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Opera review: 'Nixon in China' at Long Beach Opera
Culture MonsterLong Beach Opera productions in recent years have been modest. Old-timers remember regular offerings at the 3,000-seat downtown Terrace Theater. But plagued with budget problems, LBO — while ever innovative — retrenched. It turned to chamber operas or... -
Firing Kirk Speraw is a good move for UCF — and Speraw, too
Open Mike» Orlando Sentinel – Open MikeKirk Speraw, UCF, fired, fired Kirk Speraw, Keith Tribble, UCF basketball, athletic director... -
Jonah Goldberg: Bring on the Democratic Takeover
CONSERVATIVE Republicans have learned a painful lesson over the last few years. It turns out power isn't all it's cracked up to be. Republican control of the White House and Congress hasn't resulted in lights being turned off in Cabinet agencies or...Tags: George W. Bush, National Government, Elections, The New York Times, Politics
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Let naturalized Americans run for president
ON TUESDAY, CITIZENS in an electoral-vote-rich state reelected a governor who had once seemed in danger of defeat. That sort of political resurrection ordinarily would be good for a mention or two in the endless speculation about 2008 presidential...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Intel Corp., Democratic Party, Elections, Michael J. Fox
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Our long national nightmare -- still going strong
MATT WELCH is assistant editor of The Times' editorial pages.WHEN President Ford announced in his brief and sober inaugural address that "our long national nightmare is over," it wasn't just an attempt to lay the turbulent Nixon presidency to poetic rest. It was also a bit of wish-casting about the nation's deep...Tags: John Ashcroft, International Military Interventions, Washington (U.S. state), World War II (1939-1945), Defense
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Truth Can Be Anonymous
David Wise has covered Washington during 10 presidential administrations. He has many unidentified sources.There could be no more dramatic reminder of the value to the public of anonymous sources than the disclosure that W. Mark Felt, once the FBI's second-ranking official, was that most mysterious of anonymous sources, "Deep Throat." The revelation came at...Tags: Robert Novak, Washington (U.S. state), Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Mass Media, Colin Powell
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Is Baker a 'Wise Man' or a wannabe?
Walter Isaacson, chief executive of the Aspen Institute, is the coauthor with Evan Thomas of "The Wise Men" and the author of biographies of Henry Kissinger and Benjamin Franklin. His biography of AlbJAMES A. BAKER III has one great goal left as he hones his legacy: trying to make sure that the words "American statesman" appear in his newspaper obituary before the words "Florida recount." That's one reason he's so eager to make the findings of the...Tags: Benjamin Franklin, Railway Transportation, Philosophy, Florida, George W. Bush
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How Republicans win if we lose in Iraq
IF YOU THINK the growing similarity between Iraq and Vietnam is tragic but inadvertent, you're not being cynical enough. During the first years of the Iraq war, any resemblance to Vietnam was the result of the Bush administration's disastrous...Tags: Religious Conflicts, Ann Coulter, International Military Interventions, George W. Bush, National Government
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Who wants a deep-dish Olympics?
patt.morrison@latimes.comTHE LAST TIME L.A. landed the Olympics, it was because nobody else wanted them. In 1977, when bids were due to host the 1984 Summer Games, the International Olympic Committee was still waiting by its mailbox in Switzerland for an application from some...Tags: Pat Robertson, Ulysses S. Grant, Multi-Sport Events, Animals, National Government
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Small stakes for Bush-Brown-Sarko
'Academic fights are more brutal than our fights in the real world," Henry Kissinger famously observed, "because the stakes are so low." Watching the strange rituals whereby Western democracies choose their leaders, I begin to wonder if the same is now...Tags: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, George W. Bush, National Government, Exports, Government
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Want a man, or a worm?
As an evolutionary biologist, I look at New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's now-public sexual indiscretions and feel justified in saying, "I told you so." One of the most startling discoveries of the last 15 years has been the extent of sexual infidelity...Tags: Nora Ephron, Science, New York, Newt Gingrich, Thomas Jefferson
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Beating an orderly retreat
FRANCIS FUKUYAMA is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the author of "America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power and the Neoconservative Legacy."GEN. DAVID PETRAEUS, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, has promised to return to Washington in September to report on the outcome of his surge strategy. I hope he will say that sectarian killings, bombings and U.S. casualties are all down. But even if...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Washington (U.S. state), Harry Reid, Weaponry, Elections
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