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894db121e5772cf3ce51474040d7233b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-fi-corona12-story.html | One house’s trip through the boom and bust | One house’s trip through the boom and bust
In the county of Riverside, in the city of Corona, on a street called Plume Grass, there’s a foreclosed house that no one wants to buy.
How it got that way says a lot about why Wall Street is in turmoil and the housing slump is worsening.
A three-bedroom house with a cathedral... |
73247bfb416102d48ddfc63a000966dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-12-na-bush12-story.html | Bush welcomes French president with burgers and blueberry pie | Bush welcomes French president with burgers and blueberry pie
kennebunkport, maine -- President Bush, who prides himself on building personal ties to foreign leaders, launched a bit of hamburger diplomacy Saturday as he welcomed the newly elected president of France to an informal lunch and private chat at the Bush fam... |
ee9ccd687e982bd92ed659017f44e938 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-14-me-airport14-story.html | Customs blamed for clog at LAX | Customs blamed for clog at LAX
Aviation officials criticized U.S. Customs on Monday for being unprepared and taking too long to fix the weekend computer failure at LAX that left more than 17,000 international passengers stranded for hours in airplanes.
Accustomed to frequent, short-lived outages, customs officials said... |
0ddf067ed4fb4ccae82b196c37441cc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-14-na-bush14-story.html | Bush losing key advisor at a low ebb | Bush losing key advisor at a low ebb
washington -- President Bush will finish his final 17 months in office without his political guru and alter ego, Karl Rove, who announced Monday that he would leave the administration at the end of the month.
Rove, who has worked on Bush’s political campaigns for 15 years, is the la... |
59ea9bed90af5d6f1e5c1bdfe112f7a1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-14-na-clintondocs14-story.html | Clinton records locked up | Clinton records locked up
little rock, ark. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.
Clinton’s ... |
257a10abd04e9a5329bcc6c7efa3cc5f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-14-na-penalty14-story.html | Rule could ‘fast-track’ executions | Rule could ‘fast-track’ executions
washington -- The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal con... |
5854bbe75f3162d33a7eef30595535a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-15-fg-pullback15-story.html | Top general may propose pullbacks | Top general may propose pullbacks
Intent on demonstrating progress in Iraq, the top U.S. general there is expected by Bush administration officials to recommend removing American troops soon from several areas where commanders believe security has improved, possibly including Al Anbar province.
According to the officia... |
8a6dd13d376270c41c8c81acba9cbdd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-15-me-guns15-story.html | Gun ID bill takes a shot at illegal weapons market | Gun ID bill takes a shot at illegal weapons market
A proposed state bill requiring all new handguns to be stamped with microscopic identification tags could significantly decrease violence and shut down the illegal gun market if passed, proponents said in a news conference Tuesday.
The Crime Gun Identification Act, AB ... |
b9b9b79b8184ab5865a93568081a6d94 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-15-na-bush15-story.html | White House praises what’s-his-name Rove | White House praises what’s-his-name Rove
Not to be “ungenerous or self-centered,” said White House Counselor Ed Gillespie, but he thinks some people overestimate Karl Rove’s importance. After all, Gillespie pointed out, during the 2004 presidential campaign he headed the Republican National Committee, the heart of the ... |
30095efb9b2993ba99e10f112a345e8a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-16-na-cats16-story.html | Cat thyroid disease linked to chemicals | Cat thyroid disease linked to chemicals
An epidemic of thyroid disease among pet cats could be caused by toxic flame retardants that are widely found in household dust and some pet food, government scientists reported Wednesday.
The often-lethal disease was rare in cats until the 1980s, when it began appearing widely, ... |
c0604b0f1bb5e30ba42f30cf575f7d49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-17-et-highschool17-story.html | Disney shows it takes two to really tango | Disney shows it takes two to really tango
To answer your question, it’s even better than the first one. What this will mean for the Disney Channel, the history of musical theater, the state of cable television or the future of the world as we know it remains to be seen. But “High School Musical 2" is zippier, bouncier,... |
e1c13891aae76849fe3730e805546103 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-18-sci-genes18-story.html | U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits | U.S. military practices genetic discrimination in denying benefits
Eric Miller’s career as an Army Ranger wasn’t ended by a battlefield wound, but his DNA.
Lurking in his genes was a mutation that made him vulnerable to uncontrolled tumor growth. After suffering back pain during a tour in Afghanistan, he underwent thre... |
a97d6e1bb4e89db1448434e00b87ee28 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-19-ca-source19-story.html | A home unlike all others | A home unlike all others
Earlier this summer, almost 100 psychedelic music fans, subculture aficionados, students of the occult and local literati climbed the flower-petal-strewn steps of publisher couple Jodi Wille and Adam Parfrey’s Silver Lake home for a salon celebrating the upcoming publication of “The Source: The... |
9c22b744a2b6782d5114f64d979f1667 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-19-ig-girls19-story.html | You know her type | You know her type
Since MTV began chronicling the joys and angst of a pretty blond and her posh posse in 2004, Lauren Conrad has emerged as the popular girl everyone wants to be around. If the idea of a cleverly precocious SoCal blond with a fashion obsession and her daddy’s credit card sounds familiar, it’s because Co... |
88404c7d2a9ffc3da10e4980e87009c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-19-na-rove19-story.html | Clinton may be a target of Rove’s reverse psychology | Clinton may be a target of Rove’s reverse psychology
Day after day last week, outgoing White House political strategist Karl Rove delivered slashing attacks on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner. Her healthcare record was “spotty and poor,” he declared. Her candidacy was “fatally flaw... |
8c961452e8434e578d262da7c7fb43c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-19-sp-plaschke19-story.html | For Gagne, the reception in Beantown has been icy | For Gagne, the reception in Beantown has been icy
BOSTON -- A day later, he stood alone in front of his locker, eyes wide, head shaking.
A day later, Eric Gagne was still amazed by what happened Friday night at Fenway Park.
Not his blown game against the Angels.
But his walk home afterward.
“Pretty incredible,” he said... |
68bb7328ba3e542fb3ce1fd5da31f237 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-19-sp-uscrep19-story.html | Trojans start where they want to finish: No. 1 | Trojans start where they want to finish: No. 1
USC, one of only two schools to go wire-to-wire at No. 1 in the history of the Associated Press college football poll, will get another chance to become the first to do it twice.
The Trojans were installed at No. 1 on Saturday after receiving 62 of 65 first-place votes in ... |
657c173152f57d5056d55550c079cc09 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-21-fg-iraq21-story.html | Second Iraqi governor killed in bombing | Second Iraqi governor killed in bombing
baghdad -- A roadside bomb killed the governor of Muthanna province Monday, and armed men in a fleet of sport utility vehicles kidnapped a senior government official on a busy Baghdad street.
The attack on the governor, the second provincial leader to be slain in little more than... |
7aecb44019d96953d2f7082be74ba691 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-21-oe-harmon21-story.html | A disaster at dealing with catastrophe | A disaster at dealing with catastrophe
As the Utah mine saga moves from catastrophe to, inevitably, a place beyond our collective front-page consciousness, the national media will leave Crandall Canyon families to mourn their losses. Reflecting on the news coverage of the tragedy, we are left to ponder the strange lega... |
32649bf7f89726d68900d1b57bf6b0e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-22-na-michelle22-story.html | It’s all about priorities for Michelle Obama | It’s all about priorities for Michelle Obama
The young professional woman was in a bind. She had a job interview scheduled with a prospective boss, but she didn’t have a baby-sitter. Not even her Harvard law degree could help her.
So Michelle Obama -- still in maternity clothes -- strapped her newborn daughter, Sasha, ... |
d219d19459797ac0de17fc7d713a4809 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-23-fi-moneyfunds23-story.html | Government money fund yields fall | Government money fund yields fall
The most conservative money market mutual funds became wildly popular in the last week, and their shareholders are paying a price for that: They’re earning less interest.
The average annualized seven-day yield on retail money funds that primarily own U.S. government securities fell to ... |
cf0fe00b1ba7539ff480909b0c91ff8c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-23-hm-dorm23-story.html | Dorms gone deluxe | Dorms gone deluxe
THERE was a time when the university dorm was the great equalizer. It didn’t matter if you were on a scholarship or a trust fund. You still had to put up with communal bathrooms, florescent light, windows that didn’t open, cinder-block construction.
Things have changed. To start, don’t call them dorms... |
5602fb4745307d597cc3f006162dc70e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-23-me-adl23-story.html | Jewish group recognizes Armenian genocide | Jewish group recognizes Armenian genocide
Reversing long-standing policy, a major American Jewish organization has officially recognized the early 20th century massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide -- but set off a new furor Wednesday by declining to support a congressional resolution that would do the sam... |
786ba01a47d678166ceae368859b6dd8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-24-me-quake24-story.html | A quake lull, but how long? | A quake lull, but how long?
Earthquakes that struck Southern California over the last century killed more than 200 people and caused billions of dollars in damage. But new research to be released today says the Los Angeles area may actually be in the midst of a prolonged seismic lull.
Geologists examined the size and f... |
5286047946107dec24d8c0b6e14900de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-24-sci-conlang24-story.html | Babel’s modern architects | Babel’s modern architects
In any language, Sonja Elen Kisa was depressed.
The world was overwhelming, and the thoughts that swirled through her mind in French, English, German or Esperanto echoed that.
So Kisa, 28, a student and translator in Toronto, decided to create her own language, something simple that would help... |
23256e168d3500fbdbce795bd09a6e3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-25-me-diocese25-story.html | 42 sex abuse cases ordered to trial | 42 sex abuse cases ordered to trial
SAN DIEGO -- A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge ruled Friday that 42 lawsuits filed by people alleging sexual abuse by Catholic priests here can go to trial, which could goad the Catholic Diocese of San Diego into settling those and other suits.
Andrea Leavitt, lawyer for a group of claim... |
992dabd60530c05ada9f68ab597da449 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-25-na-fence25-story.html | U.S.-Mexico fence’s lack of progress is criticized | U.S.-Mexico fence’s lack of progress is criticized
Nearly a year after Congress passed legislation calling for the construction of 700 miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, about 15 miles have been built, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Some Republicans and anti-illegal immigration groups... |
133010e68083e70b796acd986cb166d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-26-me-blueline26-story.html | Fears sink art project in Santa Barbara | Fears sink art project in Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA -- Call it the Santa Barbara meltdown.
Two of the city’s great preoccupations -- progressive politics and sky-high real estate values -- have collided over the last couple of months, yielding high drama over an art project that was to denote land imperiled by global... |
f988ade9ac97eb733743f7bf8dc8b507 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-26-re-hotprop26-story.html | Their new base of operations | Their new base of operations
It’s back to the military life for actress Catherine Bell, who costarred for nine seasons on “JAG.” Now she is a star on “Army Wives,” and much like a real military wife, she is pulling up stakes when duty calls.
In anticipation of moving to South Carolina, where the Lifetime series is film... |
432edcb3fedb6232bff3291da6daea23 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-27-et-book27-story.html | Scenes from that fiery festival | Scenes from that fiery festival
ON the morning after this review hits the paper, some 40,000 people will be waking up in their tents and domes and recreational vehicles on the inhospitable alkaline soil of a prehistoric lake bed in northern Nevada. They will blow their bloody noses clear of dust, they will rub balm on ... |
010fbf50ca7abc82e33888cce187e83e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-27-fg-childfighters27-story.html | Militants use children to do battle in Iraq | Militants use children to do battle in Iraq
baghdad -- Child fighters, once a rare presence on Iraq’s battlefields, are playing a significant and growing role in kidnappings, killings and roadside bombings in the country, U.S. military officials say.
Boys, some as young as 11, now outnumber foreign fighters at U.S. det... |
fb2be781e26c3c644ac1251015248e4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-27-he-fruitveg27-story.html | Eat them, already! | Eat them, already!
No dessert until you finish your vegetables! Health experts probably wish they could use that line on the recalcitrant American public.
Fruits and vegetables are packed with vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, fiber and scores of phytochemicals that scientists are just beginning to understand, and stud... |
226e02c056a015db423a2699cdb1e1a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-28-me-recycle28-story.html | L.A. recycling program allowing more in the blue bin | L.A. recycling program allowing more in the blue bin
To help the city meets its recycling goals, Los Angeles’ Bureau of Sanitation has expanded the variety of items it will accept to include foam and more plastic products.
Since July 1, residents have been allowed to place in city-issued recycling bins plastic grocery ... |
72bf94ca3358b46b8c90e3d7afd9abe1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-28-sp-vick28-story.html | Remorseful Vick enters guilty plea | Remorseful Vick enters guilty plea
Michael Vick apologized Monday for his involvement in dogfighting and vowed to redeem himself.
Shortly after entering a guilty plea on a federal dogfighting conspiracy charge -- one that leads to a Dec. 10 sentencing date and probable prison term -- the suspended Atlanta Falcons star ... |
1fca3f5baa60ac987f1376ae9cf8990d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-29-fi-wonder29-story.html | Baker slicing production | Baker slicing production
Southern California parents packing children off to school this fall may have to do without a lunchtime staple: Wonder Bread.
The company that makes the white bread with red, yellow and blue balloons on the wrapper said Tuesday that it was closing its Southland bakeries and laying off 1,300 wor... |
31d07be60d988b1dc928d416144a08da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-29-me-ucilaw29-story.html | Professor may be O.C. law school’s first dean | Professor may be O.C. law school’s first dean
Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the country’s best-known constitutional law experts, is a leading candidate to be the first dean of UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Law, according to someone involved in the selection process.
It is not known whether the school is still consideri... |
9c9133886b56fde6b49ea1ad6c5a23d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-29-na-hsu29-story.html | Democratic fundraiser is a fugitive in plain sight | Democratic fundraiser is a fugitive in plain sight
For the last 15 years, California authorities have been trying to figure out what happened to a businessman named Norman Hsu, who pleaded no contest to grand theft, agreed to serve up to three years in prison and then seemed to vanish.
“He is a fugitive,” Ronald Smetan... |
22e6df1b489b56488f475ff8c0c100f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-30-fi-ktla30-story.html | KTLA-TV’s iconic home in Hollywood goes on the block | KTLA-TV’s iconic home in Hollywood goes on the block
The historic former Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard, now occupied by television station KTLA-TV Channel 5, has been put up for sale by Tribune Co. amid a wave of high-stakes real estate investment in Hollywood.
No price has been set for the block-size propert... |
2e85537c15cd1178ac4c2fd9e530b411 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-30-me-maccready30-story.html | Paul B. MacCready, 81; inventor of human-powered aircraft, other innovations | Paul B. MacCready, 81; inventor of human-powered aircraft, other innovations
Paul B. MacCready, the Caltech-trained scientist and inventor who created the Gossamer Condor -- the first successful human-powered airplane -- as well as other innovative aircraft, has died. He was 81.
MacCready died in his sleep at his Pasad... |
fa16324573cd8f43965df8e36f510272 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-31-et-chinapop31-story.html | Punching a hole in the wall | Punching a hole in the wall
BEIJING -- As a group that entered the music world urging a generation of alienated youths to “fight the powers that be,” Public Enemy would seem to be the last band a government still shadowed by the student crackdown in Tiananmen Square would want performing in the heart of Beijing.
But ne... |
bb7d690fe5a1068ae4bbf224f7f8fc8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-31-fi-apple31-story.html | Apple expected to unveil enhanced iPod | Apple expected to unveil enhanced iPod
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs is expected to announce a souped-up iPod and a deal to let iPhone users buy ring tones through the iTunes store at an event next week, music industry sources said.
Following its custom, Apple recently sent invitations to analysts and reporters... |
e6e46f660d092f6b407e033194886452 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-aug-31-oe-stein31-story.html | The impossible dream | The impossible dream
The vast majority of my dreams are completely impossible: owning Mars, traveling to the future, writing a book. So when -- thanks to the magical economics of failed television pilot writing -- I got to buy a house, and that house needed a new bathroom, I was about to realize one of my lifelong drea... |
a7a2da46c20ee8090d82073c1e62d7e0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-01-et-rutten1-story.html | Corrupt News Network | Corrupt News Network
THE United States is at war in the Middle East and Central Asia, the economy is writhing like a snake with a broken back, oil prices are relentlessly climbing toward $100 a barrel and an increasing number of Americans just can’t afford to be sick with anything that won’t be treated with aspirin and... |
f63eb5e7f9114ebd8f522408012ba738 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-01-fg-mujahedin1-story.html | Group’s ‘terrorist’ label struck down | Group’s ‘terrorist’ label struck down
In a victory for British politicians pushing for regime change in Iran, an appeals tribunal ruled Friday that their government had no authority to ban a leading Iranian opposition group as a terrorist organization.
The ruling, which could help the group gain legal status across Eur... |
de13178ecbe3b30da88ed9e0f58735aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-01-na-health1-story.html | Democrats’ fight shifts to healthcare | Democrats’ fight shifts to healthcare
As voting fast approaches in a hotly competitive presidential primary campaign, the battle in the Democratic field has now focused intensively on healthcare and the question of how “universal” a coverage plan must be.
The dispute reflects a key difference among the party front-runn... |
e8b873d2503c60a06bff0b73fb143b06 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-02-ca-convers2-story.html | Highly logical, for a human | Highly logical, for a human
Zachary Quinto spent the holidays back home in Pittsburgh. He’s lived in Los Angeles for eight years; he plays Sylar on “Heroes” and is the new Spock for J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek,” which is shooting now.
Los Angeles seems to have a certain sense of pride and destiny now.
The strike is an incr... |
978bebe069a72ed9057d87f52b01cce0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-02-ca-engineers2-story.html | Capturing a sound that rings true | Capturing a sound that rings true
Rick RUBIN, George Martin, Timbaland, Brian Eno, Phil Spector -- the average pop music fan, if asked, could probably come up with at least a handful of names of notable recording personnel. It seems fair to say, though, that the typical consumer of orchestral and chamber music recordin... |
c8c277ead1544c8c585b260576e10999 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-02-na-huckabee2-story.html | Huckabee breaks the GOP mold with idiosyncratic stands | Huckabee breaks the GOP mold with idiosyncratic stands
In 2005, a Republican state senator named Jim Holt introduced a bill to deny public benefits to Arkansas’ soaring population of illegal immigrants. Holt, a Southern Baptist minister, figured it was a rock-solid conservative idea -- a matter, he said, “of right and ... |
757e600e07063b4840c9a18fd85d4a57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-03-et-tacuba3-story.html | Cafe Tacuba crashes, thrashes and rocks | Cafe Tacuba crashes, thrashes and rocks
Cafe Tacuba has made a practice of surprising fans. The group’s latest album, “Sino,” has a classic-rock sound reminiscent of the Who or even the Beach Boys, rather than the quirky mix of punk, techno, folklore and pop that made Cafe Tacuba Mexico’s most influential rock band of ... |
21e726e2dd1cd4799846a128d6e95ea1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-03-na-land3-story.html | This land is now their land -- so a judge rules | This land is now their land -- so a judge rules
For more than 20 years, a retired judge and his lawyer wife trespassed on a vacant lot next door to their home.
They planted a garden there and stacked their firewood. They say they held parties there and walked the land so often they wore a path in the grass.
Last year, ... |
7fc6f3c7e13b05590d18f16842e69590 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-04-fg-pakistan4-story.html | Pakistan rivals strategize together | Pakistan rivals strategize together
Pakistan’s two main opposition rivals met Monday for the first time since both returned from their years in exile, accusing President Pervez Musharraf of plotting to fix the Jan. 8 vote and vowing to muster a “people power” movement that would take to the streets to challenge any ele... |
b1706d2526754f0636ef16237986e0ec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-04-me-alpert4-story.html | Writer co-founded society of film critics | Writer co-founded society of film critics
Hollis Alpert, a film critic and author who co-founded the National Society of Film Critics more than 40 years ago in the living room of his New York City apartment, has died. He was 91.
Alpert died of pneumonia and respiratory failure Nov. 18 at Naples Community Hospital in Na... |
1601148cb2ffd9f2a61e1ec600ffb1cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-04-sci-divorce4-story.html | In divorce, even the environment feels the pain | In divorce, even the environment feels the pain
If you thought divorce was bad for the kids, you should see what it does to the environment.
A study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science found that the resource inefficiency of divorced households resulted in an extra 73 billion kilowa... |
0e97e2aea0cad96e0e0bda32ff6121c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-05-et-quick5.s5-story.html | Kitaj’s death is ruled a suicide | Kitaj’s death is ruled a suicide
The Oct. 21 death of artist R.B. Kitaj was a suicide by suffocation, the Los Angeles County coroner has found, saying the artist placed a plastic bag over his head.
A note and an empty medicine bottle were nearby when one of Kitaj’s sons discovered the 74-year-old painter dead at his ho... |
a3b9ebf3c1a4689424d2c91e8be93037 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-05-me-lopez5-story.html | An ugly aftermath for beauty pageant | An ugly aftermath for beauty pageant
Miss Los Angeles aced the swimsuit competition.
Looked great in an evening gown.
Poise?
You be the judge:
When Christina Silva of Koreatown was asked on the final day of the Miss California USA beauty pageant 10 days ago in Los Angeles if she was a leader or a follower, she said:
“I... |
6efe74def8f017963749ba7d92f2b8bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-06-gd-cover6-story.html | Ridazz on the storm | Ridazz on the storm
It’s 10 p.m. on a dreary, drizzly Friday, and it looks as if it’s turning into one of those gridlock-filled evenings for which our city has become sadly infamous.
Traffic along Echo Park Avenue is backed up from the Echo Lake boathouse all the way to the 101. And along this serpentine stretch of roa... |
a04e4531458073242e3f000f783b4183 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-06-na-dems6-story.html | Democrats up the ante on foreclosures | Democrats up the ante on foreclosures
Two leading Democratic presidential contenders raced ahead of the Bush administration Wednesday in calling for more sweeping measures to help struggling homeowners with their mortgages.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, the party front-runner, said in a Wall Street speech th... |
e5842b12518f608aab29fa27d072d633 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-06-sp-angels6-story.html | Marlins deny any deals with Angels | Marlins deny any deals with Angels
Florida Marlins General Manager Larry Beinfest strongly denied Angels owner Arte Moreno’s claims that the teams had a deal for slugger Miguel Cabrera in place twice in November, only to have the trades fall apart because the Marlins increased their demands at the last minute.
“There w... |
debed0577a4d99b7e7ce47388515dece | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-07-na-antihillary7-story.html | Clinton not an easy sell to all women | Clinton not an easy sell to all women
On paper, they look an awful lot like Hillary Rodham Clinton. They are professional women of a certain age -- politically active Democrats, liberals, unabashed feminists who remember what it was like to be told they could not become firefighters or university department heads, let ... |
d1affe63ca5cbbd4be2bb083b5dc008f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-07-na-interrogate7-story.html | CIA destroyed secret tapes of interrogations | CIA destroyed secret tapes of interrogations
The CIA said Thursday that it had destroyed videotapes of its secret interrogations of terrorism suspects, taking the action at a time when the agency’s harsh methods were coming under intense congressional and legal scrutiny.
CIA Director Michael V. Hayden acknowledged the ... |
dd03cc63880748e935f01551495ff7d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-08-me-hardy8-story.html | Amateur photographer won Pulitzer Prize for hotel fire photo | Amateur photographer won Pulitzer Prize for hotel fire photo
Arnold Hardy, an amateur photographer who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his gripping 1946 photo of a woman falling from a burning hotel, has died. He was 85.
Hardy died Wednesday at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta of complications following hip surger... |
e12a2dd40773fe3a7699a1e0896edf87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-bk-hamilton9-story.html | The magic of Klickitat Street | The magic of Klickitat Street
WE were driving through the gracious old suburbs of Portland, Ore., searching for a cafe that had gotten raves for its seafood, when I looked up from my map and saw a sign that resonated to the core of my bookworm soul: “Klickitat Street.”
Those two words hurtled me through time and place ... |
984195ee66ae10b61f076b40c46d277c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-et-channel9-story.html | Reruns and cheapo fare will rule -- as if it’s July | Reruns and cheapo fare will rule -- as if it’s July
Acouple of months back, this column predicted that if a writers strike did come to pass, the networks would soon turn to two Rs: reality and repeats.
Guess what? Soon is here.
Talks between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television... |
69ad8dc96a2b36e0f709a8f55b0bd89e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-fg-bolton9-story.html | Bolton calls report on Iran ‘quasi-putsch’ | Bolton calls report on Iran ‘quasi-putsch’
U.S. intelligence services attempted to influence political policy by releasing their assessment that concludes Iran halted its nuclear arms program in 2003, said John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Der Spiegel magazine quoted Bolton on Saturday as alleg... |
3d7cefe275c9e049f70ec7f12066bf39 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-fg-usiran9-story.html | CIA has recruited Iranians to defect | CIA has recruited Iranians to defect
The CIA launched a secret program in 2005 designed to degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons program by persuading key officials to defect, an effort that has prompted a “handful” of significant departures, current and former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the operation say.
The ... |
f4da992f6753b427f8de4523c893fbf8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-na-interrogate9-story.html | Inquiry begins into CIA tape destruction | Inquiry begins into CIA tape destruction
The Justice Department and the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General said Saturday that they had launched a joint inquiry into the CIA’s controversial destruction of videotaped interrogations of two Al Qaeda suspects. The preliminary inquiry would be a first step in determining ... |
443805e82e3b559f66fcf2186a280339 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-09-op-york9-story.html | Nunez’s high-stakes deal | Nunez’s high-stakes deal
It has not been the best of times for Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez (D-Los Angeles). He has been the subject of reports in The Times describing how he dipped into campaign funds to pay for, among other things, expensive Bordeaux wines and a stay at a ritzy Barcelona hotel. On-again, off-again n... |
ba041410e5d5cd65f2f466fb632222e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-10-he-walk10-story.html | Seniors’ walking pace may predict longevity | Seniors’ walking pace may predict longevity
How fast an older person walks may predict long-term survival, report researchers at the University of Pittsburgh who found that faster walkers were substantially more likely to outlive the slowest.
The report, presented recently at the annual meeting of the Gerontological So... |
b740f1c9c27bff47cacc6eb31a14a86f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-10-na-earmarks10-story.html | Clinton rolls a sizable pork barrel | Clinton rolls a sizable pork barrel
It’s a real estate developer’s sugar-plum dream: a mega-shopping mall complete with 10 Broadway-style theaters, an indoor river, a Tuscan village and a 39-story luxury hotel sheathed in green solar panels shaped like giant blades of grass. Plus as much as $1 billion in government-bac... |
32fdbcf9facf01aaca68bec8ce208e6a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-11-fi-strike11-story.html | Coming up short in domain name game | Coming up short in domain name game
When the Hollywood studios say they don’t know enough about the Internet to pay writers what they seek for the streaming and downloading of their shows, they might not be kidding.
That was made embarrassingly clear Monday when a group of opportunistic writers unveiled a website lampo... |
ac521eaf70d60197a9481a399cdd52f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-12-ed-stemcell12-story.html | Stem cell housecleaning | Stem cell housecleaning
Even as California’s stem cell institute hands out a heartening new round of research grants this week, ethical lapses at the agency show that other items of business are seriously overdue.
One is a blast of public light trained on its grant approval process. That will come as state Controller J... |
d683ac3ac7319b6445bb8938ce54e6c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-12-fg-fuji12-story.html | Fujimori convicted for illegal search in 2000 | Fujimori convicted for illegal search in 2000
Former President Alberto Fujimori was convicted of abuse of power Tuesday and sentenced to six years in prison after a judge found him responsible for an illegal search at the home of the wife of his onetime intelligence chief.
It was the first conviction in a series of cri... |
9ded19e8b820695b8197e8e7509b69c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-12-fi-chinafilm12-story.html | China closing curtains on U.S. movies | China closing curtains on U.S. movies
China’s government has been blocking American movies from its cinemas, U.S. and Chinese movie industry executives and analysts said Tuesday.
Although China has not announced any policy change, in recent weeks U.S. studios have stopped receiving approvals to show films in China, sai... |
aae58322d0227b1e836c81baa6b9c88f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-12-na-arctic12-story.html | Scientist sees quick end to summer sea ice | Scientist sees quick end to summer sea ice
The steady melting of Arctic ice greatly accelerated this summer, a warning sign that some scientists worry could mean global warming has passed a tipping point. One even speculated that summer sea ice would be gone in five years.
Greenland’s ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion... |
e7f0abe41c8c65a3ddffcf537a2f8421 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-13-me-nunez13-story.html | Nunez sells off French wine | Nunez sells off French wine
The state Democratic Party bought $3,238 worth of French wine from Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez’s political fund after extensive media criticism of the Los Angeles Democrat’s lavish spending.
Party officials said the wine was for use at a Democratic fundraiser. But nearly half of the 36 bot... |
4cfbdaefcc696efdbcd85d41d6736be6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-13-me-sinatra13-story.html | Sinatra gets first-class honor -- the gentleman is a stamp | Sinatra gets first-class honor -- the gentleman is a stamp
Coming to a mailbox near you: Ol’ Blue Eyes himself.
As Frank Sinatra’s three children looked on Wednesday in Beverly Hills, Postal Service officials unveiled an oversized replica of a stamp commemorating the iconic crooner.
The Rat Pack ringleader is depicted ... |
83dbcdcc3b40cbcd7705812d3a77fa62 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-13-me-turner13-story.html | Rock pioneer was known for abusing wife Tina Turner | Rock pioneer was known for abusing wife Tina Turner
Ike Turner, the musician who gave the world what many historians consider the first rock ‘n’ roll record -- “Rocket 88" in 1951 -- but bitterly acknowledged in his later years that he was most famous for being the abusive husband of Tina Turner, died Wednesday in subu... |
6e89ad82a5132bc552c379f5a13d4f1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-13-na-clinton13-story.html | Clinton says race will be over Feb. 5 | Clinton says race will be over Feb. 5
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is anticipating that she will not have to wait long to become the Democratic presidential nominee, privately telling campaign donors in California that the race “is all going to be over by Feb. 5.”
Though the focus of the 2008 presidential campaign is on... |
01d15db07d9767c95d2c0ba80ee58961 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-14-sp-mitchellbio14-story.html | Mitchell cites unbiased past | Mitchell cites unbiased past
George Mitchell, who on Thursday delivered sobering evidence of widespread steroid abuse in professional baseball in recent years, is used to being in the hot seat.
The 74-year-old lawyer and former politician also knows that his tight relationship with Major League Baseball left him open t... |
7648da23c024272e26e4176b778c3712 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-15-me-huxley15-story.html | Writer, lay therapist was devoted to husband’s legacy | Writer, lay therapist was devoted to husband’s legacy
Laura Archera Huxley, a lay therapist, author and widow of Aldous Huxley, who shared his vision of human potential and devoted the nearly five decades since his death to preserving his legacy and helping others -- particularly children -- achieve happiness, died Thu... |
3bbb6999a990f44c36aaed873a38297d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-15-me-terror15-story.html | 2 plead guilty to Southland terror plot | 2 plead guilty to Southland terror plot
Two members of a prison-based Islamic terrorist cell that authorities say was poised to attack military sites, synagogues and other targets across Southern California pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to conspiring to wage war against the United States.
The plot, which polic... |
4a974efc000f5dc9943b467a5b2cee0e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-15-oe-das15-story.html | The tiny, mighty transistor | The tiny, mighty transistor
A little electronic device that triggered one of the most dramatic technological explosions in history turns 60 on Sunday. The humble transistor and its descendant, the semiconductor chip, which made the digital revolution possible, today touch nearly every facet of our lives.
All around us,... |
24a56f32d1742d9bc8a9635c711172e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-ca-nichols16-story.html | Mike Nichols’ life in the trenches | Mike Nichols’ life in the trenches
From the very beginning of his moviemaking career, director Mike Nichols has displayed an extraordinary knack for knowing what the adult moviegoing public of America wants to see, even before said public knows it wants to see it. Given the indifference and/or hostility the American mo... |
9cb45d8397b23dd004bf9f0e31a77db3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-ca-pulloutletter16-story.html | Writer’s legacy strong | Writer’s legacy strong
HAVING just become the only writer ever to collaborate with Robert Heinlein on a novel, I feel an obligation to compliment Scott Timberg on “Robert Heinlein’s Future May Be Past” [Dec. 9]. He did a very nearly perfect job.
But not quite perfect.
Although every opinion expressed by Timberg is mali... |
60eb251a2f1eabca1f25894ee8830181 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-fg-bolivia16-story.html | Dueling rallies spotlight deep split in Bolivia | Dueling rallies spotlight deep split in Bolivia
Tens of thousands of people celebrated their self-declared “autonomy” and rejection of President Evo Morales’ leftist reforms by marching through the streets here Saturday.
At the same time, in the highland capital of La Paz, Morales symbolically received a copy of the di... |
9ededd01ffbc001bcee899e7831645d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-na-gates16-story.html | Unintended victims | Unintended victims
Aneighbor shaved Matsepang Nyoba’s head with an antiquated razor. Blood beaded on her scalp. Tears trickled down her cheeks, but not because of the pain. She was in mourning, and this was a ritual.
Two days earlier, her newborn baby girl had died in the roach-infested maternity ward of Queen Elizabet... |
247aa40125f31ab9668ad9d679dd31f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-16-sp-dodgers16-story.html | It’s only money, as Dodgers add Kuroda | It’s only money, as Dodgers add Kuroda
The Dodgers added an arm to their starting rotation and did so without parting with any of their young talent, although they will have to part with more of owner Frank McCourt’s money.
Japanese free-agent pitcher Hiroki Kuroda agreed to terms on a three-year contract worth $35.3 m... |
0a96ced141e702fc8b0e86cdcaa4bf4b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-18-na-goprace18-story.html | McCain tries to turn corner in N.H. | McCain tries to turn corner in N.H.
In an increasingly fractured Republican race, three top presidential hopefuls fanned out across New Hampshire on Monday, with Mitt Romney seeking to downplay expectations, John McCain basking in key endorsements and Rudolph W. Giuliani pressing his case to siphon votes from Romney, t... |
2e486053f6091d717379a94915beb1e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-18-na-mission18-story.html | A religious movement with an edge | A religious movement with an edge
Paul Filidis thought little of Christianity as he backpacked through Afghanistan in the early 1970s, searching for top-grade hashish and Eastern enlightenment.
Then his passport was stolen and he took shelter with a group of missionaries who had moved to Kabul to help wanderers on the ... |
e2ee2e7009c51d76e99c541d2bcb28ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-19-na-death19-story.html | 42 executions in ’07 are 13-year low in U.S. | 42 executions in ’07 are 13-year low in U.S.
Forty-two people were executed in the U.S. this year -- the lowest number since 1994 and fewer than half as many as there were in 1999, when the total was 98 -- the highest number in the modern era of the death penalty.
There have been no executions since Sept. 25, as more t... |
3455cb07b10f130cc7b87f24c643bcf8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-20-oe-altschuler20-story.html | Curtains for the guilds | Curtains for the guilds
Hollywood guilds resemble a camel assembled by a committee. They’re heterogeneous, with lots of moving parts. Their members have different interests and agendas. A few members get millions for each gig. Most of the rank and file won’t make a million if they live to be, well, 100.
Insiders have w... |
3d6088e444f7c7ac7ca30bda4d81ea53 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-20-sp-uclahoops20-story.html | Possessive case is studied | Possessive case is studied
Stan Love, father of star UCLA freshman Kevin, wore a jacket to Tuesday’s Bruins game against Western Illinois with stitched letters that said, “Feed the Animal.”
When asked where he got the jacket, Stan said, “Kevin gave it to me.” Then Stan winked. Kevin is the animal who wants to be fed ba... |
7e076f0abbc09fb859f23b6bff7c6192 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-20-sp-uclarep20-story.html | UCLA meets with Golden | UCLA meets with Golden
Temple Coach Al Golden was at UCLA to interview with Chancellor Gene Block about the Bruins’ head coaching job on Wednesday, sources familiar with the search said.
Golden, 38, has coached at Temple for two seasons and, though he has only a 5-19 record, is considered an up-and-coming coach. He is ... |
d520322586c2602c1cca72dccab0e115 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-21-et-gauguin21-story.html | Taken in by a complete fake | Taken in by a complete fake
CHICAGO -- On an 18 1/2 -inch ceramic sculpture of a faun in its collection since 1997, the Art Institute of Chicago had hung many theories about the artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and his life in Paris in the 1880s. That the small figure of a half-man, half-goat could bear such scholarship... |
5379b8f22c0a9816924deb4dd9181a9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-21-fg-iraq21-story.html | Deadly violence shatters Eid al-Adha calm in Iraq | Deadly violence shatters Eid al-Adha calm in Iraq
A suicide bomber edged his way into a crowd of Iraqi officials and U.S. forces gathered for a meeting north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing as many as 12 people, including an American soldier.
It was one of three attacks nationwide that shattered what had been the peace... |
452a550072e58752affc2505b84d7f87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-21-me-first21-story.html | Store is selling all but the memories | Store is selling all but the memories
Olive Kemp, 90, slowly stepped down the stairs toward the sales floor of the department store her family has owned since the 1920s. Her trusted deputy, Marta De La Hoya, 50, walked in careful lock step.
Before them, the Christmas rush at the First Street Store in East Los Angeles w... |
62667de230ae79fc1ba46f106730de0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-21-na-bill21-story.html | Ex-president supportive to a fault? | Ex-president supportive to a fault?
From Washington to Sacramento, a generation of Democrats enjoys power and prosperity thanks to Bill Clinton, who ran for president as a fresh face representing hope and change.
A number of those graying Clintonites are now rallying behind Barack Obama, another national newcomer, who ... |
54fd74ef740de59265f378f8f5f9a67d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-22-me-cia22-story.html | Phony CIA ‘operative’ faces prison | Phony CIA ‘operative’ faces prison
As Larry Lee Risser Jr. told the story, it was a desperate time, requiring desperate measures.
He and his fellow CIA operatives had been ambushed while on a clandestine mission in an undisclosed location.
Risser had taken a bullet in the stomach, and his team leader was dead.
To extri... |
ff5c687728da65decd36480fd6e68b63 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-22-me-fluoride22-story.html | For some, fluoridated water still hard to swallow | For some, fluoridated water still hard to swallow
A chemist called it “criminally intolerant chemical warfare to enslave the American people.” A self-described inventor and “secret investigator” said the government was trying to “kill you slowly.” Another man put it bluntly: “Communism is one of the factors behind it.”... |
19d03e79d011434344aca0ad276fe3b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-23-na-gopworld23-story.html | GOP sees the world anew | GOP sees the world anew
Last week, after Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee criticized the Bush administration for an “arrogant bunker mentality” toward the world, rival Mitt Romney rose to George W. Bush’s defense. “Mike Huckabee owes the president an apology,” Romney said.
But Romney too has criticized the... |
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