Historic theater in Beverly Hills an empty shell

The renowned designer had a mission: to "transform this Wilshire Boulevard cracker box into a sumptuous palace."So Joseph J....

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The New Islamists: Tunisia Battles Over Pulpits and a Revolution’s Legacy

Moises Saman for The New York TimesFemale students at the Grand Mosque in Kairouan, Tunisia, a site of anti-Western sermons. KAIROUAN, Tunisia — On the Friday after Tunisia’s president fell, Mohamed al-Khelif mounted the pulpit of this city’s historic Grand Mosque to deliver a full-throttle attack on the country’s corrupt culture, to condemn its close ties with the West and to demand that a new constitution...

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10 things you need to know today: November 11, 2012

Emails from Petraeus‘ mistress triggered investigation, the BBC’s chief resigns, and more in our roundup of the stories that are making news and driving opinion1. BIOGRAPHER’S EMAILS LED FBI TO PETRAEUS AFFAIRPaula Broadwell, the woman with whom CIA Director David Petraeus had an extramarital affair, leading to his sudden resignation on...

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Tori Spelling Introduces Son Finn Davey

Mom & Babies Celebrity Baby Blog 11/11/2012 at 08:00 PM ET Michael Simon/StartraksMeet Finn Davey McDermott!Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott introduce their fourth child, posing inside the 10-week-old’s nursery in a set of recently released photos.After a difficult pregnancy that included hospitalization...

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Food labels multiply, some confuse consumers

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Want to avoid pesticides and antibiotics in your produce, meat, and dairy foods? Prefer to pay more to make sure farm animals were treated humanely, farmworkers got their lunch breaks, bees or birds were protected by the farmer and that ranchers didn't kill predators?Food labels claim to certify a wide array of sustainable practices. Hundreds of so-called eco-labels have cropped...

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Bethel AME Church in San Francisco rejects new pastor from L.A.

SAN FRANCISCO — In an unprecedented move, officials of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black pulpit in...

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