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Top 10 Food Quotations -- With a Prize
Dining@LargeThanks, Bucky! ELSomewhere along the way, I started jotting down quotations that stuck me as insightful or funny or potentially useful for staff meeting arguments in a little spiral-bound notebook that I carried around with me in my briefcase. Thoughts......Tags: Ina Garten, James Beard, Alcoholic Beverages, Dining and Drinking, Breads
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Feedback: Your favorite travel book
Bill Bryson is my personal standard as far as travel literature. He's appealing in his teddy bear look and sharp in his wit. His ability to describe things in detail makes me feel as if I'm right next to him, bellying up to the same bar. "A Walk in the...Tags: Family, Literature, Trips and Vacations, Frederick Douglass, Bill Bryson
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Mailbag: Bicyclists, motorists make for a dangerous mix
The Newport Beach Citizens Bicycle Safety Committee should include at least one member who does not ride a bicycle on the streets of Newport Beach for recreation or commuting. After all, we non-bicyclists contribute monies, through our taxes, which pay...Tags: Bankruptcy, Cancer, Tobacco Use, Quitting Smoking, Allan R. Mansoor
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Ski reports and forecasts for Southern California and the West
First, a little question: Does anybody hedge their bets the way a weather forecaster does? Predictions for this winter call for another La Niņa, the same cocktail of conditions that delivered last season's epic snowfall.
Sure to be a happy hour...Tags: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Shaun White, 2016 Olympic Games, Tourism and Leisure, Los Angeles Hotels
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Book review: 'Holidays in Heck' by P.J. O'Rourke
Tribune NewspapersP.J. O'Rourke has written so many books of humor that no one is quite sure how many. I have it on good authority that it's 15, but since I finished writing this sentence, he may have written yet another. That's how fast he is. I've enjoyed O'Rourke's...Tags: England, Trips and Vacations, Cancer, Book, Hemorrhoids
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Nonfiction
The Age of Movies
The Selected Writings of Pauline Kael
Edited by Sanford Schwartz
Library of America, $40
Witty, entertaining and often exhilarating, this wide-ranging collection of pieces captures the film critic at her best.
Alice James
A...Tags: National Basketball Association, James Garner, Abraham Lincoln, Music, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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From politics to poetry
Tribune NewspapersIt's tempting, looking at the fall's books, to think of this as a political season. Dick Cheney got it started with "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," and Joe McGinnis pitched in with "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin." (That...Tags: Langston Hughes, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Stephen King, Literature, Trinidad and Tobago
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Fall book preview
Tribune newspapersIt's tempting, looking at the fall's books, to think of this as a political season. Dick Cheney got it started with "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir," and in November we'll see a different (and perhaps conflicting?) take when Condoleezza...Tags: Langston Hughes, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Stephen King, Richard Nixon, Literature
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Ready for midterm elections? Some selected reading
"Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto" by Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe (William Morrow: 266 pp., $19.99)
"History," explain Dick Armey and Matt Kibbe, "teaches us that nothing could be more American than protest." In this book, they connect that spirit of...Tags: Glenn Beck, Tea Party Movement, The Washington Post, Elections, Activism
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Rolling Stone Magazine Writer
Have a knack for in-depth writing and an ear for pop culture, politics and music, then we've got a job for you. How cool would it be to write features for Rolling Stone magazine? Rolling Stone is a cultural icon that's been covering music, politics and...Tags: Journalism, Newspaper and Magazine, Cameron Crowe, Culture, Periodicals
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Extension 720 Program Guide June 2009
Staff reporterMONDAY, JUNE 1ST SOFT DESPOTISM, DEMOCRACY'S DRIFT Are you concerned about the United States drifting away from its core principles? Do you sense that many of western civilizations governments may be veering away from their classical liberal roots...Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Republican Party, Newspaper and Magazine, History, Drugs and Medicines
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2007
Staff reporterFormer assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle returns to Extension 720 to discuss the current state of American foreign policy. Topics covered in this discussion include the buildup to the Iraq war, the...Tags: University of Chicago, Iraq War (2003-2011), Literature, Manhattan (New York City), University of Notre Dame
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