Christopher hitchens tim rutten biography

Timothy Calder Rutten (April 8, 1950 – September 8, 2022) was an American journalist, employed by the Los Angeles Times from 1971 to 2011.

Christopher hitchens tim rutten biography

He received in 1991 an award from the Los Angeles Press Club for editorial writing and in 2007 was honored by the Anti-Defamation League for advancing the ideals of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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• When the social and political history of Los Angeles in the late 20th century comes to be written, it’s likely that two men will stand out as fundamentally transformative leaders.

  One will be Tom Bradley, the five-term mayor who changed the city’s politics and realigned its economic course; the other will be Cardinal Roger Mahony, the Hollywood-born prelate who has led what is now America’s largest Roman Catholic diocese as archbishop for the last quarter-century, a post from which he will retire Sunday on his 75th birthday, as church law requires.

• One of American politics’ most comforting nostru