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Playwright Anna Deavere Smith wins Gish Prize
Anna Deavere Smith has won one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts. The committee that awards the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize ...
Final goodbye: Roll call of some who died in 2012
Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables ...
Obama, Palin and Jobs join Bartlett's club
So much has changed since we last heard from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," a decade ago. Barack Obama was a state legislator. Sarah Palin was ...
Shuttle inches toward retirement home at LA museum
At every turn of Endeavour's stop-and-go commute through urban streets, a constellation of spectators trailed along as the space shuttle ploddingly ...
Forceful arrests could harm LAPD goodwill efforts
A spate of incidents in which Los Angeles police officers are under investigation for use of excessive force is threatening to erode the Police ...
Police: Rodney King death ruled accidental
Rodney King had been drinking and was on drugs when he plunged into a swimming pool and accidentally drowned in June, a coroner's report released ...