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38291b94ac48f64b073706b199fd55be | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-03-fi-ct-miramax3-story.html | Disney to make drastic cuts at Miramax Films | Disney to make drastic cuts at Miramax Films
Walt Disney Co., looking to rein in costs at its Hollywood studio as it focuses on mainstream movies, is slashing staff by 70% at its Miramax Films specialty label and is substantially reducing the number of pictures it releases.
The retrenchment, which has been foreshadowed... |
0b26678e691986f932c2781b9bf31ff3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-03-fi-hotels3-story.html | Room for rich perks | Room for rich perks
Hoping to keep its 119 rooms filled, Hotel Erwin on Venice Beach is offering an unusual promotion for its countercultural clientele: an Ink and Stay package that includes $100 toward a tattoo and a bottle of tequila to numb the pain.
Down the coast at the Hard Rock Hotel in San Diego, guests who get... |
9403291e531ccb2be55616c8cbf4c0e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-oct-03-fi-jobs3-story.html | Unemployment rate rises to 9.8% as employers cut more jobs than expected | Unemployment rate rises to 9.8% as employers cut more jobs than expected
The nation’s unemployment rate edged closer to double digits in September but only began to reflect the miserable reality confronting America’s workforce.
The government reported Friday that the jobless rate rose to a 26-year high of 9.8%, up from... |
95c3462a7176a8fc0a4dabe12e8f3288 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-21-oe-nguyen21-story.html | Humble trucks, great food | Humble trucks, great food
All my best L.A. memories are about girls or taco trucks. There’s something shockingly vivid about having great tacos out of a truck -- standing outside, wind in your hair, chowing down with all the homies, hipsters, off-duty cops, nurses, professors and homeless dudes. People are pretty cheer... |
cf2d8632b28f01cfd590dc13d82adbf7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-22-et-goldstein22-story.html | HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN | HOW THE MIGHTY HAVE FALLEN
Ithought Francis Ford Coppola was being cranky last fall when he badmouthed Al Pacino and Robert De Niro -- the stars of Coppola’s immortal “Godfather” films -- for taking parts for the money and losing their passion for doing great work. “I met both Pacino and De Niro when they were really o... |
42bc854b2cf90d4ebfe5f00a186cedfd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-22-fg-iraq22-story.html | Female bomber kills 4 in Iraq | Female bomber kills 4 in Iraq
A female suicide bomber in northern Iraq killed three Sunni pro-American fighters and a civilian Monday, and fighting in east Baghdad left at least nine suspected Shiite fighters dead.
The bomber set off her explosives in Baqubah outside the offices of the Sons of Iraq, Sunni Muslim parami... |
191cf7902f6198d784d0b64fe890793b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-22-fg-syriafm22-story.html | Syrians tune in the West | Syrians tune in the West
It’s the midmorning commute, and time for the horoscope on “Good Morning Syria,” the nation’s hottest radio show.
“Cancer,” host Honey Sayed addresses listeners first in Arabic, then in English, with an air of sisterly candor, “don’t get all worked up for nothing.”
On the other side of the wind... |
ea62a36f94417fdfdaeb544d9f88a04a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-22-fi-disney22-story.html | Disney gets back to nature | Disney gets back to nature
Walt Disney Co., the latest entertainment company to hop on corporate America’s green bandwagon, is launching a new film production unit called Disneynature to make feature-length documentaries about animals and the environment.
The endeavor, inspired by the success of the 2005 Oscar-winning ... |
4a7923f46a25c248898eac25d12cd1d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-22-sp-nudodgers22-story.html | Dodgers’ shuffled lineup is a big hit | Dodgers’ shuffled lineup is a big hit
CINCINNATI -- The signs of desperation were everywhere, from the order of the names on the lineup card to the picture of a garden gnome posted on the back of one of the dugout benches. Russell Martin took early batting practice, and Manager Joe Torre told his team behind closed doo... |
adb928170e9f7a5caf683b3c17f4bfb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-23-et-abrams23-story.html | Call it elevated erotica | Call it elevated erotica
It’s hard not to judge Melanie Abrams’ recently published debut novel by its cover.
Against a background of sensually rumpled burgundy satin sheets is a head of sensually rumpled blond curls, looking downward, eyes in shadow, betraying no expression. Two pale arms stretch upward, spotlighted so... |
f54e7635f442f4ff645b32ec810b2e97 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-23-fi-stealth23-story.html | Stealth fighters fly off the radar | Stealth fighters fly off the radar
Not everyone missed out on Tuesday’s top-secret passing of one of the world’s most mysterious aircraft.
Gareth Goetz, an Anaheim mortgage broker, was one of 100 cheering aviation buffs who gathered in Palmdale at a makeshift viewing spot just outside the gates of Lockheed Martin Corp.... |
d2c8d4a65cd610c5650fdab806cae38c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-23-na-spy23-story.html | U.S. man called a spy for Israelis | U.S. man called a spy for Israelis
Federal authorities arrested an 84-year-old former Army engineer Tuesday on charges of passing American military secrets to an Israeli agent in the 1980s, accusations that suggest that one of the most famous spy cases in U.S. history may have been more widespread than previously known... |
bbb1ab95da37d70a0f86d5802646432a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-24-fg-un24-story.html | Walkout at U.N. over Gaza remark | Walkout at U.N. over Gaza remark
The United States, France and Britain walked out of a Security Council debate on the Middle East on Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in the Gaza Strip to that of Nazi “concentration camps,” diplomats said.
French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert plucked off his translation ear... |
56abc6c6b0fb540f9582c60f4b52d5fb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-24-fi-rice24-story.html | Global run on rice hits stores in U.S. | Global run on rice hits stores in U.S.
The global run on food that has led to shortages and riots in Egypt, Haiti and other nations has made its way to U.S. shores.
Concerned about rising prices and limited supplies of staples such as rice and flour, customers across the country have been cleaning out the shelves at bi... |
2ea9a7511acf83e7cb1dc2c424a0cce2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-24-me-page24-story.html | Actress played newlywed refugee in ‘Casablanca’ | Actress played newlywed refugee in ‘Casablanca’
Joy Page, the stepdaughter of Warner Bros. studio chief Jack L. Warner who earned her place in film history playing the dark-haired young Bulgarian newlywed in “Casablanca,” has died. She was 83.
Page died of complications from a stroke and pneumonia Friday at Cedars-Sina... |
16ef6931ea1fa4950566e90c25735803 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-24-na-abstinence24-story.html | U.S. funding of abstinence-only programs debated | U.S. funding of abstinence-only programs debated
Continued federal funding of abstinence-only sex education in public schools was debated before a House committee Wednesday amid questions about whether the government should sponsor a program that many experts say doesn’t work.
Most of the 11 witnesses who appeared befo... |
5f319238b636ec822bc497a467043008 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-24-na-ayers24-story.html | Ex-radical Ayers speaks out -- briefly | Ex-radical Ayers speaks out -- briefly
William Ayers, a former radical leader turned academic and school reformer, has never been hesitant to speak his mind.
Although there has been no public response from him since his ties to Barack Obama -- the two neighbors served on a charity board together for three years -- were... |
68cace273a82c3b4042d8170f7f66895 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-et-hawthorne25-story.html | If they revamp it, will Dodger fans stay longer? | If they revamp it, will Dodger fans stay longer?
Since buying the Dodgers in 2004, Frank McCourt has faced a tricky balancing act in dealing with the team’s stadium, the fourth-oldest in the major leagues.
Most big-league owners are architectural amnesiacs, and for good reason. As their ballparks hit middle age, they m... |
de5ae60b6eef53266705693c58db62f8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-et-jellyfish25-story.html | An indescribably delicious film | An indescribably delicious film
Seductive AND intoxicating, playfully surreal and inexplicably moving, “Jellyfish” is almost impossible to pin down or even categorize. Artistic, daring, surprising, it resists fitting into words at all.
That’s ironic because its Israeli co-directors, Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen (who jo... |
aada0ff3d14f271d898e09ac553805ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-et-julie25-story.html | Andrews unearths her ‘deeper level’ | Andrews unearths her ‘deeper level’
The so-called Age of the Memoir has brought with it a wide variety of suspect motives for committing one’s experiences to paper -- the desire for easy notoriety or family revenge, or the chance to pull off some unethical fabulism -- but in Julie Andrews’ case, the goal was a little d... |
16c06eb0732910464443adc002de6325 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-fg-iraq25-story.html | Sunni bloc to return to Iraqi Cabinet | Sunni bloc to return to Iraqi Cabinet
Iraq’s main Sunni Arab political bloc announced Thursday that it was ready to rejoin the Cabinet, a step that could boost reconciliation efforts and help shore up Prime Minister Nouri Maliki’s government.
The departure of the Iraqi Accordance Front in August left Maliki with a unit... |
88c6ef13b526c9a4942f39d3f3e300d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-na-mccain25-story.html | McCain says: Never again | McCain says: Never again
After visiting some of the crumbling, hurricane-damaged homes in this city’s Lower 9th Ward, Sen. John McCain condemned the Bush administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina Thursday as a failure in leadership that went all the way to the top.
“Never again will a disaster of this nature be ha... |
9f7e04c41cd3edd4b73d85f725b7f93b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-25-sp-stadium25-story.html | Stadium makeover is unveiled | Stadium makeover is unveiled
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt unveiled plans Thursday for a historic makeover of the 275-acre Dodger Stadium site in Chavez Ravine, describing new features designed to transform the ballpark by 2012 into a year-round destination for dining, shopping and recreation that will be fan- and enviro... |
2533ff956e850ebb05c1e6bba4a8180a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-et-culture26-story.html | A beautiful new heart for East L.A. | A beautiful new heart for East L.A.
People often refer to the heart of East Los Angeles, but it never seems to be in the same place. In newspapers, the term turns up all over the map. That’s because the area is more identified by its busy arteries -- Whittier, Atlantic or Cesar Chavez -- than by any essential center.
F... |
1b05e89340f6dd81f75a59b13a9471ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-banks26-story.html | Marijuana in the medicine chest | Marijuana in the medicine chest
The advertising flier left no doubt about its pitch: a giant marijuana leaf with a phone number that ended GOT KUSH. A friend’s teenage daughter brought it home from last weekend’s Earth Day celebration on the Santa Monica Pier.
What else would I expect from a concert held on 4/20 -- a s... |
759114a8c0e8c98465314ae4b1be70c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-chinese26-story.html | Protest reflects a shift in Chinese Americans’ views | Protest reflects a shift in Chinese Americans’ views
It was far from the biggest protest in Los Angeles. But when more than 1,000 demonstrators including students, business people and engineers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia rallied in front of CNN’s Hollywood headquarters a week ago, it mark... |
9c58986f943bc883f30fe76a1b17c2ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-dna26-story.html | State offers police extra DNA tool | State offers police extra DNA tool
California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a controversial crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try to identify elusive criminals through their relatives, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown announced Friday.
Employing what is known as familial or “partial match... |
2c59eba666009c77f9c5db423c719ee0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-governor26-story.html | Governor disagrees with Proposition 98 | Governor disagrees with Proposition 98
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his opposition to Proposition 98 on Friday, saying the June 3 ballot measure threatened to undermine public works projects by restricting the government’s ability to exercise eminent domain.
In addition to phasing out rent control, Proposition ... |
885a7b63b767d0724f81376fc619f444 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-survey26-story.html | In poorest schools, fear, despair rule | In poorest schools, fear, despair rule
A survey of 6,008 South Los Angeles high school students shows that many are frightened by violence in school, deeply dissatisfied with their choices of college preparatory classes, and -- perhaps most striking -- exhibit symptoms of clinical depression.
“A lot of students are dep... |
ad06769d353fff8958cdf9cec85a342d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-me-ziegfeld26-story.html | Broadway impresario’s daughter | Broadway impresario’s daughter
Patricia Ziegfeld Stephenson, the daughter of legendary Broadway impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, died of congestive heart failure April 11 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 91.
Stephenson was born Oct. 23, 1916, in New York City, where her father was famous for mounting the musical stage s... |
5a1e942c8db66ba98a59f9034298bb58 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-na-campaign26-story.html | Obama unleashes his inner Hoosier | Obama unleashes his inner Hoosier
When Sen. Barack Obama laced up his basketball shoes Friday evening for a three-on-three game with some players half his age, he was doing something that could prove important should he become the Democratic nominee: looking young and healthy.
In a rare move by his presidential campaig... |
4c1c318f1bc05110d70e186285da858c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-26-oe-rutten26-story.html | Diamond lanes for the rich | Diamond lanes for the rich
The late Michael Harrington, who examined the roots of American inequality more closely than anyone before or since, loved nothing better than to end the day with a few beers and a good argument. On one such occasion, he raised his glass, looked at the reporter across the table and said, “The... |
6571b6155f26c14058c1495c8cd24b66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-27-bk-ehrenreich27-story.html | The old, weird America | The old, weird America
IF you believe Gregory Gibson, which for the moment I’m happy to do, it all began with freak shows. American pop culture that is, from highbrow to low. I’m oversimplifying wildly of course, and so is Gibson, but for argument’s sake, let’s start with the “dime museums” of the 19th century -- palac... |
295af18489f832e21e74bcbe015e1441 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-27-fg-chastity27-story.html | Chastity belts expose a shift in Indonesia | Chastity belts expose a shift in Indonesia
Chastity belts, which went out of fashion with knights in shining armor and damsels in distress, are making a comeback in the massage parlors of East Java.
In a bid to prevent any hanky-panky between masseuses and their clients, several massage parlors in the hill resort town ... |
2f3cd33e83fbb2dc879fd650bcaebbb4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-27-me-mayday27-story.html | LAPD braces for May Day protest | LAPD braces for May Day protest
On a warm morning earlier this month, about 600 Los Angeles police officers gathered in the empty parking lot at Dodger Stadium for some high-stakes role playing.
Most pretended to be protesters -- standing in for the ones expected to converge on downtown Los Angeles on Thursday as part ... |
9dbb0d0dc8fb344c37b193c80511e90d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-27-op-laclair-story.html | Give me the lesson without the spin | Give me the lesson without the spin
Throughout my life, my teachers have told me that school is a neutral environment where my classmates and I can count on teachers and textbooks to provide us with the factual and unbiased information that will equip us for life. Lately, though, I’ve begun to wonder whether they reall... |
8e521ba56f750da058a4897e772d869c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-27-op-wilson27-story.html | Quit twisting my words | Quit twisting my words
Of course some textbooks are politically biased. It is not hard to understand why. Opinion surveys and studies of campaign contributions show that the great majority of academic social scientists are liberals, so no one should be astonished to learn that some liberals write left-leaning textbooks... |
88fe7e601320f2768881afece37b5d27 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-28-et-sheandhim28-story.html | Deschanel lands a new part | Deschanel lands a new part
Neither member of She & Him has a tremendous amount of time to dedicate to the band: Zooey Deschanel, the singer, is an actress with upcoming roles in M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Happening” and the Jim Carrey vehicle “Yes Man,” while M. Ward, the guitarist and producer, makes records under his ... |
41d9b8468745e83c14f694ac90553294 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-28-fg-intel28-story.html | Questions on N. Korea data | Questions on N. Korea data
A senior Republican congressman assailed the Bush administration Sunday for the timing and nature of its charges that North Korea helped Syria build a secret nuclear weapons facility.
Administration officials went before the Senate and House intelligence panels last week carrying satellite im... |
9dbd00e1ed5bed7f92c44ad9402f4342 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-28-fg-iraq28-story.html | Projectiles miss Green Zone in Baghdad; 2 dead | Projectiles miss Green Zone in Baghdad; 2 dead
A barrage of rocket or mortar fire was aimed at the fortified Green Zone on Sunday as this Iraqi capital was enveloped in a thick sandstorm.
At least two Iraqis were killed and 25 wounded by projectiles that apparently missed their targets and landed in surrounding neighbo... |
438db71c958edf5b60ef38c2802a668d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-28-fi-workers28-story.html | Strike still felt by TV workers | Strike still felt by TV workers
The writers strike ended two months ago. But many in Hollywood remain on the brink.
Some are at risk of losing their homes. Some can’t afford groceries. Others have filed for bankruptcy. Still others struggle to work enough hours to hold on to their health insurance.
Across Los Angeles, ... |
dc72a2d31a54d1b17a5fe3945b84546e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-29-et-goldstein29-story.html | Young thumbs | Young thumbs
YOU KNOW your movie trailer is playing a tough crowd when about 10 seconds into the trailer for “Love Guru,” as Jessica Alba first appears on screen, someone shouts out: “Love interest!” After the trailer is over, Gabriel Gutierrez, 15, grumbles about the film’s stars: “Jessica Alba and Mike Myers -- she c... |
5c368f66caac7f578565f6509439917d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-30-et-summer30-story.html | ‘Indiana’ will get us out of this | ‘Indiana’ will get us out of this
It costs more than $50 to fill the gas tank, home values are plummeting, good jobs are hard to come by, and the dollar’s so weak that even a Canadian vacation seems beyond reach.
All together, it has the makings for a wonderful summer in Hollywood.
It’s not that the film business wishe... |
6e2cc572df819cbedd8faae924fdb41f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-30-me-battin30-story.html | O.C. supervisor was a Democratic maverick | O.C. supervisor was a Democratic maverick
Robert W. Battin, a maverick Democratic county supervisor during a rough-and-tumble era of Orange County politics in the 1960s and ‘70s, died Tuesday. He was 78.
The cause of death was a heart attack while recovering from a stroke, said his friend and onetime fiance, Rachel Per... |
5e546791c26be4c0cf9c202106809132 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-30-me-hofmann30-story.html | Swiss chemist discovered LSD | Swiss chemist discovered LSD
Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD and thereby gave the psychedelic generation the pharmaceutical vehicle to turn on, tune in and drop out, has died. He was 102.
Hofmann died Tuesday morning at his home in Basel, Switzerland, of a heart attack, according to Rick Doblin, th... |
cca8ff06fb4e899c4fd3e876cd9dfa17 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-apr-30-sp-crowe30-story.html | Text messages from press row ... | Text messages from press row ...
Are Kobe Bryant and the Lakers that good, or were Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets that inattentive and uninspired? . . .
The Nuggets weren’t the first 50-win team to be swept in a best-of-seven first-round playoff series -- they weren’t even the first swept out by the Lakers, tha... |
fb59200ef927ac29c16d847590cd5906 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-01-et-busby1-story.html | Busby Berkeley’s dance numbers are still eye-popping | Busby Berkeley’s dance numbers are still eye-popping
“I always named ‘em the Berkeley Girls, and no one picked any girls but me. I picked ‘em all. Always.” Busby Berkeley’s voice rumbled like a semi-active volcano. “Once a producer came up to me and said, ‘Buz, that one on the end looks cute,’ and I said, ‘Oh, sit down... |
2d887bd5b5c131dd7c604ad75317a4b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-01-na-anthrax1-story.html | Apparent suicide in anthrax case | Apparent suicide in anthrax case
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Bruce E. Ivins, 62... |
617c3f07fb8578583ef9eae518ee6a6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-01-na-campaign1-story.html | ‘Race card’ issue lands face-up in the spotlight | ‘Race card’ issue lands face-up in the spotlight
The race issue, long a subtext of this historic presidential contest, flared into the open Thursday when John McCain and his campaign chief accused Barack Obama of playing “the race card” to seek political advantage.
Angry Democrats said McCain was cynically fanning fear... |
154b56590a33823979af0008df1ab77e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-01-sci-phoenix1-story.html | It’s true: There is water on Mars | It’s true: There is water on Mars
After weeks of testing the soil in the Martian arctic, NASA’s Phoenix lander has for the first time confirmed through chemical analysis the presence of water on another planet, scientists said Thursday.
Several weeks ago, Phoenix uncovered convincing visual evidence that it had landed ... |
08e3bbaad01a9f0ed5b1ea6dc46196ec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-02-na-anthrax2-story.html | Suspect stood to gain from anthrax panic | Suspect stood to gain from anthrax panic
Bruce E. Ivins, the government biodefense scientist linked to the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, stood to gain financially from massive federal spending in the fear-filled aftermath of those killings, the Los Angeles Times has learned.
Ivins is listed as a co-inventor on two p... |
da9d4958a881a82ee3f91d81836ba2d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-03-ca-francesca3-story.html | She just has to laugh | She just has to laugh
SHE IS the unknown Hilton. The un-Paris, if you will. For Francesca Hilton, there are no red carpet poses performed before shouting paparazzi, no boutique line of Francesca fragrances, no nervous Chihuahua tucked in her arms.
That the 61-year-old didn’t wind up as irretrievably scarred emotionally... |
5aa5e533c6e7ed74fdb967dc383e44e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-04-na-onthemedia4-story.html | His crime? Acting too presidential | His crime? Acting too presidential
America, meet Barack The Arrogant.
Did you hear, this guy’s already talking about redecorating the Lincoln Bedroom? Or that a few weeks back, he stood behind a podium bearing a faux presidential seal? The young upstart from Illinois has even got his minions planning a White House tran... |
74d92ca9a8d9ce615a76be4924b80cae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-04-oe-silver4-story.html | Why McCain is still in it | Why McCain is still in it
Barack Obama seems to enjoy some enormous advantages over John McCain in their pursuit of the White House. Polls show that more than eight out of 10 Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. The Republican brand is in tatters because of the Iraq war and the economic slowdow... |
d96fb6569d414327cc22853ad0b121cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-fg-siddiqui5-story.html | Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent held | Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent held
One of the more elusive and mysterious figures linked to Al Qaeda -- a Pakistani mother of three who studied biology at MIT and who authorities say spent years in the United States as a sleeper agent -- was flown to New York on Monday night to face charges of attempting to kill U.S. ... |
a4392bd1d1c66f7b0f54d1c098f8a4d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-fi-gas5-story.html | Gas prices decline for 7th week | Gas prices decline for 7th week
Gasoline prices are still tumbling, the government reported Monday, while a steep drop in crude oil prices in New York futures trading could indicate that more relief for consumers is on the way.
The U.S. average price for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline slid 7.5 cents to $3.88, ... |
5740508b730845d4d806371867cfa996 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-me-hotground5-story.html | Smoke, but no flames in Los Padres | Smoke, but no flames in Los Padres
A patch of land in Ventura County’s section of Los Padres National Forest where the ground recently heated up to 812 degrees continues to puzzle firefighters and geologists after weeks of monitoring.
“It’s a thermal anomaly,” said Ron Oatman, spokesman for the Ventura County Fire Depa... |
f6b223c2b2b9501e991896cc61932660 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-na-campaign5-story.html | Obama calls for tapping into strategic oil reserves | Obama calls for tapping into strategic oil reserves
With the politics of energy shifting as rapidly as gasoline prices, Democrats, led by presidential candidate Barack Obama, are retreating from long-held positions and scrambling to offer distressed voters more immediate relief from spiraling costs.
The change has been... |
507e1a240e99ff38b784bba6608feee4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-na-mccain5-story.html | Bare skin, black leather, hogs’ roar greet McCain | Bare skin, black leather, hogs’ roar greet McCain
One woman wore little but a deep tan. Tattoos reigned, as did black leather. The emcee praised America for its “beautiful roads, beautiful bikes and ice-cold beer.”
Motorcycle engines revved in deafening approval when a rock guitarist played the national anthem at earsp... |
c5526fdc7ef38fe783aa3cabae5fab65 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-05-sp-campanis5-story.html | For Campanis, a night that lived in infamy | For Campanis, a night that lived in infamy
April 6, 1987.
Nothing could have prepared me for what happened that spring night.
I had just finished my first week as guest producer on ABC’s “Nightline.” And I got a quick introduction into the power of live television. Just a few words and neither the baseball world nor on... |
56c9121c74dac9617e5bc4057dc70fab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-06-fi-lazarus6-story.html | A stone wall made of potato chips | A stone wall made of potato chips
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown announced last week that he’d settled lawsuits against leading makers of potato chips and French fries over levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their products.
At first blush, this looked like a laudable example of the public and private sectors wor... |
1f017bab54f521073ec2ec2209a8ff1b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-06-me-reality6-story.html | Reality show and real life collide | Reality show and real life collide
Hollywood is learning that reality bites.
Residents of a quiet neighborhood between Sunset and Hollywood boulevards are in an uproar over the ongoing filming of a popular television reality show that they say has turned their lives upside down.
“The Hills” producers and city officials... |
7c65bfe4a892f7598efea0ab4e6478b4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-06-na-tents6-story.html | No longer an isle unto themselves | No longer an isle unto themselves
Karisa Vaughn, a college student who hasn’t had a permanent home in months, hoisted a tattered wooden pallet over her shoulder Tuesday while several other homeless men and women lifted heavy cinder blocks, pounded fence posts and hauled in their personal belongings in garbage bags.
The... |
1649ec349afbfac6d347792f53ca4871 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-07-fg-snoop7-story.html | Many eyes will watch visitors | Many eyes will watch visitors
The blocking of human rights websites in China leading up to the Olympics is part of an information control and surveillance network awaiting visitors that will include monitoring devices in hotels and taxis and snoops almost everywhere.
Government agents or their proxies are suspected of ... |
c324060f98c3a3b9eb4c6270bbe24b8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-07-me-arnold7-story.html | Gov. says he won’t sign bills | Gov. says he won’t sign bills
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Wednesday that he would not sign any bills lawmakers send him until they pass a budget and would veto measures already on his desk before they can become law.
“There is no excuse for the Legislature’s failure to reach a compromise and to send me a budge... |
25a7a6384591cdec34c90f4867e0bd0d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-07-na-ivins7-story.html | Delving into the suspect’s state of mind | Delving into the suspect’s state of mind
Bruce E. Ivins, the bioweapons scientist who apparently killed himself as the government was preparing to indict him in the 2001 anthrax attacks, had a long history of mental illness that flared just before mail contaminated with the fatal spores was received in New York, Florid... |
3967e953a757ae54357e09e04e8a53cb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-08-ed-marriage8-story.html | Reneging on a right | Reneging on a right
It’s the same sentence as in 2000: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” Yet the issue that will be put before voters Nov. 4 is radically different. This time, the wording would be used to rescind an existing constitutional right to marry. We fervently hope ... |
4e51f663cf3e1fcc476a2800e817087a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-08-et-hunter8-story.html | Hot on the trail of ‘Hunter’ | Hot on the trail of ‘Hunter’
There have been many myths and rumors that have sprung up around the making of Charles Laughton’s haunting 1955 film, “The Night of the Hunter,” especially that he hated directing children and let star Robert Mitchum take over the reins when it came time to lead youngsters Billy Chapin and ... |
77dd75347a234fe04480d519f036e807 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-08-na-anthrax8-story.html | Inquiry sought into anthrax probe | Inquiry sought into anthrax probe
After seven long years, the FBI and the Justice Department say they are closing the books on the anthrax investigation.
But the investigation into the investigation is only beginning, and it will focus on what Congress members described Thursday as apparent missteps by authorities that... |
8c40e16d8eb6bc4ee545b4904ea17422 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-09-me-homeschool9-story.html | Court reverses home-school ruling | Court reverses home-school ruling
Parents may legally home-school their children in California even if they lack a teaching credential, a state appellate court ruled Friday. The decision is a reversal of the court’s earlier position, which effectively prohibited most home schooling and sparked fear throughout the state... |
d6cc0fa5bfb953024d28f1f20f532fd4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-09-na-anthrax9-story.html | Biodefense labs under microscope | Biodefense labs under microscope
Calling it “a most urgent public health and national security issue,” two ranking lawmakers said Friday that they were expanding their congressional investigation into the risks associated with the nation’s biodefense labs to focus on how someone as mentally unstable as accused anthrax ... |
9ae9f3b2db9ceec60db6f7c8316735cb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-10-ca-statue10-story.html | A skull session over a statue | A skull session over a statue
ON A recent sunny Saturday, while most Southern Californians were deployed somewhere enjoying a weekend hiatus, 20 art historians, conservators and museum officials shifted in their chairs around a long, U-shaped table in an air-conditioned conference room at the Getty Villa in Malibu, the... |
7c06e6993cd8688d07f1b448108155cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-10-fg-psychology10-story.html | China’s drive for gold weighs on its athletes | China’s drive for gold weighs on its athletes
Air rifle athlete Du Li was considered a shoo-in to win China’s first gold medal in the Beijing Olympics on Saturday. Buckling under the pressure of 1.3 billion expectant Chinese, she choked.
The mostly Chinese crowd gasped after Du failed to get near the bull’s-eye in the ... |
dacff498207c660a26cb1432a4420180 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-10-me-belmont10-story.html | New name, new life for Belmont school | New name, new life for Belmont school
Veteran school administrator Scott Braxton could not help but wonder about his new assignment, principal of the school formerly known as the Belmont Learning Complex.
Was this most infamous of schools safe?
“That was the first question I had when I came in for the job interview,” s... |
8810d5f52d05778e1f1374007837807a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-10-me-mac10-story.html | Comedian starred in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ trilogy, Fox sitcom | Comedian starred in ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ trilogy, Fox sitcom
Bernie Mac, an actor and comedian who starred in the “Ocean’s Eleven” film franchise and “The Bernie Mac Show,” a rare network comedy to feature an African American in a leading role, died Saturday. He was 50.
Mac died from complications related to pneumonia in a... |
f7bfe5cc1944b7238d3377e7693c4fb2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-11-fi-nightline11-story.html | ‘Nightline’ at risk if ABC gets Leno | ‘Nightline’ at risk if ABC gets Leno
This should be a new dawn for “Nightline.” Instead, it could be good night.
After years of lagging behind dueling late-night talk shows, the ABC news program is winning attention with a series of high-profile scoops and closing the viewer gap against “Late Show With David Letterman.... |
33e81fb6c47bdf2bd3c91c0c54c5a09d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-11-fi-vetbiz11-story.html | UCLA drills disabled vets on business | UCLA drills disabled vets on business
Former Marine Sgt. Shawn James has found moving from the military world to the business world a difficult journey.
Add a disability, and potential partners shy away in droves, said the 33-year-old San Diego resident, who dreams of starting a company involving hybrid vehicles.
“Ther... |
2bd8be3a12b096745cca1dc2ff0f1f89 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-11-me-hayes11-story.html | ‘Black Moses’ led pop to new ground | ‘Black Moses’ led pop to new ground
Isaac Hayes, the musician, composer and producer whose innovative sound changed the shape of pop music and whose shaved head, bejeweled outfits and regal demeanor embodied African American masculinity in the 1970s, has died. He was 65.
Family members found Hayes unresponsive Sunday a... |
4e981717871d6593e090468c20e93ee6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-11-sp-olyswim11-story.html | Touch and go | Touch and go
BEIJING -- Cullen Jones went airborne. Michael Phelps let out a roar that probably could have been heard back in Baltimore. And Garrett Weber-Gale looked as if he might crush Phelps with a hug on the pool deck.
It was all about one man in the water, who unleashed the swim of a lifetime. Jason Lezak of Irvi... |
f125c1ae4e612ea49dff27f89cb34f6a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-12-fg-ossetia12-story.html | Russia widens Georgia assault | Russia widens Georgia assault
Russian soldiers plunged into western Georgia on Monday to open a second front in the two countries’ 4-day-old war, provoking fresh worries about the Kremlin’s ultimate goal in the conflict.
In Washington, President Bush said it appeared Russia was planning to overthrow the government of G... |
b314333b2eb3e3aaa47c71fb97f19dc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-12-na-exurbs12-story.html | Airing new views in America’s cul-de-sacs | Airing new views in America’s cul-de-sacs
Cheap mortgages and cheap gas built this sprawling landscape of tan and gray stucco homes, iron gates and golf course communities. And the people who flocked here over the last decade -- upwardly mobile young families in pursuit of lower taxes and wholesome neighborhoods -- eme... |
0d379154f6e7ec04129497f5b538de65 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-13-et-book13-story.html | It’s spicy and bitter but never quite filling | It’s spicy and bitter but never quite filling
“Food AND the human condition are inextricably linked,” observes the Waiter in “Waiter Rant.” “Because of this, waiters often get to see the unpleasant sides of people.”
“The Waiter” is the formerly anonymous author of the popular blog Waiter Rant who has been dishing up tr... |
9eb54480a1bc1bc8cb8eb1e013b68778 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-13-fg-contractors13-story.html | Iraq contractor costs scrutinized | Iraq contractor costs scrutinized
Military contracts in Iraq cost taxpayers at least $85 billion since the 2003 invasion through last year, and the amount is estimated to hit $100 billion by the end of 2008, the Congressional Budget Office reported Tuesday.
About 20% of funding for operations in Iraq has gone to contra... |
65fa8317242176771c7387769ad97332 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-13-me-warren13-story.html | Megastar pastor straddles a divide | Megastar pastor straddles a divide
When John McCain and Barack Obama appear on the same stage Saturday at the sprawling religious campus of Orange County’s Saddleback Church, their presence will vividly underline the reach that has made Pastor Rick Warren among the most significant evangelists of his generation.
But th... |
9ced7eb151bab4eb1bb10cd1c2d0bb2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-13-oe-rutten13-story.html | Transit held hostage | Transit held hostage
If you’ve been having a hard time following the murky political melodramas over the proposed half-cent county sales tax increase to fund more public transportation, you shouldn’t blame yourself. You’ve probably been making the naive citizen’s basic mistake of considering the question on its merits.... |
3e21046cf37a5bebd3c515ada19e1304 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-13-sp-tiger13-story.html | Woods is not even close to getting back on course | Woods is not even close to getting back on course
Tiger Woods says he isn’t going to be physically able to swing a club until 2009.
Woods, who underwent reconstructive left knee surgery after winning the U.S. Open in June, wrote on his website that he has begun riding a stationary bicycle to start his rehabilitation, b... |
07bfa3700445b5b145242bdc4c6d976d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-14-et-book14-story.html | She weaves a tangled web | She weaves a tangled web
Aharsh prairie wind scours the pages of Erin McGraw’s beautifully written second novel, “The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard.” Even after Nell Plat uproots herself from Mercer County, Kan., and follows her dreams to California, gusts of memory buffet her new life as a shopgirl and aspiring co... |
789846eb23c5208c718df846d89042aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-14-fi-wagner14-story.html | Wagner resigns as chief of UA | Wagner resigns as chief of UA
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.'s much-ballyhooed plan to revive the moribund United Artists studio was derailed Wednesday when the movie label’s chief executive, Paula Wagner, stepped down after less than two years on the job.
Wagner’s departure marks an end to her longtime business partnership ... |
22f1e180cab51efded71d4c4adaf280c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-et-etan15-story.html | The joke is on you | The joke is on you
When Etan Cohen was working on the character of Kirk Lazarus, an actor played by Robert Downey Jr. in the upcoming comedy “Tropic Thunder,” he asked himself: What is the most offensive thing an actor can do to get a part?
The answer was to have Lazarus, an Australian Method actor, try to become an Af... |
73978bcc6f978887dd3530015b8c66ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-et-path15-story.html | 9/11 film doc says Clintons directed from left wing | 9/11 film doc says Clintons directed from left wing
In Hollywood docudramas, when the phrase “miscarriage of justice” is employed, it usually applies to the film’s subject, not its creators.
But a new documentary called “Blocking the Path to 9/11,” to be given a screening tonight, makes the case that former President B... |
722c4fb76fa0bb9d1a4a47020c265490 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-me-badrap15-story.html | Rescuing pit bulls and their image | Rescuing pit bulls and their image
For Tim Racer and Donna Reynolds, the dog rescues started with an open-door policy.
Cruising around Chicago on winter nights, they pulled up beside bedraggled strays and swung open the car door. If the animal didn’t skitter away, if it wasn’t too beaten down to contemplate jumping ins... |
8a47a4d3cd47f2be90bb9f07782f16dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-na-anthrax15-story.html | Many early clues to anthrax suspect | Many early clues to anthrax suspect
As federal authorities pursued the wrong suspect in the deadly anthrax mailings of 2001, they ignored or overlooked a series of early clues that pointed to Army scientist Bruce E. Ivins, a review of investigative records by the Los Angeles Times shows.
Law enforcement documents unsea... |
a8cb8ba73a9a0873469a9afb17d3257a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-na-archives15-story.html | Spy service files are secret no more | Spy service files are secret no more
Before she became a famously untidy television chef, Julia Child had a secret career as an American spy, winning praise for her attention to detail as she managed the flow of classified communications from remote posts in Ceylon and China during World War II.
Long before he appeared... |
bbcaee6549d4ea72aee1dd04fdf78f32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-15-oe-stein15-story.html | Forget the ‘Decider’; he’s the ‘Motivator’ | Forget the ‘Decider’; he’s the ‘Motivator’
There are many things George W. Bush should do after his presidency, most of which involve apologizing. But that’s not the man’s strength. So if he really wants to, as he said, “give some speeches to replenish the old coffers,” I suggest he stick to what he does best: motivati... |
4688bf9bbb8018db6665a16e785920b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-16-et-compton16-story.html | Mark of tha gangsta | Mark of tha gangsta
THE JHERI CURL is long gone, and the scowl, well, Ice Cube still has that, but he uses it selectively now. It was 20 years ago this month that the group N.W.A -- with Cube as its most vital lyricist -- released the shocking “Straight Outta Compton.” They called their music “reality rap,” but everyon... |
be0f8734f0eab5471753da324899d5d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-16-sci-mayan16-story.html | Exploring a path to mythical Xibalba | Exploring a path to mythical Xibalba
Mexican archaeologists have discovered a maze of stone temples in underground caves, some submerged in water and containing human bones.
Clad in scuba gear and edging through narrow tunnels, researchers found the stone ruins of 11 sacred temples at the site on the Yucatan peninsula.... |
a83d32846906c55238a55a983cc6a129 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-17-fi-britain17-story.html | U.S. subprime collapse reaches Welsh town | U.S. subprime collapse reaches Welsh town
During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real estate agent’s window -- and he isn’t buying.
“I’d love to, but I’m single and I can’t afford to buy anything on my own; n... |
323f6ba92906f3042fdee174b9132b24 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-17-na-money17-story.html | Obama fundraising total: $390 million | Obama fundraising total: $390 million
Presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama raised $51 million in July, pushing the total he has raised since his presidential quest began to more than $390 million.
His take for the month dipped slightly from the $52 million he raised in June. But he nearly matched the roughl... |
fa181ab693ee28245844d2a1f5fd0a5f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-18-fg-breakaway18-story.html | Russian claims appear inflated | Russian claims appear inflated
A visit to this war-strafed city Sunday turned up no proof of Russian claims that more than 2,000 people died here. Nor were there any ready signs of what Prime Minister Vladimir Putin referred to as “genocide.”
The downtown of Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia’s breakaway republic of So... |
f7aa9132356234682734933bf55b044c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-18-fi-inbox18-story.html | Basics of finding the right franchise | Basics of finding the right franchise
Dear Karen: I’d like to buy a franchise, but how do I choose one?
Answer: Narrow the possibilities to businesses you understand and would enjoy running. Rick Staley, who owns several Quiznos outlets in Houston, rejected franchise opportunities outside his comfort zone.
“There’s no ... |
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