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c2a3a39d8ab10f346b4d869eeda1c740 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-21-fi-halo21-story.html | Game Not Over for ‘Halo’ Movie | Game Not Over for ‘Halo’ Movie
Microsoft Corp. said Friday that it would move forward with a movie adaptation based on its popular video game “Halo” after financial backers Universal Pictures and 20th Century Fox backed out of the project.
The studios quietly cut their ties to “Halo” this month because of costs associa... |
3e94800b095f2bf5aaba2b97e41bb4ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-21-me-scouts21-story.html | A Merit Badge That Can’t Be Duplicated | A Merit Badge That Can’t Be Duplicated
Boy Scouts can earn badges for woodcarving, raising rabbits and firing shotguns.
But in the Los Angeles area, Scouts will now be able to earn their stripes by proselytizing about the evils of copyright piracy.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Oct. 25, 2006 For The Record Los Angeles Time... |
0f5d68abb7248ae2942fa46354114dfc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-21-na-pelosi21-story.html | Madam Speaker? Pelosi Likes the Sound | Madam Speaker? Pelosi Likes the Sound
It’s only 9 a.m. and Nancy Pelosi has already had two breakfasts and a bowl of chocolate ice cream. The House minority leader has met with a couple of donors in a hotel dining room, run back up to her room for a live radio interview, down to the dining room again for a sit-down wit... |
2b6d1bba37439e3661b363ef7f1fb0d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-22-fi-colbert22-story.html | Running for office? Better run from Colbert | Running for office? Better run from Colbert
Most politicians are as likely to pass up free TV face time before an election as they would be to refuse a campaign check.
Then again, there’s a price to be paid for looking stupid.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Oct. 29, 2006 For The Record Los Angeles Times Sunday October 29, 2... |
170da9adc675af3480b90e75f9cb828e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-22-tm-saltlick43-story.html | Salt Lick | Salt Lick
When I was young I lived next door to a horse. The man who owned the animal came every day to ride and feed him, and to clean out his stall at the edge of the property. My mother said the horse had been living there forever, long before there were laws to forbid that kind of thing, back when vacant plots of l... |
3310c272837b490bde4ed3e06d10ff92 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-24-me-cemex24-story.html | City ramps up efforts in quarrel over quarry | City ramps up efforts in quarrel over quarry
Southern California’s unrelenting appetite for sand and gravel to build roads, houses and schools has led a multinational mining company to the hills above Santa Clarita.
But the very growth that drives the demand for gravel is also fueling a major backlash by residents of t... |
2057475c8ddf38f864b8ffd3a8445282 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-24-na-outreach24-story.html | LATINO AND BLACK VOTERS REASSESSING TIES TO GOP | LATINO AND BLACK VOTERS REASSESSING TIES TO GOP
A major effort to draw Latinos and blacks into the Republican Party, a central element of the GOP plan to build a long-lasting majority, is in danger of collapse amid anger over the immigration debate and claims that Republican leaders have not delivered on promises to di... |
d3785284d3aad2a01f5d3a2d36d61cb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-25-me-venice25-story.html | Making Sabbath a day at the beach | Making Sabbath a day at the beach
An Orthodox synagogue with the ambitious desire to enclose much of Santa Monica, Venice and Marina del Rey within a religious boundary known as an eruv has come up against a barrier some say is as immutable as the Torah itself: the California Coastal Commission.
The Pacific Jewish Cent... |
5152634c89f22ab2615e02483ce78114 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-25-oe-boot25-story.html | How to handle Iran | How to handle Iran
NOW THAT WE’VE failed to stop North Korea from going nuclear, it’s all the more imperative to prevent Iran, another member of the “axis of evil,” from going down the same route.
But how? The approach that failed with North Korea -- endless negotiations backed by feeble sanctions and rhetorical bluste... |
1d528fe3647b5b5fbe3c4f9e8d3f48f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-26-me-salvador26-story.html | Janitor’s secret past: a death squad | Janitor’s secret past: a death squad
Gonzalo Guevara Cerritos was a decorated, American-trained officer in the Salvadoran army.
But for the last year, the 43-year-old toiled as a janitor at a West Los Angeles-area motel, a man with a secret who was always looking over his shoulder, his girlfriend said.
His clandestine ... |
7d03d6eb8586afe55fdf012399464cd6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-26-wk-movie26-story.html | Talk about a life-changing role | Talk about a life-changing role
DEREK LUKE was a man of few words when he showed up for his audition for the anti-apartheid drama “Catch a Fire,” which opens Friday.
Luke was reading for the role of a real-life South African hero, Patrick Chamusso, who, after being arrested and tortured for a crime he didn’t commit, be... |
1c25dac3afe4372c9e0b2e6eb2ed8464 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-27-me-spinach27-story.html | E. coli found in water, pig near spinach | E. coli found in water, pig near spinach
The same E. coli strain blamed for sickening 204 spinach eaters and killing three has now been found in creek water and in the intestines of a wild pig killed near a suspect spinach farm, California health officials said Thursday.
The findings are significant because they sugges... |
546fc9567c52104700ad68d12322521b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-27-oe-brooks27-story.html | Snared by The Google | Snared by The Google
UNLIKE HIS DAD, whose apparent befuddlement over a supermarket checkout scanner helped lose him the presidency, George W. Bush is one tech-savvy guy. He told CNBC this week that he sometimes goes “on the Google ... to pull up maps like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wan... |
9dd57a6c31d42b6cac94af35b02e4455 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-28-fg-oaxaca28-story.html | News photographer killed in Oaxaca | News photographer killed in Oaxaca
A New York-based photographer was fatally shot Friday while trying to conduct interviews during a shootout between leftist protesters and a group of assailants in Oaxaca city, where a five-month teachers strike has triggered at least eight killings.
The photographer, Bradley Will, 36,... |
6354875b8ff2dd4508b3b2b92c530883 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-28-fg-pinochet28-story.html | Pinochet faces charges over secret-prison abuses | Pinochet faces charges over secret-prison abuses
Gen. Augusto Pinochet was indicted Friday in connection with abuses at one of his regime’s secret prisons, where President Michelle Bachelet and her mother were once held and mistreated, a lawyer said.
Judge Alejandro Solis said he would make an announcement Monday on th... |
9dd9d1482dc53e997e872f91ca9b41ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-30-et-channel30-story.html | ‘Criminal Minds’ in hot pursuit of ‘Lost’ | ‘Criminal Minds’ in hot pursuit of ‘Lost’
CBS’ “Criminal Minds” is a gory, creepy, serial-killer show. It’s dissed by critics as a stapled-together knockoff of the network’s many other crime dramas. Its mirth-free tone is epitomized by Jason Gideon, the grumpy, taciturn FBI profiler played by Mandy Patinkin. And it’s u... |
596e5bc9931465201788eb3dbd983817 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-30-oe-summers30-story.html | The global middle matters | The global middle matters
AGAINST ALL ODDS, we are living in a time of plenty. Neither the aftershocks of Sept. 11 nor a tripling in oil prices has prevented the world’s economy from growing faster in the last five years than in any five-year period in recorded economic history. Given recent economic performance and th... |
c6597f75854a2bc6279550c694f24e48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-31-na-marshal31-story.html | Ex-air marshal fired over leak sues TSA | Ex-air marshal fired over leak sues TSA
A former federal air marshal filed suit Monday against the Transportation Security Administration for firing him after he revealed an unclassified plan to remove marshals from long-distance flights.
The 2003 disclosure by Robert MacLean came just days after the agency had warned ... |
adb2038e7b6b657d7ae9c2b66f6c1fe6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-oct-31-sp-lakers31-story.html | Lakers’ quiet time is over | Lakers’ quiet time is over
The last we heard from the Lakers was a noisy start in the playoffs, followed by an eerie tumble in the Phoenix desert, a 31-point loss in Game 7 and a 3-1 series lead frittered away for only the eighth time in NBA history.
Then came a relatively hushed off-season -- with the team fenced in b... |
8cef4ca62edb3c6fed0256d266f51430 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-01-me-petrone1-story.html | Rocco Petrone, 80; Engineer Played Key Role in NASA’s Apollo Missions to the Moon | Rocco Petrone, 80; Engineer Played Key Role in NASA’s Apollo Missions to the Moon
Rocco Petrone, who played a key role in NASA’s Apollo program to place men on the moon, died Aug. 24 at his home in Palos Verdes Estates from complications of heart disease and diabetes. He was 80.
An Army engineer on loan to NASA, Petron... |
7f0226910c2eda81986613e59058355f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-02-fg-attack2-story.html | Questions Echo Amid the Din of Explosions | Questions Echo Amid the Din of Explosions
The civil defense men in blue uniforms joined neighborhood volunteers picking through the rubble with their hands, there being no heavy equipment to aid in this thankless task. Dedicated young men used a nylon sack to bag jagged bits of flesh, now destined for a proper Muslim i... |
c06c17567a6cf45dd4542dea5fd3d0d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-02-fg-mexico2-story.html | Leftists Block Fox’s Final State of the Nation Address | Leftists Block Fox’s Final State of the Nation Address
More than 150 shouting leftist legislators stormed the dais at a joint session of Congress on Friday to prevent President Vicente Fox from delivering his final State of the Nation speech, a bold protest that heightened the crisis surrounding Mexico’s disputed presi... |
dc5fed968734a2057426be480681edde | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-03-fi-traderjoes3-story.html | Trader Joe’s Bite of the Big Apple Finds a Finicky City’s Sweet Spot | Trader Joe’s Bite of the Big Apple Finds a Finicky City’s Sweet Spot
It has all the makings of a trendy Greenwich Village eatery -- exotic foods and serpentine lines.
But the patrons of this Manhattan sensation are as likely to be scooping up Two Buck Chuck (actually, $3 here) as they are New Zealand filet mignon or Ha... |
14dc54b93268b78ec519c8a1b2cb9b86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-06-me-fraud6-story.html | University of Phoenix Faces Fraud Suit | University of Phoenix Faces Fraud Suit
A federal appeals court in San Francisco on Tuesday reinstated a massive fraud lawsuit against the University of Phoenix, which, with 180 campuses and more than 310,000 students across the country, is now the nation’s largest accredited university.
The suit was filed under the fed... |
9bbd6287daf6c2be6f4682344716f070 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-06-me-health6-story.html | Governor Declares He Will Veto Healthcare Bill | Governor Declares He Will Veto Healthcare Bill
Highlighting the limits to his collaboration with Democratic lawmakers, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Tuesday that he would veto legislation aimed at creating one state-run insurer to finance the medical expenses of all Californians.
“Such a program would cost the s... |
bf5dca03c449fba49407da16d653234f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-06-oe-soderberg6-story.html | Latin America’s not fun couple | Latin America’s not fun couple
WHILE THE Middle East smolders, another crisis is brewing to our south. Slow economic growth, worsening inequality, lack of social services and weak legal systems have eroded confidence in elected governments. A 2004 United Nations Development Program poll indicates disturbing trends in L... |
d7f68553910e1e2fe4d0e442520ad159 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-07-hm-pole7-story.html | Storied past, uncertain future | Storied past, uncertain future
THE glass-and-concrete house on a hilly Silver Lake street appears tired and forlorn. The sensual violet fabrics inside are now faded; a stillness surrounds the emerald swimming pool, which had once been used every day. The gathering place of weekly chamber music concerts and numerous mas... |
6a0b3b3846c5e9252aebf09568efc538 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-07-na-assess7-story.html | A New Issue in the Election Mix | A New Issue in the Election Mix
When President Bush on Wednesday urged Congress to quickly provide him new legal authority to bring suspected terrorists to trial, he may have answered a political riddle: What issue would Republicans use to sharpen their contrasts with Democrats over national security in the approaching... |
b2a89b267fcae31f4d1a8b8f9322c34f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-08-et-lonelygirl8-story.html | Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity of Web’s Lonelygirl15 | Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity of Web’s Lonelygirl15
Lonelygirl15 appears to be an innocent, home-schooled 16-year-old, pouring her heart out for her video camera in the privacy of her bedroom. But since May, her brief posts on the video-sharing site YouTube and the social networking hub MySpace have launched a Web myst... |
4ba11568669726fd5da39ed15c742ede | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-08-fi-macys8-story.html | Hundreds of Stores to Get Different Name -- Macy’s | Hundreds of Stores to Get Different Name -- Macy’s
Goodbye, Robinsons-May.
The end officially comes this weekend for the storied Los Angeles chain as Federated Department Stores Inc. completes a massive make-over that will rebrand shopping nameplates across America.
Houston is losing Foley’s; Filene’s will no longer be... |
c068b56aac254f2b666df8bbb4c8a097 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-09-et-lonelygirl9-story.html | Lonelygirl15’s revelation: It’s all just part of the show | Lonelygirl15’s revelation: It’s all just part of the show
The latest confession to stun the entertainment world is an unusual one: “We are filmmakers.”
The team behind the lonelygirl15 YouTube mystery has come forward, claiming that lonelygirl15 is part of their “show” and thanking their fans effusively for tuning in t... |
3b92ddab9c08b5aca8bb0722a363b703 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-09-fg-mexballots9-story.html | Mexico’s Election Doubts May Linger | Mexico’s Election Doubts May Linger
Top electoral officials and judges are feeding doubts about the outcome of Mexico’s presidential vote by declining to release details about a recount of 4 million ballots and by moving quickly to destroy all 41 million ballots, legal experts said Friday.
The seven judges of the Feder... |
0e58a57af32ff04a9cd2dd8943155c3e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-10-na-gadems10-story.html | Ga. May Be Weak Spot in Democrats’ Offensive | Ga. May Be Weak Spot in Democrats’ Offensive
Riding a wave of discontent over the economy, Iraq and gas prices, Democrats are hoping to win enough seats to retake the House of Representatives this November. But their success could also hinge on their ability to keep the seats they already have -- and doing so could pro... |
dca4c6e993c276947c510b5188964908 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-11-fg-mexprotest11-story.html | Lopez Obrador Says Protesters Won’t Disrupt Military Parade | Lopez Obrador Says Protesters Won’t Disrupt Military Parade
Mexican leftists will relax their protest in Mexico City against President-elect Felipe Calderon to allow a military parade to pass, their leader said Sunday.
The move is seen as a bid to avert street violence during the annual Independence Day parade through ... |
f8da42eafbaefb6a2a226c0ac022b987 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-13-fg-saddam13-story.html | Kurd’s Testimony Includes Taunt for Hussein: ‘You Are in a Cage’ | Kurd’s Testimony Includes Taunt for Hussein: ‘You Are in a Cage’
A Kurdish villager mocked Saddam Hussein in court Tuesday as the man recalled the disappearance of his relatives during a 1980s military campaign in northern Iraq.
“Congratulations! You are in a cage,” said the witness, Ghafour Hassan Abdullah, addressing... |
f9af11345c633a7f9e8844d73152f999 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-13-me-lonelygir13-story.html | Lonelygirl15 Video Blog Is Brainchild of 3 Filmmakers | Lonelygirl15 Video Blog Is Brainchild of 3 Filmmakers
It turns out the people behind the wildly popular website lonelygirl15 are not studio executives, Internet moguls or, as some suspected, Satanists. Instead, they are aspiring filmmakers who met at a mutual friend’s birthday party in April: Miles Beckett, 28, a Web-o... |
c3dbae211fae6a4a049ab78bcfc3c674 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-14-fi-drink14-story.html | Toasting Benefits of Social Drinking | Toasting Benefits of Social Drinking
You don’t need to golf with the boss to get a raise. Just share a beer.
Two economists argue in a study to be released today that social drinkers tend to have more charisma, a fatter Rolodex and more friends than those who abstain or drink alone. That garrulousness, they say, transl... |
f3779588d90085c6b352e1d3ec372241 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-15-na-immig15-story.html | House Votes to Boost Border Security; Broader Immigration Issues Remain | House Votes to Boost Border Security; Broader Immigration Issues Remain
The House on Thursday easily passed a bill calling for construction of lengthy sections of double-layered fencing along the U.S. border with Mexico, sending the legislation to a Senate that appeared inclined to approve that and other security measu... |
7ef42d985246c8a1e7afe81197eec3ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-17-ca-socal17-story.html | ‘Los Angeles, I’m Yours’ The Decemberists / 2003 | ‘Los Angeles, I’m Yours’ The Decemberists / 2003
THE name of the Portland band suggests wintry skies and a grad-student sensibility (it copped its moniker from the anti-czarists of Russia’s Decembrist Revolt of 1825, but you knew that), so it’s no surprise that this song is a haughty Molotov cocktail thrown at sunny an... |
9fa44c26d88546297a2cf30914717322 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-17-me-only17-story.html | Vanity Plates Backfire on Mr. ‘Not Visible’ | Vanity Plates Backfire on Mr. ‘Not Visible’
When Nick Vautier selected a personalized license plate that said NV, he little knew what a rough ride lay ahead.
“I started to get random parking tickets from Los Angeles,” wrote the Bay Area resident, “where my car has never been. For every type of car. Except a Mazda. Whic... |
cf443ad091ee927fae91e0fab28c28f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-17-sp-uscstudents17-story.html | USC Students Have to Make a Stand | USC Students Have to Make a Stand
Twenty-five minutes before kickoff, USC security officers formed a line across the front of Gate 28 at the Coliseum and told a long line of waiting students: “No more seats.”
USC’s new student ticket policy got off to a rough start Saturday. The school sold 12,000 spirit cards -- which... |
c18a7e0a6e9c1041c79bc3c0250b5463 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-17-tr-internet17-story.html | Cost of air travel measured in terms of pollution, not dollars | Cost of air travel measured in terms of pollution, not dollars
IN the United States, air travel generates as much as 10% of transportation-based emissions of carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Center for Climate Change and Envi... |
56b5acb943408ec3f0226aa101a13266 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-18-et-segerstrom18-story.html | Taking a sounding of the Segerstrom | Taking a sounding of the Segerstrom
Amid fireworks and a glorious light show, aggressive partying with blaring rock music, conspicuous consumption and various other forms of contemporary pomp and circumstance, Orange County made its bid last weekend to keep up with the Joneses. It inaugurated the Renee and Henry Segers... |
0c3d75f8a1b5fd80c9da82379e2bf784 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-18-fi-compete18-story.html | Competitiveness Can’t Compete With Politics | Competitiveness Can’t Compete With Politics
To Silicon Valley engineers, the physics of politics is a strange science in which the momentum of a plan to make high-tech companies more competitive is halted by seemingly unrelated debates over the estate tax and illegal immigration.
President Bush unveiled the so-called A... |
4d6927fe13d5cfe72e759a0aa773ff03 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-18-fi-mogul18-story.html | The Last of the Titans | The Last of the Titans
They are sons of strong women. Both have sparred publicly with their heirs, both are plotting to conquer China, and both seem to view immortality as their best succession plan.
But what really unites Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner M. Redstone and News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch is that, to a degr... |
ef947c31c3b149ad5b9799d2d06471ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-18-na-guns18-story.html | Arm Against ‘Katricians,’ Gun Dealers Tell Houston | Arm Against ‘Katricians,’ Gun Dealers Tell Houston
When the “Katricians” rise up in violence, Houstonians had better be packing some serious heat.
That’s the inflammatory message of a new gun-shop commercial on the radio that gives Hurricane Katrina evacuees a vaguely alien-sounding name, and advises Texans to take up ... |
6072ec40bd4cbdb1a9bea5aa4faade26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-18-oe-harris18-story.html | It’s real, it’s scary, it’s a cult of death | It’s real, it’s scary, it’s a cult of death
TWO YEARS AGO I published a book highly critical of religion, “The End of Faith.” In it, I argued that the world’s major religions are genuinely incompatible, inevitably cause conflict and now prevent the emergence of a viable, global civilization. In response, I have receive... |
6529dfa39433023f3f0730290832293e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-19-et-newhart19-story.html | Bob Newhart is cool. No punch line | Bob Newhart is cool. No punch line
Bob Newhart is having a moment. His first book, “I Shouldn’t Even Be Doing This,” hits bookstores today, and it’s gotten an enthusiastic early reception. There was an unlikely shout-out from the New York Post’s Page 6, which quoted from it approvingly. His appearance on this year’s Em... |
d797084e42bc75d30c8328d8d9198cdf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-20-fg-letter20-story.html | No One Dares to Help | No One Dares to Help
Because this account of daily life in Baghdad reveals where the writer lives, his name is not being used to protect his safety. He is a 54-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Times’ Baghdad Bureau.
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BAGHDAD -- On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in my beloved Amariya neighborhood in western Ba... |
c2846d40ecc4cecdb857619b86407d3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-20-me-meruelo20-story.html | Taking L.A. in a New Direction | Taking L.A. in a New Direction
For the last three decades, through riots, recessions, building booms and busts, Richard Meruelo and his parents have held an irrepressible faith in the potential of downtown Los Angeles.
Beginning with the dress shop Meruelo’s mother owned at 3rd Street and Broadway, the family quietly b... |
94c1de2e4b101a6a80e80b3a7463d5e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-20-me-recall20-story.html | Ruling on O.C. Petitions Reversed | Ruling on O.C. Petitions Reversed
Recall petitions need to be printed only in English, even when some voters are not proficient in the language, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
The federal Voting Rights Act requires ballots and other government-produced election material to be published in other languages if mor... |
d407c4b7c043b4e0af9cce350ca81164 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-20-me-spinach20-story.html | E. Coli Scare May Have Wider Impact | E. Coli Scare May Have Wider Impact
Much food lore has sprung from the Salinas and nearby valleys, this fecund farm country that stretches from oak-studded hills to the fertile bottom land and packing plants of Salinas and King City.
This is Steinbeck country, and the National Steinbeck Center on Salinas’ Main Street p... |
b87bf2afdc9ba7db388f17364646d0a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-21-fi-tesco21-story.html | Britain’s Tesco Plans Big Footprint in L.A. Market | Britain’s Tesco Plans Big Footprint in L.A. Market
British grocery giant Tesco plans to take over a shuttered Albertsons market in Glassell Park, an indication that it intends to build bigger stores than first expected.
The 32,500-square-foot location will be among the first of a group that the world’s third-largest re... |
9d887b66ab1b64a52e38ddad53023dc7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-21-na-islam21-story.html | A New Face for Islam in North America | A New Face for Islam in North America
Ingrid Mattson had given up God. She had stopped saying her rosaries, stopped taking Communion. She was an atheist, abroad in Paris the summer before her senior year of college.
But she could not stop listening to the Koran.
“Forget it,” she told herself. “This can’t be happening t... |
678adf65e7ee9e57a0cbe73399e435ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-22-fg-mush22-story.html | U.S. Threatened to Bomb Pakistan, Musharraf Says | U.S. Threatened to Bomb Pakistan, Musharraf Says
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf said the U.S. threatened to bomb his country back to the Stone Age if he did not assist the administration’s war on terrorism.
The threat was delivered after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by Richard L. Armitage, then deputy secretary... |
96e72015d606cc06fe8196451358b719 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-22-fi-homes22-story.html | Waning Home Sales Take Further Toll on the Industry | Waning Home Sales Take Further Toll on the Industry
The weakening housing market continued to take its toll on the industry Thursday as mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp. disclosed the possibility of thousands of layoffs and builder KB Home reported slowing revenue growth.
Calabasas-based Countrywide said it w... |
7238852c7c353271c591802ca60db569 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-22-oe-brooks22-story.html | ‘Torture lite’ is still torture | ‘Torture lite’ is still torture
WE DON’T torture detainees, President Bush has repeatedly insisted; we just make use of lawful “alternative procedures” of interrogation.
But if everything we’ve done is lawful, why is the White House suddenly so desperate to get a deal with Congress that would “clarify” Common Article 3... |
33eed2e77836463d8777ee1f2c1c0430 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-23-et-gap23-story.html | Love it or hate it: A ‘Fair Lady’ in Gap’s skinny pants | Love it or hate it: A ‘Fair Lady’ in Gap’s skinny pants
You just can’t keep a good woman down. Audrey Hepburn has returned from the Other Side this month and is starring in an ad campaign for Gap, the struggling retailer that is pinning its hopes on the actress, who died of colon cancer in 1993.
She joins many dead col... |
1a0526cdd090814ac957b7ae18a08fbc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-23-fi-engineer23-story.html | India’s Looming Talent Shortage | India’s Looming Talent Shortage
From his perch atop one of India’s most successful software companies, Lakshmi Narayanan sees a potential storm brewing.
His firm and others like it have had little trouble finding first-rate engineering graduates for entry-level jobs, capable young men and women lured by the glamour of ... |
0f620a1002bb8e013ef76cb8247ef7e8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-24-ca-japanfilm24-story.html | Old Hollywood, new Japan | Old Hollywood, new Japan
OLD-TIME Hollywood moguls would have loved a film producer like Chihiro Kameyama.
Sure, they might have raised an eyebrow at the former TV executive’s designer glasses and, no, he wasn’t chomping a cigar as he held forth on the healthy state of Japanese movies from a corner office of Fuji TV’s ... |
b4598d60adae0ff8cf76b746660f7d5e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-24-me-tutor24-story.html | For These Tots, T Is for Tutor | For These Tots, T Is for Tutor
Hunched over a small table at a West Los Angeles learning center, Sehajpal Singh is a study in concentration as he figures out that the dots on his work sheet add up to 10.
Sehajpal is 3, but he already has a good grasp of counting, simple words and sentences and taking directions. After ... |
9d95e2879fd1fb84fbf317f76a329d28 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-24-op-hoffman24-story.html | History only hears the music | History only hears the music
THE LIST OF classical composers active after 1950 whose music is sure to last -- whose music will not just be archived, analyzed or “admired” by specialists but listened to for profound pleasure by a broad public, and loved -- is depressingly short. And the names on that list are by no mean... |
6a38b0b06a832bdf392c25c1761b56a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-25-me-ocbrief25-story.html | 5K Raises $2 Million for Cancer Education | 5K Raises $2 Million for Cancer Education
The 15th annual Race for the Cure set a record Sunday, with more than 24,000 joggers participating in a 5K to raise money to fight breast cancer.
The event raised more than $2 million for the Dallas-based Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, said Sally Coombe, an event spok... |
e9fec6bc76e39cde5ff1eb54b7e3637f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-25-me-rosen25-story.html | Seymour Rosen, 71; Documented Folk Art Pieces | Seymour Rosen, 71; Documented Folk Art Pieces
Captivated by the roadside tableaux of California, a young Chicago transplant started photographing the unorthodox landscape: a ranch covered with hubcaps, a rock-shop yard with hand-carved dolls, a golf course punctuated with signs of hand-painted poetry.
The intent was to... |
f2ba6230f9f64f0cf2c806d1567f3fc3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-25-na-military25-story.html | Army Warns Rumsfeld It’s Billions Short | Army Warns Rumsfeld It’s Billions Short
The Army’s top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders last month after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other global commitments without billions in ad... |
30c4ed4ee4fe9a5419ab6161bb8e4c9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-26-me-lethal26-story.html | Death Penalty Faces Tough Review | Death Penalty Faces Tough Review
California’s execution of condemned inmates by lethal injection will be put to its most stringent test ever at a hearing scheduled to start today in San Jose federal court.
Attorneys for Michael Morales, who was sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of Terri Lynn Winchell in Lodi, will... |
077be9b688caa31df0fad10bcdead150 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-26-na-negads26-story.html | Negative Ads a Positive in GOP Strategy | Negative Ads a Positive in GOP Strategy
WASHINGTON -- Sinister characters are scheming in a smoke-filled room, in a television ad that depicts big campaign contributors to Bob Casey, a Democrat running for Senate in Pennsylvania.
After detailing the legal troubles that each donor faces -- including an FBI investigation... |
e069c5d38d479085636fec406eabc11f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-27-na-bases27-story.html | House Passes Ban on Permanent Iraq Bases | House Passes Ban on Permanent Iraq Bases
Congress is on the verge of barring the construction of permanent bases for U.S. forces in Iraq, a move aimed at quelling concerns in the Arab world that American forces will remain in the war-torn country indefinitely.
The ban, which was inserted into the annual defense spendin... |
c57c7c30e89c60db08656369c6eb9a40 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-28-fg-intel28-story.html | Killings by Shiite Militias Detailed | Killings by Shiite Militias Detailed
Iraq’s two most deadly Shiite Muslim militias have killed thousands of Sunni Arabs since February, with the more experienced Badr Brigade often working in tandem with Al Mahdi army, collecting intelligence on targets and forming hit lists that Al Mahdi militia members carry out, a s... |
e4ebd65b074542d1d73ae412a15e3e7b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-29-fi-capitol29-story.html | Capitol Records Tower to Be Sold | Capitol Records Tower to Be Sold
The Capitol Records Tower, a Hollywood landmark with its cylindrical structure resembling a stack of records, is being sold in a deal that could lead to the development of an adjacent building designed to address the area’s growing office shortage.
Music giant EMI Group said Thursday th... |
0bc753ce822c153d638fe44f605bf20c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-29-na-abramoff29-story.html | Report Details Abramoff Ties to White House | Report Details Abramoff Ties to White House
In 2002, the nation’s capital was abuzz with March Madness as it prepared to host the NCAA basketball tournament’s first- and second-round regional games. For highflying lobbyist Jack Abramoff, it was a chance to do what he did best -- cozy up to powerful politicians.
So when... |
7402f807527c4f1edfa53ba4e0a60cd9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-29-oe-brooks29-story.html | Hate the sin, not the sinner | Hate the sin, not the sinner
ARE YOU A Bush hater, so blinded by “primal” loathing for the president that you automatically dismiss everything he says or does?
It’s one of the far right’s favorite weapons: If anyone criticizes the administration, brand them a Bush hater. The implication is that no sane or fair-minded p... |
688b8df86904cf7d0670c239e5f7ef04 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-30-et-girlfriends30-story.html | ‘Girlfriends’ feels left out of the clique | ‘Girlfriends’ feels left out of the clique
When it comes to on- and off-screen drama, it’s hard to beat the comedy “Girlfriends.”
As “Girlfriends” launches its seventh season at 8 p.m. on Sunday, its creator is biting the hand that programs the show -- the new CW network -- saying she’s not feeling the love. The networ... |
88f34b3eed875d4cd17a32a5121d54a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-30-sci-universe30-story.html | Universe Might Be More Egg-Shaped Than Spherical | Universe Might Be More Egg-Shaped Than Spherical
Round may be the preferred shape of baseballs, bubbles and Cocoa Puffs.
The universe, however, may favor the ellipsoid.
Italian scientists using data gathered by NASA’s WMAP probe say evidence points to the universe having a shape somewhat akin to an egg, rather than the... |
f77cc7b5716c5b6346e1399b54f9a96f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-01-me-hicks1-story.html | Cecil Hicks, 80; retired O.C. judge, former district attorney | Cecil Hicks, 80; retired O.C. judge, former district attorney
Cecil Hicks, the former district attorney of Orange County and Superior Court judge who was an institution in Southern California legal circles for more than four decades, has died. He was 80.
Hicks died Friday at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Orange after a week... |
5b8a46b8e9c2a12c2b7e8c4ca8433de9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-01-op-dorsey1-story.html | License to pollute | License to pollute
Economists, some environmentalists and a growing gaggle of politicians are pushing a grand strategy that a market mechanism -- known as “carbon cap and trade” -- can rescue us fastest from a climate catastrophe. But early evidence suggests that such a
scheme may be a Faustian bargain.
Gov. Arnold Sch... |
d5e6d0df5fe00c0041130e6cb56d5c2b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-01-re-hotprop1-story.html | Just a girl in the hills | Just a girl in the hills
When it comes to naming a lead singer of a rock band who is finding happiness in family life, Gwen Stefani would like there to be No Doubt it’s she.
She and musician-actor Gavin Rossdale, frontman for the grunge group Bush, were married in 2002 and had a son, Kingston, in the spring of 2006. Th... |
3e7d779e02c995c8edd49a3d8fa6270b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-01-sp-plaschke1-story.html | Mound for mound, they look like the best around | Mound for mound, they look like the best around
For long winter months, the questions flew past Dodgers and Angels officials like line drives headed for the gaps.
For long winter months, those officials have ducked and dived and covered up while concocting an answer.
Finally, on the cusp of another baseball season, the... |
4d4446edafefb72d472b41f8de465367 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-02-na-briefs2.3-story.html | Boys found frozen in reservation lake | Boys found frozen in reservation lake
Searchers found the bodies of two young brothers encased in ice in a lake on the Red Lake Indian Reservation more than four months after they disappeared while playing outside their home. Police said they had not determined whether foul play was involved.
|
65659d018f9cb333703aa80fba132c8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-03-fi-apple3-story.html | ITunes songs unlocked--at a cost | ITunes songs unlocked--at a cost
Apple Inc. and EMI Group want digital music fans to pay more money for more freedom.
EMI, the world’s fourth-largest record label, said Monday that it had agreed to sell its 150,000-song catalog through Apple’s iTunes store without the anti-piracy software that limits which devices can ... |
d31af99b7d2f26c2e8b8df2f61628efe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-03-fi-new3-story.html | Top lender files bankruptcy, lays off 3,200 | Top lender files bankruptcy, lays off 3,200
Irvine lender New Century Financial Corp. proved the old adage Monday: The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
New Century was once the largest independent company specializing in sub-prime mortgages for borrowers considered high credit risks. On Monday, it became the larg... |
1908b3193bf49386c7ddba7f8331254b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-04-et-soapnet4-story.html | Soaps take ‘Night Shift’ | Soaps take ‘Night Shift’
Daytime soaps are in peril and it just may be that prime-time is riding to the rescue.
While soap opera audiences continue to dwindle, SoapNet, the Disney-owned cable channel devoted to sex-and-suffering serials, is embarking on a mission to revive the genre in the evening hours.
In a bid to lu... |
ea197cddeee41fdaf9af229900bb6a0b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-04-fg-warcrimes4-story.html | U.S. arrests 3 suspected of Latin American war crimes | U.S. arrests 3 suspected of Latin American war crimes
The United States on Tuesday announced the arrests of three former South American military officers suspected of war crimes, including the accused chief interrogator for Argentina’s former military government.
He and two former Peruvian army officers accused in the ... |
fd281b0bca51f1c3cc4b73516534a41c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-04-oe-barber04-story.html | Overselling capitalism | Overselling capitalism
THE CRISIS IN subprime mortgages betrays a deeper predicament facing consumer capitalism triumphant: The “Protestant ethos” of hard work and deferred gratification has been replaced by an infantilist ethos of easy credit and impulsive consumption that puts democracy and the market system at risk.... |
ecbf238084ac5989a6435c4d71ede0e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-05-fg-serb5-story.html | War crimes tribunal sentences Serb | War crimes tribunal sentences Serb
The U.N. war crimes tribunal on Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serb police officer Dragan Zelenovic to 15 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the rape and torture of Muslims during Bosnia-Herzegovina’s 1992-95 war.
Zelenovic, a 46-year-old former paramilitary leader, was in... |
19592431a3dc6e5d576f3ee06ef587fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-05-me-crash5-story.html | Director of ‘Christmas Story’ dies in collision | Director of ‘Christmas Story’ dies in collision
Tuesday was usually family night for film director Bob Clark -- best known for “A Christmas Story” and the “Porky’s” movies -- and his grown sons, Ariel and Michael.
Ariel, 22, who had been studying music composition at Santa Monica College and was a part-time card dealer... |
7620b290974609fb7f5a4dbcae2f97d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-05-na-earmarks5-story.html | White House posts earmarks on website | White House posts earmarks on website
In a direct challenge to Congress and the way it does business, the White House on Wednesday unveiled an online list of all the pet spending projects lawmakers tucked in the federal budget for the 2004-05 fiscal year.
The Internet database details spending known as earmarks, funds ... |
b545357f8f3b91a0370287fae36ed87d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-06-fi-layoffs6-story.html | Pink slips litter loan industry | Pink slips litter loan industry
Brad Cottrell was a paramedic when a friend introduced him to the high-rolling world of sub-prime mortgage lending.
Within three years of landing a job with Ownit Mortgage Solutions Inc. in Agoura Hills, his salary had tripled. His wife quit working and they bought a 3,000-square-foot ho... |
727b50dc47b05db381a3a31af8284e6e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-06-me-crash6-story.html | Driver was drunk in PCH crash that killed 2 | Driver was drunk in PCH crash that killed 2
The 24-year-old man suspected of causing the accident that killed film director Bob Clark and his son had a bloodalcohol level three times the legal limit, authorities said Thursday.
Hector Manuel Velazquez-Nava, a native of Mexico who federal authorities said was in the U.S.... |
eaade7f7384ba6a4fbf268bebe0f54b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-06-me-housepot6-story.html | Gangs linked to boom in indoor pot farms | Gangs linked to boom in indoor pot farms
California is in the midst of a major boom in large-scale marijuana cultivation operations run from inside homes, with authorities confiscating more than $100 million worth of pot in the last year alone, including in a series of recent raids in the suburbs of Los Angeles.
Offici... |
0353b6b31b766f6a7658492544520461 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-06-na-feith6-story.html | Investigation fills in blanks on how war groundwork was laid | Investigation fills in blanks on how war groundwork was laid
Just four months after the Sept. 11 attacks, then-Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz dashed off a memo to a senior Pentagon colleague, demanding action to identify connections between Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime and Al Qaeda.
“We don’t seem... |
467f55cdf019c8761d69ad0aaa34ba6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-06-sci-swdrought6-story.html | A permanent drought seen for Southwest | A permanent drought seen for Southwest
The driest periods of the last century -- the Dust Bowl of the 1930s and the droughts of the 1950s -- may become the norm in the Southwest United States within decades because of global warming, according to a study released Thursday.
The research suggests that the transformation ... |
909e6dcd837b701525feb61a6dddf5d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-07-et-culture7-story.html | Menudo anew | Menudo anew
GUILLERMO ARRIAGA was a just a kid in Mexico when he was swept up in one of the biggest pop music crazes of all time: Menudo mania.
Menudo was the boy band, an early ‘80s Latino precursor to groups like ‘NSync and Back Street Boys, and served as the farm team for Puerto Rican superstar Ricky Martin, an orig... |
3bfa71aab07fdc7062f0682ca2f07662 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-07-fi-pretext7-story.html | License to lie sought in piracy battle | License to lie sought in piracy battle
The music and movie industries are lobbying state legislators for permission to deceive when pursuing suspected pirates.
The California Senate is considering a bill that would strengthen state privacy laws by banning the use of false statements and other misleading practices to ge... |
5b65f9f61174dc75a544221c6541efd0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-07-na-posada7-story.html | Jet bombing suspect ordered free on bail | Jet bombing suspect ordered free on bail
A federal judge Friday ordered Cuban militant Luis Posada Carriles freed from a New Mexico jail, ruling he be allowed to live under electronic surveillance with his family in Miami while awaiting trial May 11 on charges of lying to immigration authorities.
The move to free the 7... |
78f720099f370af73de33df01c1218e6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-08-na-petfood8-story.html | FDA officials will face Senate inquiry on pet food | FDA officials will face Senate inquiry on pet food
Seeking ways to ensure that pet food is safe, a Senate subcommittee plans to question Food and Drug Administration officials as soon as Thursday about their response to the contamination that has killed pets and led to the recall of more than 100 brands.
On Saturday, S... |
0d1b3a7e2b8ebba74d2872bcf33570a6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-08-na-virtual8-story.html | It’s Easter; shall we gather at the desktops? | It’s Easter; shall we gather at the desktops?
If all goes well, the naked lady won’t show up this morning when Pastor Craig Groeschel preaches his Easter service. But several cats will probably drop in. A horned dragon might perch on the crimson seats. There could even, perhaps, be an emu strolling in.
Groeschel will d... |
db927193517320c8d62dc5312ae754b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-08-op-brownstein8-story.html | The greening of the West | The greening of the West
SINCE THE ARRIVAL of the white settlers, the American West has been shaped by the discovery and extraction of natural resources, beginning in the 19th century with silver and gold and then extending to timber, copper, uranium and fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas and coal.
For decades, the ... |
670167c332db17563d95974513abf8af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-08-re-hotprop8-story.html | ‘Girlfriend’ next door in Bel-Air | ‘Girlfriend’ next door in Bel-Air
While Canadian-born superstar Avril Lavigne was recording the chorus of her latest hit, “Girlfriend,” in eight languages last month, she also was talking L.A. real estate. Lavigne and her husband, Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, have bought a Bel-Air home for about $9.5 million.
Lavign... |
b039ebb2c36b769b0214b8b8227f1cba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-09-he-labside9-story.html | In spinal research, pets lead the way | In spinal research, pets lead the way
Cancer isn’t the only medical condition in which studies on pet dogs are proving useful. Studies on dogs with naturally occurring spinal cord injuries are also yielding benefits for humans as well as the dogs themselves.
At Purdue University’s Center for Paralysis Research, directo... |
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