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March 2008
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No name tags on donors' big gifts
| March 31, 2008
From Los Angeles TimesThe news hit Opera Santa Barbara like Wagnerian thunder: An anonymous donor had pledged $5 million -- the largest gift in the group's 14... more
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Witness says he feared accused killers
| March 29, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesA few years ago, a stranger made Jimmy Covington an irresistible offer. He was sitting on the steps of a Hollywood office building when an... more
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John Paul To Benedict
From The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan | March 28, 2008Amy Welborn rightly wants a deeper treatment of Benedict. Here's Paul Elie's 2006 article from the Atlantic: Whereas John Paul seemed most... more
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Leora Tanenbaum: A Gay Conservative Rabbi is Coming to a Synagogue...
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | March 27, 2008Why are we instructed to embrace the ger, the stranger, yet we are told to distance ourselves from someone who loves Judaism and lives a Jewish... more
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Audrey Tautou: Audiences loved her as 'Amélie.' Now she's all sexed...
| March 27, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesAUDREY TAUTOU became famous for playing a naif in "Amélie" seven years ago, but clearly, she's over it now. In "Priceless" (Hors de Prix... more
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DON'T MISS
March 27, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesThe ominous, the harrowing, the howling -- thus echoes the new (no umlauts, please) metal. Sparowes, containing members from similarly outré... more
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At carwash, taking a stand
| March 27, 2008 From Los Angeles Times, how do they treat you here?" The stranger addressed Manuel Varela, a worker at Nary's Hand Car Wash on Beverly Boulevard, in Spanish... more
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Facebook Takes Letting The Whole World See Your Private Photos Seriously...
From Consumerist | March 25, 2008WHO: Facebook WHAT: A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook, circumventing... more
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Overheard: Two men talk about their calves
OVERHEARD: Two men--mid-30s--at "24 Hour Fitness" in Hollywood, discussing calves on the abdominal abductors. They were strangers until their... more
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Talking about race: Um, you first
| March 23, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesHow do we start a national dialogue on race? Charlotte Griffin was at a restaurant one evening when a white woman complimented her on her... more
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SkyMall Backup Camera Is Apparently Useless? [Gadgets]
From Jalopnik | March 21, 2008Don't you just hate it when you run out of things to do during a plane ride? Sure you could strike up a conversation with the stranger next... more
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Candy Spelling: My Daughter Makes My Purse Shake
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | March 18, 2008My daughter's book had just come out, and I had been barraged with phone calls, emails, letters and strangers in restaurants reporting what... more
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Jesse Jackson: Obama Just Turned Crisis Into Opportunity
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | March 18, 2008Reverend Jesse Jackson, who is no stranger to America's racial battles and whose own runs for the White House have been, on occasion, used... more
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Breaking bread and boundaries
March 18, 2008 From Los Angeles TimesCommon Tables brings strangers of all faiths together for dinner and discourse. No topic is off-limits... more
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A Silver Streak in His Golden Years: Gene Wilder's Latest Novella
From The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com | March 16, 2008Gene Wilder is out with a new book. The Hollywood icon beloved for the characters he played in "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein," and... more
