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Words from the past, insights for today
Music CriticSaturday morning, hyperbolic weather reporters here barked out warnings of heavy wind and drenching rain all day. A shower or two did dampen Manhattan streets, but the real New York weather over the weekend was elsewhere. Friday night at the Chelsea...Tags: John Donne, John Adams, Jasper Johns, Manhattan (New York City), Culture
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On this day in history
On Sept. 9, 1776, the Second Continental Congress made the term "United States" official, replacing "United Colonies." In 1830 Charles Durant flew a balloon from New York across the Hudson River to Perth Amboy, N.J. In 1850 California became the 31st...Tags: Crimes, Mike Tyson, Fires, Christianity, Hosni Mubarak
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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: Books and Magazines, Judaism, Family, Netflix Inc., History
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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: Books and Magazines, Colleges and Universities, Crimes, Indiana University, Constitutional Issues
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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: Colleges and Universities, Squash, Applied Physics, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Personal Weapon Control
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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, Bombings, Judaism, Applied Physics, Emergency Incidents
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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: John Donne, John Adams, Bombings, Applied Physics, Music
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists Announced
This page has moved. If you are not automatically re-directed, please click here.Tags: Colleges and Universities, Books and Magazines, Books, University of Minnesota, Jesse James
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Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Ceremony April 26 at Royce Hall
LOS ANGELES, April 16, 2003--The 10 winners of the 23rd annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes will be announced Saturday, April 26, during a 7:30 p.m. awards ceremony at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The event is the highlight of the eighth annual Los...Tags: Books and Magazines, Colleges and Universities, University of Minnesota, Jesse James, Family
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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: Colleges and Universities, Books and Magazines, University of Minnesota, Jesse James, Family
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