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ICYMI: USC Ousts Med School Dean They Hired To Replace Former Disgraced Dean
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- As the L.A. Times was preparing to publish information on a sexual harassment lawsuit from 2003 against the new dean of USC's Keck School of Medicine (he was brought in to replace another dean who was accused of drug abuse), the school removed him from his post.
- Buzzfeed uncovered a trove of emails revealing former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos' connection to neo-Nazis, and Steve Bannon's desires to mold him into a public figure.
- L.A. Weekly has released its Best Of 2017 list.
- Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in literature, and here's Mike Francesca speaking on the author (spoiler: it's a poem).
- The Museum of Ice Cream and the rise of adult Disneylands.
- Is Pete Wells going to review Vespertine in Culver City? Eater does some speculating.
- And here's St. Vincent in New York (check her out at the Paramount Pictures backlot on Saturday night)
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