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    Wine Thread

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    Have you read any good books lately?

    I'm on a history kick, and am in the middle of "From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations since 1776." by George C. Herring. It is gripping. One thing it provides unique insight on is the origins of executive privilege. Recent examples with the previous administration are nothing compared...
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    WOW! USC has made a huge comeback in college rankings, beating University of Michigan, Could UCLA be next?

    My perspective as a USC engineering student who attended in the 80s and returned to finish in the late 90s: USC Engineering was always tough, but the GEs were a joke in the 80s. sometime in the mid 90s USC revamped the GE currciulum after Harvard's. Consequently GE's are brutal. Whe I...
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    Long Beach general thread

    What part of Long Beach had the trouble in 2007 with the racially charged hate crime allegations? BTW, I did a little digging and my Naples friend was murdered in 1993 while riding his bike home from his part time job at Gondola Getaways. The killer was re-tried and reconvicted in 2004 due to...
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    Long Beach general thread

    LB is neat but way too dangerous. A friend from USC from a prominent Naples family was murdered riding his bike home to his parents house in Naples ~2 am from the area near the Belmont Pier. This was ~20 years ago, so perhaps things have changed.
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