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  • Did The Oprah Winfrey Show make O.J. Simpson snap

    O.J. Simpson has recently revealed that he had been drinking for the whole day on Sept. 13, 2007, before he robbed two sports memorabilia dealers in a Las Vegas hotel. But sources close to the case think that it might be that watching "The Oprah Winfrey Show" that afternoon made Simpson impulsive, the New York Post reported. The family of Ronald Goldman, who was murdered along with Simpson's ...

  • 2 men arrested in killing of Las Vegas teen who refused to give up his iPad

    A lawyer for the Ontario Securities Commission said a permanent trading ban along with financial and career limiting sanctions handed to a former investment banker who admitted to illegal insider ...

  • Whats next for UNLV graduates You might be surprised

    Sunday, May 19, 2013 | 7:10 p.m. As bright sunny skies beamed down on them, hundreds of UNLV's graduates lingered near the entryway of the Thomas & Mack Center around noon Sunday. UNLV officials said there were nearly 3,000 undergraduate and professional students who were eligible to take part in the morning and afternoon ceremonies, including about 2,500 who were getting ...

  • Swift leads Miguel hurts fans at Billboard awards at MGM Grand

    Taylor Swift is red hot. The singer, who is nominated for 11 Billboard Music Awards, was the show's early leader with seven wins so far, including top Billboard 200 album and country album for "Red." She topped it off with a colorful performance of her hit "22" -- starting backstage and working her way to the main stage on the back of a bike with help from a dozen ...

  • UNLV Celebrates 50th Commencement Ceremony

    Three-thousand graduates walked the stage for the 50th UNLV commencement ceremonies. This is the day college students wait for. It's the end of late night study sessions and the beginning of their ...


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Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Ivan's Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo) [DVD]

Especially in Western culture, the term childhood comes laden with heavy associations--particularly innocence, comfort, and a strong sense of safety. As the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay described it, Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Thus, it is telling that director An ... ...

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  • Dr. Kimmel leaves them laughing at UNLV graduation

    Comedian and television personality Jimmy Kimmel, center, is handed an honorary doctorate from Regent Rick Trachock, right, with UNLV president Neal Smatresk, left, during the commencement ceremony for the graduating class of 2013 at the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on ...

  • Employers employees face different challenges

    We've been talking about high unemployment for a few years now, and we have different ideas of what that means. Although the unemployment rate has been as high as 12.4 percent between the start of the Great Recession in December, 2007 and the present, the actual number of people who have been continuously idle for all of those years is relatively small. For example, the Bureau of Labor ...

  • Las Vegas hospitals expand look to improve service

    Big dollars are being spent at hospitals throughout the Las Vegas Valley on large-scale expansions and improvements to the medical campuses. Will Wagnon is CEO of MountainView Hospital, 3100 N. Tenaya Way. He said a "fairly conservative approach" was used in planning the $85 million expansion underway there. The first phase of the expansion included a $70 million, three-story tower ...

  • Migraines can keep sufferers employers guessing

    They affect 12 percent of the U.S. population, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine, and many experts today say migraines are underdiagnosed. For those who suffer from them, the pain is intense and sometimes debilitating and can put added pressures on employment and the personal life. "It used to be a long time ago most headaches were not migraines. Now the pendulum has swung ...

  • Sports-related concussions tied to brain disease

    Dr. Charles Bernick, left, at the Cleveland Clinic's Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, works with former boxer Albert Yasbick. Bernick heads the Professional Fighters Brain Health Study. Yasbick suffers from Parkinson-like ...

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