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Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr.
ROBERT LANGFORD MONTGOMERY, JR. 1927-2013 Robert Langford Montgomery, Jr., Harvard ’50 mcl, Ph.D. ’56 died on February 26, 2013 in Newport Beach, CA. A navy veteran of World War II, he was a professor of English and Comparative Literature at...
Tags: University of California, Irvine
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Gun legislation failure dismays survivor of Texas mass shooting
Irma Garcia pulled back her sweater to show me where the bullet entered her shoulder and spun her around. It then torpedoed through her body and exited near the middle of her back. "I still have problems with it," she said, standing to show me how the...
Tags: Mental Illness, Shootings, Gun Control, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder , Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Wide search expected in hunt for next UC president
With no obvious inside candidate to be the next president of the University of California system, experts predict a wide search that will concentrate on similar university systems elsewhere but could also stretch beyond academia. Whoever replaces Mark...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Colleges and Universities, Gavin Newsom
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It's official: High-speed Google Fiber heads to Texas
Google Fiber, the ultra-fast broadband Internet service developed by the search-engine company, will be expanding to Austin, Texas, in 2014. In a widely expected move, Austin city officials and Google on Tuesday morning announced the expansion of Fiber....
Tags: Google Inc., Computing and Information Technology Industry, Apple iPad
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Justice System, Shootings, Jared Lee Loughner, Punishment
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Hungry for a group to safely deliver leftover food to charities
On a recent evening, students at Pomona College feasted on chicken pot pie, steamed veggies, biscuits and rice. And, as is often the case, there were plenty of leftovers in the dining hall, enough for about 100 extra meals. Those leftovers, however,...Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Providence College, University of California, Los Angeles, Biology, Career and Workplace
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New super-thin, flexible invisibility cloak wows Harry Potter fans
Harry Potter fans rejoice: Researchers have devised an ultra-thin invisibility cloak that can mask three-dimensional objects -- if you’re observing that object in microwave light, that is. With butterbeer and Bertie Bott's every flavor beans on...
Tags: Science and Technology, Electrical Appliance, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Bronzeville among city sites seeking Obama library
The site where Michael Reese Hospital once stood isn't much to look at, just a 37-acre swath of overgrown land in Bronzeville, behind a shoddy chain-link fence. Developers are itching to build a casino or perhaps a sports entertainment complex on the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Buddy Guy, Arts and Culture, Colleges and Universities
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer causes uproar with telecommuting ban
SAN FRANCISCO — Corporate America's most famous working mother has banned her employees from working at home. Now the backlash is threatening to overshadow the progress she has made turning around Yahoo Inc. Marissa Mayer, one of only a handful of...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, Facebook, Marissa Mayer, Twitter, Inc., Corporate Officers
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Parkland puts another championship team on ice
It has been a very successful school year so far for Parkland High School athletes. The highlights have included District 11 championship football, cross-country, tennis, swimming, soccer teams; a league, district and state runnerup girls volleyball...Tags: College Sports, Texas Longhorns, Pittsburgh Penguins, Soccer, Big 12 Conference
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Marvel’s David Marquez talks X-Men, Spider-Man, 3D graphic novel
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesYoung artists looking to break into comics might want to take a page from David Marquez. Based in Austin, Texas, ...... -
In search of 'The Searchers' and the history behind the western
The bigger the fight between a screenwriter and a director, the better the picture. It's an arrant generalization but not necessarily an errant one. Look at Budd Schulberg's battles with "On the Waterfront," or Robert Towne's over the ending of...
Tags: Chinatown (movie), Otto Preminger, John Wayne, Movies, Robert Towne
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