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President Obama must use Wednesday's state visit by Chinese President Hu Jintao to make clear both the imperialist nature of China's agenda and America's firm resolve to oppose it. Mr. Obama would do well to take cues from retired Adm. James A. Lyons, former commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Writing in The Washington Times, Adm. Lyons focuses on actions that "leave no doubt that the Chinese plan to use their modernized People's Liberation Army to further their expansionist objectives by intimidation or outright aggression.
Ani Maldjian will reprise the title role in Long Beach Opera's production of "The Diary of Anne Frank," by Grigori Frid, when the opera is performed May 15 at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine. The production was previously staged in Long Beach and Los Angeles in 2007 and 2008.
'Take a look at Mr. Rockefeller, you know something is wrong with him. This is not a man playing with a full deck. So spoke Jeffery Denner, Clark Rockefeller's defense attorney, during closing statements Monday in Rockefeller's trial on assault and kidnapping charges in Boston.
Dolores Gigliotti would never miss her annual Scott Township High School reunion. The time it takes to make the 100-mile drive from Canton, Ohio with her husband, Frank, goes quickly when you're looking forward to seeing classmates you've known for 70 years.
Philip Levine was not expecting to be the new poet laureate of the United States. "It just wasn't something I thought I'd get," he said, sounding a little amused by the whole thing. Levine, who has written 20 collections of poems, has already won just about every major writing award: a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for "The Simple Truth," a National Book Award in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and in 1991 for "What Work Is," the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the Frank O'Hara Prize, two Guggenheim Foundation fellowships ... the list goes on.
NEW YORK - Don Mattingly hasn't been a Dodger long enough to forget what it took to be a Yankee in the 1980s and '90s - when George Steinbrenner was in your face or on the back pages. It was like picking your poison in those years. Either way, the axiom remained the same: If you took the Man's money, you lived with the simmering madness. Mattingly likes to think he's had the right training to manage in the big leagues, but nothing -- not even Steinbrenner's ghost -- could've prepared him for the Dodgers' slide toward oblivion. Not a day goes by without another disclosure of Frank McCourt's mismanagement, including the most recent bombshell that the Dodgers could run out of money by late May.
New Year's Eve 1995. I spent most of the night walking up and down Colorado Boulevard gathering material for a Rose Parade story that would run two days later. I caught the flu, and a few days later, my temperature had soared above 100.
Later this month, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection goes into full operation. This agency was created as part of the massive Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed by Congress last summer.
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