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        <title>Omar Khayyam</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[In Iran, a blind musician leads the way for a women's orchestra]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-12-20 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Every Friday, the young women gather at the blind man's home in a fading district of a sleepy city once famous for its poets and wine. They unpack vessels of wood, string and stretched hides. They cradle them in their arms. And as the afternoon wears on,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Yma Sumac, 'Peruvian songbird' with multi-octave range, dies at 86]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-11-03 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Yma Sumac, the Peruvian-born singer whose spectacular multi-octave vocal range and exotic persona made her an international sensation in the 1950s, has died. She was 86.

Sumac, who was diagnosed with colon cancer in February, died Saturday in an...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Guest Column: Confessions of a forest addict]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/tn-vsl-1228-guest-column-confessions-of-a-forest-addict,0,7956617.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2011-12-28 14:37:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Since it is the time of year for making resolutions to become a better person, I have decided to make a public confession. At the beginning of last summer I became an addict.

It began as an exploration for a new sensation, as so many wrecked lives do,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[At Laurel Park, neighbors celebrate century of glamor and grit]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-01 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Just about every Friday morning, Karen Lubieniecki takes a leisurely stroll to Laurel Park, finds a place along a railing at the nearly empty racetrack and spends an hour or so watching the horses exercise as the sun climbs the sky.

It isn't that she's a...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Timeline: Highlights of 100 years at Laurel Park]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-10-17 15:20:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[&bull; Oct. 2, 1911, Laurel Park opened for racing under the direction of the Laurel Four County Fair. Three years later, New York City grocery entrepreneur James Butler purchased the track and made renowned promoter Matt Winn general manager. Winn is...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Glee Club gives earnest final tour concert]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-01-18 21:56:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Friendship between the director of Cornell University&rsquo;s Glee Club and conductor of the Pasadena Master Chorale brought the two singing groups together Sunday afternoon for a joint concert at the La Crescenta Presbyterian Church.

The choir from...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Real Muslim leadership, not a terrorist's death, would be something to celebrate]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-05 11:33:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Good riddance, Osama bin Laden.

That's one less terrorist I, as a Muslim American, have to worry about ruining my life. But while people filled the streets in Times Square and Pennsylvania Avenue with joy Sunday night, I'm looking at myself in the...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Caspian Persian Grill/ Plantation]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2002-08-02 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Even the best of culinary risk-takers might have their confidence a bit shaken trying to pronounce the menu items at Caspian Persian Grill: koobideh, aash-e reshteh, bademjan, joojeh kabobo and doogh abali, to name just a few. The good news for...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Unfaithful']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2002-05-08 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Slick, sleek and genteelly erotic, "Unfaithful" is a high-gloss morality play from the Architectural Digest School of Infidelity, where the handsome furnishings arouse as much emotion as the protagonists' tangled lives. With one key exception.

Diane...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Music review, The Silk Road Ensemble at Symphony Center]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2002-10-26 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Silk Road Ensemble, which is in weeklong residence this week at Symphony Center, is a musical caravan and a symbol of the connections between East and West that can result from musicians of different cultures sharing ideas and devising a common...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam,' 'High Tension,' 'A League of Ordinary Gentlemen,' 'Chrystal' and 'The Rider Named Death']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2005-06-10 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An ode to the oral tradition of the Middle East, "The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" is efficiently told by first-time writer-director Kayvan Mashayekh and melds the contemporary world with the historic. The family-friendly epic weaves the touching...]]></description>
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