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14301e77a9d36cb7619f3f936c29a453 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-23-na-librarians23-story.html | In parents’ book, library cuts go too far | In parents’ book, library cuts go too far
As has happened in other states, cash-strapped schools in Washington are dropping librarians to save money: This year, Federal Way cut 20 librarian positions. Spokane reduced 10 librarians to half-time. Darrington cut two librarians. A school in Marysville eliminated its half-t... |
66c8096d70700bfab2b0a753edd22d26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-23-na-ticket23-story.html | Such well-timed happenstance along the Clinton trail | Such well-timed happenstance along the Clinton trail
An amazing coincidence the other day on the campaign trail in Iowa with Hillary Clinton.
The New York senator was in Donnellson as part of a broad statewide tour in which she, her husband, relatives, friends and Magic Johnson spread out to all 99 crucial counties to ... |
87822666f8c678c230eb56a899baf2cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-23-sp-briefing23-story.html | Injecting a little bit of levity | Injecting a little bit of levity
The seven members of the executive board for the Texas High School Baseball Coaches Assn. are faced with a difficult decision: Do they go ahead with plans to have Roger Clemens deliver the keynote speech -- titled “My Vigorous Workout: How I Played So Long” -- at the group’s annual conv... |
a0f5b37d3a18b165e2fc4c580062b5a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-me-homicides24-story.html | Killings decline sharply in L.A. | Killings decline sharply in L.A.
Los Angeles is on track to end the year with fewer than 400 homicides for the first time in nearly four decades -- a hopeful milestone for a city so long associated with gangs, drive-by shootings and sometimes random violence.
With 386 killings recorded as of Sunday, the city has experi... |
c61cf7cd5adcd3a93ef65851218c6bdf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-me-passings24.s2-story.html | First to head Disney Channel | First to head Disney Channel
Alan Wagner, 76, a television executive who became the first president of the Disney Channel, died Tuesday in New York City, according to the New York Times. The cause of death was not reported.
Wagner was hired by the Walt Disney Co. in 1982 to oversee development of a cable channel dedica... |
686e3b341d20445882f3083c576827d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-me-russin24-story.html | Sculptor made ‘Spirit of Life’ fountain at City of Hope | Sculptor made ‘Spirit of Life’ fountain at City of Hope
Robert Isaiah Russin, an artist and educator best known in Southern California for the “Spirit of Life” fountain sculpture in front of the City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, has died. He was 93.
Russin, who lived in Centennial, Wyo., died Dec. 13 afte... |
53113b55e6cbbf92efc382d7ded65002 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-na-cia24-story.html | CIA’s clandestine service called its own shots on tapes | CIA’s clandestine service called its own shots on tapes
Shortly after he arrived as CIA director in 2004, Porter J. Goss met with the agency’s top spies and general counsel to discuss a range of issues, including what to do with videotapes showing harsh interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees, according to current and for... |
573d48a6f64ae48144f8b02381206a79 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-na-salestax24-story.html | Radical sales tax plan fuels Huckabee’s swift rise | Radical sales tax plan fuels Huckabee’s swift rise
Mike Huckabee, one of the most conservative Republicans in the 2008 presidential race, has embraced one of the most radical ideas on the campaign trail: a plan to abolish all federal income and payroll taxes and replace them with a single 23% national sales tax.
The id... |
730cc2d1d743dfcf3ac7150fc3fbcfd8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-24-sp-clemens24-story.html | Clemens posts video denying use of steroids | Clemens posts video denying use of steroids
Roger Clemens used the Internet to issue his latest denial that he ever used steroids, saying in a video that was posted Sunday on his foundation’s website and YouTube.com that the parts of the Mitchell Report that pertained to him are “simply not true.”
Looking directly into... |
3f40c08b16c03e677c56e18266133c55 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-25-fg-iran25-story.html | Iran plans 19 more nuclear plants | Iran plans 19 more nuclear plants
Iran plans to build 19 more nuclear power plants and will soon solicit international bids for their construction, a lawmaker said in a report published Monday.
“Contracts for the construction of 19 nuclear power plants, each with a capacity of 1,000 megawatts, will be put into internat... |
0967dd2a4312d0090f7fe37d331b8c0d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-25-fg-youth25-story.html | Young and proudly pro-Putin | Young and proudly pro-Putin
The student activist, looking bohemian with stylishly mussed hair, pointy black shoes and black jeans, had to beg off his appointment. He had just been summoned by “the authorities.”
But Nikita Borovikov didn’t seem particularly apprehensive. In fact, he seemed rather pleased.
As one of the ... |
9bb6113bee429ed795ce60ad725a5913 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-25-na-romneydadson25-story.html | Romney’s running mate | Romney’s running mate
. -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney worked his way through a sprawling tailgate party at the annual Michigan-Michigan State college football game last month trying to forge his political future one handshake at a time. But he kept encountering the past.
“Your father did great things... |
dc05816807c849680d38a871b7d1e136 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-26-me-prisons26-story.html | State’s prison budget soars | State’s prison budget soars
When a judge put Robert Sillen in charge of healthcare in California prisons, the medical staff was vastly underpaid. Software used to track inmates’ medical histories could not transfer information between computers.
San Quentin State Prison had only one phone line for incoming calls and no... |
c4b5106990ae6557007396d1d793d461 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-27-fg-missing27-story.html | Pakistan’s missing are doubly lost | Pakistan’s missing are doubly lost
Abid Raza Zaidi winces occasionally as he tells how police hung him upside down and beat him with leather straps to get him to confess to taking part in a deadly bombing in Karachi.
He remembers being forced to stand for hours without rest, and the strange serenity he felt when police... |
490576db438c0b11cb89f93b6ecc56aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-27-fi-virgin27-story.html | Virgin Megastore to shut doors | Virgin Megastore to shut doors
Another one bites the dust. The Virgin Megastore on Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, just down the street from the shuttered Tower Records, will close when its lease is up in January.
The rent is simply too high, Simon Wright, chief executive of Virgin Megastores North America, said We... |
23e5dcd2c6ca99174d445bd776b445b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-27-na-iowa27-story.html | GOP candidates compete to see who can keep it real | GOP candidates compete to see who can keep it real
Grasping a freshly killed pheasant and hoisting a shotgun over his shoulder, Mike Huckabee on Wednesday invited reporters to witness what has become one of the standard motifs of Republican presidential politics: the candidate out hunting, like a regular guy.
But the u... |
34487f74a257b57786425bf487b5de76 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-27-sp-westbrook27-story.html | He keeps shooters at arm’s length | He keeps shooters at arm’s length
Standing near the door of the visitors’ locker room Saturday at Michigan’s Crisler Arena was Detroit Pistons rookie Arron Afflalo.
Afflalo had come straight from practice to see his old UCLA team play Michigan. After leading the Bruins to consecutive Final Fours, Afflalo chose to skip ... |
be6a77d29ee927fa5fa6db0674671588 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-28-fi-amazon28-story.html | Warner Music deal fortifies Apple rival | Warner Music deal fortifies Apple rival
One of the strongest rivals to Apple Inc.'s iTunes Store got stronger Thursday when Warner Music Group said it would sell digital songs without anti-piracy protection through Amazon.com Inc.
The move is an about-face for Warner Music, which became the third of the big four record... |
40f589582a94c7293372509b340affab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-28-fi-optionarm28-story.html | Prime loans seeing rise in defaults | Prime loans seeing rise in defaults
Thought the mortgage meltdown was just a sub-prime affair? Think again. There’s another time bomb waiting to explode, experts say: risky loans made to people with good credit.
So-called pay-option adjustable-rate mortgages, or option ARMs, were the easiest and most profitable home lo... |
ccb85edb1816b12a4f700b9db29d9e53 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-29-fi-malpractice29-story.html | Malpractice law may deny justice | Malpractice law may deny justice
Dave Stewart’s 72-year-old mother went to Stanford University Medical Center for double knee-replacement surgery in April. Four days later, she was dead.
To Stewart, an anesthesiologist, it seemed a classic case of medical malpractice. After the operation, his mother developed sharp abd... |
8607a5ca6aabec30d4697e066e4810e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-29-me-beliefs29-story.html | Rabbi, atheist debate with passion, humor | Rabbi, atheist debate with passion, humor
I like to call it my night with the atheist and the rabbi.
The American Jewish University invited me, as an editor of articles on religion, to moderate a debate this fall between author Sam Harris and Rabbi David Wolpe, and for about 90 minutes they analyzed the role of religio... |
48c37754ce084bf3773573da00a0b32f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-29-me-firefighter29-story.html | Ex-Pasadena firefighter wins bias suit | Ex-Pasadena firefighter wins bias suit
A jury awarded $1.17 million Friday to a black former Pasadena firefighter who said he was forced to retire after complaining for five years about other firefighters leaving blood, urine and feces in his bedding and scrawling a swastika on his equipment.
The penalty was just the l... |
930cdc650d5c39ef0809471af6612586 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-29-sp-cliprep29-story.html | Kaman facing All-Star obstacles | Kaman facing All-Star obstacles
PHOENIX -- Ask Chris Kaman if he thinks he is playing like an All-Star and the answer is short and sweet.
“Of course,” he said. “But I’m not an arrogant person. I’m not going to sit here and boast about myself, but I think I’m playing like an All-Star. But whether or not I make the All-S... |
c343e863072d9660c958dbb0e65c7b87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-30-ca-booksfaces30-story.html | FACES TO WATCH 2008 | FACES TO WATCH 2008
KEITH GESSEN
NEW YORK LIT WORLD NOVELIST
If Benjamin Kunkel is the pretty boy of under-40 New York intelligentsia, the Russian-born Gessen is, rumor has it, the brain. This spring, the Harvard-educated thirtysomething will release “All the Sad Young Literary Men,” a novel about, well, other bookish,... |
74ada6d285521c17f4e2d9e15659391a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-30-fg-assess30-story.html | Far from case closed in Pakistan | Far from case closed in Pakistan
The circumstances of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination suggest either that Islamic militants based in Pakistan are able to act with near-total impunity or that elements within the government of President Pervez Musharraf have been complicit in attacks, or both, analysts and Western diploma... |
49d034516e066bb8031c0bce5a2e9f85 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-30-fi-autoloans30-story.html | New cars that are fully loaded -- with debt | New cars that are fully loaded -- with debt
When Jennifer and Bobby Post traded in their 2001 Chevy Suburban last year for a shiny new Ford F-350 turbo diesel with an extended cab, it seemed like a great deal. Even though they still owed $9,500 on their SUV after the trade-in value, they didn’t have to put a penny down... |
2c9a3234520eda0fea60d517a196a2cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-30-na-roadkill30-story.html | Approach to transportation planning aims to keep animals from becoming roadkill | Approach to transportation planning aims to keep animals from becoming roadkill
Wildlife researchers Patricia Cramer and John Bissonette scanned the bushes and brush amid patches of snow, looking for signs of mule deer.
Gleefully, Cramer kicked at a pile of droppings. “There you are,” she said. “I like to see that. It ... |
487d27c1cc81664ddf8fb5588a8d425b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-30-op-mead30-story.html | The great fall of China | The great fall of China
The most important story to come out of Washington recently had nothing to do with the endless presidential campaign. And although the media largely ignored it, the story changes the world.
The story’s unlikely source was the staid World Bank, which published updated statistics on the economic o... |
f8b59fa8218ae2a86d3189db93aa67bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-dec-31-fi-boxoffice31-story.html | Big crowds still seek ‘National Treasure’ | Big crowds still seek ‘National Treasure’
The adventure sequel “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” was once again the big draw at the weekend box office, taking in an estimated $35.6 million, but it was the little guys that posted the biggest surprises.
The singing, computer-generated critters of “Alvin and the Chipmu... |
2dad1b5c06f0cf0d93778cfcad134dbb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-01-me-money1-story.html | Governor’s campaign reports debt | Governor’s campaign reports debt
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger racked up more than $2 million in campaign debt as he strode to victory in last year’s election, yet still paid large bonuses to senior aides who moonlighted for his campaign while on the state payroll, records show.
Campaign reports filed with the state Wedne... |
a328e34cf25ceb5bf0a6cd4e8a2514ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-01-na-color1-story.html | Trial shows an insular, backbiting Washington | Trial shows an insular, backbiting Washington
With the Bush administration taking a pounding over erroneous prewar claims about Iraq in the summer of 2003, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff consulted his office’s top communications advisor on how to strike back.
As they talked by phone, I. Lewis “Scooter” Lib... |
7769ecdc561992a3c2d49daa4f1e060f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-01-na-libby1-story.html | Rove revealed agent’s name, reporter says | Rove revealed agent’s name, reporter says
A former Time magazine reporter said Wednesday that it was President Bush’s political advisor, Karl Rove, who first revealed to him that the wife of an administration critic worked for the CIA.
The testimony by Matthew Cooper could help former Vice Presidential aide I. Lewis “S... |
d8d6c4db8f31f667233e58eb575e9965 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-01-na-warchest1-story.html | Early glimpse at money derby lacks the Clinton context | Early glimpse at money derby lacks the Clinton context
Former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani opened what is sure to be a year of frenzied presidential campaign fundraising by disclosing Wednesday he had $1 million on hand in his quest to become the Republican nominee, while presumed front-runner Sen. John McCain of... |
100d98733260a243c3ac1717a15f6c5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-02-fg-probe2-story.html | Israeli premier testifies about Hezbollah war | Israeli premier testifies about Hezbollah war
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified for more than six hours Thursday before a commission investigating the performance of Israel’s government and military during last summer’s conflict in Lebanon.
Olmert’s office declined to comment on what the prime minister told ... |
d8f507925862dcb2b16621b1a11e381b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-02-na-latino2-story.html | Santa Ana’s Sanchez quits Hispanic caucus amid rift | Santa Ana’s Sanchez quits Hispanic caucus amid rift
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus was thrown into turmoil Thursday after Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) resigned her membership amid accusations that its chairman, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Rialto), had been demeaning to women.
Two of the remaining five women in the 21-mem... |
5e463f96397ab5485befdd4eba7d8a48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-02-sp-usctech2-story.html | SUMMERTIME, AND THE GRADING IS EASY | SUMMERTIME, AND THE GRADING IS EASY
The stampede of student athletes up Figueroa Street from USC to Los Angeles Trade Tech College nearly two miles away drew curious attention during summer school registration at the downtown community college last June.
Among those signing up were three 300-pound Trojans linemen, incl... |
73b4817ffa6f78a89e80235ac3ba479c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-03-fg-iran3-story.html | U.S. CAN’T YET PROVE IRAN LINK TO IRAQ STRIFE | U.S. CAN’T YET PROVE IRAN LINK TO IRAQ STRIFE
Bush administration officials acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims that Iran is fomenting violence against U.S. troops in Iraq.
Administration officials have long complained that Iran was supplying Shiite M... |
08531b856701e4ea1207bf09398711d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-03-fi-frat3-story.html | Anti-fraternization policy is ruled unlawful | Anti-fraternization policy is ruled unlawful
Employers may stop their workers from fraternizing if it’s for fun but not if it’s to discuss working conditions, a U.S. appeals court ruled Friday.
A three-judge panel found that an anti-fraternization policy of the security-services firm Guardsmark intruded into federal la... |
320b6112f2878a69a03102e1ab7e1c06 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-03-me-hollywood3-story.html | The force is all over Chewbacca | The force is all over Chewbacca
The buzz on Hollywood Boulevard on Friday was over the Chewbacca who police say crossed over to the dark side in front of hundreds of tourists at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
LAPD officers arrested “Star Wars” street performer Frederick Evan Young, 44, of Los Angeles in his furry brown woo... |
49ee339d5df68135bc40343d440552bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-03-sci-warming3-story.html | Deal with warming, don’t debate it, scientists warn | Deal with warming, don’t debate it, scientists warn
A United Nations report released Friday that blames humans for the “runaway train” of global warming has abruptly shifted the international debate from “Are humans to blame?” to “What are we going to do about it?”
“The world’s scientists have spoken,” said Timothy E. ... |
5a086385911a934393de0c9c65b7c313 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-04-me-wright4-story.html | NBC Universal to end CEO’s 21-year reign | NBC Universal to end CEO’s 21-year reign
Jeff Zucker, the fast-rising television executive who made his name as executive producer of NBC’s morning show “Today,” will be named chief executive of NBC Universal this week, according to four people at the company.
Zucker, 41, will succeed Bob Wright, who has spent nearly 2... |
8bfcf7c05286e010a5405a84a08e2bb4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-04-op-mooney4-story.html | Taking the spin out of science | Taking the spin out of science
By beginning to investigate the Bush administration’s interference with scientists’ work on global warming, the Democratic Congress has embarked on a key task: restoring respect for science -- and more generally, for evidence and reason -- in the federal government.
That we need such refo... |
ed733d92b0deac446677f541597e390c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-05-et-book5-story.html | Scientist Young, international man of mystery | Scientist Young, international man of mystery
SO is the title of Andrew Robinson’s new book hyperbole? Of course it is. We all know that no one person can encompass all knowledge, that people who aspire to are nothing more than “Jeopardy!” freaks. But now and then, someone comes along who seems to have received several... |
3ce97fcccb6bd0b343e1e850ce643fbf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-05-et-morricone5-story.html | Composer is larger than life; concert isn’t | Composer is larger than life; concert isn’t
Ban Ki-moon should probably not get used to being serenaded every time he returns from official business overseas. But the United Nations is still in a welcoming mode for its new secretary-general, and Friday night it threw a special and quite strange concert in his honor two... |
61c65910c69e66714402fc1aa0e920df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-05-fi-spongebob5-story.html | Japan absorbed by a sponge | Japan absorbed by a sponge
Square and loud, SpongeBob wasn’t supposed to have much chance for success in Japan, a nation known for its love of more cuddly characters such as Hello Kitty and Pikachu.
But the perky, bucktoothed American cartoon character is proving the skeptics wrong. SpongeBob SquarePants attracts nearl... |
dc2f8c1d7db41dc1a175fdbc3c65cbfa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-05-na-libby5-story.html | In Libby’s case, it’s credibility at issue | In Libby’s case, it’s credibility at issue
Former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s defense in his perjury trial rests largely on the claim that he was too busy with pressing affairs of state to recall minor events such as conversations with reporters about an obscure CIA employee.
But after nine govern... |
283c5f2965295002313e0af18b183379 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-05-oe-barrett5-story.html | Common ground | Common ground
‘DID THEY KNOW you were Jewish?”
I often hear that question when people learn I’ve spent four years researching and writing a book about American Muslims. The answer is yes, and rather than hinder my reporting, disclosure usually helped.
For one thing, the differing reactions I got underscored a central p... |
8b5a9d1638508559472d7c189db1ba08 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-07-fi-walmart7-story.html | Wal-Mart loses job-bias appeal | Wal-Mart loses job-bias appeal
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. must face the largest workplace class-action lawsuit in U.S. history and defend itself against claims that it discriminated against thousands of women employees, a federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled Tuesday.
The company said it would appeal the decision of t... |
d74b46b9e76ad0e5751edc9fa9083ecd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-07-fo-crepes7-story.html | Object of desire | Object of desire
BATTER spills across an expanse of hot iron like the tide washing over a beach. A rozelle spreads it, the T-shaped wooden tool making a wide arc and turn, into a circle. The edges move into a fine lace filigree, the wide interior cooks up the color and texture of muslin. A spatula flips the crepe on it... |
6f23bd20e3b4e547de917b92a6d51103 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-08-oe-zitrin08-story.html | Secrecy’s dangerous side effects | Secrecy’s dangerous side effects
DRUG GIANT Eli Lilly & Co. recently settled 18,000 lawsuits brought by people claiming they were injured by the side effects of its biggest-selling drug, Zyprexa, which is used to treat schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. But the $500 million in settlements says less about the dangers o... |
6af1ce9d7577d2aca054a14a97b8f356 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-09-me-released9-story.html | Judge tosses conviction of Venice man accused in 1985 slaying of florist | Judge tosses conviction of Venice man accused in 1985 slaying of florist
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Thursday that a Venice man imprisoned more than 20 years in the murder of a florist shop owner was wrongly convicted and ordered his swift release.
The decision means that Timothy Atkins, now 40, who was co... |
9342e5fe791aaeb9e76413328e83dd31 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-09-sp-uscrecruit9-story.html | USC looks into potential recruiting violation | USC looks into potential recruiting violation
In wake of comments made by high school running back Joe McKnight, USC compliance officials are investigating whether an NCAA recruiting violation occurred during the Trojans’ pursuit of the Louisiana prep star.
McKnight, regarded as the nation’s top running back prospect, ... |
e7d553ad993ec3e2c4f7a7059a527a08 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-11-me-muldrow11-story.html | Ronald Muldrow, 57; jazz guitarist recorded with saxophonist Eddie Harris | Ronald Muldrow, 57; jazz guitarist recorded with saxophonist Eddie Harris
Ronald Muldrow, a guitarist who had been a fixture on the Los Angeles jazz scene for more than three decades, has died. He was 57.
Muldrow was found dead Jan. 31 in his Los Angeles home, said his son, Stephen Muldrow. The cause of death is being ... |
70131198735c68dc52baeec49a289ade | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-12-fi-norbit12-story.html | Murphy’s weight shows in ‘Norbit’ | Murphy’s weight shows in ‘Norbit’
Eddie Murphy will find out in two weeks whether he can add an Oscar to his resume for his dramatic turn in “Dreamgirls.”
But either way, this weekend he proved that he remains one of Hollywood’s most bankable movie stars when it comes to silly comedies.
DreamWorks and Paramount Picture... |
b8cf50b57e99d7f221e6bd43d3aed130 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-12-he-evpsych12-story.html | The mind, as it evolves | The mind, as it evolves
IN the fall of 2005, psychiatrist J. Anderson Thomson Jr. was treating an 18-year-old college freshman whom he describes as “intensely depressed, feeling suicidal and doing self-cutting.”
A few years before, Thomson says, he would have interpreted her depression as anger turned inward. But inste... |
69e68ca19c3e7b8f1e6a66eb04f9cf07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-12-me-dauri12-story.html | Gino D’Auri, 69; flamenco guitarist played L.A. eateries | Gino D’Auri, 69; flamenco guitarist played L.A. eateries
Gino D’Auri, a flamenco guitarist who performed in concerts around the world and also in more intimate settings at Lares restaurant in Santa Monica and El Cid restaurant in Los Angeles for more than 20 years, has died. He was 69.
He died Jan. 26 of cancer at his ... |
fb04c52114688491adb1fa9c5ed8b6a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-12-na-warvote12-story.html | House is set to wrestle with the war | House is set to wrestle with the war
As the House this week launches its first major debate over the Iraq war since the November elections, Democrats are counting on many Republicans to join them in passing a resolution opposing President Bush’s troop buildup.
Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest, a Maryland Republican, predicts th... |
46e878cce2b753d9ce8107239bd44f41 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-12-sp-percival12-story.html | Percival delivers new home base | Percival delivers new home base
It was early in the morning, way too early for a college student to stir. The coach was alone in his office, but the noise made it apparent he was not alone in the building.
He wandered into the clubhouse to see what was up. He was stunned. The greatest player in school history was perch... |
f17ac6d94010de8240d161b55e28f13c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-ed-obama13-story.html | The Obama card | The Obama card
RECENT POLLS INDICATE that black voters favor Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) by a substantial margin over Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), so political pundits are all a-titter, asking how this can be. The assumption, apparently, is that black support should cleave to the black man.
But then, is Obama re... |
f7f8ef3b0b114ff8b26a24b5b22dec65 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-et-dvdextras13-story.html | Martin Scorsese, up front and center | Martin Scorsese, up front and center
Not only is Martin Scorsese one of the most influential filmmakers of the last four decades, the iconoclastic director consistently delivers superior audio commentaries that offer rare insight into his life and the directing process.
Unfortunately, there is no Scorsese audio comment... |
b8ee1e7a8a39f6a781ebb37e96393eb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-et-torture13-story.html | ‘24' gets a lesson in torture from the experts | ‘24' gets a lesson in torture from the experts
Hollywood is notorious for its meetings, but even by L.A. standards this one was unusual.
A few steps away from the CTU set of Fox’s “24,” an unlikely alliance of human rights activists, the dean of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and veteran interrogators with exp... |
e776b022877f072734b336014ce0fb46 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-me-disney13-story.html | Disneyland not smiling about housing plan | Disneyland not smiling about housing plan
A proposal to build housing near Disneyland has escalated into a battle of wills between the entertainment giant and key Anaheim officials, who once could be counted on to follow Disney’s every lead.
Although some Anaheim City Council members see the project as a way to add nee... |
e9159cde6188535dc5b06488f60eec90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-me-dumping13-story.html | Patient ‘dumping’ probe widens | Patient ‘dumping’ probe widens
The Los Angeles city attorney’s office is investigating whether a Hollywood hospital violated multiple laws when it attempted to leave a paraplegic man on a gurney at the Midnight Mission -- hours before he was left in a skid row gutter, officials said Monday.
A video, filmed by security ... |
fb74ee411eff375321fac2bcb259dbbc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-me-roads13-story.html | State’s future may be paved with fees | State’s future may be paved with fees
In California, birthplace of the freeway, where motorists can traverse all but a small fraction of the state without encountering a tollbooth, the free ride may be coming to an end.
There is emerging consensus in the Capitol that the state should follow the path already blazed else... |
c6b495117724e457f4b1bde538a2732a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-13-oe-klein13-story.html | Wish for a cake -- and eat it too | Wish for a cake -- and eat it too
WHEN MY SISTER arrived from New York over the holidays, she plopped a hand-tooled leather satchel on my piano bench and said, “See the beautiful bag I manifested for myself?” Gorgeous, indeed. But manifested?
Well, I suppose that’s easier than dealing in cash.
“Manifesting,” for those ... |
5f738a8f64ea113605e0bde750d4b67c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-14-fi-wifi14-story.html | L.A. mayor wants citywide wireless access | L.A. mayor wants citywide wireless access
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa outlined plans Tuesday to blanket Los Angeles with wireless Internet access in 2009, in what would be one of the nation’s largest urban Wi-Fi networks.
The L.A. Wi-Fi initiative would give Los Angeles residents, schools, businesses and visitors uninte... |
df0b014799b5609b2e1018aabb93f0bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-14-me-grand14-story.html | GRAND AVENUE PROJECT PASSES GO | GRAND AVENUE PROJECT PASSES GO
Despite criticism about tax breaks and land giveaways, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and the Los Angeles City Council gave final approvals Tuesday to a sprawling mini-city atop Bunker Hill that will alter L.A.'s skyline and set a course for future development in downtown.
El... |
9e4073a9f34851719246cd4db7841e4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-14-oe-boot14-story.html | The louse that roared | The louse that roared
THE AMERICAN delegates to last weekend’s Munich Conference on Security Policy, an annual transatlantic gathering of policymakers and defense experts, were not predisposed to embrace Vladimir Putin after we learned that the Russian president’s entourage had booked more than 100 rooms in the confere... |
f66482bc072f6c7753a7b56d7b1a6c06 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-14-oe-buss14-story.html | Jealousy, the necessary evil | Jealousy, the necessary evil
WE BECAME ODDLY ENERGIZED when Lisa Marie Nowak, an astronaut with a sterling record, drove nearly 1,000 miles to attack Colleen Shipman, a woman Nowak believed was a rival for the man she loved. Nowak was charged with attempted murder, and her alleged “kill kit” contained a knife, 3 feet o... |
f10ec80228745e3bc098799d24fa9ee9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-15-ed-tails15-story.html | What our tails tell us | What our tails tell us
HUMAN BABIES BORN with tails? That may sound like a headline from the Weekly World News, but it was the respected New Scientist magazine that recently published a cover story about the phenomenon of evolution “running backward.” Entertainment value aside, the article represents a new twist in the... |
30c4f2c62f26460b64d03167409cbfb6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-15-fi-myspace15-story.html | Judge says MySpace isn’t liable for alleged sexual assault on girl | Judge says MySpace isn’t liable for alleged sexual assault on girl
Whose fault is it that 13-year-old “Julie Doe” lied about her age, met a guy on MySpace.com and was allegedly sexually assaulted by him in a Texas parking lot?
Not MySpace’s, a federal judge said in a decision released Wednesday.
The ruling appears to b... |
c6128ba33ed9ecd4aba3867f255be7fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-15-me-fraud15-story.html | Nine doctors are indicted in alleged scam | Nine doctors are indicted in alleged scam
Nine doctors, six healthcare administrators and three associates were indicted Wednesday in a scam in which doughnuts, candy and other gifts were used to lure elderly and mentally ill patients into more than $12 million worth of unnecessary respiratory treatments that were frau... |
de593c23ba110a06cab2d2c531b74ecb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-16-fi-violence16-story.html | FCC report suggests TV violence limits | FCC report suggests TV violence limits
Congress could authorize the regulation of excessively violent television shows without violating the Constitution, according to a draft of a long-awaited report by the Federal Communications Commission, which also found that increased blood and mayhem on TV has at least short-ter... |
48343b631b250c4b200abe8fe0733618 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-17-me-adler17-story.html | Robert Adler, 93; credited as co-inventor of TV remote | Robert Adler, 93; credited as co-inventor of TV remote
Hit the mute button for a moment of silence: The co-inventor of the TV remote, Robert Adler, has died.
Adler, who won an Emmy Award along with fellow engineer Eugene Polley for the device that made the couch potato possible, died Thursday of heart failure at a Bois... |
3ec43851e807e7d94647b5e8153cd790 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-17-me-desio17-story.html | Alfred Desio, 74; performer and teacher invented way to electrify tap-dancing’s sound | Alfred Desio, 74; performer and teacher invented way to electrify tap-dancing’s sound
Tap performer, teacher and innovator Alfred Desio, a multitalented artist who began dancing at age 3 and gained his greatest fame for developing a method of electronically transforming the sound of tap steps, died Wednesday at Olympia... |
21f99fe6453197885c26f6e2dbb56bff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-18-ca-fleisher18-story.html | A hand fate dealt him | A hand fate dealt him
IT’S about time Leon Fleisher came to Hollywood. His, after all, is a perfect movie story: a combination of epic tragedy and personal triumph, complete with an odds-defying ending. For more than 30 years, Fleisher dedicated himself to becoming one of America’s greatest pianists -- until a mystery ... |
40c4bf12330339315b0c5b4805a90772 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-19-fg-mexraids19-story.html | Mexico to widen drug sweeps to two states bordering Texas | Mexico to widen drug sweeps to two states bordering Texas
The Mexican government will expand its drug raids to two states bordering Texas, deploying more than 3,000 soldiers, sailors and federal police, officials said Sunday.
The raids will cover Nuevo Laredo, a town across the border from Laredo, Texas, that has been ... |
b20cf5ebf645bc7b21cb522291ce70e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-19-fi-women19-story.html | Directing gender buzz | Directing gender buzz
Director Alexandra Lipsitz’s debut feature, “Air Guitar Nation,” struck the right chord with cinephiles on last year’s film festival circuit.
The whimsical documentary chronicling the birth of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, where mock rockers finger the frets and twang the strings of their inv... |
36aad853566e627cf8a6471778f8c26b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-19-oe-pendle19-story.html | POTUS, schmotus | POTUS, schmotus
A NATION did not mourn him. History has not restored him. His picture will never adorn an ad for a President’s Day sale. When death claimed Millard Fillmore, the unlucky 13th president of the United States, on a bitterly cold March day in 1874, few but his family cared about his passing.
Newspapers atte... |
858c981e72a1027949b8eb700c05d2d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-20-et-gold20-story.html | The unkindest cut | The unkindest cut
IF “Little Miss Sunshine” wins the Oscar for best picture, it will represent a phenomenal underdog victory for a raucous road-trip comedy that cost barely $7 million to make, was turned down by studios everywhere and was directed by a husband-and-wife team who’d never made a feature before.
But for th... |
70a0016edbe123e186f7fb869a3f96ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-20-fg-rwanda20-story.html | Rwanda releases genocide prisoners | Rwanda releases genocide prisoners
Eight thousand prisoners accused of involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide were released Monday, prompting anger from survivors who fear new ethnic killings.
Rwanda’s prisons have been overflowing with thousands of inmates, some convicted and others awaiting trial in the slayings of an... |
2c716916751d92f0ebd7204ef33b9500 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-20-fg-scandal20-story.html | Top Colombia official resigns | Top Colombia official resigns
Colombia’s foreign minister resigned Monday, the latest casualty in the country’s growing investigation into ties between right-wing paramilitary forces and top politicians.
Maria Consuelo Araujo, a favorite of President Alvaro Uribe and a member of a powerful clan, stepped down following ... |
827203ba160bfad4be01b22fef372187 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-20-fi-grocery20-story.html | Gelson’s accord puts pressure on big chains | Gelson’s accord puts pressure on big chains
Gelson’s has become the second Southern California supermarket chain to reach an agreement with its workers union, removing the threat of a strike at another regional grocer as talks continue with the three national players.
The Gelson’s contract follows a deal last month bet... |
838ec670c9d5d2496ab3ef4336f040b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-20-na-debit20-story.html | Debit cards serve immigrants | Debit cards serve immigrants
Jose Manuel Aparicio had come up with all kinds of ways to stash his construction job wages: He slipped bills between pages of books hidden in his bedroom closet and stuffed money into an old sock in his laundry -- places thieves weren’t likely to look.
Without a bank account, “somebody can... |
c7b2d815599651955f72fd779e599672 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-en-ripoffs21-story.html | Don’t forget the [registered trademark symbol] | Don’t forget the [registered trademark symbol]
Even if your first name happens to be Oscar, you might want to rethink using it on your blog, website or any product you may be about to market. The folks who run the Academy Awards feel a certain possessiveness about their golden statuette of the same name, and they’re no... |
a7011f8914753b1ec8655bd8f3c7bfe3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-fg-sadrcity21-story.html | JOINT FORCE WEIGHS MOVE ON SADR CITY | JOINT FORCE WEIGHS MOVE ON SADR CITY
U.S. and Iraqi forces have moved aggressively in the last week to combat Sunni Arab insurgents in neighborhoods across the capital and to establish a stronger presence in religiously mixed districts long plagued by sectarian violence.
But as the new security crackdown enters a secon... |
52e39ccaf2be98a8bf1bfcf7ae015509 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-fg-warming21-story.html | Where warming hits home | Where warming hits home
GLOBAL warming has a taste in this village. It is the taste of salt.
Only a few years ago, water from the local pond was fresh and sweet on Samit Biswas’ tongue. It quenched his family’s thirst and cleansed their bodies.
But drinking a cupful now leaves a briny flavor in his mouth. Tiny white cr... |
476cca4a9767b001c50da04f0dc3d13c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-fi-nissan21-story.html | Nissan to cut factory workers in Tennessee | Nissan to cut factory workers in Tennessee
In a rare move for a major Japanese automaker in the U.S., Nissan Motor Co. said Tuesday that it was offering a cash buyout to employees as it adjusts the product mix at its two Tennessee manufacturing plants.
The company said improved manufacturing efficiencies also led it to... |
f5fdaf68bfac43cfc516509aaaad7f47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-fo-calcook21-story.html | In all its splendor | In all its splendor
THEY call me Pork Boy, and as far as I’m concerned, the Year of the Pig couldn’t have come at a better time. At long last, after decades of abuse, my favorite meat is once again getting a little love.
I come by my nickname honestly. It’s a rare week that goes by at my house when I don’t fix pork in ... |
8570354e7ea1ede27f66d6c8ee6e76bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-fo-vicki21-story.html | A dazzle of jade in the wok | A dazzle of jade in the wok
IN the pristine prep kitchen above Culver City’s Beacon restaurant, amid the bustle of lunch preparations, chef Vicki Fan is surrounded by vegetables. They cover her cutting board and worktable like a deconstructed garden: short mountains of gorgeous ying choy, the Cantonese name for red spi... |
d71ead4af424e6b2930e3d8e123d9146 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-me-briefs21.2-story.html | Tugboat worker killed when tow line hits her | Tugboat worker killed when tow line hits her
A 26-year-old tugboat worker was killed off Marina del Rey on Tuesday when a tow line attached to a barge snapped, hitting her and breaking her neck.
A 36-year-old man was injured when he tried to aid his co-worker.
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy Oscar Butao said the wo... |
3302250863c75b0224c4a9fa863101e0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-me-kline21-story.html | Ex-judge collapses at sentencing | Ex-judge collapses at sentencing
A former Orange County judge collapsed in a Los Angeles federal courtroom Tuesday moments after being sentenced to 27 months in prison for possessing child pornography, bringing a dramatic end to a case that tested privacy rights and nearly fell apart because of a computer hacker’s role... |
a7d7a166e088660f87dd4688a23455af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-me-rally21-story.html | Deal reached to delay Latino rally | Deal reached to delay Latino rally
Seeking to avert a confrontation with police, organizers of an immigrant rights rally that was proposed to be held without a permit this Saturday in downtown Los Angeles agreed to postpone the event until April 7.
The Police Commission had denied Latino Movement USA a permit because o... |
d6f9cbdadb3ef99e1f112cd261cbdf07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-me-tahoe21-story.html | Threat to Tahoe’s clarity seen | Threat to Tahoe’s clarity seen
Twenty years ago, scores of state and regional agencies, landowners and conservationists hammered out a comprehensive agreement that dictated virtually every aspect of future development at Lake Tahoe, save one: how many piers, slips and buoys would be allowed along the lake’s 72 miles of... |
1d4fd55143357ef03f4165d61860d963 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-21-na-pantex21-story.html | Experts fear nuclear facility is lax on safety | Experts fear nuclear facility is lax on safety
Electrical failures have shut down the plant. The roof has leaked. Decrepit machinery dates back more than 40 years. Safety lapses led inspectors to levy fines twice within two years. And employees, under deadline pressure, complain they are often worked past the point of ... |
f4dab917bdc5277a2ea85e80347aa1ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-22-fg-arabs22-story.html | Arabs say Israel is not just for Jews | Arabs say Israel is not just for Jews
A broadly representative elite of Israel’s Arab minority has rejected the idea of Israel as a Jewish state and demanded a partnership in governing the country to ensure that Arab citizens get equal treatment and more control over their communities.
In a manifesto that is stirring a... |
d6c56ae3372f4f9706c1300481f368b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-22-fg-briefs22.4-story.html | Pact aims to avert an accidental war | Pact aims to avert an accidental war
South Asian rivals India and Pakistan signed an agreement to reduce the risk of accidentally triggering a nuclear war between them.
Details of the pact, which was signed in New Delhi, have been kept secret, but officials say it includes confidence-building measures related to the co... |
33d442927bf66036181bcdc57ad9d7b4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-22-fi-nbc22-story.html | Guild wins ‘webisode’ dispute | Guild wins ‘webisode’ dispute
In a victory for the Writers Guild of America, a National Labor Relations Board judge has rejected an NBC Universal complaint that the union illegally hampered the production of Web episodes of such TV shows as “The Office” and “Heroes.”
NBC had alleged that the guild pressured “show runne... |
83ec00bd393a02f379d7a9816f63c542 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-22-oe-coan22-story.html | A license to preach | A license to preach
SIGNIFICANT constitutional cases don’t always arrive at the ball dressed up as such. Sometimes they come in the modest trappings of an obscure technical dispute too dull to capture public attention.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in just such a case. Hein vs. Freedom F... |
a37e83ed8f167eb9f73946f7806d2668 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-23-me-slap23-story.html | Ex-Carson mayor is charged over head bop | Ex-Carson mayor is charged over head bop
The saga of the Carson slap is on its way to the courtroom.
There may have been much guffawing about it all, but Vera Robles DeWitt is going to court for whacking Carson Commissioner Jan Schaefer at a City Council meeting Feb. 6. The charge is misdemeanor battery, which carries ... |
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