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b532a15d205b551bb48b65d020f9d83b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-15-oe-brooks15-story.html | One thing we can all agree on | One thing we can all agree on
YOU KNOW YOU’VE got a problem when only the Albanians welcome you with open arms -- and even then you need to take your watch off to keep them from stealing it.
This is what it’s come down to for President Bush, a duck so lame he’s nearly quadriplegic. Six and a half years into his intermi... |
f80f89acfe402020fd5b7b642944da5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-16-et-book16-story.html | Web pioneer laments loss of the gatekeepers | Web pioneer laments loss of the gatekeepers
LONG, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away -- which is to say, during the loony apex of the 1990s Internet boom -- Andrew Keen was an entrepreneur. An Englishman by birth, he relocated to Silicon Valley and in 1996 founded Audiocafe.com, one of the earliest websites devoted to... |
1587c69055df2231707a99a044fa3084 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-16-et-letters16-story.html | ‘Sopranos’ conclusion slays ‘em | ‘Sopranos’ conclusion slays ‘em
WITH “ ‘Sopranos’: What Was That All About?” [June 11], Mary McNamara mirrors society’s need for instant gratification, raising doubt we deserved this Emmy winner at all. In a loose-end-knitting episode slowly building exquisite tension, creator David Chase offered fans the classic “Lady... |
9c02f2848ddeb621a686b418f440547b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-16-me-fletcher16-story.html | Colin Fletcher, 85; hiking icon’s books inspired generations to journey into the wilderness | Colin Fletcher, 85; hiking icon’s books inspired generations to journey into the wilderness
Colin Fletcher, who was considered the father of modern backpacking for his lyrical and practical writings on hiking, including “The Complete Walker” and “The Man Who Walked Through Time,” books that inspired generations to jour... |
fd07da202336e9fff29023e0176f508f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-16-me-mayor16-story.html | Private life may cost mayor publicly | Private life may cost mayor publicly
With the collapse of his 20-year marriage spilling into public view this week, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is fighting to keep private the most intimate details of his life.
Rumors persist about Villaraigosa and other relationships, but he and his staff have so far refuse... |
516c083cdb6ddea81f63fbf56e640804 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-16-me-rothschild16-story.html | Guy de Rothschild, 98; patriarch of a banking dynasty | Guy de Rothschild, 98; patriarch of a banking dynasty
Guy de Rothschild, the dynamic patriarch of one of the world’s dominant banking families whose business savvy helped revive and expand the multibillion-dollar enterprise after World War II, died Tuesday in Paris. He was 98.
His family announced his death but did not... |
d6ce8fa6af83bb39dd40e1926f09ea13 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-17-na-trauma17-story.html | War-scarred contractors battle red tape | War-scarred contractors battle red tape
Samuel Walker saw combat in Iraq firsthand: He was splattered with human flesh and shrapnel in a dining hall when a suicide bomber blew himself up just a few feet away.
When Walker got back to the U.S., he brought some of the battlefield home with him. He heard phantom screams in... |
0141f263e5e4abd4f79fdd3ee6f0b9ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-18-he-sleep18-story.html | Athletes who sleep more may score more | Athletes who sleep more may score more
Getting a good night’s sleep has its rewards, such as reduced fatigue and better concentration. For athletes, the benefits may be even bigger -- faster speed and improved performance. Those are the findings from a recent, albeit small study in which college basketball players fare... |
05c6eff849b31282b91ccec83758e14a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-18-na-exgay18-story.html | Approaching agreement in debate over homosexuality | Approaching agreement in debate over homosexuality
Alan Chambers directs Exodus International, widely described as the nation’s largest ex-gay ministry. But when he addresses the group’s Freedom Conference at Concordia University in Irvine this month, Chambers won’t celebrate successful “ex-gays.”
Truth is, he’s not su... |
79fbbc9d4dbe378a647e5d554bb4ff4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-18-sci-etruscans18-story.html | Genetic tests: Italians were from Turkey | Genetic tests: Italians were from Turkey
Genetic studies of Italians in Tuscany show that their forefathers, the ancient Etruscans, moved to Italy from what is now Turkey -- an origin that many archeologists have dismissed as unlikely.
The Etruscans, who emerged about 1200 BC, reached their zenith in the 6th century BC... |
3d1a290c3f148025fbd6bc6d89ccdfb9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-19-me-priest19-story.html | Judge allows release of clergy personnel files | Judge allows release of clergy personnel files
A judge ruled Monday that confidential personnel files on Roman Catholic clergy accused of molesting children can be made public even if the clerics were never charged with a crime and legal claims against them were not proven.
“The rights of privacy must give way to the s... |
71e236322d707b803cc2a543339a9667 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-19-na-schlafly19-story.html | A conservative’s answer to Wikipedia | A conservative’s answer to Wikipedia
Andy Schlafly was appalled. He was teaching a history class to home-schooled teens and one student had just turned in an assignment that dated events as “BCE,” before the common era -- rather than “BC,” before Christ.
“Where did that come from?” he demanded.
Her answer: “Wikipedia.”... |
cebeafa825198f44e6cb8d762c9e1348 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-20-fi-inbox20-story.html | Protect company name online | Protect company name online
Dear Karen: A business similar to mine is using a website address identical to the name of my company, which I incorporated 20 years ago. They have offered to sell the address to me. What are my options?
Answer: You could negotiate with them, sue them in federal court or pursue an arbitratio... |
ba3862825222e14d8daeba754e298cd9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-20-me-heritage20-story.html | A rare treasure will soon be extinct | A rare treasure will soon be extinct
Los Angeles, and the country at large, have been losing bookstores lately to forces that have become familiar in the trade: rising rents, competition from national retail chains and the discounts offered by online booksellers.
Yet the latest casualty has come not from financial fail... |
a6e33fd58f1e27bd24eba6dc04e38c25 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-20-na-immig20-story.html | GOP bill challenges Bush on immigration | GOP bill challenges Bush on immigration
In a sharp rebuke to President Bush, House Republicans unveiled legislation Tuesday that would bar illegal immigrants from gaining legal status in the U.S., require tamper-proof birth certificates for Americans and make English the nation’s official language.
The measure’s core p... |
6a10c2f804fe13d6494559037499880b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-21-fg-greenzone21-story.html | Green Zone is taking more hits | Green Zone is taking more hits
The U.S. military acknowledged Wednesday that insurgents are firing more mortar rounds and rockets into Baghdad’s Green Zone, a former haven that now is rocked almost daily by explosions.
At a news conference, Navy Rear Adm. Mark Fox refused to disclose the number of attacks, saying he di... |
461857b944e2ba1547e83f9d3adc57f1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-21-na-scotus21-story.html | High court is good for business | High court is good for business
The Bush administration and corporate lobbyists long have sought sweeping “tort reform” to limit lawsuits and massive jury awards -- without much success. But in the last year, they quietly have been winning much of what they’ve wanted on a case-by-case basis in the Supreme Court.
With a... |
71e1a7016397378395416941a0fe2831 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-21-na-tap21-story.html | Phone privacy case pits Justice Dept. vs. states | Phone privacy case pits Justice Dept. vs. states
Can the federal government stop states from investigating whether telephone companies illegally provided customer information to the National Security Agency?
A federal judge in San Francisco will take up that issue today as the Justice Department and the phone companies... |
438bfd586d28e878ad940068006c8130 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-21-oe-sperling21-story.html | A new carbon standard | A new carbon standard
PROMINENT VOICES are calling for national carbon taxes as a way to fight global warming. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the Los Angeles Times’ editorial board and economists on the left and the right all support a carbon tax as the cure for our greenhouse gas pains. It isn’t, at l... |
9544d7756625d09b373a8a19b45aed3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-23-me-sbriefs23-story.html | Fire hydrant, dislodged by SUV, kills pedestrian | Fire hydrant, dislodged by SUV, kills pedestrian
An Oakland man died after being struck in the back of the head by a 200-pound fire hydrant that was sent flying when a sport-utility vehicle crashed into it, police said.
Humberto Hernandez, 24, was walking with his wife Thursday evening when a 2007 Ford Escape blew a ti... |
b10eb77e2df0467ab3d480d46f1b1304 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-24-bk-discoveries24-story.html | DISCOVERIES | DISCOVERIES
Ravel
A Novel
Jean Echenoz
Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
New Press: 192 pp., $21.95
HERE is a portrait of a musical genius in the last 10 years of his life: “a slate-gray suit beneath his short, chocolate-brown overcoat, not bad either, although old-fashioned and perhaps a touch lightweight ... |
9923bb95edc3397ab3c65e6f15d963ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-24-bk-lunenfeld24-story.html | Welcome to Web 2.0 | Welcome to Web 2.0
IN the heady days of the late ‘90s Internet boom, the business aisles at bookstores overflowed with tales of accidental software billionaires and breathless pronouncements that the Web was the greatest advance since the taming of fire. If you find yourself nostalgic for that era of irrational enthusi... |
1dc12f52f6ff443c56b6b3f32b093df4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-24-op-rieff24-story.html | Good vs. good | Good vs. good
THE CRISIS IN Darfur has exposed many fault lines. One of the cruelest is the emerging divide between the human rights activists grouped around the Save Darfur coalition in the U.S. (and S.O.S. Darfur in Western Europe) and the humanitarian workers in relief groups working on the ground in Darfur and acro... |
5366e68a7ba7c3b823ae674bd0942abd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-25-na-iraqdeal25-story.html | Deal on Iraq policy explored | Deal on Iraq policy explored
The Bush administration has begun exploring ways of offering Congress a compromise deal on Iraq policy to avert bruising battles in coming months, U.S. officials said.
With public support of the war dropping, President Bush has authorized an internal policy review to find a plan that could ... |
41851b411580816cb8d0fa513bcd07c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-26-fg-marx26-story.html | A low for Marx in China | A low for Marx in China
IT was like watching a man try to swim up a waterfall.
Professor Tao Xiuao cracked jokes, told stories, projected a Power Point presentation on a large video screen. But his students at Beijing Foreign Studies University didn’t even try to hide their boredom.
Young men spread newspapers out on t... |
20acb0890cfaa397ca196f72049acb32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-26-me-cellphones26-story.html | State prisons try to thwart cellphone use | State prisons try to thwart cellphone use
Cellphones, nearly as common as toothbrushes or televisions in normal society, are ringing alarm bells among authorities in the California prison system, where the phones are a growing form of contraband.
More than 1,000 cellphones and BlackBerrys have been confiscated during t... |
f02b33061aaf80f1b7126f0d9cf908e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-26-me-lindberg26-story.html | Charles Lindberg, 86; Marine helped raise first U.S. flag over Iwo Jima | Charles Lindberg, 86; Marine helped raise first U.S. flag over Iwo Jima
Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
Lindberg died Sunday at Fairview Southdale Hospital in the Minneapolis suburb of Edina, said John Pose, director... |
5d2636dee5849c1af2e7c35129da52ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-27-me-spector27-story.html | Spector trial expert backs suicide theory | Spector trial expert backs suicide theory
Phil Spector’s murder defense team began its case Tuesday with testimony from a prominent forensic pathologist who said the circumstances of Lana Clarkson’s death suggest she killed herself.
Vincent DiMaio, former chief medical examiner of Bexar County, Texas, and a sought-afte... |
cbfc121748217e2b21b5c23c5ab9e8e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-28-na-wiretap28-story.html | Wiretap subpoenas prod administration | Wiretap subpoenas prod administration
A Senate committee investigating the Bush administration’s domestic wiretapping program subpoenaed the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and the Justice Department on Wednesday for information regarding their legal justification for the warrantless secret surveillanc... |
1f66dbc242e6443e1005f89c4f252c99 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-fg-lockerbie29-story.html | Panel questions ’01 Lockerbie conviction | Panel questions ’01 Lockerbie conviction
A former Libyan intelligence agent convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, “may have suffered a miscarriage of justice” and should be granted a new appeal, a Scottish judicial panel ruled Thursday.
Abdel Basset Ali Megrahi was found guilty of murder in t... |
91aa9a580bdef6413474ebdbe84a2f4d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-fi-insure29-story.html | Wave of high fees forecast | Wave of high fees forecast
Consumer advocates warned Thursday that a legal victory by the Automobile Club of Southern California could spur other insurers to charge customers steep fees for paying their bills in installments.
The issue, the subject of several lawsuits, has prompted a bill in the state Legislature and h... |
ee3ff26246b922d0a37eb333ef7e9a8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-me-hotlanes29-story.html | Will traffic-weary L.A. heed toll call? | Will traffic-weary L.A. heed toll call?
The land of the freeway is poised to become a little less free.
Los Angeles County transit leaders on Thursday agreed to develop plans for toll roads within the next three years, after decades of opposition to the concept of motorists paying tolls to use the roads.
The decision b... |
dbd52ebe24316dc46231608c7ec0d266 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-me-inmate29-story.html | At 95, killer hopes to win freedom | At 95, killer hopes to win freedom
John Rodriguez didn’t seem to know what was happening to him.
The state’s oldest inmate didn’t immediately realize that the state parole board had recommended Thursday that he be freed. Instead, the 95-year-old sat hunched in his wheelchair, looking slightly confused, as he had for mu... |
9897c3e92b8e6e89a89ec03c436d1a16 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-me-republicans29-story.html | Gov. faces revolt by GOP lawmakers | Gov. faces revolt by GOP lawmakers
Their uneasy coexistence with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now at the lowest point in his tenure, Republican state lawmakers are rebelling in increasingly public ways over administration efforts both big and small.
GOP state senators refused Thursday to sign off on the administration’s ... |
e3300f180a4e115081dd046365999c26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-na-dems29-story.html | Democrats court black audience | Democrats court black audience
Setting aside their discord on the Iraq war, eight Democratic presidential candidates presented a largely united front in their third debate Thursday night, vowing to fight racial bias and improve day-to-day living conditions for all Americans.
The debate at Howard University on issues co... |
8b2c1895419957278613f3bcc1d1c164 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-29-na-scotus29-story.html | Court limits school integration efforts | Court limits school integration efforts
In a decision that may herald a new era in the long struggle over racial integration in public education, the Supreme Court declared Thursday that officials may not use race to assign children to schools, even if the goal is greater diversity.
Neither white nor black students may... |
3e0fda4b4fbe193ea8f8ff2b59151d8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jun-30-fg-lebanon30-story.html | Lebanese troops clash with Palestinian demonstrators | Lebanese troops clash with Palestinian demonstrators
Two people were killed and 29 wounded Friday when government soldiers shot at Palestinian demonstrators trying to march home to their besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon, officials and witnesses said.
Lebanese youths supported the troops by engaging in fistfigh... |
fc10c727d3bd51cc30a0628895aeaf26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-01-ed-pakistan01-story.html | Betting on Musharraf | Betting on Musharraf
SINCE 9/11, THE United States has been trapped in an increasingly loveless marriage with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. Like many a miserable mate, the Bush administration has been known to rue the failings of its partner in private. Yet it has always defended Musharraf in public, arguing th... |
b6ebd2d77e4baa8e8e4bafca41cfefb0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-02-fi-disney2-story.html | These wireless robots try not to act remote | These wireless robots try not to act remote
Watch out, Mickey Mouse. The Muppets may be sneaking up on you.
Walt Disney Imagineering this week debuted its latest, cutting-edge creation: free-roaming, interacting audio-animatronic Muppets capable of “seeing” and “talking” to tourists -- and without a human puppeteer in ... |
67c8a77be3f2d545b6d0f5170f919194 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-02-me-mentor2-story.html | Mayor to the schools: Can’t this be easier? | Mayor to the schools: Can’t this be easier?
The saga of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the high school tagger continued to unfold Thursday as the mayor voiced frustration about school district regulations he must follow if he wants to mentor the teenager.
Villaraigosa had offered to help the Santee High School student ... |
fab6632edc6328dc1ac353ad57d9340d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-02-me-transplant2-story.html | Report tells of errors in organ case | Report tells of errors in organ case
It was to be the final medical procedure for Ruben Navarro, an altruistic end to the life of a critically ill 26-year-old who doctors said had no chance to recover.
Staffers at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo were to disconnect him from the machine pumping ox... |
196ff4939476adf5e480ed1ad43a3d8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-02-oe-brooks2-story.html | Up a creek in a Swift boat | Up a creek in a Swift boat
IF YOU HATED IT the first time, you might like the sequel better.
Remember Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the right-wing goon squad whose defamatory insinuations helped sink John Kerry’s presidential campaign? They’re back! This afternoon, key Swift boaters George “Bud” Day, Mary Jane McManus... |
22e0330be0497dd7fbb5a9321573ea85 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-03-sp-elliott3-story.html | Until Brown’s up to speed, they’ll concede too much middle ground | Until Brown’s up to speed, they’ll concede too much middle ground
Kwame Brown acknowledged that he’d been told by an ankle specialist not to hurry back into the Lakers’ lineup, that he should invest in three more weeks of treatment on the sprain and bone bruise he had suffered on New Year’s Eve and gradually ease his w... |
45117c35abab3cf9c3b0fa7a51d92c19 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-04-me-holi4-story.html | Hindus show their Holi colors | Hindus show their Holi colors
Six-year-old Ishika Muchhal trembles with excitement as she hides near the park’s picnic benches, her face smeared with powdered paints: green, pink and red, with a splotch of blue on her forehead and a hint of yellow on her nose.
Earlier, she had been hit directly between the shoulders by... |
7cdee1317dd7b3ec5274b12ee604033e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-04-na-geffenclinton4-story.html | Famous allies were often at odds | Famous allies were often at odds
Long before the fractious public airing of their poisoned relations, the political friendship between David Geffen and Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton was an unconventional alliance with a cloudy future.
The outspoken Hollywood mogul Geffen lavished nearly $1.2 million on the Clintons a... |
2c890d83ba42518e9f75a810dd8f89ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-04-op-buckley4-story.html | My friend, E. Howard Hunt | My friend, E. Howard Hunt
I MET E. HOWARD HUNT soon after arriving in Mexico City in 1951. I was a deep-cover agent for the CIA -- deep-cover describing, I was given to understand, a category whose members were told to take extreme care not to permit any grounds for suspicion that one was in service to the CIA.
The rul... |
1310da25887f99268dbbab460f091964 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-04-op-gross4-story.html | Starbucks’ ‘venti’ problem | Starbucks’ ‘venti’ problem
COFFEE ADDICTS WERE SHAKEN, and stirred, recently when a memo written by Starbucks Corp. founder and Chairman Howard Schultz was posted on the Internet. Noting with a mixture of pride and horror that Starbucks has gone from 1,000 to 13,000 stores in 10 years, Schultz expressed regret over a “... |
8e60e3b074fab020e755ef86e655edc8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-05-ed-elections05-story.html | Money for nothing | Money for nothing
EVEN MORE NEWSWORTHY than a man biting a dog is a political candidate turning down money from the U.S. Treasury. Yet it’s possible that, next year, both major party nominees for president will decline to accept about $80 million in federal funds generated by a taxpayer checkoff, confident that they ca... |
160db25cc8f6266a197e5c171bbe3946 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-05-he-timechange5-story.html | Springing ahead to a long March | Springing ahead to a long March
Daylight saving time begins three weeks earlier this year and lasts one week longer -- welcome news for people who relish the extra afternoon light to garden, ride a bicycle, walk the dog or just take out the trash when they can still see the curb.
But the extension, which begins Sunday,... |
af1d47ed2a81abe4b56eea7c19de1b38 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-05-me-squirrels5-story.html | For squirrels gone wild, city plans a turnoff | For squirrels gone wild, city plans a turnoff
Afraid that a population explosion among squirrels in a city park could pose a public health risk, Santa Monica officials are ready to try a proven method of dealing with the problem: birth control shots.
Plans call for squirrels in Palisades Park to be injected with an imm... |
b116bf4caddfda014b73c158db623f2e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-06-fg-kurds6-story.html | Hussein official denies genocide | Hussein official denies genocide
A top member of Saddam Hussein’s former regime said Monday that there “was no genocide” against Iraqi Kurds and blamed Iran for an infamous 1988 poison gas attack on a Kurdish town.
Tarik Aziz, whose posts included foreign minister and deputy prime minister, told a special tribunal that... |
e29970f308f1562e4a3ecc48e3e3b036 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-06-sci-asiapollute6-story.html | Asian air pollution affects our weather | Asian air pollution affects our weather
Asia’s growing air pollution -- billowing plumes of soot, smog and wood smoke -- is making the Pacific region cloudier and stormier, disrupting winter weather patterns along the West Coast and into the Arctic, researchers reported Monday.
Carried on prevailing winds, the industri... |
d620ea0916c8698de87ce626b36be69a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-07-et-aguilera7-story.html | Props mistress | Props mistress
IF Christina Aguilera ever loses her steamroller voice, she could consider a career as a silent-film star. In a short clip shown midway through her “Back to Basics” tour stop Monday at the Honda Center in Anaheim, the diminutive powerhouse did her best Clara Bow in a bathtub, on a chaise and falling into... |
078ef283e0ac6882832ab510243bea28 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-07-hy-wheels7-story.html | Crash stats under guard | Crash stats under guard
You might call it morbid fascination, the way people slow down to take a long look at accidents. But it is also cautionary and informative.
In the same way, a lot of motorists might like to know about fatal accidents at dangerous intersections and hazardous freeway segments they use.
Such inform... |
f89e7dd766771bdf9ed0eef920799b01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-07-me-gallo7-story.html | Pioneer brought wine to the masses | Pioneer brought wine to the masses
Ernest Gallo, who with his brother Julio created a post-Prohibition wine business that became one of the most dominant in the world and changed the American palate, has died. He was 97.
Gallo died Tuesday at his home in Modesto, E. & J. Gallo Winery announced. A cause of death was not... |
98ef307dd2f5a59d093531eb13f91764 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-07-na-libby7-story.html | LIBBY’S GUILT IN CIA LEAK CASE A SETBACK FOR THE WHITE HOUSE | LIBBY’S GUILT IN CIA LEAK CASE A SETBACK FOR THE WHITE HOUSE
The guilty verdicts Tuesday against former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby made him the first high-level White House official convicted of a crime since the Iran-Contra scandal 20 years ago, and marked the latest fallout from the administratio... |
969a08dbe4efe84939a013c17d2b4e8f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-08-ed-radio08-story.html | Static over royalties | Static over royalties
AN OBSCURE FEDERAL panel has sent Internet radio stations into a panic. The Copyright Royalty Board’s decision to increase the amount of royalties due to music labels and recording artists is nominally a victory for labels and artists. But the victory could be Pyrrhic if it forces a consolidation ... |
8a10a66144469d1dd8abee35aadfb94d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-08-fi-bleep8-story.html | Frankly, builder sees slump in ’07 | Frankly, builder sees slump in ’07
Using very un-CEO-like verbiage, the chief of home builder D.R. Horton Inc. on Wednesday made clear his belief that the housing market will remain in a slump and the company will close on fewer homes this year than last.
“I don’t want to be too sophisticated here, but 2007 is going to... |
13011f52adc388ab1675d19de1be2faf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-08-fi-moonves8-story.html | Moonves greenlights film unit | Moonves greenlights film unit
After circling the movie business for the last year, Leslie Moonves now has the CBS eye focused squarely on it.
The chief executive of the New York-based TV, radio and billboard company has frequently floated the idea to Wall Street. But Moonves finally took his first formal step toward la... |
fdd00e20208d6ed5f77ca018608cb3e0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-09-me-lopez9-story.html | Less isn’t more when it comes to voting | Less isn’t more when it comes to voting
Anyone who’s looking for another reason to withdraw troops from Iraq should look no further than the results of Tuesday’s school board election in L.A. If that’s what representative democracy looks like, there’s no point in sacrificing more lives so the citizens of Iraq can enjoy... |
9e3b01a545a9d23ab7b92338076004e8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-09-sp-baseballtv9-story.html | Baseball TV deal goes through, with a twist | Baseball TV deal goes through, with a twist
The long-anticipated announcement by Major League Baseball to shift its Extra Innings pay package to DirecTV came Thursday -- but with a twist that one high-ranking cable executive called a “sham.”
MLB President Bob DuPuy said the seven-year agreement with DirecTV -- first re... |
1a1eb1c1b9757c2469665112045df4a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-09-sp-uscfb9-story.html | Racism issue raised in USC players’ Web page | Racism issue raised in USC players’ Web page
It started as an inside joke -- good-natured racial banter in the privacy of the locker room between a black assistant coach and a group of white players on the USC football team.
They were members of an aggressive special teams unit. He called them the “White Nation.” It wa... |
0fc3507d067a94f1d0ac4461824f6793 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-10-na-evangelicals10-story.html | EVANGELICAL AGENDA FIGHT IS HEATING UP | EVANGELICAL AGENDA FIGHT IS HEATING UP
A struggle for control of the evangelical agenda intensified this week, with some leaders declaring that the focus has strayed too far from their signature battles against abortion and gay rights.
Those issues defined the evangelical movement for more than two decades -- and cemen... |
0a3f024780bf0b8b76dc74ac5c48b969 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-11-ca-cillian11-story.html | When Irish eyes are beguiling | When Irish eyes are beguiling
THERE’S something about seeing Irish film star Cillian Murphy standing on Santa Monica Beach that causes a momentary brain disconnect. The ethereal European vibe practically radiates from him as he clasps his arms protectively over each other, a small, thin figure in varying shades of blue... |
30791d18a5f28bbd408377dbbc8679c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-11-fi-wave11-story.html | Watts from the sea | Watts from the sea
Off the western coast of Scotland, on the Isle of Islay, science teacher Ray Husthwaite turns on the light in his classroom.
The electricity comes from a power cable that runs to the mainland.
But it also comes from the ocean.
A few miles from the school, wave action compresses and decompresses air i... |
831e730e46f8553e87c254c6469d1a88 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-11-me-then11-story.html | At Flores Adobe, history stands solid | At Flores Adobe, history stands solid
In the hot Southern California real estate market, the Flores Adobe might be considered a fixer-upper. But the 19th-century house still has style, space and a story to tell.
After the final California battle of the Mexican-American War more than 160 years ago, the defeated californ... |
9d57879cb81a913ecb6354e1a1fcc6f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-11-op-ferguson11-story.html | The good old days of colonialism | The good old days of colonialism
EVER BEEN HAD? Last year, the United States Agency for International Development gave Ghana $22.5 million in food aid.
Last Monday, that same country began a 12-month celebration of its independence from British rule, which was granted 50 years ago, on March 5, 1957. The total budget fo... |
868b3989ee7ee067a0e35a67a967f98f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-12-na-gonzales12-story.html | Gonzales urged to quit ‘for the nation’ | Gonzales urged to quit ‘for the nation’
U.S. Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales has so politicized the Justice Department that he should step down for the sake of the nation, the Senate’s third-ranking Democrat said Sunday.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York -- citing recent disclosures about the FBI’s improper use of adm... |
ed6c4fff4595d20ba9d9025ff0eddfca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-12-na-journalism12-story.html | Media’s focus narrowing, report warns | Media’s focus narrowing, report warns
News organizations confronted with declining revenue and increased competition are entering an era of more limited ambition in which they will drop a broad worldview for more narrowly focused reporting, according to an annual review of the news business being released today by a wa... |
75785d7d8c3fe0e78dde47ccaf16ce82 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-12-sp-crowe12-story.html | ‘Basketball Jones’ move was so hot, it was off the charts | ‘Basketball Jones’ move was so hot, it was off the charts
If the NCAA basketball tournament ever adopts a theme song, a 34-year-old hit by the comedy duo Cheech & Chong would be a worthy contender. “Basketball Jones” is a bracket-buster, to be sure -- not to mention a gut-buster -- and worthy of a No. 1 seeding.
Like M... |
ce59899c1f5c2bfbb63e20f70aac64f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-12-sp-lakerep12-story.html | Odom says he’s ready | Odom says he’s ready
And finally, some good injury news for the Lakers.
Lamar Odom will begin practicing today despite a torn labrum in his left shoulder and said he would play Thursday against Denver, calling it a “blessing of God.”
Odom was expected to take another week or two to decide his future -- play through the... |
df4b5a51de315620d54db9b6cc9e26d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-13-fg-darfur13-story.html | Darfur’s rebels pose latest threat to the displaced | Darfur’s rebels pose latest threat to the displaced
This sunbaked displacement camp, considered the largest in Darfur, has become a virtual no-go zone.
Aid workers abandoned Gereida in December after gunmen stormed their compounds, raping an international staffer and stealing a dozen trucks. Last week, African Union tr... |
90fdf8230103c80741244167fb8003f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-14-fg-sobrino14-story.html | Vatican to punish priest, sources say | Vatican to punish priest, sources say
The Vatican is preparing to discipline Father Jon Sobrino, a well-known proponent of liberation theology who worked for decades in El Salvador even as fellow priests were murdered, church sources said Tuesday.
Sobrino will be sanctioned for alleged errors in his teachings and writi... |
2295beb95bc64e9586e85974bf362211 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-14-na-workers14-story.html | Guest workers’ prospects dim | Guest workers’ prospects dim
When Sabulal Vijayan saw the advertisement in a newspaper in his native state of Kerala in southwestern India, he thought he had found the solution to his family’s financial problems.
The ad offered laborers job opportunities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina under a gue... |
c1273bd597a0e9e0f4544afc94ce31d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-15-me-chagas15-story.html | Blood banks put at risk by parasite | Blood banks put at risk by parasite
A little-known but potentially deadly parasite from Latin America has become one of the latest threats to the blood and organ supplies in the United States, especially in Los Angeles, where many donors have traveled to affected countries, health officials say.
Last year, two heart tr... |
70e57e6aca46184f86e3bbe42b31924c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-15-na-obama15-story.html | As a child, Obama crossed a cultural divide in Indonesia | As a child, Obama crossed a cultural divide in Indonesia
As a boy in Indonesia, Barack Obama crisscrossed the religious divide. At the local primary school, he prayed in thanks to a Catholic saint. In the neighborhood mosque, he bowed to Allah.
Having a personal background in both Christianity and Islam might seem usef... |
4e45c53bb51ced5c1844fb92a95d7a86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-16-oe-brooks16-story.html | The devil we helped create | The devil we helped create
WHAT TIMING! Just when the attorney general and the president were coming under fire for the politicized dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys, the Pentagon released a transcript of a March 10 hearing in which Guantanamo detainee Khalid Shaikh Mohammed confessed to masterminding the 9/11 attacks... |
99fca1788ae0459f3eaf171193042c0c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-18-fi-zefrank18-story.html | A yearlong chat ends | A yearlong chat ends
Peering down from an airplane last spring, Ze Frank decided to turn the Earth into a sandwich.
After he landed, the comedian, who was making Internet videos years before YouTube existed, challenged his audience to place two pieces of bread at exactly opposite ends of the globe. They did, and he pos... |
d4221aa6ebe3462ea3ecbda9e86abe77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-18-ig-frontier18-story.html | THE OUTLAW RIDES AGAIN | THE OUTLAW RIDES AGAIN
GOODBYE waxed eyebrows, hello mustache wax?
On the runways of the fashion capitals and on the streets of Silver Lake, Venice and Brooklyn, designers and young guns alike are staking out a new frontier: a post-metrosexual ruggedness that’s all about woolen vests, chambray shirts, crisp-legged deni... |
21cefb7a96d6258fa8a8a49bf71acadd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-18-me-lopez18-story.html | Billboard’s ‘Captivity’ audience disgusted | Billboard’s ‘Captivity’ audience disgusted
Shanise Laurent and her friends left Palms Middle School one afternoon last week and stopped for a soda at Jack in the Box.
Shanise, a seventh-grader, didn’t need me to point out the billboard across the street. She said she had noticed it the day before.
“What a graphic, nast... |
9413531b2ffb0fbba36fe1880ebc77a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-18-op-schwartz18-story.html | Why the best schools can’t pick the best kids -- and vice versa | Why the best schools can’t pick the best kids -- and vice versa
SPRING IS HERE, and along with the crocuses comes the annual admissions panic. High school kids get anxiety attacks as they approach their mailboxes. And in some parts of the U.S., parents stress as they await a phone call from their preschool of choice. T... |
9c64fc7e953cf8a149ed0e8774aeb338 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-19-na-usattys19-story.html | ALARM RISES OVER FIRING OF U.S. ATTY. IN SAN DIEGO | ALARM RISES OVER FIRING OF U.S. ATTY. IN SAN DIEGO
Senate Democrats signaled Sunday that of the eight federal prosecutors abruptly ousted by the Bush administration, the case in San Diego is emerging as the most troubling because of new allegations that U.S. Atty. Carol C. Lam was fired in an attempt to shut down inves... |
8de78509e07e3b430f12dc239e6299f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-20-fi-cable20-story.html | L.A. takes Time Warner to task | L.A. takes Time Warner to task
A top Los Angeles cable TV watchdog on Monday called the merger of pay TV and Internet systems in the city a “near failure” for subscribers and asked Time Warner Cable Inc. to explain what went wrong, how it would fix the problems and how soon.
Citing city statistics and a Times story fro... |
ab336760a5eef3ddad3d337c1151a949 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-20-me-ebsen20-story.html | Vilma Ebsen, 96; dancer teamed with her brother Buddy on stage | Vilma Ebsen, 96; dancer teamed with her brother Buddy on stage
Vilma Ebsen, a dancer who, with her brother Buddy, performed on Broadway before appearing in MGM’s “Broadway Melody of 1936,” has died. She was 96.
Ebsen, a longtime dance teacher and co-owner of the Ebsen School of Dancing in Pacific Palisades, died in her... |
7f18b6ba1e7dcbfaccbf9ffb4227ad3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-20-me-johnson20-story.html | Father Daniel Johnson, 77; preserved pre-Vatican II traditions | Father Daniel Johnson, 77; preserved pre-Vatican II traditions
Father Daniel Johnson, a champion of pre-Vatican II Roman Catholic traditions and the centuries-old Tridentine Mass, has died. He was 77.
Johnson died Sunday at a Duarte hospital after a long illness.
“He was a pioneer in reforming liturgical reform,” said ... |
9a83e5121ba2424c80d4b097e9ca69da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-20-na-climate20-story.html | Altered climate reports spark stormy hearing | Altered climate reports spark stormy hearing
Government scientists, armed with copies of heavily edited reports, charged Monday that the Bush administration and its political appointees had soft-pedaled their findings on climate change.
The accusations led Democrats and Republicans at the congressional hearing to accus... |
76314953f1b0c27fb5c575bb42afcf2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-21-fg-gamers21-story.html | Gamer is royalty in S. Korea | Gamer is royalty in S. Korea
HE confessed to feeling “more nervous than usual” as he waited for his comeback fight to begin, his fingers fiddling inside a hand warmer to ward off the winter chill seeping through the walls of the coliseum.
The Emperor knew he had to keep his fingers loose.
A crowd of more than 1,000 peo... |
d5b566d10b401a3656b228518dda967f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-21-me-border21-story.html | A once-porous border is a turning-back point | A once-porous border is a turning-back point
The dusty Grand Central Station of illegal journeys into the United States lies on the fringes of this village near the Arizona border, in a junkyard littered with demolished cars.
Migrants wearing backpacks meet smugglers here and pile into pickup trucks for bumpy rides to ... |
a588fa99d9d976573fd1e19e101a3195 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-21-na-immig21-story.html | House bill offers citizenship | House bill offers citizenship
Two lawmakers will fire the opening salvo in this year’s immigration debate Thursday when they introduce the first House bill in many years to call for citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Reps. Luis V. Gutierrez (D-Ill.) and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) will unveil broad legislation that would als... |
70cc38676c5dc0b3f0c1bf2fc9fae6aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-22-fi-youtube22-story.html | Media giants to take on YouTube | Media giants to take on YouTube
Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business.
News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today that they are creating an online video site stocked with TV... |
ca4dc701bdebc1862011250ca4a28b0b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-22-me-briefs22.2-story.html | 2 Jewish educational institutes are merging | 2 Jewish educational institutes are merging
The University of Judaism, a 250-student institution in Bel-Air, and the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, an education and camping organization in Simi Valley, are merging, officials announced Wednesday. The new organization will be called the American Jewish University.
The Univer... |
283ace0ddd13e15ece5185b461061a0e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-22-me-seipp22-story.html | Catherine Seipp, 49; conservative media critic who took on the L.A. Times | Catherine Seipp, 49; conservative media critic who took on the L.A. Times
Catherine Seipp, a writer and media critic who became known in the 1990s for her pointed coverage of the Los Angeles Times in Buzz magazine, has died. She was 49.
Seipp, a nonsmoker who was diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago, died Wednesda... |
2e6efac49a4eb99a78b91c4de2a9557f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-22-oe-baron22-story.html | No gun, comma, control | No gun, comma, control
CITING THE second comma of the 2nd Amendment, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled March 9 that district residents may keep guns ready to shoot in their homes.
Plaintiffs in Shelly Parker et al vs. District of Columbia were challenging laws that strictly limited wh... |
24e4732b7631850e2d9b497bf4833526 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-23-fg-norkor23-story.html | N. Korea exits talks over funds issue | N. Korea exits talks over funds issue
Negotiations aimed at dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program broke off temporarily Thursday over a mystery concerning the $25 million in Pyongyang funds that have been held in a Macao bank over charges of money laundering and counterfeiting.
North Korean chief negotiator... |
d0fa7e36bbb0ad4d34e24a4d0e2aee1f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-23-fi-refineries23-story.html | Concern grows on refinery safety | Concern grows on refinery safety
Refineries in California and across the country are breaking down with unusual frequency this year, boosting prices at the pump and endangering workers and communities.
The rash of oil plant problems may not be a coincidence. The breakdowns stem from the hard use of aging equipment, a s... |
3a46df29c087871b4e536fe0bedc7bd7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-23-me-transplant23_-story.html | Stringent transplant rules are unveiled | Stringent transplant rules are unveiled
Under pressure to tighten oversight of the nation’s transplant centers, federal health officials unveiled strict new standards Thursday that could force dozens of organ programs to give up precious federal funding or have it pulled from them.
The rules come after a series of scan... |
ccdb6379913b982f92dbda4c8e3427f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-23-oe-kaplan23-story.html | Black history, warts and all | Black history, warts and all
FOR BLACK people obsessed with scrubbing the hated “n-word” clean from the American lexicon, I have another suggestion: the word “positive.”
Sounds counterintuitive, I know. What concept could be more antithetical to the “n-word,” more cherished by black folk hoping to counter negativity an... |
d2b9b32e6b5016feb3c365d41b8fa9bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-24-na-griles24-story.html | Griles guilty in Abramoff case | Griles guilty in Abramoff case
A former Bush administration official, once described by Jack Abramoff as “our guy” at the Interior Department, pleaded guilty Friday to lying to Senate investigators probing the scandal surrounding the convicted Republican lobbyist.
J. Steven Griles, a coal mining official who was deputy... |
be4536ddcc7a1a51838057d909308c4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-24-na-nevada24-story.html | Nevada GOP moves up caucus date -- again | Nevada GOP moves up caucus date -- again
Nevada Republicans agreed Friday afternoon to move the state’s GOP caucuses to Jan. 19, joining Democrats in deciding to vote second in the nation on the 2008 presidential candidates.
The agreement came in a conference call among about 15 members of the state Republican Party’s ... |
d5dec4358f5dd6ed3ef8b9b9804f1cc4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-bk-rifkind25-story.html | Hearts and minds | Hearts and minds
ANDRe SCHIFFRIN’S memoir begins and ends in Paris, neatly encircling a long career as a titan of publishing in New York City, where he managed Pantheon Books for 30 years. An introspective wish to explore his “dual nature” has led him to compose a narrative of fractured halves: of French and American l... |
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