islamic Republic have said that, if the author of 'The Satanic Verses' repents, the execution order against him would be abolished. This is denied, 100%," Khomeini said. Britain has responded to the Iranian threats against Rushdie's life by freezing plans to increase the size of its embassy staff in Tehran. France indicated it would postpone plans to send an ambassador back to Iran and said it would consult with its European allies on a joint response to the threats against Rushdie. In Washington, Secretary of State James A. Baker III on Sunday called the death threat against Rushdie "basically intolerable" behavior that will hamper Iran's "rejoining the community of civilized nations." Baker made his remarks during an interview on NBC-TV's "Meet the Press" program. Less noted but no less significant has been the concern felt in the Arab world, where the controversy over Rushdie's book has been eclipsed by shock and anger, in both religious and secular circles, over the Iranian reaction to it. On one level, the Iranian threats have reopened Islam's centuries-old schism between the majority Sunni sect, which predominates throughout the Arab world, and the Shiite sect, which rules in Iran. Sunnis have always considered themselves to be more tolerant than the fundamentalist-oriented Shiites. However, this distinction, while real, is also simplistic. For, while many Sunnis seem to view the controversy as another example of Iranian Shiite extremism, the offense felt over Rushdie's book is by no means confined to Muslims of the Shiite sect. "I have read the book, and I can say that it is very offensive to every Muslim," said Ahmed Baha Eddin, one of Egypt's most respected newspaper columnists.](http://www.latimes.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2009-11/49051505-25143050.jpg "CAIRO -- Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, overruling his president and other Iranian moderates, declared Sunday that British author Salman Rushdie must be killed and sent "to hell\" for writing \"The Satanic Verses,\" a novel that many Muslims believe blasphemes Islam. In a harshly worded statement that seemed certain to set the stage for a major conflict with Britain and other Western nations, the 88-year-old Iranian patriarch rejected Rushdie's apology to Muslims on Saturday and said the Indian-born author could \"never be forgiven\" even if he repents. \"Even if Salman Rushdie repents and becomes the most pious man of all time, it is incumbent upon every Muslim to employ everything he has, his life and wealth, to send him to hell,\" Khomeini said in a statement released by the official Iranian news agency IRNA. The Iranian ruler also said that, while it is every Muslim's religious duty to try to kill Rushdie, Iran would also handsomely reward any non-Muslim assassin who got to the author first. Several Iranian clerics, responding to Khomeini's initial call last week for Rushdie's assassination, have already posted bounties of nearly $6 million on the 41-year-old author's head. \"If a non-Muslim becomes aware of his whereabouts and has the ability to execute him faster than a Muslim, it is incumbent upon Muslims to pay a reward or a fee for this action,\" Khomeini said. Khomeini's uncompromising remarks seemed bound to further incite a passionate controversy raging throughout the Muslim world--and, most significantly, even in Iran itself--over Rushdie's critically acclaimed but heretofore obscure novel. The controversy also seemed certain to increase Iran's isolation, not only from the West but from the Arab world, where Islamic scholars--while sharing Iran's indignation over the book--have condemned its calls for the author's murder. \"Khomeini has the right to condemn the book, but not the man,\" a prominent Egyptian Islamic intellectual said, echoing a sentiment expressed throughout the Arab world, where the controversy over \"The Satanic Verses\" has generally been muted. Like a number of diplomats and other specialists who follow events in Iran, this scholar said that the controversy over the Rushdie book in Iran appears to be rooted more in politics than religion, reflecting an ongoing power struggle within the leadership over the course that the Iranian revolution--emerging as the loser from a long and costly war with Iraq--will take. This view was reinforced by a number of conflicting signals over the Rushdie affair emanating from Tehran over the past few days. On Friday, only three days after Khomeini sentenced Rushdie to death, Iranian President Ali Khamenei sought to defuse the crisis by suggesting that the author could be \"pardoned\" if he repented and publicly apologized for the book. The following day, Rushdie, who is under 24-hour police protection at a secret location in Britain, issued a statement through his London literary agent expressing \"profound regret\" for \"the distress that publication (of his novel) has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam.\" IRNA, in a series of contradictory reactions that appeared to reflect political conflict in Iran, subsequently rejected Rushdie's apology, then accepted it and finally rejected it again. On Sunday, in another indication of the conflict being waged in Iran, two Tehran newspapers strongly criticized the clerics who have put a multimillion-dollar bounty on Rushdie's life. \"To pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act,\" the newspaper Ettelaat said. Alluding to the power struggle, the English-language Tehran Times added that those offering a reward for Rushdie's slaying \"were demeaning their religion for the sake of domestic political opportunism.\" Radical Strategy Seen Within the context of this divisive debate, the fact that Rushdie's fate seems to have become suddenly entwined with that of the Iranian revolution has less to do with the religious controversy surrounding \"The Satanic Verses\" than with what Iran specialists view as an attempt by Iranian radicals to abort their country's gradual reopening to the West following last year's cease-fire with Iraq. \"What is taking place in Iran right now is a struggle between those who want to rebuild the state and those who want to remain revolutionaries,\" said Fahmy Hueidy, a prominent Egyptian writer on Islamic affairs and an Iran specialist who has just returned from a visit to Tehran. \"The hard-liners, who have been forced to keep a low profile since the cease-fire with Iraq, have found in this (Rushdie controversy) a pretext for inciting the situation,\" he added. While the uproar over the Rushdie affair clearly poses a threat to efforts by Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani and other leading moderates to normalize Iran's ties with Britain, France and other Western nations, President Khamenei's conciliatory remarks on Friday were seen by most observers as an indication that the pragmatists had more or less regained control of the situation. However, Khomeini's fiercely uncompromising statement appeared to deal a heavy blow to these expectations and cast new doubts on Iran's postwar course. While he avoided naming him by shifting the blame to the foreign press, Khomeini nevertheless appeared to sharply rebuke Khamenei's efforts to end the crisis by contradicting the president's offer of a pardon to Rushdie. 'This Is Denied, 100%' \"The imperialist foreign mass media are falsely alleging that officials of the Islamic Republic have said that, if the author of 'The Satanic Verses' repents, the execution order against him would be abolished. This is denied, 100%,\" Khomeini said. Britain has responded to the Iranian threats against Rushdie's life by freezing plans to increase the size of its embassy staff in Tehran. France indicated it would postpone plans to send an ambassador back to Iran and said it would consult with its European allies on a joint response to the threats against Rushdie. In Washington, Secretary of State James A. Baker III on Sunday called the death threat against Rushdie \"basically intolerable\" behavior that will hamper Iran's \"rejoining the community of civilized nations.\" Baker made his remarks during an interview on NBC-TV's \"Meet the Press\" program. Less noted but no less significant has been the concern felt in the Arab world, where the controversy over Rushdie's book has been eclipsed by shock and anger, in both religious and secular circles, over the Iranian reaction to it. On one level, the Iranian threats have reopened Islam's centuries-old schism between the majority Sunni sect, which predominates throughout the Arab world, and the Shiite sect, which rules in Iran. Sunnis have always considered themselves to be more tolerant than the fundamentalist-oriented Shiites. However, this distinction, while real, is also simplistic. For, while many Sunnis seem to view the controversy as another example of Iranian Shiite extremism, the offense felt over Rushdie's book is by no means confined to Muslims of the Shiite sect. \"I have read the book, and I can say that it is very offensive to every Muslim,\" said Ahmed Baha Eddin, one of Egypt's most respected newspaper columnists.")
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCAIRO -- Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, overruling his president and other Iranian moderates, declared Sunday that British author Salman Rushdie must be killed and sent "to hell" for writing "The Satanic Verses," a novel that many...Tags: Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie, Books, Los Angeles, United Kingdom
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From the archives: Reformers Push New Views
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLENINGRAD, Soviet Union -- Vera Mamina is a survivor of the 900-day Nazi siege of this city in World War II, and she has been an archivist at its Piskarevski wartime memorial cemetery for 20 years. But even she can't fully fathom the monument's hold...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, World War II (1939-1945), Russia, Hospitals and Clinics, Berlin (Germany)
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