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Israel's unhappy birthday
Israel at 60 is a sad place. It is sad despite the prosperity that is apparent at every turn. By most Western political and economic standards, the country is a phenomenal success story. It is one of the few states created after World War II to have...Tags: Democracy, Nobel Prize Awards, Iran, Terrorism, White House
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'The Band's Visit': Too English for its own good
PUT yourself in writer-director Eran Kolirin's shoes. Your first feature-length, theatrical movie is receiving raves at film festivals around the world; critics applaud how it speaks with understated eloquence to the political realities of Israeli-Arab...Tags: Sony Corp., Egypt, Opera (genre), New York, Television
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'The Bubble'
Special to The TimesThe title of Israeli writer-director Eytan Fox's new film, "The Bubble," is a pejorative reference to youthful myopia, namely in the trendy Sheiken Street district in modern Tel Aviv, where twentysomething progressivism may feel more like a cool...Tags: Gaming, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Colorado, Romance (genre), Hamas
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Jewish sect leader held on charges of money laundering
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe leader of an Orthodox Jewish sect was arrested Wednesday after authorities unsealed a sweeping 37-count indictment alleging that he operated a decade-long tax fraud and money laundering scheme stretching from Israel through New York to downtown Los...Tags: Social Issues, Cults and Sects, New York, Charity, Justice System
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Israel turns to robotics to boost students' interest in high-tech industry
It looked like high school basketball with high-tech bumper cars.
Cheerleaders, drummers and somebody in a frog outfit worked the crowd into a frenzy. The buzzer sounded and 4-foot-tall robots clattered into action on a make-believe lunar surface....Tags: Gaming, Defense, Companies and Corporations, Immigration, Shimon Peres
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Killers rendered in shades of gray
![WHEN the towers came down on Sept. 11, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of "Traffic," realized in a flash that "Hollywood has done a terrible job creating villains." It all used to be so simple, so black and white. There were the good guys and the bad guys — not people willing to blow themselves up in order to blow up their enemies.](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2006-10/20267911.jpg "WHEN the towers came down on Sept. 11, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of "Traffic,\" realized in a flash that \"Hollywood has done a terrible job creating villains.\" It all used to be so simple, so black and white. There were the good guys and the bad guys — not people willing to blow themselves up in order to blow up their enemies.")
Times Staff WriterWHEN the towers came down on Sept. 11, Stephen Gaghan, the Oscar-winning writer of "Traffic," realized in a flash that "Hollywood has done a terrible job creating villains." It all used to be so simple, so black and white. There were the good guys and the...Tags: John Major, Kentucky, Central Intelligence Agency, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Movies
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Domingo, the unstoppable
Times Staff WriterEven with dozens of singers onstage, with the Great Wall of China itself represented among the sets at the Metropolitan Opera, Plácido Domingo's entrance immediately makes him seem like the biggest, loudest thing up there. It helps that he's singing...Tags: Bloomberg L.P., New York, Movies, Cinema Industry, Lincoln Center
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PASSINGS
Maria Amelia Lopez Blogger began when she was 95 Maria Amelia Lopez, 97, a Spanish great-grandmother who described herself as the world's oldest blogger -- and became a Web sensation as she mused on events current and past -- died May 20 in her hometown...Tags: Heinrich Himmler, Francisco Franco, Nazi Party, Spain, Civil Unrest
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Tel Aviv Musician Makes YouTube His New Instrument
The CyberGuy is here to show how the next evolution of music is happening on the other side of the world. With little more then his old computer, one musician from Tel Aviv, Israel has created an internet sensation spanning the globe...and in the...Tags: Facebook, Gaming, Twitter, Inc., Music Industry, Entertainment
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Israel's security fence separates Jewish, Palestinian friends
Staff WriterWhen Ted Plavin moved to this Jewish settlement in 1989, residents warned that he was living too close to Arabs. A Palestinian man lived right behind his unfinished home, built on the remains of a Jordanian military outpost used during the Six-Day War...Tags: National Government, Documentary (genre), Children, Terrorism, Government
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Attacks bombard America's psyche
Baltimore Sun National StaffPatty Grooms of Fairfax Station, Va., lies awake at night -- midnight, 1, 2 o'clock -- listening to the rumble of fighter jets patrolling the Washington skies and wondering what form another terrorist attack might take. Contaminated drinking water?...Tags: Phoenix (Maricopa, Arizona), Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), University of Maryland, College Park, Stanford University, Television
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U.S. campaign causes jitters
Tribune foreign correspondentIn some Israelis' eyes, it looks like an anti-terror campaign extending invitations to terrorists. Initially enthusiastic that the Americans were stepping up their fight against terrorism, the Israelis now are worried that the U.S.-led campaign against...Tags: National Security, Iran, New York, Shimon Peres, Tony Blair
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