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Students pick up scholarships
Newport Harbor High School senior Michael Cantwell accepted a scholarship Wednesday in the same spot his older sibling had years earlier. "My brother was here four years ago," he said. "He won the exact same award." Michael was one of eight students...
Tags: Schools, Education, Teaching and Learning, High Schools, Students
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Setting Times stories to music: from Nick Cave to Dionne Warwick
By Kari Howard This week, I came across a website called Six Word Stories. The website, its creators say, was inspired by a bet from Ernest Hemingway’s pals that he couldn’t write a story in six words. So I thought I’d do six-word...
Tags: Mary Fallin, Ernest Hemingway, Pies and Tarts, Entertainment, Apple Pie
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Vinny Del Negro, you just got played
Donald Sterling might be considered by some the worst owner in the history of professional sports, but it sure is refreshing to hear someone admit that in the NBA the inmates really do run the asylum. Richard Johnson Los Angeles :: Broderick...
Tags: Joe Torre, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers, Andre Ethier
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Dancing for Mother Earth
Although the lights were dimmed and the studio soundless, a chair, front and center, bespoke a human presence. Taped to the wall, a sign declared that a set of ankle bells had recently gone missing. Before long, the pitter-patter of pint-sized feet...
Tags: Dance, University of California, Irvine, Event Planning, Malaysia, Entertainment
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LAUSD board could ban suspensions for 'willful defiance'
Damien Valentine knows painfully well about a national phenomenon that is imperiling the academic achievement of minority students, particularly African Americans like himself: the pervasive and disproportionate use of suspensions from school for mouthing...
Tags: Civil Rights, Social Issues, Teaching and Learning, Jerry Brown, Teachers
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Girl born to save her sister's life graduates from CSU Long Beach
Marissa Eve Ayala, who first drew national attention more than two decades ago as the child who was born to provide her sister a life-saving bone marrow transplant, graduated from Cal State Long Beach this week with a degree in speech pathology. ...Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, California State University, Long Beach, Ceremonies, Leukemia
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Gators, Seminoles coaches visit Ryan Sousa at Lake Nona
Orlando SentinelWord spreads fast these days in the world of college football recruiting. It certainly has in the case of Orlando Lake Nona 2014 wide receiver Ryan Sousa, who gained his 28th offer from Georgia State on Thursday. He also had a pair of high-profile...Tags: Sports, Florida State Seminoles, Football, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Florida State University
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UC Irvine hires prominent USC professor as provost
]This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.Earlier this month, USC students and alumni were gloating about how their school had hired two top neuroscientists from UCLA, and UC system officials said they were upset by the loss. This week, however, UC announced that it has wooed away a prominent USC...Tags: University of California, Irvine, Colleges and Universities
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UCLA library worker's death on campus was a suicide, coroner says
The body of a man found on UCLA’s campus was the result of a suicide, according to the Los Angeles County coroner Thursday. The body was identified as Reynaldo Quitos, 47, an assistant in the school’s Southern Regional Library Facility,...
Tags: Suicide, Science and Technology
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L.A. Unified hopes $1.4-million award brings healing in girl's assault
Los Angeles school officials say they hope a fourth-grade special needs student and her family can complete the healing process now that a jury has awarded her $1.4 million after she was sexually assaulted five times by a male classmate. Santa Monica...Tags: Justice System, Sex Crimes, Trials, Juvenile Delinquency, Google+
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USC, Berkeley mishandling sex crimes against women, Allred says
Attorney Gloria Allred announced Wednesday that complaints were filed against Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, USC and UC Berkeley, alleging the colleges failed to follow federal laws regarding sex crimes. Allred said the colleges are not...
Tags: New York City, Dartmouth College, Sex Crimes, University of California, Berkeley, Crime, Law and Justice
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No signs of foul play in UCLA employee's death, police say
There were no signs of foul play in the death of a UCLA employee on campus, university police said. The body of Reynaldo Quitos, 47, an assistant at the school's Southern Regional Library Facility, was found Tuesday afternoon at Boelter Hall, which is...
Tags: Science and Technology
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