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85246d7e61a1d6684c7205d681a3c4f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-07-me-forgive7-story.html | Preaching the power of forgiveness | Preaching the power of forgiveness
One is an Armenian American priest who resides in Pasadena, the other a Rwandan minister who lives half a world away in Kigali. Across culture and distance, however, Father Vazken Movsesian and Benjamin Kayumba share a powerful if tragic bond: their peoples’ traumatic legacy of genoci... |
250a4c9200c86a9db9d29b2105eb8559 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-07-na-hazleton7-story.html | Hazleton immigrants’ charges fall | Hazleton immigrants’ charges fall
Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta has repeatedly cited a May 2006 slaying as the impetus for one of the nation’s strictest community crackdowns on illegal immigrants.
But on Friday, prosecutors dropped homicide charges against the two illegal immigrants accused of shooting 29-year-old Derek ... |
025d140376796308eda5cccea3bf476c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-07-na-thompson7-story.html | Abortion-rights group says Thompson once lobbied for it | Abortion-rights group says Thompson once lobbied for it
Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as an antiabortion Republican, accepted an assignment from a family-planning group to lobby the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and several people ... |
bb103f46335a5a70401e8fa38cc93418 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-08-bk-gerstler8-story.html | Secret journeys | Secret journeys
IF there’s such a thing as an “old soul,” then W.S. Merwin surely is one. This has been evident over a long career, in his questioning, vatic voice and dreamy, meticulously crafted poetry. It’s clear in his poems’ commitment to the big mysteries and their explorations of archetypal disquiet, infinite be... |
068d809251f5542a85c6a7dc64f59830 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-08-bk-mcgonigle8-story.html | Interior motives | Interior motives
PETER HANDKE is controversial. There is no getting around this, and sadly there is a danger that it may distract attention from the fact that “Crossing the Sierra de Gredos” is one of the most emotionally rewarding and intellectually demanding novels of the year. Handke is controversial but in a way th... |
6cd36594a68a8ffc1318d067276a992b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-08-me-watergate8-story.html | Nixon’s library to go by the book | Nixon’s library to go by the book
The Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace in Yorba Linda has long been the most kicked-around of presidential libraries, and nothing invited more ridicule than the dim, narrow room purporting to describe the scandal that drove its namesake from office.
Venturing into that room, visitors l... |
347d3ebee4d163b4c937fda7005174ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-08-na-thompson8-story.html | Thompson star flickers on abortion issue | Thompson star flickers on abortion issue
Republican political activists said Saturday that reports that Fred D. Thompson had lobbied to ease a controversial abortion restriction have cast a shadow on his effort to persuade social conservatives -- a key constituency in his emerging bid for the White House -- that he is ... |
4fbaefe856afb0c1b2797684979f9e81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-09-fi-hollywood9-story.html | A Cinderella story for Disney Music Group | A Cinderella story for Disney Music Group
For more than a decade, Walt Disney Co.'s Hollywood Records was an industry joke.
Now, it and Disney’s other labels are having the last laugh at a time when the rest of the beleaguered music industry has little to smile about.
Last week, 14-year-old Miley Cyrus bested “American... |
56142dcc63a20cc9adc118ca49b8610d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-09-me-archie9-story.html | Archie? He’s the dog star | Archie? He’s the dog star
The toddlers spot him the instant he steps out of his office. They swarm him like bees, shouting his name:
“Archie! Archie! Archie!”
He drops to the ground, eye-level with 3-year-olds. They lean into him, hug him, climb on him.
At Casa Pacifica, a Ventura County oasis for abused, neglected and... |
ac3fe6aa5bbfe29a3eeca1c8f08a761b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-09-me-idtheft9-story.html | Theft of identity compounds the crime | Theft of identity compounds the crime
Adrian Flores was working the identity theft beat as a police detective in Los Angeles County when he realized that he too had become a victim.
First, he answered a phone call about an outstanding bill for furniture store purchases that he hadn’t made. Then he received several lett... |
723377500cf68fa7fdb65bad004f3a5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-09-sp-beckham9-story.html | BECKHAM | BECKHAM
Somehow, a media throng did not congregate outside the Whipps Cross Hospital in Leytonstone, northeast London, on Friday, May 2, 1975.
The plain, white, unassuming maternity ward -- “Looks like an office building from the outside,” said the hospital’s press officer Lucy Reeve -- probably went about business as ... |
858589c1d810fdd5fdb225f515363264 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-09-sp-crowe9-story.html | Life no longer has this former Ram over a barrel | Life no longer has this former Ram over a barrel
One early evening in Long Beach in the mid-1980s, back when he was in the throes of a wicked addiction to crack cocaine, former Pro Bowl linebacker Isiah Robertson says he found himself staring into the barrel of a shotgun.
The weapon was locked, loaded and ready to do h... |
d0db260870bac0adf0b4bd5f6aca4f37 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-11-fg-progress11-story.html | Buildup falling short in Iraq | Buildup falling short in Iraq
In the Ubaidi neighborhood in the eastern part of this city, American soldiers hired a local Iraqi to clean the Porta-Potties at their combat outpost. Before the man could start, members of the local Shiite militia threatened to kill him.
Today, the Porta-Potties are roped off, and the U.S... |
63acaa36cbc14f4e17cda0e7b50d1323 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-11-na-chertoff11-story.html | Homeland Security chief warns of new terrorist attack | Homeland Security chief warns of new terrorist attack
Fearing complacency among the American people over possible terrorist threats, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday that the nation faced a heightened chance of an attack this summer.
“I believe we are entering a period this summer of increased ... |
7c239b2100056b82f0f055f4565b9748 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-11-oe-fitzpatrick11-story.html | Disorder in the court | Disorder in the court
ANOTHER Supreme Court term has come to a close, and, while many things changed in the law, one thing stayed the same: The justices spent much of their time reversing the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The 9th Circuit, which hears appeals in federal cases in the Western United States, is the la... |
93e0eaa1a408d759072a4e2677ef2fb1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-12-ed-fcc12-story.html | Frequencies for sale | Frequencies for sale
EARLY NEXT YEAR, the Federal Communications Commission plans to auction off the electromagnetic equivalent of beachfront property: a set of frequencies ideal for lucrative wireless broadband and mobile communications services. Now, as the commission debates the rules for those frequencies, it’s bei... |
0dbcb26b05f5daecc59b929799412c5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-12-fi-fox12-story.html | Fox Business Network sets launch date | Fox Business Network sets launch date
Rupert Murdoch’s long-anticipated Fox Business Network will be open for business Oct. 15.
In announcing the launch date Wednesday, parent News Corp. said its rival to General Electric Co.'s CNBC had distribution deals in place with leading U.S. cable operators that would make the c... |
4c1d908d5ca01dbe495c79f66a4b946e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-12-fi-sprint12-story.html | Watchdog wants tough message sent to Sprint | Watchdog wants tough message sent to Sprint
Cellphone companies are notorious for socking customers with hefty fees if they want to get out of their contracts early. Now, some people believe Sprint Nextel Corp. ought to get a taste of its own medicine.
Sprint’s decision to dismiss 1,100 customers for complaining too mu... |
4324d672791414f4b03f1ec2b43ed72b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-12-oe-keen12-story.html | Is Google’s data grinder dangerous? | Is Google’s data grinder dangerous?
WHAT DOES Google want? Having successfully become our personal librarian, Google now wants to be our personal oracle. It wants to learn all about us, know us better than we know ourselves, to transform itself from a search engine into a psychoanalyst’s couch or a priest’s confessiona... |
b12d0223b72d3a6cdf5c277192551482 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-13-fg-iraq13-story.html | 2 militants detained in capture of U.S. troops | 2 militants detained in capture of U.S. troops
The U.S. military said Thursday that it had detained two militants from Al Qaeda in Iraq wanted in connection with the capture of three American soldiers in May.
The suspects were seized Tuesday during an air and ground assault near the city of Iskandariya, 25 miles south ... |
24eb20fd5cdb483b1cae9410eab2a70f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-13-fi-disney13-story.html | Disney buys game developer Junction Point | Disney buys game developer Junction Point
Walt Disney Co. said Thursday it has acquired Warren Spector’s Junction Point Studios as it expands its game-publishing business. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.
Junction Point was added to the Burbank-based company’s Disney Interactive Studios unit. Junction Point, based in... |
08593b17e7962589fe6e88799562787e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-13-na-bush13-story.html | Bush quiets GOP revolt over Iraq | Bush quiets GOP revolt over Iraq
Stemming a revolt among Senate Republicans, President Bush appeared Thursday to win two more months for his “surge” strategy in Iraq after arguing that U.S. forces had made some progress and needed time to make the country more secure.
Issuing a report to Congress on the war, Bush ackno... |
caafd1ee8698c3a4c4b91a81d2cbb905 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-14-sp-panam14-story.html | Rio de Janeiro passes audition | Rio de Janeiro passes audition
Brazil’s largest city still must overcome doubts about crime and traffic, among other things, if it hopes to make good on its Quixotic bid to play host to the 2016 Olympic Games. But Rio sure has the opening ceremony down pat.
On Friday the city inaugurated the 15th Pan American Games wit... |
9ee844174a90b6abd9844f5219826d91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-15-fg-saudi15-story.html | Iraq insurgency said to include many Saudis | Iraq insurgency said to include many Saudis
Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. mi... |
44d1d20adc4357e69248822e06f8481f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-15-me-aftermath15-story.html | Scorched, but still standing | Scorched, but still standing
It burned haystacks, scorched U.S. Highway 395, and even destroyed this small town’s water reservoir.
But residents of Independence, a town along the eastern side of the Sierra about a 225-mile drive north of Los Angeles, breathed a sigh of relief last week when their hometown avoided destr... |
ec78a00d26f48ac64a38acdc3aaffc61 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-15-me-priests15-story.html | $660-million settlement in priest abuses | $660-million settlement in priest abuses
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles agreed Saturday to a $660-million settlement with 508 people who have accused priests of sexual abuse, by far the biggest payout in the child molestation scandal that has rocked the Roman Catholic Church nationwide.
“Some of the victims have waited... |
26094906ccf6732d21e30660cb4425a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-16-fg-pakistan16-story.html | Cease-fire is over, say Pakistani militants | Cease-fire is over, say Pakistani militants
With more than 70 people killed in weekend bombings and a controversial cease-fire annulled in Pakistan’s volatile frontier zone, the specter loomed Sunday of an all-out war between Islamic militants and the U.S.-backed government of President Pervez Musharraf.
In the latest ... |
bea9a428d5e215bcba2e9ac5b8712747 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-16-he-skeptic16-story.html | Pheromones in your cologne? Good luck | Pheromones in your cologne? Good luck
The products: Pheromones are the true aphrodisiacs of the animal kingdom. Female pigs don’t respond to compliments or slow jazz, but the slightest whiff of androstenone -- a pheromone produced by randy boars -- will instantly put sows in a sexual mood. Hog farmers often use batches... |
1e67578553d6934bc9cbf152aacb1df0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-16-he-vacation16-story.html | Take vacations to heart | Take vacations to heart
ARTIST Wilda Northrop is perfectly happy hanging out in her beautiful Victorian home in Pacific Grove with her husband and her dogs and her cats and her painting and her TV and her spectacular ocean view.
Home suits her so well, in fact, that she’s rarely tempted to leave.
But she did want to se... |
957294617196cf9b1188df3f06ce551d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-17-fi-valueclick17-story.html | ValueClick to acquire MeziMedia | ValueClick to acquire MeziMedia
Internet advertising broker ValueClick Inc. agreed Monday to buy comparison-shopping site operator MeziMedia Inc. for at least $100 million in cash.
Additional payments based on performance might raise the payment to as much as $352 million, depending on whether closely held MeziMedia me... |
b63b48ba5356d5e82c5f13c49ae5ca62 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-17-me-potlords17-story.html | DEA targets landlords of pot outlets | DEA targets landlords of pot outlets
Raising the stakes in the federal government’s war against medical marijuana, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has warned more than 150 Los Angeles landlords that they risk arrest and the loss of their properties if they continue renting to cannabis dispensaries.
The two-pag... |
4387021bd004ff46e9b6c48dd44000ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-17-na-dickinson17-story.html | 3 lose school jobs in slaying cover-up | 3 lose school jobs in slaying cover-up
Eastern Michigan University has fired President John A. Fallon III and dismissed two other top officials, less than two weeks after a federal investigation found that administrators broke the law by covering up the rape and slaying of a student in her dorm room.
The head of police... |
98547bd12f55daf6f1cefcefc323c2e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-18-fi-grocer18-story.html | Grocery strike averted as chains, union reach accord | Grocery strike averted as chains, union reach accord
Fears of a supermarket strike this summer in Southern and Central California evaporated Tuesday when the region’s largest grocery chains and the union representing 65,000 store employees reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year contract.
The accord would make... |
11e1f8a534de22aa7ecbaf4a55d50b33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-20-na-steamblast20-story.html | Asbestos from steam blast not serious, officials say | Asbestos from steam blast not serious, officials say
Trace amounts of asbestos were found in the dust and muddy debris that rained down on people fleeing a steam pipe explosion, but city officials said Thursday that the exposure posed very little health risk to those caught in the fallout.
Citing environmental tests by... |
a80af770ce472186f58fbb13b920eff9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-20-sp-plaschke20-story.html | NFL must make this problem go away | NFL must make this problem go away
OK, so Michael Vick is innocent until proven guilty.
But he has been proven dangerously dumb. He has been proven incredibly reckless. He has been proven bad for NFL business.
Agreed, Michael Vick deserves a presumption of innocence.
But what happens when that is accompanied by a certa... |
04e30a16d0836e3ed0bf71fc4012b933 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-21-et-nagano21-story.html | California guy gets comfy in Bavaria | California guy gets comfy in Bavaria
The posters of Kent Nagano on the side of the Bavarian State Opera are curious. One is a severe close-up of his face, pores and all, unsmiling, stern. Another is the same shot with “Hier bin ich gern” plastered over him in blocky red letters, like war paint. It translates: “I’m glad... |
b1d1ba3963023969987c87583fde8e83 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-22-fg-vacation22-story.html | Maliki urges parliament to nix break | Maliki urges parliament to nix break
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki urged parliament Saturday to cancel or shorten its summer vacation to pass laws Washington considers crucial to Iraq’s stability and the debate on how long U.S. forces should remain.
Parliament was scheduled to adjourn for all of August. American of... |
db0562d7e8e8b0bcffb95ac11fef7d5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-22-me-messner22-story.html | Tammy Faye Messner, 65; former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, pop culture icon | Tammy Faye Messner, 65; former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, pop culture icon
Tammy Faye Messner, the mascara-laden former wife of televangelist Jim Bakker, the charismatic TV preacher with the choir-boy face with whom she appeared on their popular Christian talk-variety show until his downfall amid scandal in the ... |
c430f8c255a9efc67118e12472d269ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-23-fi-bluecross23-story.html | Blue Cross cuts causing pain | Blue Cross cuts causing pain
Blue Cross of California’s latest antidote to rising healthcare costs isn’t going down very well with physicians.
The state’s largest for-profit health plan is set to roll back its payments for about half the services and procedures provided by physicians next month.
And many of the 53,408 ... |
296fff98de0204e1c5f69e692b3aee7a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-23-fi-fairness23-story.html%C2%A0%C2%A0 | Democrats speak out for Fairness Doctrine | Democrats speak out for Fairness Doctrine
It was the decision that launched a thousand lips.
In 1987, the Federal Communications Commission stopped requiring broadcasters to air contrasting views on controversial issues, a policy known as the Fairness Doctrine. The move is widely credited with triggering the explosive ... |
114d9efaecba682da162303f6f506135 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-23-me-marilyn23-story.html | A bid to protect stars’ images | A bid to protect stars’ images
Forty-five years after her death, a dispute over who controls Marilyn Monroe’s image has a former actress enlisting colleagues in the California Legislature to protect the blond bombshell and other dead celebrities from being improperly exploited.
State Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica),... |
f68ef6b28e054f596eee2acea3f51cdd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-24-et-ontv24-story.html | Presidential campaign mash-up, version 1.0 | Presidential campaign mash-up, version 1.0
Meet Chris, from Portland, Ore. CNN was using him as a representative hipster from Planet YouTube in the first moments of the CNN/YouTube Democratic presidential debate Monday night in Charleston, S.C.
In his uploaded video, Chris implored the candidates to remember to please ... |
89edca55839c3a1d4f38a8db176c4840 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-24-oe-riedl24-story.html | The dirt on farm subsidies | The dirt on farm subsidies
Republican and Democratic congressional leaders rarely agree on a major issue. Yet both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) have gone on the record as opposing the current $25-billion farm subsidy system, which Congress is rewriting this m... |
7f488ef7cc54c0c3afa3f0335b58ea91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-25-fg-preval25-story.html | Like its president, Haiti is very quiet | Like its president, Haiti is very quiet
Shoeless boys with angry eyes and empty stomachs no longer loiter outside the green iron gates of the National Palace.
The odd jobs of oppression have disappeared. In the unfamiliar atmosphere of peace, there are no more orders to bash heads or crush dissent that once earned the ... |
eb5757aa11eabd0a65e109faf1b502dc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-25-fi-price25-story.html | Preacher sues ’20/20,’ alleging defamation | Preacher sues ’20/20,’ alleging defamation
The Rev. Frederick K.C. Price may have two Bentleys, but a spokesman for his 22,000-member church says his Palos Verdes house doesn’t boast 25 rooms and he definitely doesn’t own a helicopter. A lawsuit Price filed Tuesday claims that ABC’s “20/20" defamed him when it suggeste... |
4a968bc210e138209078f874b65ba4c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-25-oe-brownstein25-story.html | Giuliani, the federalist candidate | Giuliani, the federalist candidate
Social issues such as gay rights and gun control divide America so sharply largely because no one has found a single solution for them equally acceptable to both churchgoing conservatives and secular liberals. The first step toward resolving these disputes may be to recognize that the... |
463f6b22839ab94a85c2def60d4cfcef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-25-sp-angrep25-story.html | Elbow puts Colon on disabled list | Elbow puts Colon on disabled list
The Angels put Bartolo Colon on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday, one day after he left a game after one inning because of irritation in his pitching elbow.
He underwent an MRI exam and a CT scan during an evaluation by Dr. Lewis Yocum that revealed a posterior impingement in his right... |
215aed124049248c9c35740f4655c30b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-26-me-tijuana26-story.html | A crackdown on Baja bribes | A crackdown on Baja bribes
Baja California sees a lucrative future in the luxury residential towers sprouting up along its coast, and officials are hoping developments by the likes of Donald Trump will bring Southern California prosperity south of the border.
But there’s a problem: The 5-mile highway from the border to... |
3c6717d7e2490f4211d593906e74e3c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-26-oe-holter26-story.html | It’s your history, but it’s our sign | It’s your history, but it’s our sign
It is commonplace to say that Los Angeles has no historical memory. But that’s not quite true. In fact, many older neighborhoods have tried to protect their historical character by voting for historic preservation overlay zones, or HPOZ. Homeowners in such zones need the approval of... |
6b8af8d4c29670c55ca2ed611fe6effe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-fg-iraq27-story.html | U.S. troop deaths in Iraq down for month | U.S. troop deaths in Iraq down for month
The U.S. military announced the deaths of seven American troops Thursday, hours after the No. 2 U.S. commander touted a decline in the number of fatalities so far this month as an indication that an increase in American forces was having a positive effect on the ground.
After th... |
4eaff3bfe524934a797d1b21bedf5834 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-fg-missing27-story.html | Iraqi lawmakers are MIA | Iraqi lawmakers are MIA
Missing from Thursday’s session of the Iraqi parliament were about half of the members, including the speaker, the former speaker and two former prime ministers.
Also missing: a sense of urgency.
American officials have been pressing Iraqi leaders to prove their commitment to ending sectarian st... |
009233f25b077af806e092b3ee44c986 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-me-rocket27-story.html | Boeing faces fines over field lab runoff | Boeing faces fines over field lab runoff
Boeing Co. faces a nearly $500,000 fine for allegedly allowing excessive levels of lead, mercury and other toxins to flow from its Santa Susana Field Lab in Ventura County into surrounding canyons and the Los Angeles River, regulators said Thursday.
The 21-page complaint issued ... |
b62d3622c3b819452bdfc00e1c9e8952 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-na-iraqpower27-story.html | U.S. axes Baghdad power data | U.S. axes Baghdad power data
As the Bush administration struggles to convince lawmakers that its Iraq war strategy is working, it has stopped reporting to Congress a key quality-of-life indicator in Baghdad: how long the power stays on.
Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, told the Senate Foreign Relations Commit... |
99125c672202884bd9df08f181a764d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-oe-sullum27-story.html | Lighting up at the movies | Lighting up at the movies
By agreeing to make its family-oriented movies smoke-free and “discourage” smoking in films distributed under its Touchstone and Miramax brands, the Walt Disney Co. has implicitly endorsed the claim that smoking on the screen leads to smoking in real life.
While that connection may sound intui... |
e92ca4e99508ab8a1df9d903d2f29a4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-27-sp-pacten27-story.html | Pac-10’s assignment is to go the extra mile in ’07 | Pac-10’s assignment is to go the extra mile in ’07
The Pacific 10 Conference’s annual media day, which has frankly never been able to hold Billy Cannon’s shorts when compared to the Southeastern Conference’s media day, was fouled up Thursday at a hotel somewhere near LAX.
It was a wonder they had silverware for the buf... |
e5430b39346a3fb938a73f843c5bec9b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-28-me-pasadena28-story.html | A booming Pasadena fights rise in gang killings | A booming Pasadena fights rise in gang killings
A double killing early Friday in Pasadena is the latest in a string of gang-related shootings over the last year that has officials and residents in the city’s northwestern district on edge.
The shootings have occurred in a relatively small section of Pasadena and involve... |
19451f3f80a4669584228f29fad9673a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-28-sci-sids28-story.html | Hearing loss may foretell SIDS risk, study finds | Hearing loss may foretell SIDS risk, study finds
Hearing tests routinely administered to most newborns may soon be used to identify children who are at risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, according to Seattle researchers.
Records of hearing tests administered to 62 infants in Delaware show that those who lat... |
01927435b95aa7886fc2912f417e7a28 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-28-sp-angrep28-story.html | Deal for Teixeira appears unlikely | Deal for Teixeira appears unlikely
The Angels essentially abandoned their pursuit of Texas slugger Mark Teixeira because of the Rangers’ steep asking price Friday, leaving them very few options to bolster their offense before Tuesday’s non-waiver trade deadline.
According to baseball sources, the Rangers wanted three p... |
1cd024fe277b0945f99cff316921698d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-29-fi-obese29-story.html | Workers are told to shape up or pay up | Workers are told to shape up or pay up
Looking for new ways to trim the fat and boost workers’ health, some employers are starting to make overweight employees pay if they don’t slim down.
Others, citing growing medical costs tied to obesity, are offering fit workers lucrative incentives that shave thousands of dollars... |
4cf3ad7601685dd47a9499d0c2f0e582 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-29-sp-plaschke29-story.html | A Hall of Famer as sweet as his swing | A Hall of Famer as sweet as his swing
This is a Tony Gwynn story. But, as with every Tony Gwynn story, it is about somebody else.
It was 20 years ago in Cincinnati. I was covering the San Diego Padres for this newspaper. My little brother Andrew had joined me on the trip.
It was the early evening hours after a day game... |
95a12948a74977b3d0000266aff185f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-he-attraction30-story.html | Brains in love | Brains in love
HER front brain is telling her he’s trouble. Look at the facts, it says. He’s never made a commitment, he drinks too much, he can’t hold down a job.
But her middle brain won’t listen. Man, it swoons, he looks great in those jeans, his black hair curls onto his forehead so adorably, and when he drags on a... |
f19a2a9d2248d4fbd4785b03fcf01ed2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-me-autism30-story.html | Pesticide link to autism suspected | Pesticide link to autism suspected
Women who live near California farm fields sprayed with organochlorine pesticides may be more likely to give birth to children with autism, according to a study by state health officials to be published today.
The rate of autism among the children of 29 women who lived near the fields... |
d6f3f008da5a2010b773c81ec3eb5de0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-me-reenlist30-story.html | A reenlistment seen round the world | A reenlistment seen round the world
Marine Cpl. Gareth Hawkins extended his enlistment to go on a third deployment to Iraq so his battalion would not be left in the hands of rookies.
Twenty days after he arrived in Iraq for the third time, a roadside bomb exploded beneath his 7-ton truck, leaving Hawkins dazed and his ... |
a935c2e7f878d21b0d7badd24ac5ec67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-na-buffalo30-story.html | Clinton’s free-trade advocacy is hitting labor where it lives | Clinton’s free-trade advocacy is hitting labor where it lives
To many labor unions and high-tech workers, the Indian giant Tata Consultancy Services is a serious threat -- a company that has helped move U.S. jobs to India while sending thousands of foreign workers on temporary visas to the United States.
So when Sen. H... |
f2add5d3e8a38397aa0d52aaf244dffd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-na-mullen30-story.html | A story arc worthy of Hollywood | A story arc worthy of Hollywood
Mike Mullen’s dad was a charismatic actor-turned-Hollywood-press-agent who had quit smoking and taken up tennis to improve his health. So when Jack Mullen dropped dead of a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 54, friends and colleagues were stunned.
“He always seemed so physically strong,... |
9be71b53235e01e3b6cc2629dfd6f43f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-30-na-muslim30-story.html | A safety hazard or special treatment? | A safety hazard or special treatment?
When Majed Afana needs to pray while attending classes at the University of Michigan in Dearborn, the 19-year-old Muslim usually will duck into the campus library’s bathroom, strip off his shoes and awkwardly strain to wash his feet in the sink.
Water often pools at his feet, he sa... |
3455cf05d69ba330229dc927257a0811 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jul-31-me-getty31-story.html | Getty, Italy reopen talks on antiquities | Getty, Italy reopen talks on antiquities
Days before a threatened cultural embargo was scheduled to take effect, the J. Paul Getty Museum has resumed negotiations with the Italian government over 46 of the museum’s disputed antiquities -- opening the door to a possible agreement.
In an exchange described by a Getty off... |
a65cff63e321c621178b1e7feff513e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-01-fi-dove1-story.html | Advertiser cash flows to indie film projects | Advertiser cash flows to indie film projects
Advertisers have long linked up with Hollywood by placing their products within films or trotting out stars as their official sponsors. But some companies are now going a step further, investing directly in movie productions in the hopes of striking even deeper connections w... |
4f7458b5da8ab1594ed50166c2a9be95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-01-me-porn1-story.html | Adult film producer indicted on federal obscenity charges | Adult film producer indicted on federal obscenity charges
An adult film star and producer from Altadena has been indicted in Florida on federal obscenity charges, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday.
The 10-count indictment, which was handed down two weeks ago and unsealed Thursday, accuses 50-year-old Paul ... |
c9c235b0012591c66b1f1a535db50d42 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-01-na-padilla1-story.html | Padilla’s mosque time recalled | Padilla’s mosque time recalled
In testimony that appeared to backfire for the prosecution, an ex-convict who attended the same mosque as terrorism suspect Jose Padilla testified Thursday that he himself had considered going abroad for training to become an Islamic holy warrior, as Padilla allegedly did.
Herbert Atwell,... |
ff3ffdf17f5e66a2bb398b445491858b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-02-et-emmys2-story.html | Emmy nominations for Web programming | Emmy nominations for Web programming
Internet videos showing volcanic eruptions of Diet Coke will compete along with Web shorts featuring the cast of NBC’s “The Office” in newly created categories for the upcoming Daytime Emmy Awards.
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced the nominations this w... |
5b0eef8e4b030612ca8c472c9b59880a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-02-me-beliefs2-story.html | A mother’s plight revives the sanctuary movement | A mother’s plight revives the sanctuary movement
Sanctuary, in antiquity the practice of providing refuge in a sacred place, has been revived in a rather dramatic fashion by an undocumented Mexican cleaning woman trying to evade deportation by holing up in a Chicago church.
Elvira Arellano, 32, said she invoked the anc... |
fcd24ec8bd78519e8074448bdaee6965 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-03-ca-performance3-story.html | In touch with the darkness | In touch with the darkness
FROM the first screenings of “La Vie en Rose” at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year, there has been talk that Marion Cotillard’s turn as the great French singer Edith Piaf would be one of the best performances of the year.
Directed and co-written by Olivier Dahan, “La Vi... |
d273faa8b02a86c4fc26ee5e7ab2d8ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-03-na-bush3-story.html | Busy White House pulls out of post-election dumps | Busy White House pulls out of post-election dumps
For a lame duck, President Bush looked remarkably spry last week, announcing a series of policy initiatives that caught many in Washington off guard.
Ever since Democrats took control of Congress in January, the White House has seemed in something of a funk -- acting pe... |
a2ff4d9d320ca6190c28e0d9d50c167e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-03-na-fuel3-story.html | Alleged plot’s damage would have been limited | Alleged plot’s damage would have been limited
The premise is right out of a disaster movie: Ignite the massive fuel tanks required to keep an international airport up and running each day, stand back, and watch a chain reaction of explosions throughout the labyrinth of pipelines running underneath the tarmac.
But aviat... |
4545cca5ab2cb30b96a558fde3357bdf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-03-na-jam3-story.html | A potential threat seen in America’s backyard | A potential threat seen in America’s backyard
Even if terrorism suspect Russell Defreitas were no more than an angry man with vague notions of a spectacular attack, he was able to tap into a network of Islamic extremists in the Caribbean -- potentially dangerous and right in the backyard of the United States, authoriti... |
1a0ca124547ab42173981a8559494e2f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-04-fi-websafety4-story.html | Online tunes are more risky than Web porn | Online tunes are more risky than Web porn
Whatever threat online pornography might pose to society’s morals, online music might pose a bigger threat to society’s computers.
A study scheduled to be released today found that about 9% of adult sites that turned up high in search-engine rankings had such PC-damaging proble... |
f95708bc06632ed4c72461e692965e96 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-04-na-congress4-story.html | War vote barrage planned on Iraq | War vote barrage planned on Iraq
Democratic congressional leaders, whose efforts to force a withdrawal from Iraq were stymied last month, plan a summer of repeated Iraq-related votes designed to force Republican lawmakers to abandon the White House before the fall.
At the same time, antiwar groups are expanding their c... |
ad796b6acbbdb22cf2184c2465b700c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-05-et-goldstein5-story.html | Those ‘Hostel’ ads test the squirm factor | Those ‘Hostel’ ads test the squirm factor
WHAT does it take to shock us these days?
The question came to mind as I watched “Hostel: Part II,” the sequel to Eli Roth’s horror film. The original was such a big hit last year that its distributor, Lionsgate, is putting out the new thriller Friday in the midst of a crush of... |
e501d8028708ced73bae2c32392c23dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-05-na-nudist5-story.html | Justices strip out antiwar nudist’s bid for legal fees | Justices strip out antiwar nudist’s bid for legal fees
The Supreme Court’s first ruling on an Iraq war protest is not likely to be remembered as a landmark in the law. In a 9-0 ruling, the justices rejected a claim for legal fees filed on behalf of a Florida nudist who wanted to form a peace symbol out of naked bodies ... |
2b9fde300c18c05fffcf65c3f13b2c81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-07-fg-summit7-story.html | Bush seeks to mediate on climate change | Bush seeks to mediate on climate change
President Bush presented himself Wednesday as caught in the middle of the international climate debate, fending off allies’ calls for mandatory steps to reverse global warming while encouraging major developing nations to join eventual climate negotiations.
The dispute over how t... |
5770b55c66362a6891736e6bab439f20 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-07-me-mahony7-story.html | Mahony ordered to testify in lawsuit | Mahony ordered to testify in lawsuit
A judge Wednesday ordered Cardinal Roger M. Mahony to testify in a lawsuit alleging that he failed to protect parishioners from a pedophile teacher, but then granted the Los Angeles cleric’s request for a trial delay.
The lawsuit had been scheduled for trial Monday; Los Angeles Coun... |
12cbe0a0d759399ad04d775a7a5705fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-07-sp-ducks7-story.html | Webbed feat | Webbed feat
Mighty once and for all.
The Ducks, once derided by hockey purists for their goofy nickname and cartoonish logo, completed their ascent to the top of the NHL by winning their first Stanley Cup championship with a 6-2 rout of the Ottawa Senators on Wednesday night at the Honda Center.
For the record:
12:00 A... |
0152fb4ca811b8bbbe24aa7c4c5b3df6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-et-horror9-story.html | Hollywood horror films suffer box office anemia | Hollywood horror films suffer box office anemia
The body count is piling up in Hollywood, but unfortunately not all the cadavers are on screen.
Call it a market correction. Call it a slump. Call it audience fatigue with a subpar rash of crazed killers, wanton vampires and jiggling coeds, but horror, one of Hollywood’s ... |
fb54b02b17e57591fb9c99ad6f11a331 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-fi-lifelock9-story.html | An awkward ad by Fred Thompson | An awkward ad by Fred Thompson
Possible presidential candidate Fred D. Thompson is lending his voice to radio commercials for a company that says it fights identity thieves and that was co-founded by a man accused of taking money from consumer bank accounts without permission.
The one-minute commercials are airing acro... |
9a607d2a8d66938e61f3877dfce1d2cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-fi-organic9-story.html | What is ‘organic’? USDA still isn’t sure | What is ‘organic’? USDA still isn’t sure
With the “USDA organic” seal stamped on its label, Anheuser-Busch calls its Wild Hop Lager “the perfect organic experience.”
“In today’s world of artificial flavors, preservatives and factory farming, knowing what goes into what you eat and drink can just about drive you crazy,”... |
99a82706b891e420f0887d2217324525 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-me-discrim9-story.html | L.A. fire captain receives $3.75 million from jury | L.A. fire captain receives $3.75 million from jury
In the latest bizarre court case involving the Los Angeles Fire Department, a jury has awarded $3.75 million to a male fire captain who said he was retaliated against for not making training exercises easier for women.
Fire Capt. Frank Lima alleged in his lawsuit again... |
55282d752995086fcffba2359ebdc750 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-me-paris9-story.html | Tug-of-war over Hilton raises larger questions | Tug-of-war over Hilton raises larger questions
A sobbing Paris Hilton was shipped back to jail Friday, culminating a high-stakes legal showdown between a judge and Sheriff Lee Baca over who controls how long and where inmates serve their jail sentences.
The questions have loomed large over the Los Angeles County justic... |
152c3f8e3ecc1497d4dfa82b21140374 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-me-rbriefs9.4-story.html | Pickets to target paroled pedophile’s home | Pickets to target paroled pedophile’s home
Demonstrators plan to picket Leisure World on Sunday to notify neighbors of the residency of Michael Wempe, a former Roman Catholic priest paroled after serving a three-year sentence for molesting a boy.
Wempe, 67, was paroled in February, with little publicity, said Mary Gran... |
370d3476f0ae70facd1d871ac9ebf568 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-09-na-jefferson9-story.html | Jefferson pleads not guilty to charges of corruption | Jefferson pleads not guilty to charges of corruption
Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.) pleaded not guilty Friday to all 16 corruption-related charges against him and for the first time, defended himself and his family publicly and castigated prosecutors for trying to break him “psychologically and financially.”
Jeffers... |
a97dc40ef240892fe6810c1022600704 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-10-me-passings10.2-story.html | Aden A. Osman, 99; first president of independent Somalia | Aden A. Osman, 99; first president of independent Somalia
Aden Abdulle Osman, 99, Somalia’s first president after independence from Italy, died Friday in neighboring Kenya after months of illness, his son Said Aden Abdulle told the Associated Press.
Born in 1908 near the Ethiopian border in the town of Belet Weyne, Osm... |
b0a06c727296cd3c4facbbfc10c0b431 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-11-fi-nemo11-story.html | Back from the depths | Back from the depths
It was an underwater battle of epic proportions, pitting the creative types against the cost-cutting suits. But after nearly 10 years, Disneyland’s classic Submarine Voyage has been resurrected from the deep.
Reinvented as the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage, the long-dormant and eagerly anticipated ... |
f2ec697587628649b16c030dd855418e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-11-he-eat11-story.html | A fiery pod full of vitamins and antioxidants | A fiery pod full of vitamins and antioxidants
About five years ago, reports surfaced of an East Indian chile pepper that was trumpeted as the hottest in the world -- twice as hot as the Red Savina pepper, which held the Guinness title at the time.
This intrigued Paul Bosland, director of the Chile Pepper Institute at N... |
b9e15ecb6c1becada957324fa641cef2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-12-ed-lausd12-story.html | Expensive advice | Expensive advice
AT MOST INSTITUTIONS, anyone responsible for installing a system that blew through its budget, caused employees to miss paychecks, demoralized and infuriated the workforce and delayed contributions to the pension fund would face grave repercussions indeed. At the Los Angeles Unified School District, a ... |
91dd3cb6e9cee3955065237b2e202bad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-13-me-calls13-story.html | Tragic Catch-911 for dying woman | Tragic Catch-911 for dying woman
In the 40 minutes before a woman’s death last month at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, two separate callers pleaded with 911 dispatchers to send help because the hospital staff was ignoring her as she writhed on the floor, according to audio recordings of the calls.
“My wife is ... |
6d55d7fd57559d22bd43273f1c706b1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-13-na-energypol13-story.html | Obama yields to a greener side | Obama yields to a greener side
With pressure mounting on Democratic presidential candidates to adopt hard-line positions on curbing global warming, Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday backtracked from his long-held support for a controversial plan to promote the use of coal as an alternative fuel to power motor vehicles.
The ... |
95f7432baa365dc1127a40912767e8eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-13-na-poll13-story.html | Legalization of immigrants widely backed | Legalization of immigrants widely backed
A strong majority of Americans -- including nearly two-thirds of Republicans -- favor allowing illegal immigrants to become citizens if they pay fines, learn English and meet other requirements, a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll has found.
That is a striking show of support... |
6a03dee3319656c83d636f86572ab156 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-13-sp-nohit13-story.html | Verlander dominates in no-hitter for Tigers | Verlander dominates in no-hitter for Tigers
Justin Verlander threw 100-mph heat, crazy curves and a tantalizing changeup.
No-hit stuff, indeed.
With a big assist from his shortstop, Verlander pitched the first no-hitter in Comerica Park history, leading the Detroit Tigers over the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-0, Tuesday night.... |
1830a85553eee88d0a88813b5a4f8315 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-15-et-peyton15-story.html | Racy ‘Peyton Place’ changed this town forever | Racy ‘Peyton Place’ changed this town forever
When moviemakers wanted to film “Peyton Place” in this small seaside town, the bestselling novel the movie was to be based on was so scandalous that the local library didn’t even keep it on its shelves.
The book had sparked outrage with its titillating look behind closed do... |
0adb7a6ae323043b5c2f4593ecc126c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-15-na-disclose15-story.html | Clintons disclose assets in the eight figures | Clintons disclose assets in the eight figures
Call it Clinton Inc.: Congressional financial disclosure reports released Thursday show that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton have assets valued from $10 million to $50 million, with the former president bringing in speaking fees of more than $10 million in just... |
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