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• Facts first…. Kim later

  In the aftermath of the Supreme Court hearings, the Health Care Reform Act is finally getting the examination it should have received when it was first debated. This morning...

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• Giving Film Music the Respect It Deserves by Curtis Rittenhouse

  My recent encounter with Schmidt’s Notre Dame and an upcoming concert performance of Weber’s Der Freischutz got me thinking about neglected Austro-German music of the Romantic and Post-Romantic eras....

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• High Noon in Florida

  it has been impossible to ignore the case of Trayvon Martin, the 17-year old African-American youth, who was shot to death February 26 while crossing through a neighborhood on...

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• The News at Court

  The word coming from those observing the Supreme Court proceedings yesterday is that the Solicitor General faced tough questioning from an unsympathetic-sounding Conservative side of the bench. Clarence Thomas...

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• People’s Exhibit # 1

  Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez tells the story of a man who took his 11-year old daughter to the Emergency Room in Tarzana California to be seen for...

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