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  • BOOK REVIEW: When operatives fall in love

    Dayna Williamson was bored silly both at work and home. A strikingly pretty Berkeley graduate born into an upper-crust family in Corona del Mar, Calif., she joined the CIA seeking adventure. Instead, she found herself relegated to an office in Los Angeles, tasked with boring personnel-security background interviews.


  • ** FILE ** This Jan. 28, 2009, file photo shows Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Charlie Sheen's ex-wife gets court order for children after threats

    Charlie Sheen's estranged wife Brooke Mueller obtained a restraining order to keep the actor away from her and their sons because she was afraid of threatening statements the actor had made in recent days, including stabbing her in the eye with a pen.


  • ** FILE ** This Jan. 28, 2009, file photo shows Charlie Sheen in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

    Sheen's ex-wife gets court order for children after threats

    Charlie Sheen's estranged wife Brooke Mueller obtained a restraining order to keep the actor away from her and their sons because she was afraid of threatening statements the actor had made in recent days, including stabbing her in the eye with a pen.


  • Cast and crew of  "The King's Speech" accept the award for best picture at the 83rd Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011, in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

    `King's Speech' reigns with best-picture Oscar

    "The King's Speech" was crowned best picture Sunday at an Academy Awards ceremony as precise as a state coronation. The monarchy drama won an expected four Oscars, and predictable favorites claimed acting honors.


  • Actress Uma Thurman attends the Quentin Tarantino Friars Club Roast at the New York Hilton Hotel on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)

    Tarantino roasted by Jackson at Friars Club

    Filmmaker Eli Roth brought shock and awe to the podium of a Friar's Club Roast of actor Quentin Tarantino on Wednesday night, saying it was a roaster's responsibility to be sick and distasteful.


  • American Scene

    A California legislative committee has advanced a bill seeking a two-year moratorium on the use of metal bats in high school baseball.


  • Many decry popular bass tournaments

    Mention the words "bass tournament" in these parts and you'll rarely be greeted with ambivalence. Competition fishing — large Potomac River bass tournaments in particular — is the stuff vigorous arguments are made of.


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