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4b99a27cc02168d6dacc49c292269252 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-08-fi-19931-story.html | American Express Slow to Deal Blue Card | American Express Slow to Deal Blue Card
American Express Co.'s new Blue credit card, aimed at busy Internet users, is taking as many as 40 days to get to applicants because the company failed to anticipate the response.
The company began sending the first cards to customers on Wednesday, four weeks after introducing it... |
9f94eb4ddfdb3351da784591fee1681b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-09-mn-20604-story.html | Paul Petzoldt; Pioneering Mountaineer, School Founder | Paul Petzoldt; Pioneering Mountaineer, School Founder
By his own definition, Paul Petzoldt was a contradiction in terms.
“There are old climbers, and there are bold climbers,” he said, “but there are no old, bold climbers.”
Petzoldt, however, was an old, bold climber. In 1994, when he was 86 and suffering from glaucoma... |
be2487af2f122769d2069b86055a29f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-11-fi-21120-story.html | Company Is Making More Than a Peep in the Candy Industry | Company Is Making More Than a Peep in the Candy Industry
Sugarcoated Marshmallow Peeps chicks and bunnies have proved a habit-forming treat for Easter candy buyers over four decades, but manufacturer Just Born Inc. still considers itself in a race for sugary survival.
So the company is hatching strategies to boost sale... |
4f1dc628b9f67ee9346f127dac0c47df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-15-ca-22382-story.html | The Roundhouse Miss | The Roundhouse Miss
“Fight Club,” a film about men who like to fight, is an unsettling experience, but not the way anyone intended. What’s most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it’s saying something... |
56dd794ec729d9e7278ebcb118620f7b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-16-ca-22794-story.html | ‘Curb’ Spotlights the George Costanza in David | ‘Curb’ Spotlights the George Costanza in David
Hard-core “Seinfeld” fans know fictional George Costanza was largely an extension of Larry David, the former NBC hit’s gloomy co-founder and creative spine who was a stand-up comic before scoring mightily in prime time.
With at least some of his famed dark personality tics... |
e25f35f28f8a2b2afece83b936f8e46a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-20-me-24362-story.html | Deadly Flood of 1938 Left Its Mark on Southland | Deadly Flood of 1938 Left Its Mark on Southland
At the time, nobody knew to blame the fierce winter of 1938 on a distant Pacific temperature blip that would come to be called El Nino. All anyone knew was that a relentless flurry of rainstorms kept drenching Southern California.
That February, Los Angeles endured its mo... |
03b0839e15bea151ba302873b86c37eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-25-me-26008-story.html | Actor Ford Unhurt in Copter Crash | Actor Ford Unhurt in Copter Crash
Like a daring climax to one of his hit movies, Harrison Ford and his flight instructor walked away from a helicopter crash this weekend in a dry riverbed after reportedly taking off from Van Nuys Airport, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said.
The accident took place about... |
a0c476792d70fd7aebc9dfb32263bf50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-26-fi-26298-story.html | Berkshire-Led Group to Buy MidAmerican Energy | Berkshire-Led Group to Buy MidAmerican Energy
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is leading an investor group that agreed to buy MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co. for $2.05 billion in cash, marking the billionaire investor’s first foray into energy.
Berkshire Hathaway said the group will pay $35.05 a share, 29% mor... |
a43b3b70a7aef96b26d226406f48e6ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-28-hw-27158-story.html | Some Tips on Riding Out an Earthquake | Some Tips on Riding Out an Earthquake
Occasionally, as I drive over or under a freeway overpass in California, I’ll be hit with a sense of dread. All I can think of are those horrifying images of the collapsed Cypress Freeway that trapped and killed 42 people in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
Certainly I’m not alone ... |
37625bcba5d33fe56962e6a375348175 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-29-me-27493-story.html | Where’s the Evidence of Genocide of Kosovar Albanians? | Where’s the Evidence of Genocide of Kosovar Albanians?
So, is there serious evidence of a Serbian campaign of genocide in Kosovo? It’s an important issue because the NATO powers, fortified by a chorus from the liberal intelligentsia, flourished the charge of genocide as justification for bombing that destroyed much of ... |
6a00db580b7d19732b672168a6020ad2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-29-me-27668-story.html | Overlooked Film’s Animators Created a Giant | Overlooked Film’s Animators Created a Giant
When the nominations for the Annies--the animation industry’s equivalent of the Academy Awards--were announced recently, the big winner was “The Iron Giant.” The Warner Bros. film garnered a remarkable 15 nominations, including best animated feature, best director and three n... |
6ce48baf0cc59291d74b0d343fc39507 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-30-fi-27769-story.html | McDonnell Douglas, Chinese Plead Not Guilty | McDonnell Douglas, Chinese Plead Not Guilty
McDonnell Douglas Corp. and a Chinese government-owned company pleaded not guilty to charges they conspired to divert sophisticated machine tools to the Chinese military in violation of U.S. export laws. The pleas were entered by attorneys representing McDonnell Douglas, whic... |
0ce0acd1dc88ebd8c76c4e87b352f334 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-01-ca-5531-story.html | Parents Council Says TV’s ‘Family Hour’ Now Raunchier | Parents Council Says TV’s ‘Family Hour’ Now Raunchier
The first hour of prime time--once set aside in the mid-1970s for family viewing--experienced a marked increase in sexual content, foul language and violence during the last year, according to the Parents Television Council, an organization lobbying to reinstate the... |
96f137c100d07352e487b3c651c3a0e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-04-me-6810-story.html | Stanley Weigel; Longtime Federal Judge | Stanley Weigel; Longtime Federal Judge
Stanley Weigel, an irascible liberal whose three decades as a federal judge in San Francisco brought major rulings on school desegregation and the rights of prisoners and the elderly, died Wednesday at his home in the Russian Hill section of the city. He was 93.
After his appointm... |
59303c7c3cccb9730a6745686aa0a3dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-05-tv-11386-story.html | COVER STORY : Boys & Girls : Start Your Remotes! | COVER STORY : Boys & Girls : Start Your Remotes!
The fall season of children’s television features a fresh mix of familiar comic book faces: Sabrina, Spider Man, Archie and the gang, as well as several educational series for the preschool set. Even Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary sleuth; Sherlock Holmes, has been re... |
1e91a5a61944ca63f8dc73195c6403c4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-14-fi-10095-story.html | California Pizza Kitchen Tries the Frozen Food Aisle | California Pizza Kitchen Tries the Frozen Food Aisle
In a 30-second television commercial filmed on the beach in Santa Monica, casually dressed California Pizza Kitchen co-founders Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield mug for the cameras in a fast-paced spot touting their new line of frozen gourmet pizzas.
The pizzas, which ... |
7e2e736624701f9e90199321a03c610f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-14-mn-9950-story.html | Matthew Shepard’s Mother Aims to Speak With His Voice | Matthew Shepard’s Mother Aims to Speak With His Voice
She is fine-featured and wary. Mostly wary. Judy Shepard, the reluctant activist, is still coming to terms with this business of public revelation, public grief and public debate, a role thrust upon her after the brutal murder of her son last October.
Matthew Shepar... |
4a66b5a3df7c4a2a20539b81c07950bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-24-mn-13479-story.html | Microsoft Exec’s Speech Knocks Stocks for a Loop | Microsoft Exec’s Speech Knocks Stocks for a Loop
The president of the world’s leading software company on Thursday called U.S. technology stocks absurdly overpriced, sending an already nervous stock market to one of its biggest declines in months.
The remarks by Microsoft Corp. President Steven Ballmer knocked a key re... |
eb70eef7fa32fb7714958be66ebb08f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-28-mn-14873-story.html | Broad Health Care Reform Package Signed Into Law | Broad Health Care Reform Package Signed Into Law
Gov. Gray Davis on Monday signed into law one of the most ambitious health care reform packages in the nation, granting more than 20 million California residents the right to sue their HMOs, obtain second medical opinions and appeal their health plan’s decisions to indep... |
25b7b9d07260624573fe5c8ce48fc62f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-30-me-16712-story.html | $112 Million to Be Spent on Aesthetic Upgrade for LAX | $112 Million to Be Spent on Aesthetic Upgrade for LAX
Officials at Los Angeles International Airport have announced plans for a $112-million beautification project that will feature a circle of towering, graffiti-proof pillars and the huge letters “LAX” at the main entry.
Calling it the first aesthetic upgrade since th... |
e86dfafd5e289be30378070db9bc40e6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-sep-30-me-16719-story.html | D.A. Fails to Get Suit on Child Support Dismissed | D.A. Fails to Get Suit on Child Support Dismissed
A Municipal Court judge on Wednesday allowed a taxpayer lawsuit against the Los Angeles County district attorney’s child support unit to proceed.
Judge S. Patricia Spear did not grant the demurrer sought by county attorneys, which would have ended the lawsuit that seeks... |
6511eb89c080d2ffa5b9d226c1bd74a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-04-mn-15701-story.html | Everything That’s Old Is What’s New in Houston | Everything That’s Old Is What’s New in Houston
Until recently, Houston’s interest in architectural landmarks could basically be summed up by the Witch Hat.
A spooky, 20-foot cupola built in the 1900s, the Witch Hat for generations was a local icon. The house it perched on was, as well, a lone remnant of the grand Victo... |
704d57b06dcd90bc398028a4a91befb5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-05-mn-16221-story.html | Annulment Denied in Millionaire Marriage | Annulment Denied in Millionaire Marriage
A judge has refused to grant TV’s instant bride an instant annulment. Instead, a court hearing is set for today to determine if Darva Conger’s marriage to a multimillionaire really was a fraud.
Conger filed for an annulment March 7, saying her quickie marriage to Rick Rockwell w... |
dd49d04e3536dd1f5bd7c539e809cf75 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-08-me-17324-story.html | The Rev. S.M. Lockridge; Prominent San Diego Pastor | The Rev. S.M. Lockridge; Prominent San Diego Pastor
The Rev. S.M. Lockridge, 87, a major religious and social force in San Diego for decades. As pastor of Calvary Baptist Church and president of the California Missionary Baptist State Convention, he was known for his evangelical conferences, powerful preaching and civi... |
1330fd17c4c4ceb2cc44367b3589bba2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-23-mn-22494-story.html | Passion for Bird’s Nest Soup Is Endangering a Species | Passion for Bird’s Nest Soup Is Endangering a Species
Take globs of bird saliva, a tasteless jelly of little nutritional value, plop it into a broth--and what do you get?
Bird’s nest soup.
For devotees, it’s a divine “caviar of the East,” a delicacy so extravagantly priced that some people kill and die over it. For cri... |
1c4a4cc41b779427a73aa44276da1339 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-24-he-22804-story.html | With Arbitration’s Pros, Cons, What’s a Patient to Do? | With Arbitration’s Pros, Cons, What’s a Patient to Do?
Suppose you went to a new doctor’s office and were handed a form asking you to agree to arbitration should your treatment lead to a legal dispute. Would you sign? Would you understand what it meant?
This request, made at the same time you fill out insurance forms a... |
aefc437ddfbe8e3764ab73930522dc07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-25-mn-23275-story.html | Diocese Settles Priest’s Suit for $535,000 | Diocese Settles Priest’s Suit for $535,000
A settlement has been reached in a sex-and-money scandal that rocked the Diocese of Santa Rosa, officials said Monday.
The diocese has agreed to pay $535,000 to Father Jorge Hume Salas, who claimed that Bishop G. Patrick Ziemann demanded sex in return for covering up Salas’ th... |
e0418d0647284c8bb1f5d8b7693d5d5d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-26-me-23425-story.html | Bowled Over by the New Perfection | Bowled Over by the New Perfection
There was a time when bowling a 300 game was the sporting equivalent of scoring 1600 on the SATs.
It was perfection, an earthly manifestation of the ideal, an opportunity to swagger, to show off your gold ring from the American Bowling Congress, to know that at least one paragraph in y... |
ff624559905c7b46266ee9d401e82626 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-29-ca-24565-story.html | A Classic Portrait of Garland at Her Emotional Height | A Classic Portrait of Garland at Her Emotional Height
It was 39 years ago this month that Judy Garland stepped on stage at Carnegie Hall and gave what was one of the most celebrated concerts of the modern pop era.
Garland wasn’t the greatest singer or actress of her time, but she was one of the greatest entertainers. O... |
2a546e531fa2aeefd9a946250c0f0034 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-29-mn-24659-story.html | Last Man Down | Last Man Down
We all think we know most of the Vietnam War stories. Marriages shattered, families torn apart, years lost to self-doubt for soldiers who fought hard then came home to a nation of critics.
This is one that drifted through my childhood. The last official U.S. casualty in Vietnam was from my hometown, the f... |
4781ff7e9cb03ac0dd677e1fe8b2c69b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-29-mn-24663-story.html | U.S. Attorney Widens Role in LAPD Probe | U.S. Attorney Widens Role in LAPD Probe
Increasing the federal government’s assertive role in the Los Angeles police corruption probe, U.S. Atty. Alejandro Mayorkas said Friday that his office has asked immigration officials to refrain from deporting a Guatemalan national who says he and his girlfriend were beaten, rob... |
0cb262803a649c870118d3141f014771 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-30-me-25109-story.html | Hanegraaff Wasn’t ‘Handpicked’ | Hanegraaff Wasn’t ‘Handpicked’
* After reading your article “Casting Stones” (April 15), I am writing to clarify several issues.
First, my husband, Walter Martin, never “handpicked” anyone to succeed him at Christian Research Institute and “The Bible Answer Man” radio program.
This claim was handed to me by someone I t... |
2426b64c2a678cf59a216ce0a5bde975 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-30-me-25140-story.html | . . . and the Lesson in Every Chore | . . . and the Lesson in Every Chore
California Supt. of Public Instruction Delaine Eastin is promoting a marvelous idea: A garden in every school. As coordinator of the Naturalist Academy at North Hollywood High School, I have had the opportunity to see the educational effects of ecological horticulture, a.k.a. organic... |
b414d96994360826db214bdbc5e01c0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-02-mn-63009-story.html | Tummy Trouble in Cairo | Tummy Trouble in Cairo
It is 1:30 in the morning at the packed Al Rashid nightclub, and the scene is “Arabian Nights” crossed with Studio 54.
A private nurse wearing an Islamic veil attends to a heavyset Saudi man in robe and kaffiyeh, giving him an injection at his stage-side table. Some women in the audience are in f... |
820f2bcb98785d768b1cac94a45ac5f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-03-mn-63882-story.html | Miami Police Officers Stung by Criticism of Prostitution Stings | Miami Police Officers Stung by Criticism of Prostitution Stings
To fight crime in the Edgewater neighborhood, police have traded in their uniforms for a sexier look: shorts, tight blouses and a come-hither smile. Some officers have parked their patrol cars to lean up against lampposts. Others not posing as prostitutes ... |
4bda0301650229a972a5be09d3388dc6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-06-ca-65199-story.html | Something a Little Less Wild | Something a Little Less Wild
Melanie Griffith is like someone who is constantly at her own surprise birthday party opening gifts in front of a roomful of people. Even at age 42, she’s still prone to outbursts of mirthful ebullience, but these days laced with healthy doses of self-awareness.
Director John Waters, whose ... |
2501be88668d8e7d35ad1a36769c8a57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-07-cl-35-story.html | Payback Time for a Beloved Guitar Man | Payback Time for a Beloved Guitar Man
People buying tickets for a two-night concert at the Santa Monica Civic on Tuesday and Wednesday with Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Emmylou Harris and Bonnie Raitt might be puzzled that it’s a benefit concert for Fred Walecki and family.
No, he hasn’t been in the ne... |
81ea4686cd384c2687967509a70e8fed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-07-mn-109-story.html | Anti-Fraud Drive Proves Costly for Employees | Anti-Fraud Drive Proves Costly for Employees
A decade-old campaign against workers’ compensation fraud in California is part of a much broader national effort to save money for employers and insurers at the expense of workers, according to legal scholars and researchers who specialize in the field.
The effort to shift ... |
a06f5fa067f46e013e632193f0ae1ce5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-10-mn-2091-story.html | Clinton Presents Medals to 15 Heroes | Clinton Presents Medals to 15 Heroes
With barely five months remaining in his presidency, President Clinton presented the Medal of Freedom on Wednesday to 15 Americans, honoring among others heroes of the Democratic Party’s most liberal factions with whom he often has been at odds.
The honorees included former Sen. Geo... |
0b1cf429db8652d09b789f107d68f389 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-12-fi-3290-story.html | Disney Ordered to Pay $240 Million in Suit | Disney Ordered to Pay $240 Million in Suit
Walt Disney Co. must pay $240 million to two men who accused executives of the world’s No. 2 media company of stealing their idea for a sports-theme amusement park, a Florida jury found.
Jurors in Orange County Circuit Court in Orlando deliberated for 12 hours before finding t... |
af8ef94c7b9ae4c0a39cb6313c15e922 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-18-ca-6310-story.html | ‘Original Kings of Comedy,’ Telling It Like It Is | ‘Original Kings of Comedy,’ Telling It Like It Is
No wonder “The Kings of Comedy” tour, organized in 1997 by producer Walter Latham, has become the highest-grossing comedy tour in history, with ticket sales exceeding $37 million. Any of its four Kings--Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Bernie Mac--... |
f0389d5b4bb938c2922f591761746752 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-18-me-6272-story.html | Civil Rights Protests at 1960 Convention | Civil Rights Protests at 1960 Convention
* Re “The Protesters of 1960 Helped Change the World,” Commentary, Aug. 13: At the 1960 Democratic convention, there was much disarray both among the various groups contending for the presidency and also a serious split among black leaders whether to endorse civil rights demonst... |
3088555b1d61e3c64397cb700d1470f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-24-mn-9483-story.html | Digging for Romans in China | Digging for Romans in China
Song Guorong’s genealogy gets hazy just a few generations before his own. But follow it back further--by 2,000 years--and he’ll tell you exactly who lies at the root of his family tree.
“I know my ancestors were Romans,” the lanky 39-year-old says in a matter-of-fact voice as he navigates th... |
e8909d4cb6ea76c6dd46d6d15a8bb185 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-28-ca-11405-story.html | NBC Leads Tally of Early Emmys, Boosted by ‘West Wing’ | NBC Leads Tally of Early Emmys, Boosted by ‘West Wing’
“The West Wing” began its Emmy campaign by collecting four statuettes Saturday during a preliminary nighttime Emmy Awards presentation in Pasadena, pacing NBC to the most trophies of any network.
The first-year White House drama claimed awards for casting, theme mu... |
679ba2f7525644b405ea60fc11468b5d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-aug-30-fi-12619-story.html | Motorola to Buy Printrak for $160 Million | Motorola to Buy Printrak for $160 Million
Electronics maker Motorola Inc. said Tuesday it agreed to acquire Printrak International Inc. for $160 million in cash, gaining a maker of software that will improve fire and police dispatching on Motorola’s two-way radios.
Motorola said it will pay $12.14 for each share of Pri... |
2a0930a6ae4aee5cd88b4939b5d1d19d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-02-ca-60316-story.html | Bringing Puppets to Life . . . and Death | Bringing Puppets to Life . . . and Death
Drifting between the worlds of the living and the dead, ghosts are a perfect subject for puppetry or animation--and director Ping Chong uses both in his magical multimedia spectacle “Kwaidan: Three Japanese Ghost Stories,” which opened a five-performance run on Thursday in the F... |
aa1096cb1667c9c8f9311d091e270287 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-07-me-62381-story.html | * Liane Haid; Early Film Star in Austria, Germany | * Liane Haid; Early Film Star in Austria, Germany
Liane Haid, 105, Austria’s earliest film star who made the transition from silents to talkies. Born in Vienna on Aug. 16, 1895, she starred in 90 films--made at first in Vienna, but from 1922 onward increasingly in Berlin. She married Baron Fritz von Haymerle, an indust... |
c17599625df7c8716a1fe84975f68d77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-08-ca-62742-story.html | NBC Cancels the Struggling Sitcom ‘Michael Richards Show’ | NBC Cancels the Struggling Sitcom ‘Michael Richards Show’
NBC has canceled “The Michael Richards Show,” a move that had been rumored for some weeks and which ends a high-profile failure for Richards, who was attempting a return to situation comedy after his beloved role as Kramer on “Seinfeld.”
From the beginning, the ... |
5ede9d5d6a13141ff433674cdb8a0337 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-08-mn-62966-story.html | Hong Kong Media Abuzz Over Rights | Hong Kong Media Abuzz Over Rights
Nowhere in Asia is the pulse of media freedom monitored with greater scrutiny or worry than in this rich and unique corner of China.
Two recent episodes have raised the level of concern.
The back-to-back and apparently unconnected incidents involved a very public tirade against the Hon... |
b1a85a307f7ffcb747660ebf9855a567 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-10-mn-63791-story.html | In Duval County, Views of Vote Process as Different as Black and White | In Duval County, Views of Vote Process as Different as Black and White
Terry Smith’s face scrunched up Saturday when he heard the news that the recounts had stopped.
“You’re lying, right?” he asked--twice--as he stared at the entrance of the Duval County Courthouse where the process was set to begin.
But when he saw co... |
68f1e4a92fb31cd97bb3370d7546978a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-13-ca-64717-story.html | Disney Moves to ‘New Groove’ | Disney Moves to ‘New Groove’
Once upon a time in a far-off mountain kingdom that sort of resembled pre-Columbian South America, there lived an arrogant young emperor who sort of dressed like an Inca and took pleasure in making everyone’s life in the palace miserable.
As fate would have it, this royal brat angered his p... |
d4af3f579f3c41a7870e3f4074ad29b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-13-fi-64817-story.html | Microsoft to Pay $97 Million to End Temp Worker Suit | Microsoft to Pay $97 Million to End Temp Worker Suit
Microsoft Corp. will pay $97 million to settle a federal lawsuit from employees who claimed the software giant classified them as “temporary” workers for years to deny them standard benefits such as health insurance and the lucrative employee stock purchase plan, the... |
4bffa512831e7c6274d06c77729cb740 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-14-ca-65223-story.html | MORNING REPORT | MORNING REPORT
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New Rembrandt Record: A 17th century portrait by Rembrandt set a new record price for the Dutch master Wednesday, selling for $28.69 million at a London Christie’s auction. “Portrait of a Lady” was part of the collection of the late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild that was being offered in a two-day ... |
af9e95eda3a1e1cc3813f85176c633f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-15-cl-1351-story.html | Lighthouse Blazes a Trail Into the Future | Lighthouse Blazes a Trail Into the Future
When 6th century monks braved lashing Atlantic waves and scaled the threatening spikes of Skellig island, their mission was to feel the power of God.
Now the rocky outcrop off the southwestern coast of Ireland is hoping to benefit from another force. Home to one of oldest light... |
14c6ddad451574a45b3ff2e57e61edb2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-16-mn-754-story.html | Disney Seeks New ‘Groove’ With Dual-Language Release | Disney Seeks New ‘Groove’ With Dual-Language Release
How to target Latino moviegoers--or whether to even bother--has long confounded Hollywood.
Walt Disney Pictures this weekend is taking that question more seriously with side-by-side English and dubbed Spanish releases of its new animated movie “The Emperor’s New Groo... |
12191953e5b2191d51d31f7222c94ed5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-17-me-1254-story.html?_amp=true | McMartin Defendant Who ‘Lost Everything’ in Abuse Case Dies at 74 | McMartin Defendant Who ‘Lost Everything’ in Abuse Case Dies at 74
When it was over, Peggy McMartin Buckey spoke bitterly of the price she had paid in the longest and costliest trial in American history--one which, from a legal standpoint, she had won.
“I’ve gone through hell and now we’ve lost everything,” she said in ... |
4a7900de5aeaabb8524c78cdbaf975d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-18-ca-1437-story.html | Fans Give Mel Gibson Just What He Wants | Fans Give Mel Gibson Just What He Wants
Holiday business heated up early over the weekend as comedy ruled the box office: Adults in huge numbers wanted to see Mel Gibson divine “What Women Want”; teenagers flocked to “Dude, Where’s My Car?”; and families still preferred “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” over the arrival... |
96bdfde684d74c33de5d38a1f3b63e8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-19-ca-1772-story.html | Martin Will Host Oscars, Saying, ‘If You Can’t Win ‘Em, Join ‘Em’ | Martin Will Host Oscars, Saying, ‘If You Can’t Win ‘Em, Join ‘Em’
Which films will be chosen for this year’s Academy Awards is anybody’s guess, but at least one Oscar question has been answered: Steve Martin was chosen Monday to host the 73rd annual Academy Awards on March 25--the first time the comic actor, director a... |
61f8656643ae0837b0dda57b45978263 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-dec-31-cl-6640-story.html | The Afterlife of an East L.A. Shul | The Afterlife of an East L.A. Shul
Neil Diamond prayed here. So did Al Jolson, or at least that’s what the old-timers claim. Now, there is mostly just darkness and decay and the indignant ruffling of pigeons, the sole remaining tenants of the Breed Street Shul.
As Robert Chattel picks his way through the crumbling Boyl... |
6fb43f510352232bc6c71ac72f85aa2f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-04-mn-61067-story.html | George Kahin; Asia Expert, Vietnam War Critic | George Kahin; Asia Expert, Vietnam War Critic
George McTurnan Kahin, 82, an expert on Southeast Asia who was a leading critic of Washington policy on the Vietnam War. Kahin served on the faculty of Cornell University for 37 years until his 1988 retirement. In the late 1960s he and John W. Lewis wrote “The United States... |
35a2469429556ff29d9dbaf6c3ce96b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-06-me-61631-story.html | Bonnie Cashin; Influential Fashion Designer | Bonnie Cashin; Influential Fashion Designer
Bonnie Cashin, one of the most influential designers of American sportswear, died Thursday after open- heart surgery in New York City. She was 84.
Described by fashion experts as an “American sportswear original,” Cashin pioneered a style and way of dressing that still resona... |
552ff79ae0480c0b59eb95cf8d1ef8d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-22-mn-1458-story.html | Clifton Daniel; Former N.Y. Times Editor, Son-in-Law of President Harry Truman | Clifton Daniel; Former N.Y. Times Editor, Son-in-Law of President Harry Truman
Clifton Daniel, urbane and meticulous former managing editor of the New York Times whom a colleague dubbed “the poor man’s Prince Rainier” when he married Margaret Truman, only child of the late President Harry S. Truman, has died at the age... |
18eb2f3d4ca0452704ea8f60486bd39e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-25-fi-2430-story.html | 3Com Shares Hit a Price High as IPO for Palm Inc. Nears | 3Com Shares Hit a Price High as IPO for Palm Inc. Nears
Shares of 3Com Corp., the No. 2 maker of computer networking equipment, climbed 6.9% on Thursday to a record amid rising enthusiasm for next week’s initial public offering of shares in its Palm Inc. unit.
3Com rose $5.38 to $83, surpassing the previous high of $80... |
80e0110bc1e56bd76cff6c4b4d084f75 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-01-ca-49542-story.html | NPR Names Century’s 100 Most Significant Songs | NPR Names Century’s 100 Most Significant Songs
In an exercise sure to start arguments among music lovers, National Public Radio has created its list of the 100 most important American musical works of the century.
The list started with 300 songs suggested by a group of producers, artists and experts familiar to NPR. In... |
f23daabd6616f9094f14701498d259db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-02-tr-49838-story.html | Spoiled by the Unspoiled in Tobago | Spoiled by the Unspoiled in Tobago
What’s the penalty here for trespassing? I had to wonder, because there’s no way a beach as beautiful as Bloody Bay could be this empty unless it was private. My friend, Nancy, and I had lolled on the white sand and swum in the clear, warm water for two hours and hadn’t seen a soul. U... |
3fab2b323af6c9412e9a1f984e6ccd69 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-03-me-50281-story.html | What’s Germane Is a Soldier’s Behavior | What’s Germane Is a Soldier’s Behavior
Reignited by the brutal slaying of a gay soldier at Ft. Campbell, Ky., the controversy over gays in the military threatens to become as combative an issue at the end of the Clinton administration as it was at the beginning. In recent weeks, the president, vice president and first ... |
7342d1f2c414ee8276aa13e1999ffb22 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-08-mn-51979-story.html | Japanese Retailer Bucks a Trend by Selling Cheap | Japanese Retailer Bucks a Trend by Selling Cheap
Politicians are pumping $171 billion into yet another gargantuan stimulus package aimed at jump-starting the anemic Japanese economy. But one retailer is making his own economic miracle come true a buck at a time.
Daiso Industries Co., one of the few booming chains in Ja... |
150324e09391db3c5eedecf7253f4477 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-09-me-52388-story.html | We Killed Music, Now We Take the Rap | We Killed Music, Now We Take the Rap
Many people will argue that the phrase “rap music” is an oxymoron. But what do those people find unsatisfactory or irritating about it? Rap has no melody, so what’s to sing?
What’s more, rap has no harmony, and in music, harmony is usually melody’s servant. So rap leaves out complet... |
6388ec06e9aa6ab6ffd3a64e99806acf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-09-mn-52271-story.html | Cutting-Edge Technology Opens a Window on Ancient Egyptian City | Cutting-Edge Technology Opens a Window on Ancient Egyptian City
This is a typical Nile Delta farming village, its simple mud-brick houses sitting along dirt roads amid the green carpeting of rice and corn fields.
Yet there’s grandeur here--a vast, buried metropolis from millenniums ago that was discovered by German arc... |
5acde5be6de63839bf2355dc71c19219 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-11-sp-52826-story.html | As the Rams Turned | As the Rams Turned
There’s not much excitement in this town of 7,700, across Lake Pontchartrain about 45 minutes north of New Orleans. There might occasionally be a rowdy party in the ballroom at the Holiday Inn on a Saturday night, but otherwise things are quiet.
There are no big corporations with boardrooms filled wi... |
25a6a6a2bd2f4cda5914f1cbc8470a67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-12-mn-53274-story.html | The KGB Rises Again in Russia | The KGB Rises Again in Russia
Top officials of Russia’s secret police, known these days as the FSB, gathered last month to celebrate the founding of their agency in 1917 by Communist leader V.I. Lenin.
Vladimir V. Putin, an ex-KGB colonel who had become prime minister only months earlier, spoke to his compatriots and r... |
99ed85bf35ad5ecae6a656f1cd7a522e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-28-ca-58439-story.html | ‘The Cup’ Is a Rich Mix of Soccer, Life in Monastery | ‘The Cup’ Is a Rich Mix of Soccer, Life in Monastery
What could be more surprising than “The Cup”? Not only is its country of origin unexpected (the East Asian kingdom of Bhutan not being previously known as a filmmaking center), so was its becoming the object of a mini-bidding war among independent distributors after ... |
e167f65b7eb4795a5caa81e39a5decce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-29-hm-58817-story.html | Weather Is the Key to Good Gardenias | Weather Is the Key to Good Gardenias
Question: My gardenias never look as good as my friend’s. What is the secret to growing healthy gardenias?
C.D., Orange
Answer: Although fragrant gardenias are quite common in Southern California and can thrive here, they can be temperamental to grow if they are planted in the wrong... |
9a52dc50bc7572e8ec87923a677d32a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-31-cl-59476-story.html | Couples’ Emotional Bonding Can Take the Steam Out of Intimacy | Couples’ Emotional Bonding Can Take the Steam Out of Intimacy
“What does a lesbian bring on a second date?” asks stand-up comic, and Broadway actress Lea DeLaria, who often bases jokes on her experience as a gay woman. “A U-Haul.”
That’s because on the first date, she says, they fall madly in love. On the second, they ... |
5b48cc0a0f20e8583b2b697800b3df2c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-31-fi-59503-story.html | Hedy Lamarr’s Invention Finally Comes of Age | Hedy Lamarr’s Invention Finally Comes of Age
The obituaries for movie actress Hedy Lamarr, who died at her home in Florida on Jan. 19 at age 86, all mentioned the fact that she co-invented an important technology for radio communications called “frequency hopping.” But none of the obituaries described the significance ... |
1627a0411fcbcf4b01f8603b2a8e0b81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-02-me-46893-story.html | Raids, Not Race, Were What Mattered to Black Pirates | Raids, Not Race, Were What Mattered to Black Pirates
Pirates have gone down in history as drunken, bloodthirsty terrors of the high seas who wouldn’t think twice about slicing off a captive’s ear or sending him down the plank.
But historians are taking a new look at the seafaring thieves and finding that their ships ma... |
174986c5c108e75ab074a7ac2d810713 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-02-re-46915-story.html | Reinforce Closet Rod With a Wooden Dowel | Reinforce Closet Rod With a Wooden Dowel
Telescopic metal closet rods are easy to install because they expand to fit any closet. Because the rods are hollow, they tend to sag if you hang too much on them.
One solution is to fill the core with a wooden dowel rod. The dowel should be smaller than the inside diameter of t... |
afec5a3adcc7b7ea77bf931e2a2a1fe9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-03-me-47356-story.html | Vegetarian Group Uses Jesus in Ads | Vegetarian Group Uses Jesus in Ads
An animal-rights group has turned to a well-known figure to promote vegetarianism: Jesus Christ.
About three dozen demonstrators from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals tried to deliver that message to Christians on Sunday outside the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove. They c... |
6e1e9328555aa0e4db67701359863bab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-03-mn-47433-story.html | DotComGuy Delights in the Digital Life | DotComGuy Delights in the Digital Life
DotComGuy has passed the halfway mark without losing it.
The 26-year-old computer systems manager, who legally changed his name to reflect his online life, rented a Dallas townhouse six months ago and volunteered to live off e-commerce for a year, never to venture past his tiny ba... |
719462764f2e87b121f3909671a6707f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-03-mn-47440-story.html | Mexico’s Ruling Party Loses Presidency in Historic Election | Mexico’s Ruling Party Loses Presidency in Historic Election
Voters in Mexico ousted the world’s longest-ruling faction, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, on Sunday, handing the presidency to maverick businessman Vicente Fox in a stunning upset, according to preliminary results.
“The next president of the republic ... |
971a52e2454cb386d6f4138db0edb84d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-07-mn-49042-story.html | Instructor Offered to Fly With JFK Jr., Report Says | Instructor Offered to Fly With JFK Jr., Report Says
John F. Kennedy Jr. turned down an offer by one of his flying instructors to accompany him the night of his doomed flight to Martha’s Vineyard, saying that he “wanted to do it alone,” federal investigators reported Thursday.
The accident that killed Kennedy, his wife ... |
05d8b27e72feab8dcbd94c40730c2c23 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-14-sp-53105-story.html | Ex-Trojan Receiver Soward Agrees to a 5-Year Contract | Ex-Trojan Receiver Soward Agrees to a 5-Year Contract
The Jacksonville Jaguars and first-round draft pick R. Jay Soward have agreed to a five-year contract worth about $5.5 million, a source close to the negotiations said Thursday.
Soward’s agent, Leigh Steinberg, flew to Jacksonville on Thursday to secure the deal. So... |
adbe171a33869d11b23e159ea4da4e4b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-16-ca-53595-story.html | When the Media Burned Atlanta | When the Media Burned Atlanta
It was 1981, in the heat of the case, and the numbers of outsiders pouring into Atlanta were soaring along with the summer thermometer and headlines shouting, “They Found Another Body.”
The psychics were there, five of them sent by the National Enquirer. Five out-of-town super-cops dropped... |
1af0972a39c771bfcaf4af733dedc87e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-16-tm-53668-story.html | Confessions of a Civil Rights Daughter | Confessions of a Civil Rights Daughter
IF AINT BABY IS WATCHING, THEN SHE HAS SEEN HERSELF DIE A THOUSAND TIMES.
On a porch in Greenwood, Miss., 1965. Flesh and blood dissolve into memory, in the instant it takes to light a fire and throw it.
If Aint Baby is listening, then she surely has heard her story told again and... |
efaba115ddd163989ec9bcc9fdeec566 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-17-mn-54381-story.html | Hillary Clinton Denies Making 1974 Jewish Slur | Hillary Clinton Denies Making 1974 Jewish Slur
Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton Sunday angrily denied having uttered an anti-Jewish slur 26 years ago, calling the allegation “politics of the worst kind.”
Clinton, who is running for the Senate representing New York against Republican Rep. Rick Lazio, was reported... |
5827a47fce200095914c4acbf0d35191 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-20-me-55759-story.html | Owner of Raided Shop Awarded $1 Million | Owner of Raided Shop Awarded $1 Million
Orange County jurors awarded the owner of a Garden Grove auto body shop more than $1 million in damages after deciding that law enforcement officers raided the store without a warrant, a lawyer said Wednesday.
Jurors concluded that the team of officers conspired to violate Merrit... |
eb2f47934e5445c278956b17e52350ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-21-mn-63308-story.html | Texas Pride Is Put to the Campaign Test | Texas Pride Is Put to the Campaign Test
When God was handing out bluster and bravado, Texas must have been first in line because everything in Texas is bigger and better than anywhere else. Just ask a Texan.
They have the biggest sky, tastiest barbecue, best flag, friendliest people, lowest taxes, most oil, prettiest s... |
5e26c8bff3e15b215f86e19291e294e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-22-hm-57228-story.html | 3 Ways to Top-Notch Topiaries | 3 Ways to Top-Notch Topiaries
Question: How do I create a topiary?
A.L., Fountain Valley
Answer: Topiaries are plants trained by a variety of methods to resemble an object. They are living statuary. There are three popular methods of creating topiaries: garden topiaries, moss-filled topiaries and trained topiaries.
Gar... |
666f00e4e8eaf0f354f2f7d58019aaa6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-23-mn-57847-story.html | In Mexico, Women Take a Siesta From Housework | In Mexico, Women Take a Siesta From Housework
For the first time in 23 years, Irene Ortega slept late this weekend.
She didn’t get up at 6 a.m. to fix her husband’s meals for the day. She didn’t haul out the washboard to scrub the clothes. Her husband was duly informed that he could fend for himself: She was on strike.... |
a5e9ee98ee5dc3f19dbf16108bc3d23f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-01-mn-36319-story.html | Pushing the Boundaries of a Free Press | Pushing the Boundaries of a Free Press
Vladimir A. Gusinsky, owner of Russia’s largest independent media group, stands virtually alone among the business and political elite here in going head-to-head in battle with President Vladimir V. Putin and his powerful Kremlin chief of staff, Alexander S. Voloshin.
His lone str... |
9f1652321fd9c66871fa8f66ef1207e9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-02-fi-36497-story.html | Modus Media to Close Plant, Cut 200 Jobs | Modus Media to Close Plant, Cut 200 Jobs
Modus Media Inc., which handles customer services and manages inventories for clients, including Microsoft Corp., said it plans to cut 200 jobs, or 4% of its work force, as it closes a plant in Fremont, Calif., to consolidate its North American operations. Modus Media, based in ... |
c4629d79a80d0d1763316945d2f49f50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-03-me-36892-story.html | Suit Alleges Harassment of L.A. Gang Peace Group | Suit Alleges Harassment of L.A. Gang Peace Group
Five prominent Los Angeles attorneys filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Friday charging that Los Angeles Police Department officers in the scandal-tarnished Rampart Division have harassed and beaten members of a group that works to end gang violence.
Lead counsel Paul ... |
2d7a7a64ee6b04010a2df9b997912aa9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-06-mn-37998-story.html | Chernobyl Plant to Close Dec. 15; Clinton Pledges Funds Toward Cost | Chernobyl Plant to Close Dec. 15; Clinton Pledges Funds Toward Cost
Fourteen years after the world’s worst nuclear accident sent plumes of radioactivity and shivers of fear across Europe, Ukraine announced Monday that it will close the entire Chernobyl nuclear plant in December.
President Leonid D. Kuchma disclosed the... |
c788522b465270f39eeaa2e97b3f1b32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-11-me-39908-story.html | ‘Wall Street of the West’ Had Its Peaks, Crashes | ‘Wall Street of the West’ Had Its Peaks, Crashes
In Northern California, they found gold in the mountain streams, but in Los Angeles there were fortunes to be made in the concrete canyons of Spring Street.
In the 1920s, as Los Angeles flexed the muscles of its new urbanity, its sturdy heart was on Spring, “the Wall Str... |
06e8005f23ff4da55b9d9a126a361139 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-12-me-40131-story.html | Humberto Cane; Influential Cuban Musician | Humberto Cane; Influential Cuban Musician
Humberto Cane, 82, a Cuban musician influential in Havana, Mexico City and Los Angeles. Born in Matanzas in 1918, Cane was the son of Valentin Cane, the founder of the influential group Sonora Matancera. Humberto played in his father’s band for several years before forming his ... |
44ef66304bd78bff00faf9cf3e20878b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-14-mn-40888-story.html | Owner of Media Outlets Critical of Kremlin Is Arrested | Owner of Media Outlets Critical of Kremlin Is Arrested
The owner of Russia’s largest independent media operation was arrested here Tuesday evening, several days after an aide was warned that authorities were planning new moves against the tycoon’s Media-Most company.
The arrest of Vladimir A. Gusinsky, whose media outl... |
164f313105a303143d3705f1ae060041 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-15-sp-41173-story.html | That Was No Dream, That Was Kobe | That Was No Dream, That Was Kobe
The kid has us in his clutches now, an entire city locked in his long arms, tucked below that sheepish grin, soaring toward that shiny basket at the far reaches of the imagination.
Kobe Bryant is flying, and Los Angeles is flying with him, our best ride in more than a decade, one final ... |
2522cad3468a9387871346e932e46e2f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-18-me-42284-story.html | A Distinction of Note for a Musical Landmark | A Distinction of Note for a Musical Landmark
Saturday nights were party nights at Maverick’s Flat, and when the Ike and Tina Turner Revue got in the groove and Marlon Brando and Steve McQueen kicked back in the shadows, there was no other place to be on a hot Los Angeles night.
It was the late 1960s, and the Crenshaw-a... |
8f934f18c8704038ef0d85673347afe7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-22-fi-43532-story.html | Lawsuit Alleges Wells Fargo Uses Internet to Promote Discrimination | Lawsuit Alleges Wells Fargo Uses Internet to Promote Discrimination
In a new twist on a familiar allegation against home lenders, Wells Fargo & Co. was accused Wednesday of using the Internet to discriminate against minorities and encourage racial segregation.
The allegations center on Wells Fargo’s “Community Calculat... |
56dbbee5f86e6d87481f4f645cbd20c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jun-23-ca-43891-story.html | Getting in Touch With Oneself, Others in ‘Idiots’ | Getting in Touch With Oneself, Others in ‘Idiots’
“The Idiots” suggests that if Danish iconoclast Lars von Trier’s filmsare getting tougher, they’re also continuing to reward the patient.
It is yet another film made according to the rules of Dogma 95, the Copenhagen film collective that insists on location shooting, di... |
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