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'The Book of Getting Even' by Benjamin Taylor
Special to The TimesJune 30, 2008 At 166 pages, "The Book of Getting Even" is a mortar shot of a novel -- the trajectory is steep, the narrative moves at tremendous velocity and the book ends with a bang. Yet it also is a bittersweet and redemptive love story, richly...Tags: Cosmology, Religious Leaders, History, Judaism, Harry S Truman
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A right to not be offended?
Today, Lukianoff and Shermer discuss what roles, if any, a school has in monitoring the expressions of its students. Previously, they weighed accusations of widespread bias in college classrooms. Later in the week, they'll debate ideological diversity...Tags: Constitutional Issues, Heads of State, Purdue University, Consumers, Facebook
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John Wheeler, physicist, dies at 96
Physicist John A. Wheeler, who had a key role in the development of the atom bomb and later gave the space phenomenon black holes their name, has died at 96.
Wheeler, for many years a professor at Princeton University, died of pneumonia Sunday at his...Tags: Retirement, George Bush, Defense, Awards and Prizes, New York Times
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Living in a nuclear world
Special to the TribuneMartin J. Sherwin, Pulitzer Prize winning author of 'American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer,' writes on why the first atomic explosion continues to rip a great fissure across human history. Plays, books, novels, artistic...Tags: John Adams, Explosions, Guerrilla Activity, Nuclear Weapons, Applied Physics
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Chicago connections abundant in 'Dr. Atomic'
Tribune arts criticThe date Dec. 2, 1942, in Chicago was a dark, cold day, to borrow from W.H. Auden's great elegy on Yeats -- arctic in temperature and deadly in significance. Ace researchers gathered in a squash court beneath the west stands of Stagg Field, the...Tags: Interior Policy, Squash, Music Theater, Personal Weapon Control, Nuclear Weapons
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Oppenheimer comes to the opera
In a rehearsal room backstage at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the singers and dancers spread across a bare stage, Peter Sellars is orchestrating his vision of the dawn of the nuclear era. "Keep the paranoia level very high," the director tells the...Tags: Defense, Poetry, Classical Music, Music Theater, John Adams
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Ceremony April 26 at Royce Hall
This page has moved. If you are not automatically re-directed, please click here.Tags: Newspapers, Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, Kevin Phillips
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists Announced
LOS ANGELES, March 10, 2003 -- The Los Angeles Times announced the finalists for the 23rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which will be presented April 26 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The 45 Book Prize finalists were announced during a...Tags: Newspapers, Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Kevin Phillips, Henry Holt
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Los Angeles Times Names Book Prize Winners
LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2003 --The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes presented its annual Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement to Larry McMurtry, author of 25 novels including the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lonesome Dove" and "Terms of Endearment," of...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Poetry, Allen Ginsberg, Kevin Phillips, Henry Holt
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