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3:16 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

'Shoah' Director Details Memoirs In 'Patagonian Hare'

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Claude Lanzmann published his memoir, Le Lièvre de Patagonie, in France in 2009. The Patagonian Hare has now been translated into English.
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Seventy years ago, in the middle of World War II, a couple of hundred miles north of Toulouse, Claude Lanzmann was a high school student — and an assimilated French Jew. Every day he faced the risk of arrest.

When Lanzmann was a teenager, both he and his father independently joined the Communist Resistance. He writes about that in his newly translated memoir, The Patagonian Hare.

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Opinion
3:06 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

Trayvon Martin: The Lingering Memories Of Dead Boys

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Attorney Benjamin Crump speaks to the medial, holding cellphone records and a police report. He represents the family of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, who was was killed by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla.
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Tayari Jones holds degrees from Spelman College, Arizona State University and the University of Iowa.
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Tayari Jones has written for McSweeney's, The New York Times and The Believer. Her most recent book is Silver Sparrow.

Like many Americans, I have been glued to the television eager for details about the tragic murder of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. I am not sure what I hoped to discover, as each new piece of evidence is more disturbing than the last.

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The Two-Way
2:59 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

Southern Miss Revokes Scholarships Of Band Members For 'Green Card' Chant

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The University of Southern Mississippi announced that it took disciplinary action against five of its pep band members today.

The five students were involved in one of the more controversial moments of the NCAA tournament, when they chanted "Where's your green card?" as Angel Rodriguez, a Latino player from Kansas State, took a free throw.

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It's All Politics
2:48 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

Robert DeNiro's Racial First-Lady Joke Was An Obama No-No

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Actor Robert De Niro with his wife, Grace Hightower, in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2011.
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Maybe Robert De Niro didn't know. Or maybe he forgot.

But when the superstar actor joked at a New York Obama campaign fundraiser Monday evening which Michelle Obama attended about the country not being ready for a white first lady, he got into dangerous territory for President Obama.

According to an Obama campaign pool report, De Niro deadpanned:

"Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?"

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Sports
2:48 pm
Tue March 20, 2012

The Rodeo Circuit: Bucking Bulls And Broken Bones

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Two bullfighters are tossed by the bull Jumpin Jack Flash during the 2006 Professional Bull Riders World Finals in Las Vegas.
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A cowboy gets tossed during the rodeo at the Calgary Stampede in 2011 in Alberta, Canada.
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Allan Moraes lies with ice packs on his hand and knee after injuring himself riding a bull.
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Jason Bennett lies in pain after being bucked off Jim Dippin during the Professional Bull Riders World Finals in 2006.
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Ross Coleman has his shoulder wrapped after his bull ride during the 2007 Versus Invitational Professional Bull Riding Tournament at Madison Square Garden.
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Steve Woolsey signals to the crowd after taking a hoof to the back of the head in the Bull Riding event during the 10th go-round of the National Finals Rodeo in 2010, in Las Vegas. Woolsey received a concussion and contusions.
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Bull rider Tony Mendes scrambles to the safety of the guarded stands to get away from the charging Squirrel Bait, who just threw him.
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Rodeo cowboy Corey Navarre wears two protective knee braces after his bull ride during the Versus Invitational Professional Bull Riding Tournament.
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Monster Mash chases a bullfighter during the 2011 PBR Australian Cup Series Final at Acer Arena in Sydney.
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Bull riders say a prayer during a meeting before the start of the first night of competition at the 2007 Ford Trucks Professional Bull Riders series at Madison Square Garden.
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Brian Herman is thrown off the bull Bad Medicine during championship day of the 2009 Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Invitational at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Brian Herman is thrown off the bull Bad Medicine during championship day of the 2009 Professional Bull Riders Built Ford Tough Invitational at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Originally published on Wed May 23, 2012 8:56 am

It's spring, and that means rodeo season is ramping up, especially in the American West. Some professional cowboys will soon be competing almost every night in bull riding, calf roping or steer wrestling.

But along with the trophy buckles and cash prizes, cowboys also bring home injuries — some of them severe. Some rodeo events are more dangerous, and less lucrative, than football and other contact sports.

An Unsteady Paycheck

The 2012 Houston Rodeo begins with a prayer and the national anthem, followed by the first event: calf roping.

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