A revival of ‘Ragtime’ puts renewed emphasis on people not pageantry

‘Ragtime’ revival puts renewed emphasis on people

Lou Dobbs, leaving his CNN home, ays he hopes to be a leader in a ‘national conversation’

Lou Dobbs, CNN part company, leaving uncertainty

Lou Dobbs, last of CNN’s original anchors, to leave network after most of 3 decades there

Lou Dobbs, praised and criticized, to leave CNN

CNN original Lou Dobbs says he’s leaving network immediately ‘to pursue new opportunities’

Lou Dobbs leaving CNN for ‘new opportunities’

Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN ‘to pursue new opportunities’

Lou Dobbs says he is leaving CNN

NEW YORK — CNN’s Lou Dobbs, a lightning rod for criticism following his transition from a business journalist to an opinionated anchor on such issues as illegal immigration, told viewers on Wednesday that he was quitting his nightly show to pursue new opportunities.

Eat, shop and explore Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods: Chinatown, Greektown, and more

Eat, shop, explore Chicago’s ethnic neighborhoods

Spanish writer Angeles Caso wins Premio Planeta award for novel on plight of immigrant women

MADRID — Spanish writer and journalist Angeles Caso has won the country’s most lucrative literary award for a novel about the ordeals of women from poor countries who emigrate in search of a better life.

Daughter of Ahmadinejad adviser seeks asylum in Germany after attending film festival

BERLIN — The daughter of a top adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has applied for asylum in Germany, organizers of a film festival that she was attending said Tuesday.

Museum of Chinese in America gets a new, larger home in New York

NEW YORK — In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.

Police: Reality TV contestant delayed flight, ‘didn’t expect’ quick discovery of model’s body

BUENA PARK, Calif. — A reality contestant wanted in the gruesome murder and mutilation of his ex-model wife didn’t start his 1,000-mile dash for his native Canada until 24 hours after her body was found and he moved out of his penthouse and picked up his speedboat, police said.

Review: A deftly written post-9/11 tale of refugee and immigrant life in Middle America

“Short Girls” (Viking, 292 pages, $25.95), by Bich Minh Nguyen: Bich Minh Nguyen enriches her first novel with such incisive personal and cultural observations that she creates a whole much greater than its parts.

How 1 immigrant high schooler soared, despite detainment

TRENTON, N.J. — He was born on the Fourth of July, an irony he would only appreciate later, during the dark period of his life, when liberty and freedom became far more than mere words in his high school history book.

Statue of Liberty crown to reopen July 4 for 1st time since 9/11

NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty’s crown, with its exhilarating view of New York’s skyscrapers, bridges and seaport, is reopening on Independence Day for the first time since terrorists leveled the World Trade Center just across the harbor.

Actress charms and scolds Britain’s government over rights for Gurkha veterans

LONDON — An actress best known for playing a selfish, champagne-guzzling fashionista is winning her battle against the British government on a humanitarian issue — securing settlement rights for Gurkha war veterans. She also is embarrassing Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s faltering government in the process.

Statue of Liberty crown, closed since 9/11, to reopen July 4; lottery may decide who goes

NEW YORK — The Statue of Liberty’s crown, with its exhilarating view of New York’s skyscrapers, bridges and seaport, is reopening on Independence Day for the first time since terrorists leveled the World Trade Center just across the harbor.

Italian painting stolen by Nazis returned to estate of Jewish art dealer

NEW YORK — A late 16th century Italian Baroque painting that was looted by the Nazis from a German-Jewish art dealer has been recovered, a Canadian university announced Wednesday.

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