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Book: Obama's parents may have considered putting him up for adoption
Barack Obama's father said in 1961 that he intended to put the unborn future president up for adoption, according to an immigration official's memo quoted in a new book on the elder Obama. In "The Other Barack: The Bold and Reckless Life of President...Tags: Celebrity Parents, Barack Obama, Christianity, Barack Obama, Sr., Politics
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Marshall Lumsden dies at 88; founding editor of West magazine
Marshall Lumsden, the founding editor of West, a Sunday magazine the Los Angeles Times introduced in 1966, died Friday at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica. He was 88.
His death was caused by complications from colon cancer, said his wife, Wini....Tags: Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Ray Bradbury, Colon, William Saroyan
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Rahm Emanuel's profitable stint at mortgage giant
Tribune reportersBefore its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up, huge fines and scalding condemnation of passive directors by a top...Tags: Hillary Clinton, White House, U.S. Senate, Richard M. Daley, George W. Bush
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Impeachment talk turns to policy
Tribune reportersSPRINGFIELD — Lawmakers turned away from the federal corruption charges against Gov. Rod Blagojevich and focused Thursday on other reasons to impeach him, highlighting a string of controversial policy moves as evidence of an autocratic and...Tags: Preventative Medicine, Justice and Rights, Laws, Civil Rights, Executive Branch
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The Oscars show, nominated films shortchanged in China
BEIJING — Cecilia Wu, 18, is a self-described film freak. Despite the heavy workload of her senior year of high school here in the Chinese capital, she sees a movie every two or three days and has caught most of the films with Academy Award...Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Media Industry, Entertainment Events, Les Miserables (movie)
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Myanmar stops censoring articles before they go to print
World NowJournalists in Myanmar will no longer have to send their articles to a censorship board to be scrubbed of anything critical or sensitive before publication, a landmark step announced Monday toward lifting restrictions on the press. But reporters in the... -
Jordan Web 'blackout' protest targets alleged censorship
World NowBlack Iris, 360East, and 7iber are names that may not be familiar to U.S audiences, but for the Jordanian online community they represent websites and blogs with the online presence of Daily Kos or the Huffington Post. Although the websites' purposes... -
Positively charming Singapore
Times Staff WriterMention this tiny island nation off the tip of the Malay Peninsula and Americans may envision a prim, repressive society that puts drug dealers to death, censors movies and TV, and fines ordinary citizens for chewing gum. That's unfortunate, because this...Tags: Entertainment, Animals, Drug Trafficking, Hotels and Accommodations, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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In China, press censorship protests continue
GUANGZHOU, China — Like wedding guests separated across the aisle, the protesters assembled on either side of a gated driveway at the headquarters of the embattled Southern Weekly newspaper. To the right, several dozen supporters of the newspaper...Tags: Strikes, Political Systems, Hong Kong, Media Industry, Activism
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Is Mo Yan courageous, or is he a patsy?
Salman Rushdie thinks Mo Yan is a patsy of China’s Communist government. I respect Rushdie's work, and his own courage as a defender of artistic freedom. But I'm not sure he's right about Mo Yan. Mo accepted the Nobel Prize for Literature this...
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Global treaty becomes showdown over future of Internet
Sharp divisions over the future of the Internet were laid bare Friday as the United States and many of its allies spurned a United Nations telecommunications treaty over fears of government meddling with the Web. Getting involved with the Internet would...
Tags: Treaties, China, United Nations, Government, Politics
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Nobel literature winner says censorship necessary
STOCKHOLM (AP) — This year's Nobel literature winner Mo Yan, who has been criticized for his cozy relationship with China's Communist Party, defended censorship Thursday as something as necessary as airport security checks. He also suggested he...Tags: Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Entertainment Events, Culture, Ceremonies
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