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City Lights: Teaching and learning from a Libyan friend
I imagine she would still look the same. My flatmate was in her early 20s when I saw her last, and less than a decade has passed since then. When I see crowd photos of the uprising in Libya, I scan the faces to check for hers — smiling or yelling...Tags: Libya, Politics, George W. Bush, Libyan Civil War (2011), September 11, 2001 Attacks
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City Lights: Election Day a hopeful time
Tuesday, the General Election will be held. After months of tracking the various campaigns — senatorial, gubernatorial and otherwise — it has been a long slog to the finish line. Has anyone else ever wished for a system in which the candidates...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, White House, Mitt Romney, Happiness (state of mind)
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Greer's OC: Fashion's Night Out
Fashion's Night Out Fashion Island is celebrating Fashion's Night Out on Friday. Shop at your favorite stores from 5 to 9 p.m. and enjoy an array of specials, sweet stations and live DJs throughout the center. Enter to win a styling session with Lo...Tags: Television, Fashion Shows, Entertainment, MTV Movie Awards, Health
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Omar Suleiman dies at 76; former head of Egyptian intelligence
CAIRO — Omar Suleiman, Egypt's former spymaster and a confidant of deposed leader Hosni Mubarak, died Thursday in a U.S. hospital, months after his unsuccessful presidential bid to restore the old guard to power after a national revolution, state...
Tags: Egypt, Espionage and Intelligence, Religion and Belief, Central Intelligence Agency, Cairo (Egypt)
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A sequel to a nightmare for Iraqi refugees living in Syria
World NowFor some Iraqi refugees living in Syria, it feels like a sequel to a nightmare. Tens of thousands of Iraqis fled to Syria during the brutal sectarian war that followed the U.S.-led ouster of Saddam Hussein. Syria beckoned as a haven of religious... -
Crow delivers perfect folksy bluegrass
Nine-time Grammy winner Sheryl Crow performed at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa Wednesday evening, treating a near-sold out crowd to 80 minutes in folk-rock heaven. Opening act Honey Honey — a cross between KT Tunstall, the Civil Wars,...
Tags: Fatigue, Disneyland Park, Music Industry, Cat Stevens, Folk (genre)
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Sources: Obama Authorized Secret Support for Syrian Rebels
CNNWASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama has signed a covert directive authorizing U.S. support for Syrian rebels battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces, U.S. officials told CNN on Wednesday. The secret order, referred to as an intelligence...Tags: Beirut (Lebanon), White House, YouTube, NATO, United Nations
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Theater review: '9 Parts of Desire'
Orlando Sentinel theater criticIs it that daunting to be a woman? As a man, maybe I can't fully grasp the tangled emotions of guilt, courage, exhilaration, cynicism and terror of the nine women of "9 Parts of Desire." But the actresses depicting women who have all been affected by...Tags: Celebrities, Metal and Mineral, Iraq, Building Material
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Search For Stowaways In Ship Containers Turns Up Nothing
Pix11.com | @jamesfordtvA container on board a ship that cruised through the Middle East and Pakistan before heading to New York Harbor had everyone from Homeland Security to the Port Authority scrambling to make sure there aren't stowaways on board. A grueling day-long...Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Pakistan, National Security, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia)
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The mess in the Middle East
Had Israel behaved as the Americans and Europeans desired, today Bashar Assad of Syria would be sitting atop the Golan Heights, and would surely start a war with Israel to divert attention from his domestic troubles. The "unintended consequences" of...Tags: Politics, Bashar Assad, Egypt, Religion and Belief, Fareed Zakaria
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New Jersey Muslims file federal lawsuit to stop spying by New York City Police Department
WASHINGTON (AP)— Eight Muslims filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday in New Jersey to force the New York Police Department to end its surveillance and other intelligence-gathering practices targeting Muslims in the years after the 2001 terrorist...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Rutgers University, Religion and Belief, Raymond W. Kelly, Teaching and Learning
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Internet users, beware
Perhaps it's the third son of the president of Liberia who needs your help transferring untold millions of dollars into U.S. bank accounts. Maybe it's a supposed U.S. soldier who uncovered a secret stash of cash or precious metals in one of Saddam...Tags: Financial and Business Services, U.S. Postal Service
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