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    Jun 6, 2012 |Column| Tribune Media Services
  1. The upside of the downside

    Jonah Goldberg
    One of my heroes, Irving Kristol, used to say that there's nothing wrong with the country a bad recession couldn't fix. Kristol (father of the more famous Bill, by the way) wasn't hoping for a recession, he was merely making the point that so many of the...

    Tags: Rocky Balboa (fictional character), Immigration, Barack Obama, Illegal Immigrants, Migration

  2. Oct 9, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  3. France's oyster trail

    Cancale and Locmariaquer are dots on the Atlantic coast of France. Also places that produce my favorite food: Brittany oysters. Served raw on the half shell, with no more sauce than a squeeze of lemon, they are generally smaller than other varieties but intensely flavored, more precious than pearls to people who know their oysters.
    Cancale and Locmariaquer are dots on the Atlantic coast of France. Also places that produce my favorite food: Brittany oysters. Served raw on the half shell, with no more sauce than a squeeze of lemon, they are generally smaller than other varieties but...

    Tags: Iodine (dietary supplement), France, Foods and Beverages, Malo, Oysters

  4. May 5, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail
  5. Shippensburg University grads step up to economic challenges

    Shippensburg University sent 1,095 newly minted college graduates out into the world at its undergraduate commencement Saturday before a packed crowd of parents, grandparents, siblings and friends at Seth Grove Stadium.
    dona@herald-mail.com
    Shippensburg University sent 1,095 newly minted college graduates out into the world at its undergraduate commencement Saturday before a packed crowd of parents, grandparents, siblings and friends at Seth Grove Stadium. “I’m so proud of him,&...

    Tags: Alexander Hamilton, Seth M. Grove, Colleges and Universities, College Park (Prince George's, Maryland), Graduation

  6. Dec 20, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  7. Herman Melville was big in 2010

    Jacket Copy
    Herman Melville proves among the most-valued authors sold by AbeBooks in 2010....
  8. Dec 3, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  9. Book review: 'Hollywood Hills' by Joseph Wambaugh

    It's Joseph Wambaugh's world. Other crime writers just live in it.
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    It's Joseph Wambaugh's world. Other crime writers just live in it. Beginning with his 1971 novel, "The New Centurions," and his 1973 nonfiction masterpiece, "The Onion Field," the former Los Angeles Police Department detective all but created the...

    Tags: Paris Hilton, Juvenile Delinquency, Los Angeles Police Department, University of Southern California, Television

  10. Dec 24, 2009 | Los Angeles Times
  11. Matt Weinstock, Dec. 24, 1959

    The Daily Mirror
    A Christmas Story Forty-one years ago a young attorney named Patrick J. Cooney came to Calexio from Chicago. One of his first clients was Jimmy Wong, who had 5,000 acres in cotton on the Mexican side of the border. He shipped his valuable crop into the...
  12. Jun 13, 2010 | Los Angeles Times
  13. Landslide Closes Hill Street Tunnel

    The Daily Mirror
    A landslide closes the Hill Street tunnel, which was demolished when the “nose” of Bunker Hill was removed in June 1955. June 13, 1910: Police find that the athletic burglar who was caught the other day has refined tastes in reading. No funny papers...
  14. May 27, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  15. Traveling through time

    Times Staff Writer
    Once upon a time, travel was heroic. Stepping outside your home meant drifting with Huck and Jim down the Mississippi south of Cairo. It meant burning and bopping and struggling along with Dean Moriarty in the old car south of Abilene, or dreaming with...

    Tags: Trips and Vacations, Disneyland Park, Gaming, Transportation Industry, American Civil War (1861-1865)

  16. Jan 25, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  17. Infinite Ingress

    By birth, by foot, by automobile, from other states and other countries, legally and illegally, people have arrived in California for decades in unrelenting swells, human surf breaking steadily on a vast shore. Occasionally a big set rolls in and harasses state and local officials trying to determine how many new classrooms to build or where to bury the trash, but Californians take it in stride. You can complain, but what good would it do? You can complain about winter, too, but it comes anyway.
    For the Times
    By birth, by foot, by automobile, from other states and other countries, legally and illegally, people have arrived in California for decades in unrelenting swells, human surf breaking steadily on a vast shore. Occasionally a big set rolls in and harasses...

    Tags: Wetlands, Government, Natural Disasters, Natural Resources, John Vasconcellos

  18. Nov 11, 2001 |Story| Allentown Morning Call
  19. History of Islamic world brings present into focus

    Of The Morning Call
    The 18th-century British historian Edward Gibbon had no doubt that the victory of French leader Charles “The Hammer” Martel over Muslim armies in France in 732 A.D. had changed the course of world history. In his “The Decline and Fall of the Roman...

    Tags: Spain, France, Democracy, Egypt, Science

  20. Oct 3, 2004 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  21. Hot on Hannibal's cold trail

    Special to The Times
    Gasping for breath in the thin Alpine air, we peered into the thick veils of clouds, desperate for a glimpse of the Italian plains stretching somewhere below. Above us, Monte Viso, the 12,600-foot, twin-peaked colossus of the southern French Alps,...

    Tags: Denzel Washington, France, Air France-KLM, Fondue, Veal

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