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Extension 720 Program Guide July 2009
WEDNESDAY, JULY 1ST CAP AND TRADE The House of Representatives has just passed their cap and trade legislation, and it now moves on to the Senate. You've heard from the media and from public figures and politicians about how this bill will solve our...Tags: History, Afghanistan, Screen Actors Guild, Laws, John Dillinger
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James J. Kilpatrick dies at 89; newspaper columnist and arbiter of language
James J. Kilpatrick, a nationally syndicated columnist whose strongly conservative viewpoints on politics, law and language appeared in hundreds of newspapers over the last five decades and made him a popular, even parodied, television pundit, died Sunday...Tags: 60 Minutes (tv program), Jane Curtin, Washington, DC, Missouri, Scrabble (game)
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'Far Bright Star: A Novel' by Robert Olmstead, 'Inventing American History' by William Hogeland, 'Summer Will Show' by Sylvia Townsend Warner, 'Plants Don't Drink Coffee' by Unai Elorriaga, 'A Final Arc of Sky' by Jennifer Culkin
Far Bright Star A Novel Robert Olmstead Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill: 208 pp., $23.95 "Thus far the summer of 1916 had been a siege of wrathy wind and heated air. Dust and light. Sand and light. Wind and light." So begins the story of Napoleon...Tags: History, New York, French Literature, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arts and Culture
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NY Columnist; Speechwriter William Safire Dies at 79
Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist, language expert and former White House speechwriter William Safire died Sunday, his assistant said.
Safire, who was 79, had been diagnosed with cancer and died at a hospice in Maryland, assistant Rosemary...Tags: Mass Media, Washington (U.S. state), The New York Times, Bert Lance, Arts and Culture
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Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2008
Staff reporterIs the power and influence of the United States declining as the global economy flourishes? Yes, says our guest on this show. And it's not necessarily for the reasons you might think, such as the rising power of China and the European Union, although...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Colleges and Universities, Sociology, Columbia University, European Union
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Last week in GOP triage punditry
Opinion L.A.It's not clear what precipitated this convergence, but the opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post all devoted space last weekend to op-eds ruminating on contemporary conservatism. For those who missed this odd... -
Zorn & Byrne search for middle ground between left and right
Change of SubjectVeteran Chicago commentator Dennis Byrne is a weekly contributor to the Tribune's commentary pages and the proprietor of The Barbershop, a ChicagoNow blog. In Tuesday's Tribune he joins me in The Rhubarb Patch to discuss liberalism vs. conservatism and... -
In his own right
William F. Buckley Jr., as anybody who has seen the great Buckley impressions by Joe Flaherty or Robin Williams can attest, was hardly inimitable. But the contributions of the National Review founder and long-serving icon of conservatism extended far...Tags: Robin Williams, Death, Sociology, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon
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The last true conservative
By common consent, William F. Buckley Jr., who died Wednesday, was the father of modern conservatism. But he also ended up as one of the Bush administration's most trenchant critics. His death not only represents the loss of one of America's leading...Tags: New York, Bars and Clubs, Nazi Party, Dining and Drinking, Politics
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So many perils, so little time
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer[This story ran in the Los Angeles Times on July 20, 2004] First, from Switzerland, came word that the world's oldest mountain guide had left the Earth. Then, from the East Coast, came reports that author and ancient mariner William F. Buckley had left...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Colorado, Climbing, Death, Los Angeles Times
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10 things you might not know about marijuana
Tribune staff reporterSunday is April 20, known to marijuana users as "4/20," a counterculture holiday recognizing America's most commonly used illegal drug. The number "420" is code for marijuana, and was most likely invented in the 1970s at San Rafael High School in Marin...Tags: Marin County (California), Music, Barack Obama, Entertainment, Jimmy Carter
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William F. Buckley Jr., 82; author and founder of modern conservative movement
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWilliam F. Buckley Jr., the columnist, novelist, talk show host and tireless intellectual who founded the modern conservative movement and was its articulate voice for nearly six decades, died today. He was 82. Buckley, who had been ill with emphysema,...Tags: Norman Mailer, Death, Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, Stamford
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