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Eva Zeisel dies at 105; ceramic artist and designer known for her tableware
Eva Zeisel, one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century who created lyrical yet practical tableware and ceramics, has died. She was 105.
Zeisel, whose deceptively simple designs first became popular in the 1940s and are still...Tags: NPR, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Salt, Museum of Modern Art, Sears
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Mailbag: There's nothing wrong with a secular state
Re. "Mesa Musings: There's something missing in Denmark — God," (Jim Carnett column, Oct. 3): In his column, Jim Carnett makes an implicit connection between the absence of God in Denmark and rising social ills in that country. Correlating...Tags: Denmark, Mountains, Republican Party, Crimes, Landforms
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Amanda Mealing & Philip Winchester talk 'Strike Back'
![Philip Winchester and Amanda Mealing recognized the strange coincidence Thursday that they were doing press for their series "Strike Back" on the day Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed.](http://redeye.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-10/65566181-21075953.jpg "Philip Winchester and Amanda Mealing recognized the strange coincidence Thursday that they were doing press for their series "Strike Back\" on the day Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed.")
RedEyePhilip Winchester and Amanda Mealing recognized the strange coincidence Thursday that they were doing press for their series "Strike Back" on the day Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed. In the Cinemax action drama, they play members of a secret...Tags: Starz, LLC, Osama bin Laden, South Africa, Explosions, Injuries and Wounds
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Two films, two wars
Two films dealing with war and politics in the tinderbox of the Middle East are coming to Newport-Mesa for one-night special screenings. The city of Costa Mesa on Friday night will host a screening of "Patrol Base Jaker" at the Triangle Square Cinemas....Tags: Festive Events, Movies, International Law, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, War Crimes
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Book review: 'Fiasco' by Imre Kertész
![In 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and sent to Auschwitz. And then to Buchenwald. Surviving the camps and returning to Budapest, he was asked, simply, by his surviving family and friends, "Where have you been?"](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-06/62339595-13161225.jpg "In 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and sent to Auschwitz. And then to Buchenwald. Surviving the camps and returning to Budapest, he was asked, simply, by his surviving family and friends, "Where have you been?\"")
Special to the Los Angeles TimesIn 1944, a 14-year-old boy, future novelist Imre Kertész, was rounded up while on an excursion in the countryside near Budapest and sent to Auschwitz. And then to Buchenwald. Surviving the camps and returning to Budapest, he was asked, simply, by his...Tags: Book, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Nobel Prize Awards, Hungary
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Music review: Laszlo Fassang plays Bach and Liszt at Disney
Culture MonsterThe Los Angeles Times' Mark Swed reviews László Fassang's organ recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall.... -
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Cart used to serve wine up and down the table
A trolley, according to an American dictionary, is a cart or wagon of several types that moves on a track or wire. But in England and other parts of Europe, the definition can include a wine trolley, a cart that was used to serve wine. Today, we have...Tags: Cartoons, Entertainment, New York, World War II (1939-1945), Dizzy Dean
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Elvis to be named honorary citizen of Budapest
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Budapest's mayor says Elvis Presley will be declared a posthumous honorary citizen of Hungary's capital and a city landmark will be named after him. Mayor Istvan Tarlos said Wednesday that Elvis will be commemorated...Tags: Elvis Presley, Human Interest, Danube River, Elections, Politics
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Who is George Soros, and why should we care?
Contributing columnistSome conservative commentators have gotten all worked up over a Hungarian-American immigrant and successful currency speculator named George Soros. He started life in a Jewish family in Budapest as Georgy Schwartz, but his family changed its name to avoid...Tags: Europe, George W. Bush, Philosophy, Karl Marx, The Washington Post
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3 young women die in stampede at Hungarian disco
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Police say three young women have died in a stampede at a Hungarian nightclub. Budapest police spokeswoman Katalin Fanni Horvath says thousands of people were caught up in the stampede and the victims may have been...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Disco (genre), Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hungary
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Concentration camp survivor speaks at Boonsboro High
![Emanuel "Manny" Mandel was 7 years old when he and his mother were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, but he said his memory of it is "crystal clear."](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-01/106986060-04161431.jpg "Emanuel "Manny\" Mandel was 7 years old when he and his mother were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, but he said his memory of it is \"crystal clear.\"")
janeth@herald-mail.comEmanuel "Manny" Mandel was 7 years old when he and his mother were sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, but he said his memory of it is "crystal clear." While the implications of that train ride were unclear to him at the time, the 75-...Tags: Elie Wiesel, Massacres, New Jersey, Health and Safety at School, Nazi Party
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