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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-05-ca-53521-story.html
Wishful Thinking in ‘West Wing’
Wishful Thinking in ‘West Wing’ Hail to the chief. If the one in the White House and his staff are as proficient and inspiring as their fictional counterparts were in Wednesday night’s special terrorism-themed episode of “The West Wing,” Americans are well-served in the grief-driven, war-footing aftermath of Sept. 11. ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-05-me-53750-story.html
Paul J. Fitzgerald, 64; Lawyer in Manson Case
Paul J. Fitzgerald, 64; Lawyer in Manson Case Paul J. Fitzgerald, a pugnacious former public defender who became the lead defense attorney in the bizarre 1970 murder trial of cult leader Charles Manson and his followers, has died. He was 64. He was found dead by an associate Tuesday at his Beverly Hills home. He had su...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-07-me-54443-story.html
Monique Mickus, 62; Founded Local French-Style Schools
Monique Mickus, 62; Founded Local French-Style Schools Monique Mickus, a former translator whose desire to educate her children in a bilingual setting led her to found a five-campus system of French American schools in Southern California, died of cancer Sept. 25 at her North Hills home. She was 62. Mickus was the foun...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-08-fi-54655-story.html
Cooking Up a Powerhouse of Chinese Fast Food
Cooking Up a Powerhouse of Chinese Fast Food The founders and builders of Panda Express, the largest Chinese restaurant chain in history, today face the challenge that only comes to successful entrepreneurs: What do you do after you succeed? Andrew and Peggy Cherng built Panda Restaurant Group from a single Pasadena lo...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-13-mn-56835-story.html
Afghans in Kabul Flee Taliban, Not U.S. Raids
Afghans in Kabul Flee Taliban, Not U.S. Raids After the worst night of U.S. airstrikes around the Afghan capital, Akmad Samim and his family of nine finally fled Kabul at dawn Friday, but not because they were afraid of the bombs. They packed up and left because soldiers with the extremist Islamic Taliban regime, despi...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-21-cl-59659-story.html
After Brush With Death, Hutton’s ‘Life Wish’ Pulls Her Through
After Brush With Death, Hutton’s ‘Life Wish’ Pulls Her Through The bones in Lauren Hutton’s right forearm and lower leg were shattered on impact. That was after she lost control of her motorcycle in a turn and careened off the road at 110 mph, but before she punctured a lung and skidded 170 feet on her face and chest i...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-23-me-60626-story.html
Janet Shaw, 82; Actress Had Role in ‘Jezebel’
Janet Shaw, 82; Actress Had Role in ‘Jezebel’ Janet Shaw, a blond actress who appeared in about 60 films during the 1930s and 1940s, including a special role in “Jezebel,” has died in her native Nebraska town. She was 82. Shaw, formally Ellen Martha Clancy Stuart, who began her acting career under the name Ellen Clancy...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-26-fi-61688-story.html
‘Max Bickford’ Creators to Leave CBS Show
‘Max Bickford’ Creators to Leave CBS Show Nicole Yorkin and Dawn Prestwich, co-creators and co-executive producers of Viacom Inc.'s new CBS drama, “The Education of Max Bickford,” are going to leave the show because of creative differences, according to executives close to the production. The series, which stars Richar...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-28-ca-62477-story.html
A Very Scary Business
A Very Scary Business John Lasseter is a passionate guy. He gets worked up about telling stories and making movies and harnessing computers to make art. He’s wild about animation and laughter and good jokes and not-so-good jokes and family entertainment and collaboration. And on this day, the man described as the Walt ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-28-op-62548-story.html
Today’s Germ War, Yesterday’s Weapons
Today’s Germ War, Yesterday’s Weapons “It’s not your mother’s smallpox,” says Dr. Robert Kadlec, physician and National Defense University professor. “It’s an F-17 Stealth fighter--it’s designed to be undetectable and to kill. We are flubbing our efforts at biodefense. We don’t think of this as a weapon--we look naivel...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-01-me-41004-story.html
John Chambers; ‘Apes’ Makeup Won an Oscar
John Chambers; ‘Apes’ Makeup Won an Oscar Lana Turner once dropped by his Burbank garage for a set of teeth. Howard Keel stopped in for an Indian nose. And Leonard Nimoy visited to be fitted for Mr. Spock’s trademark pointed ears. John Chambers, an innovative and influential Hollywood special effects makeup artist who ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-02-mn-41294-story.html
At Giuliani Pad, Towels Say ‘His,’ ‘His’ and ‘His’
At Giuliani Pad, Towels Say ‘His,’ ‘His’ and ‘His’ Howard Koeppel greets a visitor at his posh Upper East Side apartment, with its million-dollar views of midtown Manhattan. “Welcome to Gracie Mansion annex,” he says with a grin. “I’m the first lady.” He’s only half-kidding. In a turn of events tailor-made for this cit...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-04-ca-41799-story.html
‘Garbo’ Paints a Full Portrait of Star
‘Garbo’ Paints a Full Portrait of Star “Greta Garbo: A Lone Star,” an absorbing AMC documentary, celebrates the legacy of the illustrious, enigmatic beauty from Stockholm. “There was something about Garbo that just made people want to know more about her,” says biographer Karen Swenson. “The more she withheld, the more...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-05-sp-42287-story.html
Yo, Andy, It Seems You Were Right All Along
Yo, Andy, It Seems You Were Right All Along Fights happen in football, and tempers flared on a hot Los Angeles afternoon 37 years ago. Andy Reid, who decades later would save the Philadelphia Eagles with his stubbornness, got into a scuffle with the Marshall High quarterback. The quarterback was on the ropes and yelled...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-10-mn-44108-story.html
Some Israelis Hoping for a Concrete Line in the Sand
Some Israelis Hoping for a Concrete Line in the Sand The Hefer Valley is an extremely narrow stretch of land, where Israelis are squeezed into a 9-mile-wide corridor between the Palestinian-ruled West Bank and the Mediterranean Sea. So it is a fitting place, perhaps, for a wall. A thick gray concrete wall stands nearly...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-11-ca-44417-story.html
‘Servant’ Attends to Details With Energy
‘Servant’ Attends to Details With Energy Theatrical sound designers are usually little noticed, but take a look at John Zalewski in International City Theatre’s exceedingly lively “A Servant to Two Masters” in Long Beach. You can literally take a look at him, for Zalewski--best known for his behind-the-scenes work at t...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-17-ca-46551-story.html
Energy and Passion Drive ‘The Car Man’
Energy and Passion Drive ‘The Car Man’ Beyond its steamy fusion of dance drama, grand opera and film noir, Matthew Bourne’s “The Car Man” is a sardonic fantasy of 20th century mid-America--a place where stud males are as abundant as auto parts, where social dances are one part bare-knuckled aggression to two parts hip-...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-27-mn-50539-story.html
Bush Wants More Air Marshals
Bush Wants More Air Marshals President Bush, seeking to reassure worried travelers, will call today for more government involvement in airport security screening, installation of assault-resistant cockpit doors and a dramatic increase in the federal air marshal program, congressional and aviation sources said Wednesday...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-28-cl-50719-story.html
Fashion designer Rudi Gernreich defied haute-couture rules with socially aware clothes that said ...
Fashion designer Rudi Gernreich defied haute-couture rules with socially aware clothes that said ... Now that the Sept. 11 attacks have made the materialistic, celebrity-fueled fashion scene seem all the more frivolous, it could be time for another Rudi Gernreich moment. The Austrian-born designer, who died in Los Ange...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-sep-30-ca-51525-story.html
Musicians Craft Sounds That Transcend Pop
Musicians Craft Sounds That Transcend Pop * * * GARBAGE, “Beautifulgarbage”, Interscope Same old Garbage? Maybe so, but the third album from singer Shirley Manson and the three rock-heads who surround her with sound celebrates sheer sonic splendor with such exuberance that it’s hard not to be seduced again. Guilty plea...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-02-fi-oil2-story.html
Crude Oil Hits 6-Month High
Crude Oil Hits 6-Month High Oil futures prices hit a six-month high Monday and retail gasoline prices continued to rise, amid fears that escalating Middle East violence would squelch petroleum supplies. The May contract for West Texas intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, bumped briefly above $27 before closing at $2...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-06-me-goins6-story.html
A.T. Goins, 87; One of Few to Survive White Mob’s 1923 Rosewood Massacre
A.T. Goins, 87; One of Few to Survive White Mob’s 1923 Rosewood Massacre A.T. Goins, one of the few survivors of the 1923 massacre by a white mob in the small Florida town of Rosewood that left the predominantly black community in ruins, has died. He was 87. Goins, who was awarded $150,000 in compensation by the Florid...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-06-me-ins-story.html
Airline Faces Fines for Ferrying Illegals
Airline Faces Fines for Ferrying Illegals Qantas Airlines faces a federal fine of more than $50,000 after failing to heed a U.S. law enforcement warning and allowing a group of 17 undocumented Chinese passengers to fly to Los Angeles this week from Australia, the Immigration and Naturalization Service said Friday. The ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-07-me-crash7-story.html
Did Errant Driver Have a Death Wish?
Did Errant Driver Have a Death Wish? A 20-year-old man driving the wrong way down a busy Orange County freeway did nothing to avoid oncoming vehicles before he slammed into a luxury car, killing himself and a couple on their way to a poetry reading class, witnesses said Saturday. Still shaken by their close brush with ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-07-mn-36626-story.html
Slain Bride’s Parents Tormented by ‘If Onlys’
Slain Bride’s Parents Tormented by ‘If Onlys’ Anastasia’s parents are tormented by thoughts of what might have been. If only they hadn’t pushed their daughter so hard to succeed, to seek in America what they couldn’t provide in Kyrgyzstan. If only they hadn’t given the matchmaking agency that photo of Anastasia looking...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-10-me-lopez10-story.html
Chief’s Inflexibility Doomed Him
Chief’s Inflexibility Doomed Him It wasn’t Mayor Jim Hahn who did in Los Angeles Police Chief Bernard C. Parks, and it wasn’t the Police Commission. If City Council members make it a trifecta, it won’t be them either. Bernie Parks has always been dedicated, and sometimes he’s been an inspiration, and he brought a much-...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-10-me-noga10-story.html
Helen Noga, 88; Club Owner Made Johnny Mathis Into a Star
Helen Noga, 88; Club Owner Made Johnny Mathis Into a Star Helen Noga, the feisty music industry player who discovered the young Johnny Mathis and tough-mindedly developed his extraordinary singing career, has died at the age of 88. Noga died Monday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center of heart failure, according to her publi...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-17-fo-stuff17-story.html
Lovely Lemon Pickles
Lovely Lemon Pickles If you want to wait six weeks, you can pickle your own lemons to add their exotic fragrance to salads, cheese dishes and North African stews. But you probably won’t have organically grown Meyer lemons to work with, the way these gorgeous pickles do. Try some with roasted sweet peppers and crushed g...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-17-me-urich17-story.html
Robert Urich, 55; Popular Star of ‘Vega$' and ‘Spenser’
Robert Urich, 55; Popular Star of ‘Vega$' and ‘Spenser’ Robert Urich, the personable actor best known for his tough-guy TV roles as Las Vegas private detective Dan Tana on “Vega$" and as Robert Parker’s sophisticated Boston private investigator in “Spenser: For Hire,” died Tuesday morning of cancer. He was 55. Urich, w...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-19-fi-yodel19-story.html
Yodeler Tells Yahoo: I’ll Sue You-Hooo!
Yodeler Tells Yahoo: I’ll Sue You-Hooo! A cowboy-singer-poet from a town called Dusty is accusing Internet giant Yahoo Inc. in a lawsuit of rustling his signature vocalization in thousands of commercials. Wylie Gustafson, who was paid $590 to record the “ya-hooo” six years ago, says the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based global n...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-27-me-freeway27-story.html
Man, 18, on Life Support After Drive-By Shooting
Man, 18, on Life Support After Drive-By Shooting An 18-year-old man was on life support and two other men were wounded in a drive-by shooting on Roscoe Boulevard in Sun Valley, authorities said Friday. Jose Alejandro Padilla of Arleta was shot once in the head Thursday night as the Chevy Suburban he was riding in was r...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-apr-28-mn-40473-story.html
Ruth Handler, Inventor of Barbie Doll, Dies at 85
Ruth Handler, Inventor of Barbie Doll, Dies at 85 Ruth Handler, the entrepreneur and marketing genius who co-founded Mattel and created the Barbie doll, one of the world’s most enduring and popular toys, died Saturday. Handler, 85, died at Century City Hospital in Los Angeles of complications following colon surgery ab...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-05-sci-genes5-story.html
Playing the Name Game
Playing the Name Game Scientists are an amazingly competitive lot. Bestsellers have been written about the race to decipher the structure of DNA, sequence the genome and identify a new solar system. But another, more amusing race is taking place largely out of the public eye: the scientific effort to find the wittiest ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-07-me-evans7-story.html
Joshua Evans, 20; 3-Foot, 2-Inch Actor Starred in TV’s ‘Passions’
Joshua Evans, 20; 3-Foot, 2-Inch Actor Starred in TV’s ‘Passions’ Joshua Ryan Evans, who portrayed the 8-year-old version of actor Jim Carrey in the motion picture “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” acted as a child prodigy lawyer in television’s “Ally McBeal” and was best known as Timmy the living doll in the NBC soap ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-13-me-rowell13-story.html
Photographer Galen Rowell, Wife Killed in Plane Crash
Photographer Galen Rowell, Wife Killed in Plane Crash Renowned wilderness photographer and mountain climber Galen Rowell and his photographer wife, Barbara, were killed in the crash of a private airplane early Sunday morning just south of the airport in Bishop, Calif. The twin-engine charter aircraft, an Aero Commander...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-14-lv-peanut14-story.html
He’s Doing This for Peanuts
He’s Doing This for Peanuts Times are tough for the lowly peanut. Pro-legume president Jimmy Carter is long gone from the White House. Schools and airlines have started banning the snack because of potentially fatal allergies. And peanut sales have sputtered in recent years. So the National Peanut Board did what anyone...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-20-me-brooks20-story.html
Antelope Valley Man Pleads No Contest in Sex Case
Antelope Valley Man Pleads No Contest in Sex Case An Antelope Valley man pleaded no contest Monday to committing a lewd act on a 12-year-old boy. Howard L. Brooks, a field representative for Assemblyman Phil Wyman (R-Tehachapi), will be sentenced by Superior Court Judge David Mintz on Sept. 19 to three years in state p...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-23-me-lopez23-story.html
On Ethnicity, We’re Rednecks One Day, Trailblazers the Next
On Ethnicity, We’re Rednecks One Day, Trailblazers the Next While Anaheim officials were debating this week whether to allow a Mexican supermarket to do business in their fair city, the governor indicated he would sign a bill allowing illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses. There is not a state in the union, I ass...
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Andersen Worldwide to Settle Enron Lawsuits
Andersen Worldwide to Settle Enron Lawsuits Andersen Worldwide, the international umbrella organization that includes auditing firm Arthur Andersen, has agreed to pay $40 million to settle lawsuits from Enron Corp. investors and employees. The settlement, announced Tuesday, is the first to emerge from a $25-billion law...
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Einstein Exhibit Adds a Human Side to the Equation
Einstein Exhibit Adds a Human Side to the Equation This is not the textbook Albert Einstein. This lusty fellow was a draft-dodging bohemian with sweaty feet, a skirt-chasing cad and a security risk whose outspoken humanitarian politics filled a 1,500-page FBI dossier. For the record: 12:00 AM, Dec. 06, 2002 For The Rec...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-01-op-tolan1-story.html
Beyond Regime Change
Beyond Regime Change If you want to know what the administration has in mind for Iraq, here’s a hint: It has less to do with weapons of mass destruction than with implementing an ambitious U.S. vision to redraw the map of the Middle East. The new map would be drawn with an eye to two main objectives: controlling the fl...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-05-me-clive5-story.html
A Family’s Heartbreak, a Community’s Resolve
A Family’s Heartbreak, a Community’s Resolve On the day of his death, 14-year-old Clive Jackson Jr. was waiting for a bus to go to the mall, having turned down a ride from his father. Out of school early, Junior -- as everyone called him -- wanted to take the bus with two friends. Junior was a basketball player. He hop...
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Bush Advances Faith-Based Initiative
Bush Advances Faith-Based Initiative Circumventing Congress, President Bush used his executive powers Thursday to make it easier for religious groups to obtain federal funds to perform charitable services. Bush’s action puts into effect key elements of his faith-based initiative, a cornerstone of his agenda of “compass...
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Too Far to the Left for Far Right
Too Far to the Left for Far Right WASHINGTON -- As one of the Senate’s most conservative members, Republican Trent Lott is an unlikely punching bag for his party’s right wing. But the voice of the conservative community has been among the loudest in the growing clamor for Lott to relinquish his post of incoming Senate ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-19-me-baseball19-story.html
Judge Throws Splitter in Dispute Over Baseball
Judge Throws Splitter in Dispute Over Baseball SAN FRANCISCO -- Who says there are no ties in baseball? A judge Wednesday ruled that Barry Bonds’ record-setting 73rd home run ball belongs to both fans who battled for the hunk of sports history in the stands of a delirious PacBell Park last year. And neither is happy ab...
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Hundreds Are Detained After Visits to INS
Hundreds Are Detained After Visits to INS Hundreds of men and boys from Middle Eastern countries were arrested by federal immigration officials in Southern California this week when they complied with orders to appear at INS offices for a special registration program. The arrests drew thousands of people to demonstrate...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-22-op-avineri22-story.html
The Arab World’s Democracy Deficit
The Arab World’s Democracy Deficit In the 19th century, it was a widely held belief among certain European and American intellectuals that Catholicism and democracy were irreconcilable. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for example, once complained in a letter to Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle of “Romish priests, who sympathize,...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-24-fg-excerpts24-story.html
‘We Are Capable of Fighting 2 Major Regional Conflicts’
‘We Are Capable of Fighting 2 Major Regional Conflicts’ Here are excerpts from Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld’s briefing. * The moment [Iraqi President] Saddam [Hussein] and his ruling clique seem to feel that they’re out of danger, they will undoubtedly see no incentive to comply with their international obli...
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Military Action Possible, U.S. Warns N. Korea
Military Action Possible, U.S. Warns N. Korea WASHINGTON -- North Korea took new steps toward reactivating its nuclear weapons program Monday as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld warned Pyongyang that the U.S. military could win a war on the Korean peninsula even while battling Iraq. In Vienna, officials of the Inte...
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Pointed observations on an ancient sport
Pointed observations on an ancient sport By the Sword A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions Richard Cohen Random House: 520 pages, $29.95 * Richard Cohen writes of fencing that “of all sports arguably the most romantic, it also most closely simulates the act of armed manslau...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-27-et-thomas27-story.html
Wooden-headed ‘Pinocchio’
Wooden-headed ‘Pinocchio’ Roberto Benigni’s “Pinocchio,” the most expensive Italian movie ever made, with a $45-million budget, opened in Italy in October with tremendous fanfare at a record 860 theaters -- and also a record weekend take estimated at $7.9 million, overriding mixed reviews. By contrast, it opened in Ame...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-27-oe-foner27-story.html
A Fight for Freedom of Speech
A Fight for Freedom of Speech We are two of the professors to whom Daniel Pipes refers when he asks: “Why do American academics so often despise their own country while finding excuses for repressive and dangerous regimes?” Pipes, a self-appointed arbiter of acceptable speech and founder of Campus Watch, recently inclu...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-30-na-father30-story.html
A Grieving Dad Takes His Own Vengeance
A Grieving Dad Takes His Own Vengeance Cole Bailey Sr. walks a fine line on the pavement where it happened. He pictures his son lying here two months ago -- bleeding, groaning, begging for mercy. He glares at the ground. He stands over the spot where his son was punched and kicked and stomped, where 20-year-old Cole Jr...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-30-oe-hanson30-story.html
The Administration Can’t See the Forest for the Sequoias
The Administration Can’t See the Forest for the Sequoias In the spring of 2000, then-President Bill Clinton issued a proclamation establishing the Giant Sequoia National Monument east of Bakersfield, ensuring that the giant sequoia groves and their surrounding ecosystems would be forever protected, or so we thought. Th...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-04-et-munoz4-story.html
The New Bleacher Features
The New Bleacher Features Yes, there will still be bleachers for fans at this year’s Academy Awards--despite earlier rumors that they would be banned. But getting a bleacher seat will be much tougher than before, and don’t plan to camp out ahead of time to get one. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will a...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-feb-05-et-ybarra5-story.html
Bay Area: I Want My NBC
Bay Area: I Want My NBC Sam Jennings has learned a lot about the TV viewing habits of his friends since NBC changed its local affiliate station on New Year’s Eve. When NBC switched from San Francisco-based KRON to San Jose’s KNTV, tens of thousands of viewers in the northern broadcast area discovered that they couldn’t...
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Sigvard Bernadotte, 94; Former Swedish Prince
Sigvard Bernadotte, 94; Former Swedish Prince Count Sigvard Bernadotte, a former Swedish prince who lost his royal title in 1934 after marrying a commoner then sued recently to get it back, has died. He was 94. Bernadotte, who was also a noted industrial designer, died Monday in Stockholm, according to the royal court,...
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Ernest Pintoff, 70; Animator Won Oscar
Ernest Pintoff, 70; Animator Won Oscar Ernest Pintoff, an Academy Award-winning animator and a film and television director, has died. He was 70. Pintoff died Jan. 12 at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills of complications from a stroke. He won the Oscar for best animated shor...
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Marbury Is Charged With ‘Extreme DUI’
Marbury Is Charged With ‘Extreme DUI’ Phoenix Sun point guard Stephon Marbury was arrested Friday on a charge of driving under the influence after an officer saw his car weaving on the road in Scottsdale, Ariz. An officer started following Marbury because he appeared to be speeding, then watched as the car began moving...
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A 4-Door, 7-Passenger, V-6 Engine ... Shoe?
A 4-Door, 7-Passenger, V-6 Engine ... Shoe? Auto makers have latched onto almost every conceivable theme in their struggle to come up with names that will help sell cars. There are fish and fowl, insects and trees, Latin words and foreign places, letters, numbers and the human races. They’ve used royalty, meaningless a...
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Dam Leaves Some Residents High, Dry
Dam Leaves Some Residents High, Dry Qin Feiyun dices greens with a cleaver in her restaurant, puts an oiled wok on the gas stove and waits for customers who never come. Qin’s family recently joined thousands of people forced to evacuate homes in central China that will be flooded by the reservoir of the giant Three Gor...
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4 Terror Suspects Arrested in Italy
4 Terror Suspects Arrested in Italy Italian authorities said Wednesday that they had arrested four Moroccans in possession of a plastic bag containing a cyanide compound, along with maps of Rome highlighting the U.S. Embassy and the city’s water supply system. Italian news media said police were investigating a possibl...
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TV Viewers Left to Figure It Out
TV Viewers Left to Figure It Out This time, NBC’s figure skating announcers didn’t give viewers much guidance at all. Ten days after their incredulity at the results of the pairs competition was followed by the Winter Olympics’ biggest controversy, the three commentators never got around to telling the TV audience why ...
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In From the Cold
In From the Cold Lev Lazarevich Feldbin, alias Alexander Orlov, was the highest-ranking KGB officer ever to defect to the West. Born in 1895, Orlov had been head of the Soviet secret police in Republican Spain, during the civil war in that country. He fled to the United States in 1938, claiming to have abandoned his du...
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2 Days of Torment, Triumph
2 Days of Torment, Triumph It is the sheer grit, and heartbreak, of runners such as Yuji Nakamura that once again will keep tens of millions of Japanese glued to their TVs for 13 hours Wednesday and Thursday. Nakamura ran with all his might on the second and longest leg of the brutal, 130-mile Hakone Ekiden relay a few...
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Car Theft Rings Are Hot Stuff in Japan
Car Theft Rings Are Hot Stuff in Japan From a gas station attendant, the gangsters got access to the keys. From a couple of Russians, they got a connection to perhaps the world’s biggest market for stolen Japanese cars. Before they were busted a few months ago, the gang in northern Japan simply drove away with more tha...
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Fannie Mae Permits Some Lenders to Waive Appraisals
Fannie Mae Permits Some Lenders to Waive Appraisals WASHINGTON -- Could 2002 be the year when you buy a home or refinance a mortgage, and your lender surprises you with the news: Oh, by the way, we’re not going to need an appraisal on your property? Just give us $50 at closing and we’ll eliminate the $300 to $350 you’d...
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Whoopi Goldberg Will Host Oscar Ceremony
Whoopi Goldberg Will Host Oscar Ceremony Actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg has been named to host the 74th annual Academy Awards in March. It is the fourth time that Goldberg has hosted the ceremony--most recently the 1999 show--but the first time for the Oscars at the new Kodak Theatre in Hollywood. “It’ll be the f...
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6 Private Campuses in Valley Face Eviction
6 Private Campuses in Valley Face Eviction Los Angeles Unified School District officials say they do not plan to renew private schools’ leases at six campuses in the western San Fernando Valley, sending the schools scrambling to find new homes or risk losing students because of the uncertainty. Because the West Valley ...
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Soward Is Suspended for 2002 Season
Soward Is Suspended for 2002 Season Jacksonville Jaguar receiver R. Jay Soward was suspended Wednesday by the NFL for the 2002 season following his third violation of the league’s substance-abuse policy. Soward, Jacksonville’s top draft pick in 2000 from USC, didn’t play this season because of three previous suspension...
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Choking on Pretzel, Bush Faints Briefly
Choking on Pretzel, Bush Faints Briefly President Bush briefly lost consciousness Sunday after he choked on a pretzel while watching a football game on television in his living quarters, the White House said. After fainting, the president tumbled to the floor from a couch, bruising his lower lip and suffering an abrasi...
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Gestures Large and Small at CalArts Festival
Gestures Large and Small at CalArts Festival Sunday night at CalArts, a barefoot, quietly bustling team of performers-workers were busily realizing a piece called “Rain.” In the school’s main gallery space, a layer of white dust was slowly laid in a circle, akin to the sand mandalas made by Tibetan monks. Next, a vast ...
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Kremlin Shuts Down TV Station
Kremlin Shuts Down TV Station Russian authorities blacked out private television station TV6 today, pulling the plug mid-broadcast in what critics called a bid to silence the last national broadcaster willing to challenge the Kremlin and President Vladimir V. Putin. Mass Communications Minister Mikhail Y. Lesin said he...
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A Mouse in the Honey Jar
A Mouse in the Honey Jar Winnie-the-Pooh sat down at the foot of the tree, put his head between his paws and began to think. First of all he said to himself: " ... The only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you’re a bee.” Then he thought for another long time, and said: “And the only reason fo...
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Ex-Argentine Leader Faces Bribery Probe
Ex-Argentine Leader Faces Bribery Probe Swiss and Argentine authorities are investigating an allegation that former Argentine President Carlos Menem received a $10-million bribe from Iranian agents to cover up Tehran’s alleged role in an anti-Semitic terrorist bombing in Buenos Aires in 1994, officials said Wednesday. ...
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Martin Magner, 101; Versatile Theater, TV Director for 70 Years
Martin Magner, 101; Versatile Theater, TV Director for 70 Years To celebrate his 99th birthday, he did what he liked to do every birthday. He directed and produced a challenging play. That year it was “The Envoy,” tackling the prickly subject of just how neutral Switzerland was during World War II. When the millennial ...
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PLACID LIFE
PLACID LIFE Small lakes dot the northern woods of Minnesota, blue specks on the map, too many to count, and beside one of them Mark Pavelich lives happily ever after. Far from the sport of hockey that brought him acclaim. Far from the world and its commotion. “Just the wild and his wife and his dog,” a friend says. “He...
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A Colorful Era in Filmmaking History
A Colorful Era in Filmmaking History This year marks the 40th anniversary of “Dr. No,” the film that introduced James Bond to the movies, made Sean Connery a star and ushered in the ‘60s spy craze. “Dr. No” also brought Pop art to the cinema with its super-slick design, thanks to cinematographer Ted Moore, production d...
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William F. Dufty, 86; Wrote ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ and ‘Sugar Blues’
William F. Dufty, 86; Wrote ‘Lady Sings the Blues’ and ‘Sugar Blues’ William F. Dufty, who told Billie Holiday’s life story in “Lady Sings the Blues,” helped popularize macrobiotics in America, wrote “Sugar Blues” about the evils of processed sugar, and became the sixth and final husband of sugar-eschewing actress Glor...
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This Teed-Off Shot Was Out of Bounds
This Teed-Off Shot Was Out of Bounds Is there anyone else who thinks that Augusta National could have handled the situation with the National Council of Women’s Organizations just a little better? Clearly, the time is coming when there will be female members at Augusta, everybody knows that, but what transpired this we...
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Juvenile Hall Writing Class Gives Troubled Youths a Creative Outlet
Juvenile Hall Writing Class Gives Troubled Youths a Creative Outlet If you had 15 minutes to address the world, what would you say? Author Karen Hunt presented the premise to a group of students in Van Nuys some years back. One girl’s response changed Hunt’s life. “Well, there’s a shoe sale at Nordstrom, and we all nee...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-13-me-stayner13-story.html
Trial in Yosemite Killings to Begin
Trial in Yosemite Killings to Begin It is one of the most infamous crimes in California history: A woman, her daughter and a friend disappeared while visiting Yosemite National Park and were savagely killed by the handyman at their motel. Caught months later after beheading a nature guide, Cary Stayner gave the FBI a d...
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Ridge Urges Congress to Preserve Homeland Plan
Ridge Urges Congress to Preserve Homeland Plan Even as powerful factions in Congress angle to carve up a Cabinet department that does not yet exist, a top advisor to President Bush pleaded Monday with senior lawmakers to preserve the core of the administration’s homeland security proposal, and the White House moved to ...
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Idea for the Road: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Way in L.A.
Idea for the Road: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Way in L.A. It’s not even rush hour, but I’m jammed up on the I-5 between L.A. and Downey. This is irritating enough, obviously, but now the vehicle in the next lane keeps crowding me. I look across and find an anorexic woman on a cell phone, driving a humongous Ford E...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-22-fg-spy22-story.html
Accused Spy Said to Have Died in Russia
Accused Spy Said to Have Died in Russia Former CIA agent Edward Lee Howard, who fled to the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s after he was suspected of selling secrets to the KGB, reportedly has died after an accident at his residence outside Moscow. Howard vanished from Santa Fe, N.M., in September 1985 before the FBI cha...
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Lauren Ambrose: Youthful Maturity
Lauren Ambrose: Youthful Maturity One of the greatest moments in Lauren Ambrose’s young life took place two years ago at the Slamdance Film Festival screening of “Swimming,” an intimate coming-of-age drama in which she plays a young woman adrift but trying to find her place in the world. “It was the first time I had se...
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At the O’Neill Center, the Process Is the Thing
At the O’Neill Center, the Process Is the Thing In the velvety darkness of an old wood-beamed barn, actors Chris Noth and Mark Blum sit on a small, dimly lighted stage and rehearse their lines. “Try to keep this next section clean--don’t slur too much,” cautions director Harris Yulin as veteran playwright Romulus Linne...
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Stress Pushed Man to Kill Son, Himself, Family Says
Stress Pushed Man to Kill Son, Himself, Family Says Delfin Bartolome was a hard-working family man, a father of three who never buckled under the stress of raising a son with severe autism--a 27-year-old who still slept in his parents’ bedroom. But the 55-year-old Laguna Niguel engineer was becoming increasingly despon...
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Oceanside Buys, Closes Nude Dance Club
Oceanside Buys, Closes Nude Dance Club Downtown has taken a giant step closer to shedding its notorious reputation as a honky-tonk for off-duty Marines and sailors. No more will there be a Playgirl Club, which for four decades allowed even underage military personnel from nearby Camp Pendleton to drink soda pop and go ...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-05-na-sheikh5-story.html
Key 9/11 Planner Is Named
Key 9/11 Planner Is Named U.S. intelligence officials believe they have identified a mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks--a mysterious Kuwaiti already wanted for his alleged role in a 1995 plot to bomb a dozen U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean, authorities said Tuesday. “It looks like he’s the man, quite honestly,” ...
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Prosecutors’ Puzzle: When to Try, Try Again
Prosecutors’ Puzzle: When to Try, Try Again The first time Carlos Burns was tried for attempted murder, the case ended in a mistrial when a sole juror held out for acquittal. So prosecutors retried Burns, who is now 21, for allegedly shooting a man in the leg. This time, the majority voted not guilty--8 to 4--and anoth...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-10-fg-badgas10-story.html
Traces of Nerve Gas Found at Uzbek Base Used by U.S.
Traces of Nerve Gas Found at Uzbek Base Used by U.S. A routine environmental inspection turned up traces of nerve and mustard gas at a military base in Uzbekistan that about 5,000 U.S. troops have passed through since fall, military spokesmen here disclosed Sunday. Although the origin of the contaminants remained a mys...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-10-me-tequila10-story.html
Tequila to Rattle the Innards
Tequila to Rattle the Innards Dropping into Francisco Dario’s cantina in a remote canyon southeast of this tourist resort can be perilous. As the gray-haired jack-of-all-trades invites visitors into the establishment built in the shadow of Mt. Pico del Diablo, he warns them not to tap on a jar containing an angry rattl...
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Terrorism Was Job 4 in Phoenix
Terrorism Was Job 4 in Phoenix Months before an FBI agent here warned of extremists attending U.S. flight schools, anti-terrorism efforts in the Phoenix office had virtually ground to a halt when a surveillance unit was disbanded and agents assigned to counter-terrorism were diverted to an arson case, according to curr...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-12-me-passings12.3-story.html
Elizabeth Shanov, 49; Radio Reporter Known for Her Sports Coverage
Elizabeth Shanov, 49; Radio Reporter Known for Her Sports Coverage Elizabeth Shanov, 49, a radio reporter known for her coverage of such sports events as the 1984 Olympics, the 2002 Rose Bowl and various all-star games, died Sunday in her Monrovia home of cancer. The native New Yorker was educated at Fordham University...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-18-fg-bones18-story.html
A Tale of Two Royal Gravesites
A Tale of Two Royal Gravesites Fanciful log churches sprout like mushrooms in the deep woods outside this industrial city. Anatoly Kozhayev shuffles between them, his bushy gray hair and beard giving him a more than passing resemblance to a troll. The pilgrim and tour guide surveys the churches’ curvy green roofs and s...
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In Peru, the Saint Who Isn’t Inspires a Cult
In Peru, the Saint Who Isn’t Inspires a Cult Hundreds jam the sweltering courtyard outside Sarita Colonia’s graveyard shrine to thank her for the miracles she has granted them. Cliques of drag queens strut through the crowd, clutching rose bouquets. Elderly women serve bean stew to anyone who is hungry. Fidgeting child...
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jun-24-fi-sock24-story.html
Sock Puppet Finds a New Home
Sock Puppet Finds a New Home It wasn’t his first job choice, but at least the Pets.com sock puppet hasn’t joined the high-tech unemployment line. One of the most recognizable icons of the dot-com era has a new agent and has inked a new deal for a California financing company. The puppet is now represented by Hakan & As...
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20,000 ‘Escape Hoods’ Delivered to Capitol
20,000 ‘Escape Hoods’ Delivered to Capitol WASHINGTON, D.C. * Homeland security became more than an abstract concept this week with the delivery of 20,000 “escape hoods"--enough to protect every lawmaker, congressional employee, police officer and tourist from a chemical or biological attack on the U.S. Capitol. Congre...
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New-Age Treatments for the Four-Legged Set
New-Age Treatments for the Four-Legged Set Brooke Front was weary. Unsteady on his feet, his back drooped with stress from a long day at the Rocky Mountain Horse Expo until owner Bill Bormes dragged his thumb sharply along the chestnut show stallion’s spine, releasing tension and righting posture. Bormes said he learne...