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40ceddbe912b1a0f721ac17e775bfd84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-09-na-worker-sit-in9-story.html | Chicago sit-in a window onto hard times | Chicago sit-in a window onto hard times
On the chilly factory floor of the Republic Windows and Doors plant, Apolinar Cabrera and a couple hundred workers have decided to make their stand.
Their jobs evaporated Friday when this Chicago company unexpectedly closed its doors, blaming lender Bank of America for cutting of... |
089d1e1549f8ef2791e90d083597d5ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-09-sci-race9-story.html | Racial stereotypes and social status | Racial stereotypes and social status
Barack Obama’s election as president may be seen as a harbinger of a colorblind society, but a new study suggests that derogatory racial stereotypes are so powerful that merely being unemployed makes people more likely to be viewed by others -- and even themselves -- as black.
In a ... |
9dbc2fe10b871fb450005da5042144ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-10-fg-chinarights10-story.html | China arrests a signer of a freedom charter | China arrests a signer of a freedom charter
China has arrested at least one prominent dissident and has questioned and possibly detained others who were among more than 300 signatories to a declaration demanding more freedoms.
Liu Xiaobo, a prolific literary critic who spent 20 months in prison for joining students in ... |
f9252bb073fb26648016f0f8fb823c74 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-10-me-eligible10-story.html | UC, CSU eligibility sees gains | UC, CSU eligibility sees gains
Despite recent improvements, Latino and black students continue to lag behind whites and Asians in becoming academically eligible to enter California’s two public university systems, according to a state report released Tuesday.
The study by the California Postsecondary Education Commissi... |
cfa8ef1f43922470c5950d8e4b88a4ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-10-me-laschools-brewer10-story.html | Brewer voted out for $517,500-plus | Brewer voted out for $517,500-plus
The Los Angeles Board of Education voted Tuesday to pay at least $517,500 to buy out Supt. David L. Brewer midway through his four-year contract to run the nation’s second-largest school system.
No successor was named, but board members and other civic leaders have said they expect th... |
73cb5a6e9f762ffa0c9d3de2bf980712 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-10-na-obama-interview10-story.html | Obama sees hope for global goodwill | Obama sees hope for global goodwill
Barack Obama says his presidency is an opportunity for the United States to spread a message of tolerance, starting the day of his inauguration and continuing with a speech he plans to deliver somewhere in the Muslim world.
And when he takes the oath of office Jan. 20, he plans to be... |
d141541276f8062180d7571ca08f4a8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-10-sp-simers10-story.html | Amazing what you can learn while in Scott Boras’ suite | Amazing what you can learn while in Scott Boras’ suite
Here’s what I learned or noticed while spending the day at the baseball meetings in the Bellagio.
* Joe Torre and Ned Colletti are staying at the Wynn instead of the Bellagio because they get free rooms. Under owners Frank & Jamie McCourt -- if not players, then ro... |
af90c1c2bf3d1d8155cc5d11b8fa87f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-11-fg-greekriots11-story.html | Athens court firebombed as nationwide unrest continues | Athens court firebombed as nationwide unrest continues
Hooded youths attacked the Athens courthouse with firebombs Wednesday and a general strike by labor unions shut down most of the country as nationwide urban unrest entered its fifth night.
The worst riots in years, sparked by the fatal shooting by police of a 15-ye... |
504974bf26f00f4ec27550e6a2d039d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-11-fi-darkknight11-story.html | ‘Dark Knight’ DVD selling at brisk pace | ‘Dark Knight’ DVD selling at brisk pace
The major promotion push behind the DVD release of Warner Bros.’ summer blockbuster, “The Dark Knight,” appears to have worked -- at least out of the gate.
The film, which brought in $530 million in ticket sales in the United States, sold nearly 3 million copies Tuesday, the firs... |
35c666ab4472ea6bb6351ecb3f5caaa8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-11-sp-bbnotes11-story.html | Dodgers face obstacles in bringing Furcal back | Dodgers face obstacles in bringing Furcal back
With third baseman Casey Blake re-signed and negotiations with Manny Ramirez at an impasse, the Dodgers have shifted their focus on retaining Rafael Furcal.
But major obstacles have to be cleared if the Dodgers are to re-sign Furcal, who played in only 36 regular-season ga... |
316166073a9b86e5ffa52f649de25a4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-12-fg-china-politics12-story.html | In China, anger rises as the economy falls | In China, anger rises as the economy falls
The signs of discontent are small but unnerving in an authoritarian country where public demonstrations are not permitted.
Laid-off toy company workers smash windows and computers and overturn police cars in Guangdong province. Employees of a liquor company in Harbin travel to... |
beded1e68ac2e829b3a93fcbee186d27 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-12-fg-iraq12-story.html | Bomb shatters a moment of reconciliation in Iraq | Bomb shatters a moment of reconciliation in Iraq
The Abdullah restaurant was the kind of place Iraqis took their families on special occasions. It was the kind of place high-ranking officials in the northern city of Kirkuk chose for power lunches, where they dug in to plates on tables covered with white cloths as water... |
021b38f9a63b625c0f09e6e73396c964 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-12-me-jamiel12-story.html | ‘Jamiel’s Law’ misses ballot | ‘Jamiel’s Law’ misses ballot
Proponents of a Los Angeles voter initiative to allow city police to arrest illegal-immigrant gang members just for being in the country illegally failed to gather enough voter signatures to qualify for the May ballot, elections officials said Thursday.
Supporters estimated they had turned ... |
72fc23e644d45097681b153b8c2d6864 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-12-me-page12-story.html | Pinup queen led a sexual revolution | Pinup queen led a sexual revolution
Bettie Page, the brunet pinup queen with a shoulder-length pageboy hairdo and kitschy bangs whose saucy photos helped usher in the sexual revolution of the 1960s, has died. She was 85.
Page, whose later life was marked by depression, violent mood swings and several years in a state m... |
df86ab0f11e9f84829f5f323b66a1ada | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-13-fi-black13-story.html | Jack Black puts on his video game face | Jack Black puts on his video game face
When he was growing up in Los Angeles, actor Jack Black had two passions: rock music and video games.
As an adult, he played out the rock-star fantasy with his band, Tenacious D, and a 2003 movie, “The School of Rock.” Now the 39-year-old Black is taking on video games.
He has bee... |
7ca0c3d2b26353a20c09316fc072f395 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-13-fi-gopunions13-story.html | Senate GOP took a swipe at unions | Senate GOP took a swipe at unions
The congressional push to help U.S. automakers was generally cast in terms of protecting the reeling national economy from another body blow -- the collapse of one or more of Detroit’s Big Three.
But in killing the stopgap rescue plan worked out by President Bush and congressional Demo... |
07fc5167bf3ce8f850cc620ac90430f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-13-me-banks13-story.html | Formula for success | Formula for success
You can blame the failure of Los Angeles’ latest school superintendent on racial politics, an incompetent school board or a bureaucracy impervious to reform.
But you can’t sell that to Stephen Strachan.
Strachan is the principal at Jordan High in Watts. Like Supt. David Brewer, Strachan thinks big a... |
a886abad64ecc758783f0f82009e2f93 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-13-na-moment13-story.html | Disaster predicted in Obama’s path | Disaster predicted in Obama’s path
Our trip to the Parowan Prophet began with a letter to the St. George Spectrum. It was set among missives proposing that oil companies bail out Detroit automakers, that county inmates be forced to winter in tents, that lawyers be barred from public office. A rough crowd.
This particul... |
cb697e5bfb72aba470dfe06e46adbc8a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-ca-lorax14-story.html | The Lorax gets a little louder | The Lorax gets a little louder
The little kids understand. My 6-year-old son, Emmett, reads Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax” at least once a week and can explain the message of the book succinctly. “It’s about ruining God’s creations, that money’s not more important than nature.”
Published in 1971, at a time when Earth Day and t... |
edf13c405e45f8539ba2134ca2b9ab1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-ca-peter-pan14-story.html | Peter. Wendy. Lenny? | Peter. Wendy. Lenny?
Albert Ihde and Ellen Pasternack’s nuptials involved much more than the union of two souls -- there was also the ritual joining together of their record collections, which ran a close second for the founding couple behind Santa Barbara Theatre. And when Pasternack first heard Ihde’s original record... |
d8a3e3d5bbd7b656b76ebbb4b73e465d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-me-regalado14-story.html | One of 2 soldiers killed by a uniformed Iraqi soldier | One of 2 soldiers killed by a uniformed Iraqi soldier
On a stormy autumn evening in Louisville, Ky., Sharri Ford nervously stepped off a flight from Los Angeles to meet the man she would eventually marry. She had spoken to Jose Regalado only on the phone, but their siblings were married and it already seemed like a per... |
417c5ffb9809e818a3f221497fc962cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-na-weddings14-story.html | Atheist may sue for right to perform weddings in Vegas | Atheist may sue for right to perform weddings in Vegas
In a city launched by shotgun weddings and quickie divorces, and which offers the chance to be wed by faux Liberaces, King Tuts and Grim Reapers, there remains at least one nuptial taboo: You can’t be married by an atheist.
Michael Jacobson, a 64-year-old retiree w... |
a3b443ab95b374e98a71aec9c1f732e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-oe-sarraj14-story.html | ‘Flowers not allowed’ | ‘Flowers not allowed’
From my home in the Gaza Strip, I followed the American election season with interest. Many times I heard the personal stories of Americans without access to healthcare and the toll illness has taken on their lives. I can relate. For months, I waited in Gaza, unable to leave (despite the fact that... |
bc57938ed8de21e6dbd63a53f1d67fb7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-14-tr-bosnia14-story.html | Bosnia’s back in the snow biz | Bosnia’s back in the snow biz
There is a saying that visitors and locals alike use at the Jahorina ski resort, just outside Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. They use it when they want to invoke the problems of a country a decade removed from a brutal war without getting into specifics. They use it when they’re trying to c... |
7631c9d18de7feb0ab2f9685e49ca33f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-15-fg-shoe15-story.html | Rude farewell for Bush in Baghdad | Rude farewell for Bush in Baghdad
President Bush looked slightly bemused after he ducked to avoid a shoe hurled at him. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki looked mortified, and as the assailant’s second shoe came flying Sunday, he did what any gracious host would do: reached out and tried to catch it before it hit his A... |
d477fc1f693e52bb7b509fe3e38504bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-et-criterion16-story.html | Criterion’s Blu-ray debut is up to snuff | Criterion’s Blu-ray debut is up to snuff
The first wave of Criterion Collection Blu-ray discs was initially slated for October, then pushed out to November, then pushed out again to this week. For a while, home video forums were abuzz with the rumor that Criterion would never release the discs at all. The reason? Crite... |
04d8de6a18a2ae5a9b6a51f6e4cbecfe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-fg-secretservice16-story.html | Soul-searching at the Secret Service | Soul-searching at the Secret Service
A day after President Bush was nearly struck in the head by flying footwear at a Baghdad news conference, U.S. Secret Service officials faced questions Monday about how an Iraqi television reporter was able to hurl not one but two shoes at the president without the agents responsibl... |
f1425e40227caab87cd9f1c8a676269d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-fg-shoeman16-story.html | Throw a shoe, become a legend | Throw a shoe, become a legend
In the few seconds it took Iraqi journalist Muntather Zaidi to wing a pair of shoes at President Bush, the Middle East got its own version of Joe the Plumber.
Just as Joe Wurzelbacher’s gripes to Barack Obama during the U.S. presidential election catapulted him to fame, Zaidi’s burst of ra... |
90a6a8fea40dc0540968f6cd1da41380 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-fg-uneasypeace16-story.html | Israel issue tough on Egypt artists | Israel issue tough on Egypt artists
It has been a tough peace for Ali Salem. His plays don’t have a stage. Intellectuals shun him; the writers union refuses to pay his pension. He sits in a cafe window, typing on his laptop and defending his choice long ago to cross the border into Israel and make friends.
Egypt and Is... |
d49e7928596cc3a4d4a15125d965f17b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-me-pellicano16-story.html | Pellicano sentenced to prison | Pellicano sentenced to prison
Former Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in prison Monday for running an illegal wiretapping operation that gathered information for a list of well-to-do clients, including celebrities, attorneys and business executives.
U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer c... |
774a19b990fd5efdc560b90d677db68b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-me-quaid16-story.html | Quaids settle with hospital | Quaids settle with hospital
Dennis Quaid and his wife Kimberly reached a settlement with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center for $750,000 over a medication error last year that nearly killed the couple’s twin infants, according to papers filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
Nurses at the hospital mistakenly gave ... |
87ed18d5077502fc53bc6633403e2175 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-16-na-obama-green16-story.html | Scientists cheer latest Obama picks | Scientists cheer latest Obama picks
With the nomination of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu for Energy secretary, President-elect Barack Obama made sure no one missed the message in the resume.
“His appointment should send a signal to all that my administration will value science,” Obama said during a Chicago n... |
e945a0b887ae840274af89aeb54a6f73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-17-fi-amgen17-story.html | Fired lawyer wins right to sue Amgen | Fired lawyer wins right to sue Amgen
A former Amgen Inc. patent lawyer won a victory Tuesday in his effort to get restitution for his firing last year for what he called whistle-blower activities targeting the pharmaceutical giant.
A Ventura County Superior Court judge ruled that Darrell G. Dotson of Newbury Park can p... |
2da674c8e0f99d94e2edfbb15da9badc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-17-na-muslimgay17-story.html | Faith, family test gay Muslim | Faith, family test gay Muslim
All she has left of the person she used to be is contained in a 5-by-7 photo album with “Aliyah Bacchus” written in blue pen on its cover, each picture inside tucked beneath a slip of clear plastic.
There she is at 17, barely 90 pounds, smiling sourly on her wedding day in Queens, N.Y., dr... |
73dd1c3d4fcfa5e4885f70d05ca304cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-17-sp-dodgers17-story.html | Dodgers trying to keep Furcal | Dodgers trying to keep Furcal
Faced with the prospect of losing Rafael Furcal to the Atlanta Braves, Dodgers General Manager Ned Colletti negotiated with the free-agent shortstop’s representatives into the night Tuesday.
“We’re still in conversations with Raffy’s agents,” Colletti said.
Colletti said the Dodgers improv... |
ee39caa63a7c5729ddbdfaf5808845b3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-18-fi-leaving-california18-story.html | A state in the rearview mirror | A state in the rearview mirror
They said, “Go west,” but many Californians are going north and east.
For the fourth year in a row, more residents left the Golden State than moved here from other states, according to a report released Wednesday by the California Department of Finance.
The outflow -- last seen during the... |
e5b489ca3b71281c9c85583f98be46a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-18-me-budget18-story.html | Democrats devise plan to hike taxes | Democrats devise plan to hike taxes
California’s Democratic leaders were planning a vote today on a brazen proposal to raise gas, sales and income taxes through a series of legal maneuvers that would bypass the Legislature’s minority Republicans.
The Democratic gambit, announced Wednesday, would raise $9.3 billion to e... |
4f127f0cee21a65efd0dfcd9a5a0b3e0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-18-me-guns18-story.html | L.A. council tightens gun control laws | L.A. council tightens gun control laws
The Los Angeles City Council approved a package of gun control laws Wednesday, placing new requirements on ammunition sellers and banning the sale of military-style ammunition in the hopes of further reducing the city’s gun and gang violence.
The measures ban the sale of .50-calib... |
f4c2044dd6461cbd0b2e070c5a2a2bc4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-18-me-homeless18-story.html | Shelters see more families | Shelters see more families
With her 5-week-old baby asleep face-down across her lap, Erica Richardson settled into a chair at the Union Rescue Mission and reviewed her strategies for staying sane while living with an infant in a homeless shelter.
The key is to get away from the shelter during the day, the tired-looking... |
09503f81d1cc342be459fd9e905cf880 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-18-na-drilling-utah18-story.html | Suit filed to block federal lease sales | Suit filed to block federal lease sales
Environmental groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday as a last-ditch effort to block the sale of leases for 110,000 acres of federal land in Utah that the Bush administration plans to auction off on Friday.
Critics say the proposed lease sales are an 11th-hour attempt by the administra... |
31eda90207d4fdee95335a700f63176e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-fi-neil19-story.html | Ford Fusion Hybrid intrudes on despair | Ford Fusion Hybrid intrudes on despair
As we know from the works of Cormac McCarthy, despair can be kind of gratifying. And yet, as much as I hate to disturb our national mood of decline, I have some good news regarding the auto industry. You may return to your comfort drinking presently.
The 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid, a... |
62a5ce1feda42778664f53097d958afe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-fi-sfhomes19-story.html | State’s home prices dive 38%; sales rise | State’s home prices dive 38%; sales rise
The median home price in California dived 38% in November from a year earlier as foreclosures propped up sales but eroded prices, a real estate tracking firm said Thursday.
The median home price dropped to $258,000 last month from $414,000 in November 2007, San Diego-based MDA D... |
d47ae3e6cde12a41673729aecf50a46c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-me-good-samaritan19-story.html | Good Samaritans get no aid from high court | Good Samaritans get no aid from high court
Being a good Samaritan in California just got a little riskier.
The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a young woman who pulled a co-worker from a crashed vehicle isn’t immune from civil liability because the care she rendered wasn’t medical.
The divided high court a... |
a375fff9ebe83cbaa9abdad6bf9cde70 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-me-solar19-story.html | L.A. solar plan called very risky | L.A. solar plan called very risky
When members of the Los Angeles City Council agreed last month to put an ambitious solar energy plan on the March 3 ballot, they talked effusively about their desire for cleaner air and “green” technology jobs -- the kind that could boost the economy during a recession.
What they didn’... |
c0cc1e88f54eb498972c8211d7a4b57e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-na-clinton-donors19-story.html | His donors span the globe | His donors span the globe
Hoping to allay conflict-of-interest concerns as his wife prepares to become secretary of State, President Clinton released a donor list Thursday that shows he has raised as much as $131 million from foreign governments -- including Saudi Arabia, Dubai and Norway -- for the William J. Clinton ... |
6bbc1f3db8bab7bec24bfc092b8dbb10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-na-conscience19-story.html | ‘Conscience’ medical rule to take effect | ‘Conscience’ medical rule to take effect
The Bush administration announced its “conscience protection” rule for the healthcare industry Thursday, giving doctors, hospitals, and even receptionists and volunteers in medical experiments the right to refuse to participate in medical care they find morally objectionable.
“T... |
4d6fdc8a1fa997f7bd9b0e53f2ddd9f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-19-oe-stein19-story.html | Who runs Hollywood? C’mon | Who runs Hollywood? C’mon
I have never been so upset by a poll in my life. Only 22% of Americans now believe “the movie and television industries are pretty much run by Jews,” down from nearly 50% in 1964. The Anti-Defamation League, which released the poll results last month, sees in these numbers a victory against st... |
3d25fa70149630da56d3e96fcf6ee397 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-fg-briefs20.s4-story.html | Double-decker on its way back | Double-decker on its way back
London’s mayor unveiled plans to bring back the beloved red double-decker Routemaster to the city’s streets.
Three years after the buses were all but banished from London, Mayor Boris Johnson hopes the new versions, whose open back allows passengers to hop on or off, will be up and running... |
995ae7c2f88a491e5ed383985656723e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-fi-caljobs20-story.html | State jobless rate hits 8.4% | State jobless rate hits 8.4%
A loss of nearly 42,000 jobs last month pushed California’s unemployment rate to 8.4%, a 14-year high and the third-highest jobless rate in the country.
California’s November unemployment figure lagged behind only Michigan with its crippled automobile industry at 9.6% and Rhode Island at 9.... |
7c6fbc496a48abcaf8045432b2add47c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-fi-music20-story.html | Music industry stops suing song swappers | Music industry stops suing song swappers
The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday that it had abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright and that it would work with Internet service providers to cut abusers’ access if they ignore repeated warnings.
The move ends ... |
4dc08ee72a7455137467cff02e33efb1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-me-gay-marriage20-story.html | Brown asks justices to toss Prop. 8 | Brown asks justices to toss Prop. 8
California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate the voter-approved ban on gay marriage, declaring that “the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification.”
Brown’s argument on ... |
7760cfb14a63dd2ea31cb4fefaa1292c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-na-obama-cabinet20-story.html | Next: Put this Cabinet to work | Next: Put this Cabinet to work
The Cabinet that President-elect Barack Obama completed on Friday is a largely centrist and pragmatic collection of politicians and technocrats without a pronounced ideological bent. Liberals are satisfied but not delighted. Conservatives say the nominees aren’t as leftist as they’d feare... |
12f1f7aa78fb88ddf60a03750b215422 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-20-na-recount20-story.html | They think outside the oval in Minnesota | They think outside the oval in Minnesota
Darn those pesky ovals.
For the last month, the U.S. Senate race in Minnesota between Republican incumbent Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken has been hung up by several thousand voters who apparently weren’t content to color inside the lines, offering instead Xs,... |
62a73f1922dd0960a6c86d2db56cfb6e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-21-ca-sarno21-story.html | A wider Internet | A wider Internet
This year, the Web grew further into its well-chosen name. The boundless net of sticky electronic threads is now ensnaring just about every other form of media. (When NBC chief Ben Silverman joked “Help me!” to Jay Leno, I thought of the line from 1958’s classic “The Fly” -- the scene’s on YouTube if y... |
cfb480baff8f38c516f8d7c647f1a483 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-21-me-ferreira21-story.html | In the thick of Prop. 8 fight | In the thick of Prop. 8 fight
Abel Ferreira and his wife, Robbie, never considered themselves political activists.
But when Proposition 8 landed on November’s ballot, the Spring Valley couple did everything they could to ensure that the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage got passed. They made phone calls. The... |
dca0be26887782c72a9184bd55dcbf57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-21-na-stunts21-story.html | Sniffing out attention in Washington | Sniffing out attention in Washington
When Rep. John E. Peterson came under attack for steering taxpayer funds to a weather museum in Punxsutawney, Pa., the town famous for its Groundhog Day observance, it wasn’t enough for the Pennsylvania Republican to go before the microphone to defend the spending.
He sent for Phil.... |
5187b9c945921ab3b9586112e1e6ab47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-22-et-vhs-tapes22-story.html | VHS era is winding down | VHS era is winding down
Pop culture is finally hitting the eject button on the VHS tape, the once ubiquitous home video format that will finish this month as a creaky ghost of Christmas past.
After three decades of steady if unspectacular service, the spinning wheels of the home entertainment stalwart are slowing to a ... |
9f4497b8c5f0f87e9ea60f2d560c71ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-22-fi-layoffs22-story.html | As corporate layoffs rise, legal challenges are likely to follow | As corporate layoffs rise, legal challenges are likely to follow
Lured away from her job in Houston to take an executive position at Dell Inc., Jan Chapman persuaded her husband to quit his job, move with her to Austin, Texas, and buy a house at the height of the real estate bubble.
Seven months later, the computer mak... |
b65d5545d8a13298de286f7b8137b358 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-22-he-nostalgia22-story.html | Maybe nostalgia’s gotten a bad rap | Maybe nostalgia’s gotten a bad rap
“I’ll be home for Christmas -- if only in my dreams.”
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Long derided as wimpy and a waste of time, nostalgia nonetheless often sweeps in this time of year and settles in for the holidays. In calling up memories of people and celebrations past, it can evoke feelings buried by time and... |
3f450d69ca5982b78335cec636d6ed67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-22-na-madoff-hill22-story.html | Madoff had a steady presence on Capitol Hill | Madoff had a steady presence on Capitol Hill
When money manager Bernard L. Madoff was arrested in New York recently for allegedly engineering a massive Ponzi scheme, Wall Street financiers were left slack-jawed at the unmasking of an establishment figure who seemed to be an unlikely fraud.
The reaction was similar amon... |
6bf0b99cd129232ba4e4030a4c3f8093 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-22-oe-pollitt22-story.html | One bridge that shouldn’t be built | One bridge that shouldn’t be built
To understand how angry and disappointed many Democrats are that Barack Obama has invited evangelical preacher Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inaugural, imagine if a President-elect John McCain had offered this unique honor to the Rev. Al Sharpton -- or the Rev. Jeremiah A.... |
6aa33e6f1aba4c5e3bfbadcf369d45d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-23-fg-russia-autos23-story.html | Russians want U-turn on taxing car imports | Russians want U-turn on taxing car imports
A planned tax hike on imported cars is roiling Russia, whose government is caught between the populist demands of middle-class protesters and a crumbling automobile industry.
The dozens of demonstrations that have cropped up across Russia in recent weeks haven’t been particula... |
6de248b6b304559b7ac7813c92841b32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-23-fi-indymac23-story.html | Regulator provided cover for IndyMac | Regulator provided cover for IndyMac
When the government seized IndyMac Bank in July, many of its investors and customers wondered why regulators hadn’t intervened sooner to prevent one of the costliest bank failures in U.S. history.
An answer came Monday when the Treasury Department’s inspector general said a governme... |
a1b6bdcd017a4f081cd00b84c55355c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-23-me-poinsettia23-story.html | The bloom is off the poinsettia | The bloom is off the poinsettia
On a day when America’s banks were failing and the Big Three automakers were on their knees begging Congress for money, Paul Ecke III could muster little sympathy.
“I can’t go to Washington looking for a bailout,” the 53-year-old industry leader said. “I should be making $20 million a ye... |
d7880eceba4203dfc8defdda42e59b56 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-23-na-energy23-story.html | America’s stop-and-go energy plan | America’s stop-and-go energy plan
Breaking America’s foreign-oil addiction was all the rage on Capitol Hill when gas cost $4 a gallon. Now that it’s under $2 and falling, history suggests that the enthusiasm for alternative fuels and more efficient cars will subside. It did that in the mid-1970s and again in the 1980s ... |
b7e7add1d445118f4ae9df4e994094f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-et-grantorino24-story.html | When Detroit drove itself off a cliff | When Detroit drove itself off a cliff
The title character in Clint Eastwood’s Motor City morality tale is, by the reaching light of history, a fairly negligible hunk of machinery: a green 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, with a sleek “SportsRoof” and a gold “Laser Stripe,” one of many million overfed, undersprung and large... |
47afb1000112bb423b25fcfa56b899d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-fi-payday24-story.html | A middle-class move to payday lenders | A middle-class move to payday lenders
With its quaint downtown and tree-lined streets, the unpretentious city of Cleveland, Tenn., in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains seems an unlikely epicenter for a $50-billion-a-year financial industry.
But this is where W. Allan Jones founded Check Into Cash, the granddad... |
bed8a1fe234753755c6552fd7afd60b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-fi-silverton24-story.html | Noted restaurateur’s recipe for disaster | Noted restaurateur’s recipe for disaster
It’s a good thing Nancy Silverton still has her day job.
The La Brea Bakery founder and queen of L.A.'s restaurant scene is among the legions of investors who’ve lost their fortunes in the alleged $50-billion fraud attributed to New York financier Bernard L. Madoff.
The financia... |
7ffce674f580bb8a975247b679c5cd80 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-me-cavanaugh24-story.html | Pianist-singer-composer led an enduring Southland trio | Pianist-singer-composer led an enduring Southland trio
Page Cavanaugh, a veteran pianist-singer whose trio was a popular nightclub and recording group in the late 1940s and ‘50s and who became one of Southern California’s most enduring lounge jazz artists, has died. He was 86.
Cavanaugh, who also was a composer and arr... |
a1acaf0090f478ba846eda793d6b2bdf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-me-madoff-jewish-charities24-story.html | Madoff an outrage to L.A.'s Jewish | Madoff an outrage to L.A.'s Jewish
Across Los Angeles’ sprawling Jewish community, rabbis and lay leaders are asking themselves a disturbing question about Bernard L. Madoff: How could one of our own take money from us, especially money that we intended for the poor?
“It’s a desecration of God’s name and the Jewish peo... |
a4c675416035570f21b98574bceff738 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-24-oe-block24-story.html | Midwives deliver | Midwives deliver
Some healthcare trivia: In the United States, what is the No. 1 reason people are admitted to the hospital? Not diabetes, not heart attack, not stroke. The answer is something that isn’t even a disease: childbirth.
Not only is childbirth the most common reason for a hospital stay -- more than 4 million... |
146e01d7249a15788731b6cb23b444f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-25-me-cap25-story.html | Lavish spending not the culprit | Lavish spending not the culprit
There’s a giant Christmas tree all lit up outside California’s Capitol. But inside, the place is hardly filled with tidings of joy.
This has not been a season to be jolly.
The state faces a real danger of running out of cash by spring. Major highway projects already are being delayed bec... |
d9499aba06f4ac706e398a2f4d065c41 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-25-me-tustin-high25-story.html | Tustin trainer arrested | Tustin trainer arrested
An athletic trainer at Tustin High School has been arrested on suspicion of engaging in unlawful sex acts with a student at the school, an Orange County sheriff’s spokesman said Wednesday.
Hope Jacoby, 23, who has worked with athletes at the school for the last year, was arrested last week on su... |
a260237df892da5ca945ebf6481e11a1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-25-na-pardon25-story.html | BUSH SWIFTLY RESCINDS PARDON | BUSH SWIFTLY RESCINDS PARDON
In an apparently unprecedented move, President Bush on Wednesday revoked a pardon he had issued 24 hours earlier for a politically connected real estate developer who defrauded hundreds of low- income home buyers -- acknowledging that White House aides had not fully described the scope of t... |
666b63d883a7920ec9a2a3dfa0ef3222 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-26-fi-luxury26-story.html | Rich rein in lavish habits amid drop in net worth | Rich rein in lavish habits amid drop in net worth
The rich are tightening their belts too. Even if it’s still a Gucci.
Faced with the sharpest decline in net worth in nearly 50 years, wealthy Americans are reevaluating their priorities and slashing their spending at a rate unseen in decades -- a move that could have di... |
7d911183ded3453f2c4a4b65b389d046 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-et-cruise27-story.html | The conspirators behind ‘Valkyrie’ | The conspirators behind ‘Valkyrie’
So how did Suri deal with the eye patch?
That would be Suri Cruise and her dad, Tom, who famously wears a black pirate-esque patch in his new film, “Valkyrie,” a World War II thriller about a plot to assassinate Hitler that opened on Christmas. Cruise plays the coup’s real life ringle... |
f8b6bb1da6832983f5b354cb32218e2e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-fi-cox27-story.html | SEC’s Cox defends approach | SEC’s Cox defends approach
Christopher Cox, the embattled chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is defending his restrained approach to the financial crisis, saying he has provided steady leadership as Wall Street’s main regulator at a time when other federal regulators have responded precipitously to uph... |
c49c5ed91f4386e5a1bf08e28e1cf5f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-fi-housing27-story.html | Dreary outlook on home prices | Dreary outlook on home prices
Real estate experts who were troubled by a 10% drop in median home prices near the end of last year from the previous year probably were stunned by the 35% drop in values since then.
But that may be overshadowed by what they now worry lies ahead.
Growing unemployment, more declines in cons... |
39b8b4d0c51535666c065b04a7ab5a02 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-me-chapman27-story.html | PhD in the school of life | PhD in the school of life
Rueben Martinez is known for his many callings: Barber. Longtime bookstore owner. MacArthur award winner. Speaker at high schools, colleges and universities across the country. Holder of more honorary degrees than he can count.
And now Martinez, 68, is a college professor. A presidential fello... |
65c381bc9a3495fa58c94d8ace473973 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-me-pasadenaart27-story.html | Pasadena gets complaints over plans for 2 sculptures | Pasadena gets complaints over plans for 2 sculptures
Two works of public art proposed for the front of the Pasadena Civic Auditorium have drawn complaints from some residents and preservationists.
The sculptures, mixed-media contemporary pieces, are being criticized not so much for their artistic expression, but becaus... |
798ee8905f4c8d79f4d59b7489a7d701 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-me-santa-shooting27-story.html | Gunman’s careful plans went awry | Gunman’s careful plans went awry
From his homemade incendiary device to his Santa Claus outfit, 45-year-old software engineer Bruce Jeffrey Pardo meticulously planned his Christmas Eve massacre.
He apparently planned his escape, booking a flight out of state.
But the firebomb Pardo set off melted the Santa suit into hi... |
dcb8c2a517d8651439652322c6d0542c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-27-me-turtle27-story.html | Appetite for turtles could be their undoing | Appetite for turtles could be their undoing
The turtle tank at Nam Hoa Fish Market is empty, but not to worry: The manager of this bustling Chinatown store says he has plenty in back.
“Big ones,” he says, spreading his hands as wide as a Christmas turkey.
He nods to a worker, who slides a large, waxed-cardboard box fro... |
7f794f18eb0e0b5beba6953e1e5acd7c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-ca-faces-tv-tahmoh28-story.html | For Tahmoh Penikett, it’s all too human | For Tahmoh Penikett, it’s all too human
For the last five years, Tahmoh Penikett has been fighting off Cylons, a robotic race threatening human existence, on Sci Fi Channel’s “Battlestar Galactica.”
Starring in Joss Whedon’s upcoming and already-beleaguered drama “Dollhouse,” however, could be a more daunting task.
The... |
6b18c79a959809a4b52eae96cf518fe7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-ca-franz-kafka28-story.html | Stranger in a strange land | Stranger in a strange land
It’s always tricky when an author’s name becomes an adjective. Orwellian, Machiavellian, Faulknerian -- these designations make it hard to see a writer on his or her own terms. This is perhaps most true of Franz Kafka, whose sobriquet, Kafkaesque, has become a catchall for the weird and inexp... |
9046521c7febe7ca5d1e1681f1edae6a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-ca-lyons28-story.html | DUMBING DOWN THE FILM CRITIC | DUMBING DOWN THE FILM CRITIC
Is Ben Lyons the most hated film critic in America?
In the four months since the fresh-faced 27-year-old “movie dude” for the E! Entertainment Network was installed to co-host a revamped version of the venerable movie review program “At the Movies,” he has gotten a resounding thumbs down fr... |
cefb111d08c15972188f0b00a0edeab5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-ca-michael-alan-nelson28-story.html | It’s Lovecraft’s world; we just revel in it | It’s Lovecraft’s world; we just revel in it
In 1928, H.P. Lovecraft published the short story “The Call of Cthulhu,” creating the mythos of the “Great Old Ones,” malevolent beings who lie sleeping beneath the sea. Thus he started one of fantasy’s most enduring threads. (Stephen King has called Lovecraft one of the grea... |
dc20ff53376cc38ce60d54cda9eb8c35 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-fg-basra28-story.html | Stakes are high for Maliki in Basra | Stakes are high for Maliki in Basra
Eight months after he sent in troops to restore calm to blighted Basra, Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is skirmishing with rivals here ahead of elections that will test whether he can convert his military successes into a lasting political victory.
The stakes are high: The winner in the... |
2fa50e95d70752b809b9caaf57e7cf12 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-ig-dating28-story.html | MISERY LOVES COMPANY? | MISERY LOVES COMPANY?
Housing prices are plummeting. Jobs are evaporating. And the economy, as a whole, is in free fall.
But despite -- or perhaps because of -- such relentlessly bad news, there’s an up side -- for daters, at least. Singles are wading into the online dating pool in record numbers, giving virtual matchm... |
6cf4928493af9d6ac94d8620ec22d912 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-28-na-oil-shale28-story.html | Water, oil don’t mix in Rockies | Water, oil don’t mix in Rockies
A titanic battle between the West’s two traditional power brokers -- Big Oil and Big Water -- has begun.
At stake is one of the largest oil reserves in the world, a vast cache trapped beneath the Rocky Mountains containing an estimated 800 billion barrels -- about three times the reserve... |
10d017ee0693abc81a717f6c1ef01af9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-fg-china-corruption29-story.html | Bribery and graft taint every facet of life in China | Bribery and graft taint every facet of life in China
The last time his parents saw Liao Mengjun alive, he was heading to school to pick up his junior high school diploma.
A few hours later, they were called to the morgue. They found that their lanky 15-year-old son’s forehead had been bashed in. His right knee jutted t... |
feb8ff97010a634b7a5a5e89395fa0d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-fg-israel-analysis29-story.html | Lessons from Lebanon pay off | Lessons from Lebanon pay off
As they prepared for lightning airstrikes on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, Israel’s leaders drew sobering lessons from their stalemate against another Islamic paramilitary force, Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas.
In that setback in the summer of 2006, Israel rushed to battle without a detailed ... |
d4a1be67e6c1fce3934d1ab27fdd1a3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-fg-us-mideast29-story.html | Peace path gets rougher for Obama | Peace path gets rougher for Obama
Spiraling violence between Israel and Hamas has raised new obstacles to President-elect Barack Obama’s ambitious Arab-Israeli peace initiative and his broader effort to improve relations between the U.S. government and the Muslim world, Mideast experts and American officials said Sunda... |
b8da12c73fbbe78978d653db4442b3a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-fi-inbox29-story.html | Mixed up? Get peers’ advice | Mixed up? Get peers’ advice
Dear Karen: I’m so worried about my business surviving that it’s tough to make decisions. How do I know what’s right for my company in the long term?
Answer: This is no time to be a lone wolf entrepreneur, struggling to figure out the economy all by yourself. Seek answers from a support netw... |
70b1a6efe33d1af0f23960815aff2d37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-me-arsenic29-story.html | Drink up -- assuming you like arsenic, that is | Drink up -- assuming you like arsenic, that is
Beside a field of rolling tumbleweed in this remote Central Valley town, the state opened its newest prison in 2005 with a modern design, cutting-edge security features and a serious environmental problem.
The drinking water pumped from two wells at Kern Valley State Priso... |
b18f8cc83ae33bff73532bd8d6eec456 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-me-lausd29-story.html | Schools halt arts program | Schools halt arts program
The Los Angeles school district has suspended a key arts program because of a spending freeze, a sign of what may be ahead for the state’s largest district, which is facing a serious budget shortfall.
When the school board was forced to slash almost $400 million from this year’s budget because... |
126609e13fc8e8d5e4b7d84acc58c90c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-29-oe-rodriguez29-story.html | Pay for view won’t buy you true love | Pay for view won’t buy you true love
I thought it would be the other way around, that my tastes would become more refined as I grew up. But I confess that the older I get, the more stupid movies I watch. I mean, the other day I sat through Adam Sandler’s “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan” on pay per view. Was it good? Not... |
db95b412bf7b680c055a3798b52645db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-30-fi-gas30-story.html | Falling gas price eludes the state | Falling gas price eludes the state
The U.S. average retail gasoline price fell for the 25th straight week to a level not seen since early 2004, the Energy Department said Monday.
But California’s gasoline prices inched higher by nearly half a penny over the week as supplies lagged behind even the weakened demand for fu... |
0ea0aad90ee78da776afaef7d82791d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-31-et-disaster31-story.html | ‘70s disaster films: angst of an era | ‘70s disaster films: angst of an era
The American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood will be rocking and rolling Saturday evening when the 1974 disaster flick “Earthquake” rumbles in its original Sensurround sound system that mimics a real cataclysmic event.
The campy flick featuring lantern-jawed Charlton He... |
66cb8747fb13a96fa3506a2bce431370 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-31-et-gameday31-story.html | Making the perfect game | Making the perfect game
Of the hundreds of games that came out in 2008 -- and of the dozens of truly great games we played at Game Day HQ -- each was flawed.
Though some were lacking more than others (yes, we’re talking to you, Star Wars: Clone Wars -- Lightsaber Duels), for every engrossing hour spent gaming there was... |
a30c8f49d57a70580a35e650bce26827 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-31-na-obama31-story.html | Obama’s stimulus plan to go on tour | Obama’s stimulus plan to go on tour
President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to lead a full-scale marketing blitz to pass the massive new stimulus package that he says is needed to revive the slumping economy and put the nation on the course he laid out during his campaign.
Obama will move to Washington this weekend, ... |
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