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Colin Kaepernick not voting, not alone in that among 49ers teammates

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Midway through Election Day, Colin Kaepernick said he had not voted and did not plan to do so. Kaepernick had more company in that aspect among the 49ers than he’s had in his national-anthem protest this season. In an anonymous poll of 25 players conducted by this newspaper during Tuesday’s locker-room […]

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Sports & Competitions, USA

Corporate raider drama comes to the L.A. stage

By Cynthia Citron LOS ANGELES — If Lawrence Garfinkle comes to your town, be wary!  And be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Garfinkle, known to his fellow Wall Street stockbrokers as “Larry the Liquidator,” is known to be ruthless, relentless, and rich.  When he comes to town you can be sure somebody’s struggling business is about to be “restructured.”

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Cynthia Citron, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Women play all the parts in SDSU’s ‘ Julius Caesar’

“And we are governed with our mothers’ spirits. Our yoke and sufferance show us womanish.”  –(Julius Caesar, Act 1, Sc 3) By Eric George Tauber SAN DIEGO — Years ago, I had an artistic residency with a group of fourth graders doing a condensed version of Julius Caesar. I put to them this question: Who

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San Diego County, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

UCSD’s Adina Wollner to receive ZOA award

NEW YORK (Press Releae) – The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) will honor one of San Diego’s top pro-Israel students at its upcoming prestigious award dinner in New York City in November. Adina Wollner, a Zionist student leader at UC San Diego, will receive the Myron Zimmerman Award for Outstanding Student Activism at this year’s

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Middle East Roundup: November 8, 2016

German automotive giant Daimler to open R&D center in Israel (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) The German multinational automotive corporation Daimler AG, Mercedes-Benz’s parent company, Monday announced plans to set up a new research and development center in Israel. The center, which will be built in Tel Aviv, joins the conglomerate’s R&D network, which includes sites

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Middle East

‘Kill Your Local Trump Supporter’ graffiti riles voters in Boston: ‘It’s outrageous’

Boston voters were riled up over the weekend by graffiti along a building that called for the execution of Donald Trump voters. Property belonging to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts was defaced Sunday with a message reading “Kill Your Local Trump Supporter.” Citizens who walk along St. Alphonsus Street were unnerved by

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USA

Trump’s 2-minute closing ad draws ire of Jewish groups

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s closing ad is drawing criticism from Jewish groups, who say it plays on Jewish stereotypes. The two-minute ad, “Donald Trump’s Argument for America,” rails against “those who control the levers of power in Washington” and “global special interests” and includes shadowy footage of several prominent Jews, including financier George Soros, Federal

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USA

Concert review: Bob Dylan as you have always � and never � known him

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ghosts haunted the Belk Theater stage Sunday night during the concert by Bob Dylan and his band. Shades of all the other authors who have won the Nobel Prize for literature, challenging him to sing the complex and poetic lyrics that earned him the award this year. The spirit of Frank Sinatra,

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Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, USA

Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno has lost her battle with Parkinson’s disease

MIAMI — Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. attorney general and the epicenter of several political storms during the Clinton administration, has died. She was 78. Reno died early Monday from complications of Parkinson’s disease, her goddaughter Gabrielle D’Alemberte said. D’Alemberte said Reno spent her final days at home in Miami surrounded

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Obituaries & memorials, USA