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Fannie CEO dumps McCain for Obama
The SwampNewly-installed Fannie Mae CEO Herb Allison, Jr. was national finance chair of John McCain's Republican presidential bid in 2000 and as recently as 2006 he wrote a $5,000 check to McCain's Straight Talk America PAC. But a year later Allison switched his...Tags: Government, Retirement Planning Services, John McCain, Fannie Mae, National Government
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Barack Obama: A Spielberg presentation
The Swampby Mark Silva The president will appear with some well-known celebrity hosts tonight at a Beverly Hills fundraiser for the Democratic Party expected to raise about $3 million. "Obama promised to bring people together,'' the L.A. Times' Tina Daunt notes,.....Tags: Movies, Jennifer Hudson, Government, Getty Images Inc., Democratic Party
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Benevolent Billionaires Can Buy Out Gunmaker
Business moguls who favor stricter gun-control laws -- among them Bloomberg LP founder and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, financier George Soros and entertainment honcho David Geffen -- are in the unique position of being able to put their money...
Tags: Lazard Limited, Blacksburg, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Personal Weapon Control, Belgium
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A placebo, yes, but not harmless
Special to The TimesEvery day on the front lines of medicine, doctors quietly weigh treatments. They consider which ones might help patients and which ones might harm them. And sometimes, rightly or wrongly, which ones might simply please or appease them. I'm a pleaser at...Tags: Illnesses, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Values, Ethics
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Daum: Under Nora's wing
If you're a particular kind of writer, the kind with a taste for "social observation" and a belief in the divine partnership of unbridled humor and unapologetic honesty, Nora Ephron, who died Tuesday, almost certainly fell into the category of Central...
Tags: Rob Reiner, Lena Dunham, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Nicole Kidman, Meghan Daum
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'The Scream'? Painting By Numbers Seems Harder
The Hartford CourantSo I'm looking at a painting called "The Scream," which just sold for $119.9 million, when it occurs to me: I could have done that. I mean, all we're talking about here is a central figure with a head shaped like a light bulb. How hard would that be to...Tags: Arts, Carly Simon
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Bickering blocs at Tribune Co. may work it out
Are the Chandlers and Tribune Co. ready to reconcile? A Wall Street Journal report online Thursday said the two sides, at each other's throats earlier this summer, are at the bargaining table. Sources say that hasn't happened, not yet, but it's...Tags: Waukegan, Newspapers, Tribune Company, Television Industry
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Why your 50 cents for The Times is the best bargain in the world
POINTS WESTWay back in my cub days at the Oakland Tribune, the paper I read growing up, I learned to check the bulletin board every day to see who the owner was. We had four of them in six years, and a wise man would have known then to leave journalism for dry-...Tags: Studio City, Employees, Starbucks Corp., Lincoln Heights, Death
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The Times they are a-changin'?
David Geffen has made no secret he covets the Los Angeles Times and thinks he can help it.That was true last year when the entertainment mogul dangled $2 billion but failed to budge Tribune Co. from its stance the paper wasn't for sale. It was true as...Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Government, News Corp., National Government, American Idol (tv program)
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A nightmare for your body
Special to The TimesSome people first suspect they have obstructive sleep apnea when their significant other complains about excessive snoring, or tells them they stop breathing many times during the night. Others figure it out when their daytime sleepiness gets so bad...Tags: National Institutes of Health, Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Health Organizations, Death
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No one should face death alone
Special to The TimesIt was just before dawn when I found the 40-year-old woman — pale, sweaty and anxious — cradled in bloody sheets and towels. A victim of end-stage cervical cancer whose kidneys were also shutting down, she had recently decided enough was...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Health and Medical Professionals, Employees, Academic Progress
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When a gift is just a gift
Special to The TimesTHE other day, when my energy was running low, I idly asked a friend at work: "Remember the days when patients and their families brought us lots of goodies? Where's the box of chocolates when we really need it?" He stared at me incredulously. "Come on,...Tags: Illnesses, Drugs and Medicines, Diseases and Illnesses, Bribery, Corporate Crime
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