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5c2cd8fa371ced47cfd99acf8748fbf4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-23-na-journal23-story.html | Back from despair, in her words | Back from despair, in her words
WITH her husband in a coma, unable to breathe on his own, Nancy Kules sat down at a computer and began to type. PRAY, PRAY, PRAY, she wrote.
It was Dec. 2, 2005. Nancy, a kindergarten teacher from Arizona, had flown across the Atlantic to be with her husband, Army 1st Lt. Ryan Kules, at ... |
11bab6a3c403ff956784dd164a7b021f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-23-sp-outdoors23-story.html | Slater shares bond with Beachley | Slater shares bond with Beachley
Kelly Slater last season won his eighth world title. Layne Beachley won her seventh and hopes to match her male counterpart before retiring from competitive surfing.
“We’re like brother and sister,” Beachley said. “We constantly push each other and motivate each other and I rely on him ... |
5a91c32d01b035da0256abc98f12f81c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-fg-iranbomb25-story.html | U.S. has an Iran attack plan, report says | U.S. has an Iran attack plan, report says
Despite the Bush administration’s position that it has no plans to go to war with Iran, a Pentagon panel has been created to plan a bombing attack that could be implemented within 24 hours of getting the go-ahead from the president, the New Yorker magazine reported in its lates... |
85b3f0b6da01bb5593bb1aaa6060ab40 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-fg-usiran25-story.html | U.N. CALLS U.S. DATA ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR AIMS UNRELIABLE | U.N. CALLS U.S. DATA ON IRAN’S NUCLEAR AIMS UNRELIABLE
Although international concern is growing about Iran’s nuclear program and its regional ambitions, diplomats here say most U.S. intelligence shared with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency has proved inaccurate and none has led to significant discoveries inside Iran.
... |
4f4394b42b56badc4db42691182be7f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-me-citizenship25-story.html | CITIZENSHIP REQUESTS SOAR BEFORE BIG CHANGES | CITIZENSHIP REQUESTS SOAR BEFORE BIG CHANGES
Citizenship applications are skyrocketing in Southern California and across the nation, as green card holders rush to avoid a proposed fee increase, a revised civics test and possible changes in immigration law.
Applications filed in Los Angeles and six surrounding counties ... |
e3ec95da000c6704c99e916a48959981 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-me-derrida25-story.html | Were sex and punishment behind feud for archives? | Were sex and punishment behind feud for archives?
When a vampire expert allegedly seduced a tipsy UC Irvine student four years ago, he inadvertently set off a chain of events that now jeopardizes the school’s control of a dead philosopher’s prized archives.
The story came to light after UCI announced this month that it... |
ec59f4192a58b6fe1796f7a410e3441c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-me-lundy25-story.html | Lamar Lundy, 71; part of feared Rams line | Lamar Lundy, 71; part of feared Rams line
Lamar Lundy, who along with Los Angeles Rams teammates Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones and Rosey Grier formed the Fearsome Foursome defensive line that battered NFL offenses during the 1960s, has died. He was 71.
Lundy died Saturday at Reid Hospital in his hometown of Richmond, Ind.... |
59e82f1f6bf250f355215394251d8ec7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-na-govs25-story.html | Governors warn of troop buildup’s impact on Guard | Governors warn of troop buildup’s impact on Guard
Republican and Democratic governors meeting here Saturday warned that President Bush’s “surge” of additional troops to Iraq would put added pressure on National Guard units already stretched to their limits.
“We the governors rely on the Guard to respond to natural disa... |
3cab62d1f0af28aac498e0b18acb737e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-na-holyland25-story.html | Charity’s lawyers say quotes were fabricated | Charity’s lawyers say quotes were fabricated
When the Bush administration shut down the nation’s largest Muslim charity five years ago, officials of the Dallas-based foundation denied allegations it was linked to terrorists and insisted that a number of accusations were fabricated by the government.
Now, attorneys for ... |
4bcb9abfe963b97b2e647448c4e77d8c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-25-sci-disease25-story.html | First warmer, then sicker | First warmer, then sicker
Oysterman Jim Aguiar had never had to deal with the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus in his 25 years working the frigid waters of Prince William Sound.
The dangerous microbe infected seafood in warmer waters, like the Gulf of Mexico. Alaska was way too cold.
But the sound was gradually warmin... |
46d170cfc96cf91dcf69530740fb5783 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-26-et-osdeparted26-story.html | ‘The Departed’ shows silence can be golden | ‘The Departed’ shows silence can be golden
even as he walked into the Kodak Theatre on Sunday afternoon -- the producer of “The Departed” was downplaying his film’s Oscar chances, maintaining that it was just a modest genre movie fortunate to get some awards attention.
“We didn’t even think we’d be here,” Graham King s... |
7927d10aff1811d18d2f3c76f14c5f8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-26-fi-nextbigdeal26-story.html | Facebook.com faces dilemma: build or sell | Facebook.com faces dilemma: build or sell
As the mastermind of Facebook.com, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet’s No. 2 social-networking site also could become the next poster boy for mi... |
f814897d0124cfa2228495b51f2ce3c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-26-me-methadone26-story.html | Methadone emerges as new killer | Methadone emerges as new killer
Methadone, a potent opiate once used almost exclusively to treat heroin addicts, is increasingly being prescribed by doctors as a pain medication and abused by drug users searching for a cheap, easy way to get high, physicians and federal drug officials say.
The drug, which comes in pill... |
96715ab057c0442ff76ec20798b30627 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-27-me-esteem27-story.html | Gen Y’s ego trip takes a bad turn | Gen Y’s ego trip takes a bad turn
No wonder YouTube is so popular.
All the effort to boost children’s self-esteem may have backfired and produced a generation of college students who are more narcissistic than their Gen X predecessors, according to a new study led by a San Diego State University psychologist.
And the I... |
28f861b75e143eb12501f9cbb6ae4359 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-27-sp-nbapension27-story.html | NBA reaches out to its pioneers | NBA reaches out to its pioneers
They played for such teams as the Providence Steamrollers, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the pre-NBA Boston Celtics. Many of them put their education or career on hold during World War II.
Yet, when the NBA created its pension in 1965, the plan locked out many players who had helped to b... |
d653e2aec14410ce8c897c5fdab24944 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-28-me-jets28-story.html | Politicians’ flights called wasteful | Politicians’ flights called wasteful
Sen. Dianne Feinstein offers plenty of tips on how California households can combat global warming, such as carpooling and running only a full dishwasher.
But one bit of information Feinstein declines to share is the number of times that she flew last year on her husband’s Gulfstrea... |
3b0f9e0f5c561af695d3edeaf089237b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-28-me-transplant28-story.html | Police probe death in organ donation case | Police probe death in organ donation case
Police are investigating whether a Kaiser Permanente transplant surgeon attempted to hasten the death last February of a 26-year-old San Luis Obispo man on life support in order to harvest his organs more quickly.
The allegations, if true, would constitute a grave breach of the... |
73cfa8b9cf3e80f4c8101f8f0ed8ea3e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-28-na-padilla28-story.html | New light on Padilla’s treatment | New light on Padilla’s treatment
With no clock, watch or natural light to guide him, terrorism suspect Jose Padilla was jailed at a Navy brig in timeless isolation while anonymous jailers monitored him around the clock, a brig official testified Tuesday.
The disclosures in a federal courtroom by Sanford Seymour, techni... |
9fb1c205983ca9f50e431ba16ef3bc6f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-feb-28-sci-birdflu28-story.html | Approval of bird flu vaccine recommended for specific uses | Approval of bird flu vaccine recommended for specific uses
A federal advisory committee on Tuesday recommended approval of the first bird flu vaccine for humans, despite concerns about its safety and evidence that the shots won’t protect most people.
The panel said although the vaccine had significant shortcomings, it ... |
f71150961489b4c4868ed586ef2eaa08 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-01-et-poll1-story.html | Jockeying for top music poll position | Jockeying for top music poll position
When the irreverent music blog Idolator reveals the results of its inaugural critics poll on Friday (www.idolator.com), it will be watched in the music/media world with more than passing interest. Not only does the survey compile more than 500 critics’ opinions on the best recordin... |
d69361f608b0f44a5d6206ff07be893a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-01-fg-somalia1-story.html | Somalian Islamic fighters flee south toward Kenya | Somalian Islamic fighters flee south toward Kenya
Islamic fighters abandoned their final stronghold around the southern port of Kismayo and were fleeing south toward Kenya, witnesses and government officials said early today.
Residents reportedly took to the streets to welcome the advancing government and Ethiopian for... |
8c9dd8d31c0c317945402f4dc4694e7a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-01-fi-nativity1-story.html | Passion is lacking for this ‘Nativity’ | Passion is lacking for this ‘Nativity’
Laurie Foos, a student at Pasadena’s Fuller Theological Seminary, figured that she didn’t need to rush out to see New Line Cinema’s “The Nativity Story” in its first week. She waited until her kids came home from college, venturing to the theater on Christmas Day, nearly a month a... |
647071d6a1c14a622d9712bb395c0789 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-02-et-curse2-story.html | Director with a Midas touch | Director with a Midas touch
There are two Zhang Yimous. There’s the director who makes films of elegant restraint and spartan aesthetics, such as “Raise the Red Lantern” and “The Road Home.” Then there’s the more recent incarnation -- as bigger budgets have come his way -- who combines florid melodrama and elaborate pe... |
ff4d5994e4642254ba4bf18b922bdb8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-02-me-cudahy2-story.html | Novices threaten Cudahy’s status quo | Novices threaten Cudahy’s status quo
They have no money, no name recognition and no political experience.
But that didn’t stop Daniel Cota, an elementary school teacher, and Luis Garcia, a former city maintenance supervisor, from recently filing to run for the Cudahy City Council.
That’s news in this tiny Latino workin... |
0b633d8d75ba6830631310fa2667e696 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-02-sp-plaschke2-story.html | Carroll saves his best coaching job ... for his last USC game? | Carroll saves his best coaching job ... for his last USC game?
He ran toward the end zone, soaking wet in the January night, shivering with laughter.
He suddenly stopped, turned and sprinted back toward his players, leaping and pounding on their shoulder pads, ordering them to join him.
Then, together, they ran back to... |
5342a0f2b8cdfa799f8653e637ef80c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-03-fg-clanguns3-story.html | Somalis stick to their guns | Somalis stick to their guns
A government-mandated disarmament program got underway here Tuesday without much of a bang.
At one designated weapons drop-off point in the Somalian capital, bored-looking Ethiopian soldiers milled about with little to do. A second collection site, nestled on a bluff overlooking the Indian O... |
848e50afea5faca841795f7aaffd29f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-03-sp-nuusc3-story.html | USC eager to chase top spot | USC eager to chase top spot
USC Coach Pete Carroll did not do so intentionally, but when asked Tuesday if he would return next season to coach the Trojans, he invoked the slogan of the 2004 national championship team.
“No doubt,” Carroll said as he left Heritage Hall for the start of a vacation.
Carroll’s presence on t... |
8011a43f2a8a593bd2e0e87362f5f334 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-03-sp-simers3-story.html | Carroll doesn’t hesitate when asked about future | Carroll doesn’t hesitate when asked about future
The headline across Plaschke’s column read: “Carroll saves his best coaching job ... for his last USC game?”
It almost enticed me to read the column, but then I heard the guy substituting for Dan Patrick on the radio telling everyone Pete Carroll has “feelers out” in the... |
e49134954c3feadec2f9ba6918eacc5d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-04-me-health4-story.html | GOV. TO SEEK INSURANCE FOR ALL CHILDREN | GOV. TO SEEK INSURANCE FOR ALL CHILDREN
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose that all Californian children, including those in the state illegally, be guaranteed medical insurance as part of the healthcare overhaul he intends to unveil next week, according to officials familiar with the plan.
If enacted by the Legis... |
43e5d7c1737afb4195d1de09ae96e927 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-05-fg-tijuana5-story.html | Tijuana police abandon posts | Tijuana police abandon posts
The municipal police force in this troubled border city walked off the job Thursday after soldiers and federal agents ordered its members to turn over their weapons in connection with homicide investigations.
The surprising turn of events came two days after Mexican President Felipe Caldero... |
98ddad4354de9b3eec90983604cd69b9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-05-oe-court5-story.html | Demand reform, governor | Demand reform, governor
WHEN Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, on crutches, unveils his expected grand redesign of the state’s health insurance system Monday, he must tackle the biggest obstacle to insuring the uninsured: insurance companies.
The governor said recently that California’s high number of uninsured residents -- ... |
ac9c0f0d002ff3e2918e3cfe55da3b6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-06-fi-gap6-story.html | Chief executive may not be a good fit for Gap, analysts say | Chief executive may not be a good fit for Gap, analysts say
The theme of Gap’s holiday ad campaign suited the season.
It was, as the company put it, about “spreading peace and love.”
What it failed to spread, however, was what Gap Inc. really needed: stronger sales and profit.
The gloomy holiday results reported Thursd... |
a6dd1ae86c66d5bf616dd661b57c3af2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-ca-alphadog7-story.html | No Hollywood ending | No Hollywood ending
THE elements of the murder case seemed tailor-made for Hollywood’s “true-crime” treatment: As the summer of 2000 waned, a band of affluent friends in the San Fernando Valley, bored, unsupervised and stoned, kidnapped a teenager over his half brother’s drug debt, partied with him for two days, then s... |
4eb8c0bbb829ac26d2a67596d22f2bc4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-07-sp-danelo7-story.html | USC’s Danelo found dead | USC’s Danelo found dead
The body of USC kicker Mario Danelo was found Saturday at the bottom of a cliff in San Pedro, according to Los Angeles Police Department officials.
Danelo, 21, was found west of the Point Fermin lighthouse on Saturday afternoon. LAPD detectives were still investigating late Saturday night.
“I ha... |
894422ad331bd7b8fb6136b8d144f615 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-08-fi-hybrid8-story.html | Hybrid autos save money in long run, study finds | Hybrid autos save money in long run, study finds
Hybrid vehicles are proof of the old saw that you’ve got to spend money to save it, a new study shows.
In recent years, studies by Consumer Reports and others have shown that most hybrids won’t save owners enough money on fuel alone to make up for their higher initial pr... |
78ca64ee6645fbabc70f3d733dc15879 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-09-me-analysis9-story.html | When are ‘fees’ not new taxes? | When are ‘fees’ not new taxes?
On no point has Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger been more steadfast than his aversion to new taxes.
The governor based his reelection campaign largely on the argument that his Democratic opponent was committed to an unacceptable regimen of tax increases.
Now, Schwarzenegger must rally support ... |
496d33d26fe662614e3af2f0ba11ad62 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-09-me-broiler9-story.html | Johnie’s Broiler is cooked, to longtime fans’ dismay | Johnie’s Broiler is cooked, to longtime fans’ dismay
Helen Burns got word Sunday that something seemed fishy at Johnie’s Broiler, the iconic roadside 1950s drive-in where she had cruised her green metallic Ford perhaps thousands of times in her youth.
It didn’t matter that the landmark -- whose soaring neon rooftop sig... |
94d196e301a41fdd5831b98b430f99b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-09-me-health9-story.html | GOV. OFFERS BOLD PRESCRIPTION | GOV. OFFERS BOLD PRESCRIPTION
Calling for massive changes throughout a healthcare system he called “broken,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday proposed a $12-billion plan that would require all Californians to obtain medical insurance while helping the poorest to afford it.
The plan, which both critics and supporter... |
853604c1ca963d1f0f931c0015300e4c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-10-oe-boot10-story.html | Don’t blame the media | Don’t blame the media
IF WE WIND UP losing the war in Iraq, as now appears likely (though not inevitable), many conservatives know who to blame: the press, or, in blogger-speak, the MSM (mainstream news media). Just as it did during the Vietnam War, a myth is likely to develop in which America’s valiant fighting men an... |
f3b759074d65c5721416541f54da5f35 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-11-et-private11-story.html | You too can rent a rock star | You too can rent a rock star
TYCOONS trying to impress will pay millions for a Picasso or Pollock, so why not splurge on a living, breathing Jagger? Or hire rapper 50 Cent to drop by the mansion and perform “Get Rich or Die Tryin’ ”? Now that will get them talking down at the country club.
That’s the loud and lavish se... |
88e3351896f31173d8c5150151def86c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-11-me-decarlo11-story.html | Yvonne De Carlo, 84; wife on TV’s ‘The Munsters’ | Yvonne De Carlo, 84; wife on TV’s ‘The Munsters’
Yvonne De Carlo, a sultry actress who played Moses’ wife in the 1956 epic “The Ten Commandments” but achieved wider fame as the vampirish wife and mother in “The Munsters” on television, has died. She was 84.
De Carlo died from complications of old age Monday at the Moti... |
47f65221cb149f4df02474a2cbf439ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-14-fg-captivity14-story.html | Ex-captive in Colombia recalls harrowing break | Ex-captive in Colombia recalls harrowing break
Not a single one of his 2,224 days in captivity went by without Fernando Araujo thinking of escaping his captors. When his opportunity finally came amid the gunfire and chaos of a New Year’s Eve military attack against the leftist rebels who were holding him, he took it.
W... |
2878f1caddf27e516843443bcf3c7540 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-14-me-lopez14-story.html | Traffic disaster towers over L.A. | Traffic disaster towers over L.A.
“I no longer go to Dodger games, or the L.A. Philharmonic.... I only go out to dinner at restaurants within two miles of my house.”
That was Michael Gale, who lives in Pacific Palisades.
“I’d rather stick hot pokers in my eyes than drive downtown from Santa Monica on a weeknight. Satur... |
470bfd3ddd8179a5e3c0a7774b29530b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-14-na-warcost14-story.html | War costs are hitting historic proportions | War costs are hitting historic proportions
By the time the Vietnam war ended in 1975, it had become America’s longest war, shadowed the legacies of four presidents, killed 58,000 Americans along with many thousands more Vietnamese, and cost the U.S. more than $660 billion in today’s dollars.
By the time the bill for Wo... |
1c4756c4d3f75dc7ee952a416a63d3ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-14-op-chait14-story.html | We can’t surrender to the doves | We can’t surrender to the doves
I DON’T WANT to accuse American doves of rooting for the United States to lose in Iraq because I know they love their country and understand the dire consequences of defeat. But the urge to gloat is powerful, and some of them do seem to be having a grand time in the wake of being vindica... |
adb3eed749aec0e21745add1ea5121dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-16-me-washburn16-story.html | Bradford Washburn, 96; museum founder, mountaineer, cartographer explored Everest | Bradford Washburn, 96; museum founder, mountaineer, cartographer explored Everest
Bradford Washburn, who founded the Boston Museum of Science and directed a 1999 effort that revised the official elevation of Mt. Everest, has died. He was 96.
The renowned mountain photographer, explorer and cartographer died Wednesday o... |
087a73cda1f3f6e0728863ad88ddc39e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-17-me-amboy17-story.html | Destiny in the desert | Destiny in the desert
BEFORE Interstate 40 bypassed them and drove a stake through their heart, this broiler of a town on old Route 66 and its modernist landmark, Roy’s Motel and Cafe, thumped with life day and night.
Roy’s atomic-age neon sign competed with the stars three hours east of Los Angeles. It was a beacon of... |
ef5247c577206d5d9277dab29b5a517d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-18-fi-tribune18-story.html | Chandlers, moguls in battle for Tribune | Chandlers, moguls in battle for Tribune
The Chandler family, which owned the Los Angeles Times for more than a century, and a partnership of local billionaires Eli Broad and Ron Burkle made competing offers Wednesday for Chicago-based media giant Tribune Co.
After a four-month auction process, the bids pit two powerful... |
e553fb381e3409dc68a314add5440b93 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-18-me-cold18-story.html | IT’S WINTER FOR A DAY AS SNOW DUSTS PARTS OF L.A. | IT’S WINTER FOR A DAY AS SNOW DUSTS PARTS OF L.A.
It wasn’t exactly a snow day.
But Southern California’s six-day cold snap took a surreal turn Wednesday as a rare snowstorm brought snowplows to the canyons above Malibu, left parts of the San Fernando Valley with a white dusting and shut down Interstate 5.
The snow lev... |
14bb46ec3af0b2452ed09a0f3ffbbf73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-18-na-ethics18-story.html | Angry Republicans in Senate block strict new ethics rules | Angry Republicans in Senate block strict new ethics rules
Senate Democrats’ goal of passing strict new ethics rules as their first order of business as the majority party was stymied, perhaps only temporarily, by a partisan dispute on Wednesday.
The flap came just weeks after leaders of both parties pledged to start th... |
21eb818108e7ad3e8c73c61d80bcfd1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-19-ed-asylum19-story.html | Insult to injury | Insult to injury
BY NOW, MOST Americans are probably familiar with Colin L. Powell’s “Pottery Barn rule” for Iraq: You break it, you own it. This notion of responsibility has been invoked to justify extending or increasing the U.S. troop presence there. But it is mysteriously absent from discussions about Iraq’s 2 mill... |
9c0cc7695d0eebb4b07dabac95c9c917 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-19-fg-redteam19-story.html | Military planners in Iraq may soon be seeing ‘red’ | Military planners in Iraq may soon be seeing ‘red’
While the Bush administration is reworking its overall strategy in Iraq, military leaders in Baghdad are searching for new ways to improve the decisions and choices they make closer to the ground.
The U.S. military has sent to Iraq a five-person team of dedicated skept... |
220057eeccb4d8cc626bd345686541f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-19-oe-miller19-story.html | Dealmaker diplomat | Dealmaker diplomat
HAVING WORKED for six secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, I nearly fell off my chair the other day when I read Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s comment to reporters that diplomacy wasn’t about making deals.
Maybe “making deals” is too glib a phrase for her, but it’s precisely what... |
6da05e0659f04c3636e4acb0aee91d24 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-20-fi-chicorrupt20-story.html | U.S. firms ensnared in China bribe case | U.S. firms ensnared in China bribe case
SHANGHAI -- Several large U.S. corporations have been ensnared in China’s anticorruption drive, according to state-run news organizations, which reported details Friday of a bribery investigation.
Some of the 22 people detained because of allegations that they accepted $500,000 i... |
f4de919526d7cbcdb4ced67790b50bee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-20-me-spanking20-story.html | A SPANKING BAN: ARE WE GONNA GET IT? | A SPANKING BAN: ARE WE GONNA GET IT?
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber hit a nerve when she mused publicly this week about making it illegal for parents to strike children younger than 4.
The Bay Area Democrat hasn’t introduced a bill yet, but critical calls and e-mails -- including some personal attacks -- have flooded her o... |
1056bf82a68f8c5a43ea090e72a8c533 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-20-oe-weigel20-story.html | When Condi met Congress | When Condi met Congress
BY AUGUST 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson had taken all he could stand from those congressional critics whom he privately dismissed as “the primitives.” So when Nebraska Sen. Kenneth Wherry leaned across a hearing table and wagged a finger, Acheson blew up. He leaped to his feet and demand... |
cbea9359f51a127901a872e745874596 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-21-fg-serbia21-story.html | Kosovo looms over vote in Serbia | Kosovo looms over vote in Serbia
Once the most powerful of the former Yugoslav republics and a kingdom that reached from the Adriatic to the Aegean, Serbia is about to lose the only vestige of its days of glory: Kosovo.
United Nations mediators say they will unveil their plan for the province, which is predominantly et... |
b12ba93c048205d2289f24f6df1a2060 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-21-re-hotprop21-story.html | A place to run back to in L.A. | A place to run back to in L.A.
Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush, the former USC tailback now with the New Orleans Saints in an NFL playoff game today against the Chicago Bears, has purchased a Hollywood Hills home for nearly its asking price of $5 million.
The trilevel house, high above the Sunset Strip, has views of ... |
d2884222dce1fa0caf3e37820f45fabd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-21-tm-philanthropy03-story.html | Network Philanthropy | Network Philanthropy
They seemed so young. That’s what Peter Hero remembers most about the day, nine years ago, when Pierre Omidyar and Jeff Skoll walked into his office at Community Foundation Silicon Valley with an odd idea to give away a fortune. Omidyar wore jeans and a T-shirt; his thick black hair was tied back i... |
4d4baa2d076df955e92aab3a7a64a1ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-21-tm-rentinginla03-story.html | Renting Los Angeles | Renting Los Angeles
I recently moved out of a place I temporarily rented. It was just a rest stop, a place to recover from a reality OD: lost marriage, lost career, lost home, lost balance, lost confidence, lost spirit. I lived there for 17 years.
In Los Angeles, where the lost seek to find or be found, frequent moving... |
7fc987916c7e7ab9a561e8653a7db1b4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-22-fg-mexico22-story.html | More extraditions to come, Mexico says | More extraditions to come, Mexico says
On the heels of the extradition of four top drug cartel leaders, Mexico’s attorney general said Sunday he planned to send more suspects to face U.S. trials, tacitly acknowledging that corruption had allowed drug kingpins to direct operations even while in maximum-security Mexican ... |
610b158d2946d6ccad3ac90d04e6ad73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-22-fi-swift22-story.html | Founder plans to buy Swift Transportation | Founder plans to buy Swift Transportation
A founder of Swift Transportation Co. plans to buy the company for $2.74 billion, regaining control of the third-largest trucking company in the nation.
Jerry Moyes, who founded Phoenix-based Swift more than 40 years ago with his father and brother, said he reached a deal Frida... |
e4f732d6aa1b535f759f30be7a011720 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-22-sp-coaches22-story.html | Historic achievement is just super for Smith, Dungy | Historic achievement is just super for Smith, Dungy
Hours after Chicago’s Lovie Smith became the first black coach to reach the Super Bowl, Tony Dungy took history a step further.
When Dungy’s Colts beat New England, they guaranteed an African American coach -- either Dungy or Smith -- will wind up hoisting the Lombard... |
01a1ceec1412e5624a8f643c2e815525 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-23-fg-iraniraq23-story.html | Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link | Scant evidence found of Iran-Iraq arms link
If there is anywhere Iran could easily stir up trouble in Iraq, it would be in Diyala, a rugged province along the border between the two nations.
The combination of Sunni Arab militants believed to be affiliated with Al Qaeda and Shiite Muslim militiamen with ties to Iran ha... |
6702c88fbb8af64db5f15256035b38f0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-24-me-hunt24-story.html | E. Howard Hunt, 88; Cold War spy was Watergate break-in mastermind | E. Howard Hunt, 88; Cold War spy was Watergate break-in mastermind
E. Howard Hunt, a mastermind of the 1972 Watergate break-in that brought down the Nixon presidency and afflicted U.S. politics with its most notorious scandal, died Tuesday of complications from pneumonia at North Shore Medical Center. He was 88.
Hunt w... |
f32ac668888343bde5521a6cf1e1c87c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-24-na-nsa24-story.html | Panel chairman wants strict new wiretap rules | Panel chairman wants strict new wiretap rules
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday rejected the Bush administration’s claim that it had brought a controversial domestic spying program into compliance with the law, saying he wanted strict new rules requiring the government to obtain a separate wa... |
da89a30da4fabdcc71b06e16411e91a3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-fg-britiraq25-story.html | British chorus against Iraq war grows louder | British chorus against Iraq war grows louder
Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected calls Wednesday to withdraw British forces from Iraq by October, then dodged a blistering debate in Parliament in which there was almost unanimous condemnation of the war and little optimism for a U.S. plan to boost its troop presence in Ba... |
c8027a67bba1c4244dc383498d1fadfc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-fi-gas25-story.html | Drivers are burning a little less gasoline | Drivers are burning a little less gasoline
Two years of record-high gasoline prices have forced auto-crazed Americans to do something they haven’t done in more than two decades: Drive less.
Auto designer Jack Chen is one of them. Pricey gas made living in Pasadena and working in Ontario a $400-a-month grind.
“I started... |
50c08b0fc1985c34b597ed1409bdd48d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-na-gossip25-story.html | Cleared gossip writer says he’ll sue | Cleared gossip writer says he’ll sue
After a season in the limelight as a suspected extortionist, a former gossip columnist said Wednesday that he was relieved he wouldn’t face federal charges of demanding payments in return for favorable coverage, and vowed to sue Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle and the New York Da... |
f95be0603c34c2036dc722daa3c3df75 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-na-ohio25-story.html | Ohio poll workers convicted | Ohio poll workers convicted
Two election workers were convicted Wednesday of rigging a recount of the 2004 presidential election to avoid a more thorough review in Ohio’s most populous county.
Jacqueline Maiden, elections coordinator of the Cuyahoga County Elections Board, and ballot manager Kathleen Dreamer each were ... |
75109b0c50cb712dbbd4a6b0d046203a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-na-prosecutor25-story.html | Appointment challenged | Appointment challenged
A veteran Little Rock, Ark., attorney has lodged the first constitutional challenge to the Bush administration’s attempt to appoint a U.S. attorney without seeking Senate approval.
John Wesley Hall alleged in a brief filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Little Rock that Atty. Gen. Alberto R. G... |
e1017ef67dc704676f0767fd0112bdb0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-oe-scahill25-story.html | Bush’s rent-an-army | Bush’s rent-an-army
AS PRESIDENT BUSH took the podium to deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday, there were five American families receiving news that has become all too common: Their loved ones had been killed in Iraq. But in this case, the slain were neither “civilians,” as the news reports proclaimed, nor we... |
a434a8780d5bc920af3305d2cf31b2df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-25-sp-bush25-story.html | Key tapes said to exist in Bush case | Key tapes said to exist in Bush case
A would-be sports marketer involved in the Reggie Bush controversy has audiotapes of conversations with the former USC tailback and his stepfather talking about cash and gifts they received, according to a source close to the situation.
Bush and his family allegedly received the imp... |
ac54e119a620e5214cda2de571a7a77e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-26-et-vanhalen26-story.html | David and Eddie, together again | David and Eddie, together again
Give credit (or blame?) to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: David Lee Roth is back with Van Halen and planning to tour.
The mercurial Roth, who officially left Van Halen on April Fool’s Day in 1985, will reunite with his old band for a tour that kicks off in North Carolina in early May an... |
33366d792f286b23772ae70a8e8d6911 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-26-me-cougars26-story.html | 2 cougars shot dead after man is mauled | 2 cougars shot dead after man is mauled
Game wardens shot and killed two mountain lions after a 70-year-old man was mauled while hiking in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, officials said Thursday.
The man, identified as Jim Hamm of Fortuna, Calif., was hiking with his wife Wednesday afternoon when he was attacked by ... |
3df39f76bca9ce0ea28c82a7838b7a95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-26-oe-klavan26-story.html | A story the movies won’t tell | A story the movies won’t tell
I RECENTLY attended “FBI 101,” a G-man seminar for Hollywood writers. I do this kind of thing a lot: law enforcement seminars, ride-alongs, citizen academies and the like. It’s a simple deal. The writers get information and research contacts; the lawdogs get a fighting chance at being port... |
0651e4a487a8aa11e517c577b5536a6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-27-ed-diamonds27-story.html | In the rough | In the rough
THE GEMOLOGICAL Institute of America has just become a girl’s best friend. The venerable industry authority, best known for promulgating the four Cs of diamond judging -- color, clarity, cut and carat -- has ended its long-standing practice of grading only natural diamonds. This month, over the objections ... |
a43e9f5ef4c692c6c017a1289028200e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-27-me-finegood27-story.html | Daniel N. Finegood, 52; prankster known for creative alterations of Hollywood sign | Daniel N. Finegood, 52; prankster known for creative alterations of Hollywood sign
The first time Danny Finegood played a word game with the Hollywood sign, he hung curtains to make it read Hollyweed. That was Jan. 1, 1976 -- the day the state’s relaxed marijuana law took effect.
The prankster and friends obscured cons... |
2958f9bf1d3f56daaba70e5d0d036c21 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-27-sp-bush27-story.html | Bush allegedly wanted to create sports agency | Bush allegedly wanted to create sports agency
Former USC football star Reggie Bush was involved earlier and more deeply than previously reported in efforts to create a sports marketing agency that has been the focus of lingering controversy, according to lawyers for disgruntled partners in the failed venture.
The lawye... |
7c0275048607072aadf979a6f47ee45e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-27-sp-uclafootrep27-story.html | Nebraska’s Norvell hired as coordinator | Nebraska’s Norvell hired as coordinator
UCLA hired Nebraska offensive coordinator Jay Norvell to fill the same position with the Bruins on Friday.
Norvell, 43, spent the last three seasons working under Nebraska Coach Bill Callahan, where he coached and developed offensive game plans but did not call plays. With the Br... |
e931c3d6915e8382f79bbd6360f852ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-28-na-rallies28-story.html | Thousands join bicoastal war protest | Thousands join bicoastal war protest
About 100,000 antiwar protesters from around the country converged Saturday on the National Mall, galvanized by opposition to President Bush’s plan to increase the number of troops in Iraq.
Protests attended by several thousand people also were held in Los Angeles, San Francisco and... |
37cb86961479c754fa1b13cdcf351c74 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-28-re-hotprop28-story.html | Cheers! Then, cheerio | Cheers! Then, cheerio
Don’t Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman know that it’s always sunny in Beverly Hills?
The actor, who stars in the FX comedy series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and his wife, a former star of “Cheers,” have listed their Beverly Hills home of nearly 20 years at close to $32 million. The couple m... |
c211965b05f2f3d25aaf3021dbba1c0d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-29-fi-youtube29-story.html | YouTube to share revenue with users | YouTube to share revenue with users
Chad Hurley, co-founder of YouTube Inc., said his wildly successful website would start sharing revenue with its millions of users.
Hurley said one of the major proposed innovations was a way to allow users to be paid for content. San Bruno, Calif.-based YouTube, which was sold to Mo... |
5fa597b4366f990da18b932af14d6780 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-29-me-oxy29-story.html | Occidental recalls ‘Barry’ Obama | Occidental recalls ‘Barry’ Obama
Memories of 1980 at Occidental College’s Haines Hall have the standard fragments of the era: stereos blasting the B-52’s through the dorm, pot-fueled bull sessions about the revival of draft registration, late-night cramming for economics exams.
That otherwise private nostalgia took on ... |
86386cf29e814b19ad733a723aed3d52 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-30-na-democrat30-story.html | The ‘Democrat majority’ is still the talk of the town | The ‘Democrat majority’ is still the talk of the town
Will President Bush put the "-ic” back in “Democratic”?
That was the hot topic around Washington on Monday after the president was asked why, during his State of the Union address last week, he referred to Congress’ new “Democrat majority.”
For the record:
12:00 AM,... |
6b80ce0c1dac47a1dae973d8488a0c67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-fi-grocery31-story.html | Healthcare is central to grocery contract talks | Healthcare is central to grocery contract talks
The big supermarket chains and union officials have started talks on a new labor contract. If those early contacts have been the appetizers, the players will sit down to the main course Monday, when Southern California’s biggest grocery union local meets with Ralphs Groce... |
ab90d146c3fc43578262da0ff0599807 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-fo-review31-story.html | Hot spot? Mozza is on fire | Hot spot? Mozza is on fire
PIZZERIA MOZZA isn’t just a restaurant. It’s an action film, a master class in the art of making pizza, a trip through Italy’s wine regions and a magnet for a diverse crowd of hungry diners only Los Angeles could muster. It’s the toughest reservation in town, maybe in the country right now, t... |
0c705a7cacb64c083466a877f67d7cbe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-me-jaramillo31-story.html | Jaramillo pressured into plea, prosecutors say | Jaramillo pressured into plea, prosecutors say
Two documents used by George Jaramillo to defend himself from corruption charges appear to be forgeries, said prosecutors, who say they used them as leverage to get the former Orange County assistant sheriff to agree to spend a year in jail as part of a plea bargain.
Jaram... |
e316d358b88ebb859b38528a38a58dc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-me-laeight31-story.html | 20-YEAR BID TO DEPORT 2 IS DISMISSED | 20-YEAR BID TO DEPORT 2 IS DISMISSED
A federal immigration judge has dismissed the government’s attempt to deport two men who were arrested along with six other U.S. residents because of their alleged ties to Palestinian terrorists and who fought relentless efforts to force them to leave the country for 20 years.
Judge... |
b95085402b9197dbf5c8f9d40a48ed44 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-me-transfat31-story.html | Restaurant group agrees to cut trans fat in 18 months | Restaurant group agrees to cut trans fat in 18 months
After a failed attempt to ban trans fat in Los Angeles-area restaurants, city and county officials reached an agreement Tuesday with the local chapter of the California Restaurant Assn. to voluntarily phase out the substance within 18 months.
But because the associa... |
78e74b3df70b9c30e26d60b68995bcbe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-31-na-waxman31-story.html | Waxman prods White House for climate documents | Waxman prods White House for climate documents
Following through on the Democratic Party’s pledge to conduct aggressive oversight, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) headed toward a possible confrontation Tuesday with the White House over his demands for documents that could show whether the Bush administration inter... |
c1f274c79fc4444099db618f3190be8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-01-na-immig1-story.html | Immigration proved too hot for Bush, Congress to handle | Immigration proved too hot for Bush, Congress to handle
For most of this year, immigration reform looked like an issue whose time had finally come, with the unusual confluence of a Republican president, a Democratic Congress and the public all demanding a solution.
But the spectacular collapse of the Senate’s bipartisa... |
862a91519a4bc42bc371db3c55ac0df6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-02-me-nathan2-story.html | Jan Nathan, 68; championed independent book publishers | Jan Nathan, 68; championed independent book publishers
Jan Nathan, a champion of small, independent book publishers and the founding executive director of the Independent Book Publishers Assn., died June 17. She was 68.
Nathan died of cancer at her home in Hermosa Beach, according to Alice Acheson, a book marketing pub... |
48dffe2b286a1e69baff7d59f4ecff6d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-02-me-yang2-story.html | Edward Yang, 59; filmmaker focused on modern Taiwanese life | Edward Yang, 59; filmmaker focused on modern Taiwanese life
Edward Yang, who won best director in 2000 at the Cannes Film Festival and was known for his realistic portrayals of modern Taiwan, has died, a film industry consultant said Sunday. He was 59.
Yang died Friday of complications from colon cancer at his home in ... |
fe923493b204751a639317a364cb624e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-03-na-bush3-story.html | Bush had little to lose, points to score with conservatives | Bush had little to lose, points to score with conservatives
With his decision to keep I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby from going to prison, President Bush has provoked a firestorm of controversy but avoided what might have been even more damaging to his presidency: defections of Republican loyalists who are among the last to ... |
731d57c85b7f35b73e782f0217c2caf2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-04-fo-laquercia4-story.html | Parma by way of Iowa | Parma by way of Iowa
THE thin, translucent slices of ham have a rich, mahogany color, a satiny texture and a complex, sweet earthiness that doesn’t so much hit your palate as envelope it. The flavor is rich yet surprisingly subtle, with a low-register gaminess that wants for nothing more than a nob of bread and a pour ... |
2afefdee22818a9b3afb4169b6fdcfcd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-04-me-klausner4-story.html | Abraham J. Klausner, 92; rabbi was an advocate for Holocaust survivors | Abraham J. Klausner, 92; rabbi was an advocate for Holocaust survivors
Rabbi Abraham J. Klausner, who brought attention to the plight of Holocaust survivors languishing in concentration camps at the end of World War II and created inventive ways -- including publishing a massive list of survivors -- to reunite them wit... |
8ea62bf0b6babf1dedb677e879250876 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-04-na-chocolate4-story.html | Dark chocolate in a medicinal light | Dark chocolate in a medicinal light
Dark chocolate can slightly lower blood pressure in people with mild hypertension, according to a new study that spotlights the medical benefits of a tasty treat.
German researchers writing in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. said dark chocolate was rich... |
95547c42dd9bb4ac64032f4fc032c5e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-06-me-skinnywhale6-story.html | A giant of the sea finds slimmer pickings | A giant of the sea finds slimmer pickings
A female gray whale labored up the coast, the bony ridge of a shoulder blade protruding from what should be the smooth, plump roundness of healthy blubber.
“That female looks a little skinny,” said federal biologist Wayne Perryman, peering through his binoculars. “You can see h... |
8cdc438c7b2111a059dafcd785dbf513 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-07-fi-platinum7-story.html | No housing slump for super-rich | No housing slump for super-rich
Joyce Rey stands in the soaring marble entryway of a palatial Bel-Air estate, ticking off its selling points.
Master suites? There are five of them, along with three living rooms, a gymnasium and a library. The dining chamber is “embassy-size,” and the pool and gurgling fountains are on ... |
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