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City Lights: Thoughts on gunmen, victims and the media that reports them
It's rare that I remember a magazine cover a decade and a half later, but one that has stuck in my mind — and not in a good way — is the issue of Time from the week after the Columbine High School massacre. Anyone from the class of 1998,...
Tags: Roger Ebert, Newspaper and Magazine, Columbine High School, Fox News Channel (tv network), Murder
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Natural Perspectives: Birding in the Eastern Sierra
Vic and I just returned from a scouting trip to the Eastern Sierra. Vic will soon lead a spring birding trip there for Sea and Sage Audubon, along with co-leader Linda Oberholzer. We like to visit ahead of time to reacquaint ourselves with the area....Tags: Environmental Issues, Science and Technology, Travel, Water Supply, Trips and Vacations
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The chips are down
When the Super Bowl begins Feb. 5, it will be a tense time for the Willson family.
Huntington Beach residents Connie and Tom will watch the telecast at a local restaurant, while their son Kevin will experience the game live in Indianapolis. The...Tags: Movies, Online Advertising, Movies, Politics, Documentary (genre)
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City Lights: A baby, a slingshot and $1 million
Jonah Folk truly is the Million Dollar Baby. The 1-year-old star of the Doritos ad "Sling Baby" may not officially qualify as a child star yet, having no agent or multipicture deal, but he turned out to be quite a moneymaker for his director, Kevin...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Entertainment Events, Movies, Online Advertising, Movies
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Dan Brown's 'Inferno' has heat but no warmth
Some years ago, I was on a book reviewing panel when someone in the audience asked what we, the panelists, thought of "The Bridges of Madison County," which was then a fixture on bestseller lists. We hemmed and hawed, tried to talk around the question,...
Tags: Viral Diseases and Infections, James Bond (fictional character), Science and Technology, Memory Loss, Tom Hanks
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USA Today founder Neuharth honored at Friday memorial service
Colleagues and friends paying tribute to USA Today founder and Eureka native Al Neuharth today remembered him not as a driven media giant but as a loyal native South Dakotan who never forgot his roots. Some critics said Neuharth — who titled...Tags: Freedom of the Press, Newspaper and Magazine, Politics, Gannett Company, Inc., Journalism
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COLUMN: Neuharth oozed passion for Eureka, newspapers
I only met Al Neuharth a couple of times. He died at age 89 on April 19. His life is being celebrated this weekend — in a public memorial at his beloved University of South Dakota in Vermillion yesterday and at a private burial today in his...
Tags: College Basketball, College Football, Basketball, Newspapers, South Dakota State Jackrabbits
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Former Orlando Magic coach Stan Van Gundy to be keynote speaker at Montverde Academy graduation
MONTVERDE — The school with the No. 1 high-school basketball team in the country will have as its commencement speaker today a former top-flight NBA coach — ex-Orlando Magic head man Stan Van Gundy. He'll be the honorary keynote speaker during...
Tags: NBC (tv network), National Basketball Association, Miami Heat, Stan Van Gundy, Orlando Magic
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Saturday's TV Highlights and Weekend Talk: 'Doctor Who'
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 19 - 25, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SERIES Doctor Who The Doctor's (Matt Smith)...
Tags: CNBC (tv network), Taxation, Jason Chaffetz, Charles B. Rangel, Ari Graynor
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Echoes of pain, suffering
A multigenerational saga about disrupted family ties and their repercussions over several decades, the novel begins with an ominous fable told by Saboor, a desperately poor man in a small village, to his 11-year-old son, Abdullah. As Abdullah comes to...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Literature, Polio, The Washington Post
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: No need to leave Fido behind Vacationers traveling to Orlando don’t have to leave Fifi or Fido behind with Rosen Hotels & Resorts’ VIP ¿ Very Important Pet ¿ package...Tags: Air and Aviation Sports, Zora Neale Hurston, Disneyland Park, Jason Taylor, Baths (music group)
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House showdown set over IRS targeting of conservative groups
WASHINGTON -- The ousted top official of the Internal Revenue Service will appear before a House committee Friday morning, his first public appearance since controversy erupted last week over how the agency mishandled applications for tax-exempt status...Tags: Career and Workplace, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Politics
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