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If You Hate Armenians, Don’t Read Book One


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[Editor’s Note: The newspaper is presenting excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

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We Must Hold Onto and Watch Out for Each Other


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[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

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How Different Our Lives Might Have Been


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[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired, as all of her extensive writings are, by the sudden death of her teenage daughter 19 summers ago.] .

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Didn’t I Have Good Examples in My Family to Follow?


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Everyone was surprised to see me, a mother who had just lost a beautiful daughter, able to remain so calm. I wanted to cry and complain. But then I remembered my grandmother and I felt ashamed for myself for I realized I had the best example to follow in my life.

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My Daughter Was Dead


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[Editor’s Note: Each day this week, the newspaper will present excerpts from the new novel by Dr. Rosemary H. Cohen, “The Mother of Jerusalem Is Crying,” inspired as all of her extensive writings are by the sudden death of her daughter 19 summers ago, as she recounts below.]

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You Should Go See ‘Hugo’


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The big picture of it all is that Hugo is, in detail and scope, a beautiful piece of filmmaking that illustrates in craft what it can only hint at through dialogue. Scorsese delivers so many details to please the cinephile – from a small but benevolent role for the ever-charismatic Christopher Lee, to a humane and top-form performance from Ben Kingsley that reminds us why he’s such a pleasure to watch, to period costumes and locations that dare the audience to resist the urge to crawl into the picture frame – that the film itself becomes testament to why we love letting the movies, and rhetoric about the movies, carry us away.read

Distinguishing Between Science and Religion. One Doesn’t Need Magic.


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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True. By Richard Dawkins. (The Free Press) 271 pp. $29.99.

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A Fairminded Visit Inside the Dusty Attic of Scientology


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Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion. By Janet Reitman, Vanguard Press. 444 pp. $28.

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AVPA Winter Concert Next Week Features Music for the Holidays


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Culver City High School and the Academy of Visual and Performing Arts will present “Music for the Holidays,” at Friday, Dec. 16, at 7 p.m., in the Robert Frost Auditorium, 4401 Elenda St.

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The Muppets: A Fresh Serving of Muppetational Spectacle


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Just as hate might find the source of its progression in fear, despair might find its roots in nostalgia. No wonder, then, that Hollywood finds such a powerful figure in the aging star wilting without the sunlight of celebrity.

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