The Los Angeles university’s faculty came out against the senior staff’s ‘failure to protect students’
Republican strategist Rick Wilson suggested Trump’s election, once unthinkable, had rewritten the rules.
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/ 8 February 2011
Tura Satana — who gained cult status for her role in <i>Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!</i> — died on Friday of heart failure. She was aged 72.
The <i>LA Times'</i> critic may have panned the film, but that didn’t stop Disney from turning the newspaper’s front page into an advertisement.
Irvine Robbins, who delighted ice cream afficionados by conjuring up ever more inventive flavours as co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins empire, has died aged 90. Robbins, who started the Baskin-Robbins ice-cream chain with late brother-in-law Burt Baskin in 1945, died on May 5 at the Eisenhower Medical Centre in Rancho Mirage, California.
Sony is reportedly negotiating licensing deals with studios to distribute videos online through a long-promised service for the PlayStation 3. Citing studio executives, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported on Monday that Sony could launch the service as early as summer.
Tax returns released by former first couple Hillary and Bill Clinton revealed they earned -million over eight years, and questions were raised on Saturday about the sources of much of their wealth. Analysts and media focused on the -million Bill Clinton earned for speaking engagements.
A San Diego judge on Thursday ordered coffee giant Starbucks to pay more than $100-million in tips and interest owed to staff across outlets in California. It was not immediately clear how the money might be divided up between the estimated 100 000 current and former baristas.
It might have been called Harry Potter and the Eternal Sequel. Faced with the last in a series of books that ended with a climactic showdown, the producers of the ,5-billion-and-counting Harry Potter film franchise did what came naturally: they decided to turn the final installment into two films.
The list reads like the credit roll from a 1980s movie: Sylvester Stallone, Farrah Fawcett and Keith Carradine. Instead they are the standout names from a five-page list of witnesses released on Thursday by prosecutors at the start of the long-awaited trial of Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano.
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/ 2 February 2008
White House hopefuls have launched a frantic blitz with the stakes enormous heading into ”Super Tuesday” and the home stretch of the costliest and longest United States election campaign in history. Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were criss-crossing the country over the weekend.
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/ 31 January 2008
Troubled pop icon Britney Spears was rushed to hospital in an ambulance early on Thursday morning for the second time this month for an involuntary mental health evaluation, United States media reported. Spears was taken to the UCLA Medical Centre at about 1.30am local time, celebrity website TMZ.com said.
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/ 28 January 2008
Christian Brando, the eldest son of Hollywood icon Marlon Brando who made worldwide news in 1990 by shooting dead his sister’s boyfriend, died on Saturday at the age of 49. Brando, son of of the Oscar-winning screen star and Welsh actress Anna Kashfi, died early on Saturday of complications from pneumonia.
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/ 17 January 2008
Actor Brad Renfro, former child star of such films as The Client and Tom and Huck who had battled drug abuse in recent years, was found dead in Los Angeles on January 14 at the age of 25. A Los Angeles county coroner’s spokesperson said Renfro’s cause of death was under investigation.
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/ 17 January 2008
Richard Knerr, co-founder of the toy company that popularised the Hula Hoop, Frisbee and other fads that became classics, has died. He was 82. Knerr, who started Wham-O in 1948 with his childhood friend Arthur ”Spud” Melin, died on January 14 at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California, after suffering a stroke earlier in the day.
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/ 17 January 2008
Deepening divisions within Nato over its military operations in Afghanistan emerged on Wednesday after Robert Gates, the United States Defence Secretary, said America’s allies did not know how to fight insurgencies. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato’s Secretary General, rejected the criticism.
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/ 28 December 2007
Barack Obama rejected rival Hillary Clinton’s vow to forge change on Thursday, as polls showed a tight Democratic White House race in Iowa, a week before the state’s lead-off nominating clash. In a soaring new speech, the Democratic senator sharpened his attacks on the former first lady.
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/ 26 December 2007
Oscar Peterson’s dazzling keyboard technique, commanding sense of swing and mastery of different piano styles from boogie woogie to bebop could leave even his most accomplished peers awestruck. His death over the weekend brought forth tributes from jazz pianists spanning the generations.
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/ 25 December 2007
He doesn’t speak Spanish and has no idea what America should do about illegal immigration, but Reverend Larry Kreps knows he’s now on a list somewhere of people willing to help illegal immigrants in a time of crisis. Months ago, a member of Kreps’ suburban Ohio congregation was looking for a place where local Hispanics could meet.
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/ 20 November 2007
California on Monday launched a lawsuit against 20 companies, accusing them of manufacturing or selling toys with illegal quantities of lead, a statement said. California attorney general Jerry Brown said the firms — including Mattel and Toys ”R” Us — are being sued for knowingly exposing children to potentially dangerous lead levels.
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/ 14 November 2007
Ira Levin, the playwright and novelist who wrote Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives and The Boys From Brazil, has died at the age of 78, the New York Times reported on November 13. Levin died on November 12 at his home in Manhattan, apparently of natural causes.
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/ 5 November 2007
United States film and television writers started going on strike on Monday as last-minute talks aimed at averting the Writers Guild of America’s first strike in almost two decades collapsed. The strike is expected to shut down many sitcoms and send popular late-night talk shows immediately into reruns.
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/ 26 October 2007
Firefighters were on Friday edging towards victory in their battle against California wildfires that left nine people dead, gutted 1 800 homes and caused over -billion in damage. Cooler temperatures and calmer winds have allowed firefighters to staunch or contain most of the 23 fires that erupted since Sunday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Sudan will announce another ceasefire in its four-and-a-half year conflict with rebel groups in Darfur at the weekend, it emerged on Monday. The announcement will come at the opening of Darfur peace talks, which are to take place in the Libyan city of Sitre.
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/ 15 October 2007
Americans are used to pawning the silverware for a couple of tickets to the Super Bowl or the upcoming World Series, but 500 for a performance of Shakespeare? That is the price set on eBay for a couple of tickets for King Lear, which opens at UCLA’s Royce Hall theatre in Los Angeles on Friday.
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/ 17 September 2007
It has been billed as a Lord of the Flies for the reality TV generation. And while that description may be something of a stretch, Kid Nation, the latest reality TV show to grace United States televisions, does at least share something with William Golding’s 1954 classic: controversy.
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/ 17 September 2007
Former football star OJ Simpson, who was acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife, was arrested and held without bail on Sunday in connection with a suspected armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel room last week. Simpson (60) will be held without bail pending a court hearing on Thursday, Sergeant John Loretto said.