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PASSINGS: Napoleon A. Jones Jr., John Silard, Ruben Castro, Amin Hafez, Thor Arngrim
Napoleon A. Jones Jr.
Judge in San Diego Scouts case
Napoleon A. Jones Jr., 69, the federal judge who ruled in a San Diego case that the Boy Scouts were a religious group and couldn't lease city land, died Dec. 12 at his home in northern San Diego...Tags: Ronald Reagan, San Diego County (California), Roman Catholicism, Lillian Hellman, Diseases and Illnesses
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2006
Staff reporterSimon Winchester discusses the geological causes and the sociological consequences of the great San Francisco earthquake. His latest book is A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. (11/30/06) Simon...Tags: Earthquakes, Ellen Burstyn, Judaism, Islam, France
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More North Koreas? Get Used to It
William Langewiesche, international correspondent for Vanity Fair, is the author of "Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear-Armed Poor," to be published by Farrar Straus Giroux in the spring.THERE IS NO DOUBT that the acquisition of atomic weapons by North Korea is the worst development yet in the ongoing story of nuclear proliferation by upstart states. The regime in Pyongyang is arguably the spookiest in the world today — bellicose,...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Civil Unrest, Nuclear Weapons, Political Systems, Weaponry
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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: Edward Teller, Alcoholic Beverages, Romance (genre), Reinhold Niebuhr, The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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