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dc0a73712f6a7994cab3837e62c5da5a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-fi-googltics25-story.html | Google canvasses for political ads | Google canvasses for political ads
As the 2008 presidential campaign gets rolling, Google Inc. wants to be every candidate’s running mate.
That was clear early one morning this month, when about 80 bleary-eyed political and advocacy group consultants crowded into a college lecture hall here and listened intently to cam... |
e429e10f125469adc9c3c9cb4bcdf4f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-me-advisors25-story.html | Mayor’s inner circle gives, takes | Mayor’s inner circle gives, takes
It is a creature of political life, the unofficial “kitchen cabinet” whose members offer advice and wield hidden influence by virtue of their proximity to power.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the circle that has gathered around him are no exception.
During his 21 months in office, Vil... |
2d5dc774c8c80d9328c8d009a901fbf2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-me-wind25-story.html | Turbines fan debate over wind energy | Turbines fan debate over wind energy
In a blustery stretch of desert two hours east of Los Angeles, where many of the world’s first power-producing windmills were built, a plan for more turbines has triggered a backlash that echoes a national debate over the merits of wind energy.
A proposal to build about 50 windmills... |
a98300cf94e0fbaec1836b8ed3dd9c78 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-op-brownstein25-story.html | The warrior and the priest | The warrior and the priest
IN THE EARLY returns among the young, computer-savvy social networkers on the MySpace website, Barack Obama is running laps around Hillary Rodham Clinton. Obama’s MySpace page has attracted more than twice as many friends as Clinton’s unofficial page on the site.
But when the two leading cont... |
1e197469aa07eed7c42c096411400d7f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-25-op-doherty25-story.html | What’s not to like about Libertarianism? | What’s not to like about Libertarianism?
LIBERTARIANISM may seem hopelessly marginalized in American politics. The national record of the Libertarian Party since 1972 -- the first year it fielded candidates -- isn’t too bright. Ed Clark, the party’s presidential candidate in 1980, received 921,000 votes, the highest ev... |
73fc564f97ab8870a57ac4fd618b67c9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-26-me-blues26-story.html | Rosier future for rare butterfly | Rosier future for rare butterfly
The heat lamps have been blazing for half an hour in Jana Johnson’s laboratory, orange light flooding over a sea of plastic cups. Johnson hovers, waiting for metamorphosis. She points at a brown pod in one of the cups.
“Look at the seams. This one is ready to pop,” she says.
The seam wi... |
9fe19d86c56f0226464b13aeb52370c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-27-fg-insurgents27-story.html | Iraqi schism targeted by U.S. | Iraqi schism targeted by U.S.
Insurgent leaders and Sunni Arab politicians say divisions between insurgent groups and Al Qaeda in Iraq have widened and have led to combat in some areas of the country, a schism that U.S. officials hope to exploit.
The Sunni Arab insurgent leaders said they disagreed with the leadership ... |
4e1e3d87714348d4fc69b350a08c5029 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-27-me-roads27-story.html | Caltrans using suits to fund roads | Caltrans using suits to fund roads
Desperate to raise cash to make room for more cars on the freeways, California’s main road-building agency is wielding an unexpected weapon: the state’s environmental laws.
Caltrans, long foiled by lawsuits accusing it of recklessly plowing over the habitat of endangered species, poll... |
ad7e83ac55b922bbeb6291aa870a3c88 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-27-sp-swim27-story.html | World Swimming Championships | World Swimming Championships
1_Michigan Men: It seems to be all or nothing with these guys. Almost three days into the meet and Michael Phelps seems to be his usual self, one gold medal in a relay on the first night and the fastest-qualifying time in morning preliminaries of the 200 butterfly today.
But Klete Keller fa... |
95baa662ea0438d694457e61115262fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-28-fg-bike28-story.html | No crime too small in Tokyo | No crime too small in Tokyo
THIS story begins with a crime.
Under normal circumstances, there is no reason anyone would want to steal my bike. It’s a basic get-around-town model that cost $150. It was the biggest bicycle a Japanese department store carried and it’s still too small for me. The chain grinds on every rota... |
a7aa9c308336b542e7c34262bd0e5e75 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-28-fo-wine28-story.html | A new wine list | A new wine list
EVER wonder what goes into a bottle of wine? The story winemakers love to tell on the bottle label is one of a mystical alchemy of climate, soils, ancient practices and long traditions. Wine labels tend to focus on romance; the small amount of government-mandated information includes the percentage of a... |
334d3dbdc11d9b54f7a514cedc96d559 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-28-me-plastic28-story.html | Paper or plastic? San Francisco decides | Paper or plastic? San Francisco decides
This environmentally friendly city put a green spin Tuesday on the checkout question “Paper or plastic?,” becoming the first in the nation to outlaw non-recyclable plastic bags from use in supermarkets, drugstores and other large retailers.
By a 10-1 vote, the Board of Supervisor... |
82de375cf244298613828189ff379ccb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-29-na-warm29-story.html | Gore climate event turned away from D.C. | Gore climate event turned away from D.C.
When former Vice President Al Gore testified before Congress last week, his appearance was viewed as the triumph of environmentalists over doubters in the debate over global warming.
Fresh from Hollywood, where his documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Oscar, Gore imbued De... |
af4879d07f3e8f49377ecec23992b80e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-29-wk-movies29-story.html | Skating on thick ice | Skating on thick ice
AFTER graduating from Missouri’s Truman State University in 1995 with a degree in theater, Jenna Fischer gave herself a deadline when she had to leave her home in St. Louis and move to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
“I had a goal,” she said. “I had to move in May 1996 or [earn] $10,000, whichever ca... |
1c4014071bb9554289f7540ad97f9a50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-31-et-liar31-story.html | A heel gets crushed beneath Beyonce and Shakira’s feet | A heel gets crushed beneath Beyonce and Shakira’s feet
A periodic look at singles or tracks making an impact in the pop music world
Hips don’t lie, as Shakira reminded us in her inimitable manner last year, but the male lead in the new single “Beautiful Liar” sure does. His two-timing is the catalyst for some lively ve... |
f07db55cb16ee24a4dfb9a0ed2ca99b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-31-fg-mayor31-story.html | Fear is a way of life for Colombian mayor | Fear is a way of life for Colombian mayor
Mayor Cielo Gonzalez’s house looks like a Marine outpost in Fallouja, buttressed by stacks of sandbags to absorb any blasts. She travels with 10 gun-toting guards, and recently received a gift from President Alvaro Uribe: the most heavily armored SUV in Colombia.
“I am often ve... |
a7620e2dd2a73541f93d84f2961bc185 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-31-fi-briefs31.6-story.html | Request for dot-xxx adult domain is rejected | Request for dot-xxx adult domain is rejected
Adult content won’t get its own dot-xxx address on the World Wide Web because it would force the organization that manages Internet addresses to regulate content.
The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names & Numbers, or ICANN, rejected the dot-xxx designation by a 9-5 vote in res... |
7b85e0a8cb58e21e72f461fd2299c896 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-31-na-bush31-story.html | At Walter Reed, Bush apologizes | At Walter Reed, Bush apologizes
President Bush inspected the much-criticized Walter Reed Army Medical Center on Friday and reiterated his promise to fix the bureaucratic snafus that led to shoddy living conditions and treatment delays for wounded soldiers -- problems that sparked a shake-up of top-ranking military offi... |
3b801c1ad8ed4b9dc53cb9c93cddcba6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-mar-31-sp-freenotes31-story.html | Dodgers’ ticket-price increase leads majors | Dodgers’ ticket-price increase leads majors
The Dodgers’ average ticket price increased 26.9% from last season, the largest such jump in the major leagues, according to an annual study conducted by Chicago-based Team Marketing Report.
The average ticket price, excluding premium seating, rose from $20.09 to $26.28, acco... |
c38d6df502d8c009615c7ce6a39922ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-01-me-maps1-story.html | Fantasy maps re-imagine public transit | Fantasy maps re-imagine public transit
Some transit advocates attend meetings. Others write letters. Some even picket outside subway stations.
Numan Parada makes maps.
At a time when a subway-to-the-sea along Wilshire Boulevard is still far from a reality, he is plotting it on a map anyway.
With the click of a mouse, h... |
1b74867c818343cea5cc402df681239c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-02-me-scene2-story.html | Protest draws an upbeat, determined crowd | Protest draws an upbeat, determined crowd
Long before Tuesday’s May Day marches ended in clashes between police and demonstrators in MacArthur park, organizers had already endured a disappointing day.
The overall turnout for the morning and afternoon demonstrations was a fraction of the number in rallies last year that... |
19001af8b876e418dfd23ddb0cde1357 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-03-me-lapd3-story.html | Chief vows full inquiry into violence | Chief vows full inquiry into violence
Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton on Wednesday expressed “grave concern” about his officers’ tactics in dispersing a crowd at an immigration rights rally, where police wielded batons and fired 240 “less-than-lethal” rounds at demonstrators and reporters.
Bratton promised ... |
d24a94a39f495fafda5a6b016947dbea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-03-me-media3-story.html | Police action against journalists assailed | Police action against journalists assailed
One day after several reporters and camera operators were injured while covering an altercation at an immigrant rights rally in MacArthur Park, news organizations condemned the Los Angeles Police Department for its use of batons and riot guns against members of the media, and ... |
b3cdface2852d45f3b744403910c4190 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-03-me-scott3-story.html | Gordon Scott, 80; bodybuilder and actor played Tarzan in 6 films | Gordon Scott, 80; bodybuilder and actor played Tarzan in 6 films
Gordon Scott, an actor known for his portrayal of jungle superman Tarzan in six films and later roles in westerns and sword-and-sandals gladiator movies, died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from several heart surgeries. He ... |
9ccc299cd7a0441db781ea7243bbb090 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-04-fi-amc4-story.html | AMC closes curtain on planned IPO | AMC closes curtain on planned IPO
Sometimes the show doesn’t go on.
AMC Entertainment Inc. yanked its planned $789-million initial public offering from the stock market Thursday rather than cut the proposed share price in response to tepid investor demand at its asking price, analysts said.
It was the largest IPO to be... |
3c7a8db46517c38e4bae64f1a2a50c8c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-04-oe-pearlstine4-story.html | Lusting after the WSJ | Lusting after the WSJ
‘WE’D RATHER sell at $60 a share. If you know any buyers, send them my way.” That was Dow Jones & Co. board member Roy Hammer, speaking to a Fortune magazine reporter two years ago, when stock in the Wall Street Journal’s publisher was trading in the mid-$30s.
Shortly after Hammer’s quote appeared... |
d725e6b2bb4f9b050147a6592744fc49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-05-fg-cocaine5-story.html | Antidrug efforts fall short | Antidrug efforts fall short
The United States and its Latin American allies are losing a major battle in the war on drugs, according to indicators that show cocaine prices dipped for most of 2006 and U.S. users were getting more bang for their buck.
Despite billions of dollars in U.S. antidrug spending and record seizu... |
3c57518ad15b88c36f42cf953dce941c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-05-fg-sarkozy5-story.html | Sarkozy offers French a recipe for change, but is it to their taste? | Sarkozy offers French a recipe for change, but is it to their taste?
For the last 30 years, French presidents have been grave, deliberate men with lofty airs who struggled to lead often weak and divided governments. The inability or unwillingness of those leaders to enact reforms reinforced the stereotype that the Fren... |
45da4af02db4cd6adcec359a5d4132d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-05-me-hilton5-story.html | Paris Hilton stunned by 45-day sentence | Paris Hilton stunned by 45-day sentence
Paris Hilton, her long blond hair tied back in a ponytail and oversized sunglasses shading her eyes, pulled up to L.A. traffic court near downtown Friday more than 15 minutes late for her probation violation hearing.
It was perhaps a moment when being prompt would have proved mor... |
b38d5f8fa3af64ca0612b2c8eda8ecd7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-06-ca-transformers6-story.html | He’s not toying around | He’s not toying around
THE “Transformers” concept is simple: In the blink of an eye, some innocuous thing -- a car, for instance -- morphs into an alien-whupping killing machine.
Director Michael Bay has undergone his own transformation, and while it’s hardly as dramatic as what happens in his new movie, his turnabout ... |
5177cd60183ac5cee4fd598a5b6a32db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-06-me-mayor6-story.html | Mayor promises action against abusive officers | Mayor promises action against abusive officers
In a show of solidarity with families confronted by police during Tuesday’s immigrant rally at MacArthur Park, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Cinco de Mayo audiences around Los Angeles on Saturday that action would be taken against officers found to have violated the law.... |
f6bf17dc11e36e7df6907df8567b25cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-06-me-then6-story.html | One of Pasadena’s architectural jewels gets a polishing | One of Pasadena’s architectural jewels gets a polishing
Pasadena City Hall can be characterized as a beaux-arts rendition of a Renaissance-style palace, topped like a wedding cake with a Spanish Baroque dome. And it’s back in the limelight after a $117-million renovation and seismic retrofit.
The landmark has appeared ... |
5a9fbce298c6fd71c8d699dee22e67c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-06-sp-adande6-story.html | This wake-up call came too late | This wake-up call came too late
If only these words had been said in March, when the news was an arrest, not a crash, a funeral and a toxicology report:
“I think it’s probably a wake-up call to everybody,” St. Louis Cardinals General Manager Walt Jocketty said at a news conference Friday. “The one thing they have to un... |
6d6e2d3f88c474538a92099d6aa55efc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-07-fg-confucius7-story.html | She makes Confucius cool again | She makes Confucius cool again
CONFUCIUS famously considered a good woman to be an illiterate woman. The ancient sage might want to eat his words: More than 2 1/2 millenniums after his death, he’s back in vogue, thanks in no small part to a Chinese woman with a PhD.
Confucius, meet Yu Dan.
But make it quick. The profes... |
1197bf416afe6c628c98febc717b7fd2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-07-fg-france7-story.html | France elects U.S. ally Sarkozy | France elects U.S. ally Sarkozy
Nicolas Sarkozy, an immigrant’s son promising to revitalize France, won a comfortable victory Sunday in a presidential election seen as a mandate for his bold plans to enact free-market reforms, reassert influence abroad and strengthen ties to the United States.
Center-right candidate Sa... |
da0ef40a2d9c37f3c7f1ff7baa40d636 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-08-fi-overcharge8-story.html | Hospitals’ billing of uninsured questioned | Hospitals’ billing of uninsured questioned
If you’re one of the growing number of Americans without health insurance, you are billed top dollar for hospital care.
Now, for the first time, a study purports to show just how costly that is -- although hospital groups immediately took issue with the findings.
Uninsured pat... |
615a5c0ba546202a01701fc923e6b133 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-08-me-dry8-story.html | Drought a drain on flora, fauna | Drought a drain on flora, fauna
Around this time each year, thousands make the pilgrimage to the Antelope Valley to see California poppies shining in the fields around Anne Aldrich’s Lancaster home.
“There are fields of orange, just like in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ when you first spot the Emerald City,” Aldrich said.
But not... |
eb4aaca2e3f54c6aadc0072260f5fdab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-08-na-fda8-story.html | Senate blocks effort to allow drug imports | Senate blocks effort to allow drug imports
The Senate sidetracked a controversial amendment Monday that would have let Americans buy prescription medication from foreign suppliers, a move that cleared the way for action on an overhaul of the government’s drug safety system.
The drug import amendment, which was tacked o... |
48098ae305b51389c604b7d6d948d106 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-08-na-wolfowitz8-story.html | Pressure grows on Wolfowitz | Pressure grows on Wolfowitz
A special committee of the World Bank’s governing board increased pressure on President Paul D. Wolfowitz to resign Monday, concluding that he went too far in arranging a job and pay raises for his companion.
The seven-member committee did not make its report public, but a bank official with... |
73df35d1df81c4b463d6fb6e32a1492a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-09-fg-herod9-story.html | Driven to find a king’s tomb | Driven to find a king’s tomb
For more than three decades, Israeli archeologist Ehud Netzer scraped at the ancient man-made hillock. He searched the top. He dug at the bottom. Finally Netzer carved into the midsection and there, he says, found his prize: the grave of Herod the Great.
The evidence, in the form of shards ... |
483a0fdbad515b892eb8c6e9330c4d90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-09-me-deport9-story.html | U.S. officials allegedly drugged 2 deportees | U.S. officials allegedly drugged 2 deportees
U.S. immigration officials sedated two foreign nationals against their will during failed attempts to deport them in Los Angeles, the men and their attorneys said Tuesday.
Indonesian immigrant Raymond Soeoth, 38, who was appealing his case for political asylum, was sedated w... |
0e3eb7bdd8aacdfd8f5c2ed9a692fbda | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-09-me-lethal9-story.html | Timeline on death chamber explained | Timeline on death chamber explained
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s staff was aware that a new death chamber was under construction at San Quentin State Prison well before he ordered a halt to the project last month, a corrections official said Tuesday.
Documents released at a state Senate committee hearing showed that co... |
3daf1b78b69fa87865ab9a261a1a48bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-10-me-newfire10-story.html | Precision nighttime flying was crucial to halting fire | Precision nighttime flying was crucial to halting fire
Hour after hour, Scott Bowman flew into smoke and darkness, piloting his Fire One helicopter over towering flames, then swooping in low as a gull to bombard them with salvos of water.
The daring nighttime work of Bowman and his fellow Los Angeles Fire Department pi... |
0c456319adaaba09ecb1c1bc9324ebfa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-11-fi-drug11-story.html | Firm admits deceit about painkiller | Firm admits deceit about painkiller
The maker of the painkiller OxyContin and three of the company’s top current and former executives will pay $634.5 million in fines after pleading guilty Thursday to charges that they misled the public about the drug.
A Justice Department spokeswoman said it was one of the largest fi... |
613c61b1cfe59bc3f2dbcbe566292ec0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-11-me-fire11-story.html | With fire out, officials begin planning Griffith Park repairs | With fire out, officials begin planning Griffith Park repairs
Los Angeles officials today will unveil a $50-million emergency repair campaign for a large swath of Griffith Park ravaged by this week’s brush fire.
Park rangers said they want to immediately begin replanting and reseeding the burned hillsides and canyons, ... |
6a698b449bb77e88b3757056e4487283 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-fg-bombings12-story.html | 23 killed in bombings on 2 bridges | 23 killed in bombings on 2 bridges
Within hours of Friday prayer services’ end, two suicide car bombers struck checkpoints at Baghdad bridges in quick succession, killing 23 Iraqis, injuring 57 and crippling the key passageways from the capital to the country’s south. Among those killed were 10 Iraqi police officers an... |
7ee4b603fd026b3c3499ba234f80d379 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-12-fg-egypt12-story.html | Plan for church sparks attack in Egyptian village | Plan for church sparks attack in Egyptian village
A group of Muslim men, angered by plans to enlarge a Coptic church, battled with Christians after Friday prayers, setting fire to several buildings and injuring at least 11 people, officials and witnesses said.
Attackers roamed through the village of Bamha, about 15 mil... |
f7769f72139ec5c86e70b2b9dc0c744b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-13-bk-reynolds13-story.html | Inner dimensions | Inner dimensions
RON CARLSON is waiting for the cable guy. It’s been more than a week now and he’s trying a cowboy tactic, quietly saying exactly when he’ll be available -- something like staring a bull in the eyes to mesmerize it. Four months in Southern California and he’s become the cable-guy whisperer.
Carlson’s ho... |
711b41fb3dd8858360163511e127f2df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-13-ca-apatow13-story.html | The king of Geeks | The king of Geeks
AS an 11-year-old growing up on Long Island, Judd Apatow began each week by studying the newspaper’s TV section and highlighting all talk show guests of Mike Douglas, Dinah Shore and company. He spent afternoons holed up in his room watching TV, hanging out in his head with Charles Nelson Reilly. “I c... |
8cbac25c56f8282cebc929d3ed9ba71f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-13-fi-perfin13-story.html | How investors can help fight the Darfur genocide | How investors can help fight the Darfur genocide
Adam Sterling wants individual investors to know that they are a powerful force -- and they can use that power to help stop genocide halfway across the world in the Sudanese region of Darfur.
If American investors pull their money from companies that fund the Sudanese go... |
f4148a12fb8072f6b98fcbf1fa35a34b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-14-fg-iraq14-story.html | Iraqi militants claim to hold U.S. soldiers | Iraqi militants claim to hold U.S. soldiers
A militant group tied to Al Qaeda claimed Sunday to be holding three American soldiers missing since an ambush that left four U.S. troops and an Iraqi interpreter dead.
Across Iraq, bombs, mortar shells and gunfire killed more than 50 people Sunday, including 16 in a Baghdad ... |
cba914bd83a517a2e58a557d5dcbceab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-14-fi-sony14-story.html | In consoles, the game isn’t going Sony’s way | In consoles, the game isn’t going Sony’s way
Joel Downs is the type of video game buff that Sony Corp. expected to fall for the PlayStation 3. The 32-year-old Culver City entrepreneur is tech savvy, loves his PlayStation 2 and has the money to afford an upgrade.
But Downs is holding out.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Jun. ... |
97abfd7b5a065dd8f13f63acaaf547bb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-14-me-rbriefs14.1-story.html | Heat exhaustion hits 2 Disneyland performers | Heat exhaustion hits 2 Disneyland performers
Two girls in a youth music group that was performing at Disneyland’s Magic Music Days were hospitalized Sunday for heat exhaustion, fire officials said.
Authorities were called to the park about 11:45 a.m. after the group, consisting of about a dozen 13- and 14-year-old girl... |
1f91153e614b10927b8fa7cd9f065fd9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-15-fi-dowjones15-story.html | Dow Jones bid is defended by Murdoch | Dow Jones bid is defended by Murdoch
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch continued to spar Monday with foes of his proposed takeover of Dow Jones & Co. who have contended that he would compromise the journalistic integrity of the Wall Street Journal.
In a letter to members of the Bancroft family, which controls Journal ... |
b3933871308776f7c1b8603f85880681 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-16-me-lethal16-story.html | New execution protocol proposed | New execution protocol proposed
Aiming to end a court-imposed moratorium on capital punishment in California, the Schwarzenegger administration Tuesday proposed new procedures to execute inmates by lethal injection, saying the changes “will result in the dignified end of life” for condemned inmates.
The state, in paper... |
4993643044f576a60adcd96c70852db4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-17-fg-mexarmy17-story.html | Mexico takes a risk in drug war | Mexico takes a risk in drug war
Flying low over the colonial City Hall, the helicopters of the Mexican army are supposed to make people feel safe. But to many here, they are simply a reminder of the war unfolding around them.
The police chief was wounded in an ambush Tuesday and resigned Wednesday, the second top law-e... |
059d858d106052bac37f867bc601027d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-18-me-drivein18-story.html | Drive-in films bounce back, literally | Drive-in films bounce back, literally
After a 10-year intermission, drive-in movies are returning to Orange County, courtesy of an inflatable silver screen.
Tonight in Costa Mesa, a 300-car theater -- and unofficial backseat romance research center -- will flicker to life in a parking lot at the Orange County Fairgroun... |
bdc3fc66d212981a1285c8d95b0ce49d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-19-fg-journalists19-story.html | 2 ABC journalists killed in Baghdad | 2 ABC journalists killed in Baghdad
Two Iraqi journalists working for ABC News were captured by gunmen and executed in Baghdad, sending shockwaves through a media corps that has lost dozens of lives in the conflict.
Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, 33, and soundman Saif Laith Yousuf were about 100 yards from the home of one... |
e578a659f8cf79c8eb92df448aa24ca3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-19-le-saturday19.4-story.html | What’s at stake in toll road fight | What’s at stake in toll road fight
Re “Setback for toll road extension,” May 11
Reps. Susan Davis (D-San Diego) and Loretta Sanchez (D-Santa Ana) got it right. The Transportation Corridor Agencies got special exemptions from state laws that protect our parks and environment; laws that every other developer and agency h... |
d0dfc232547e88b4e582b62d0cadd8b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-19-na-immig19-story.html | The bill’s authors will haggle over how stiff punishments should be for illegal immigrants. | The bill’s authors will haggle over how stiff punishments should be for illegal immigrants.
The ambitious proposal to revamp the U.S. immigration system negotiated by the White House and key senators will confront a critical question next week: How tough does it have to be on illegal immigrants to pass?
As the Senate c... |
8a4eece6e78e7ccd19264b17be355898 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-fi-petruno20-story.html | As private equity deals grow, so does public anxiety | As private equity deals grow, so does public anxiety
IN America, financial success is supposed to be admired, not held in contempt.
Unless, of course, you make your money in a way that is distasteful or downright illegal.
Private equity investment firms, which are buying up companies worldwide at a heady pace, haven’t ... |
991f3988fb098f55e3d93b60673bac15 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-schickel20-story.html | Not everybody’s a critic | Not everybody’s a critic
THE MOST grating words I’ve read in a newspaper recently were in a New York Times report on the shrinkage of book reviewing in many of the nation’s leading newspapers.
The piece suggested that this might not be an entirely bad thing. Into the breach, it argued, will charge the bloggers, one of ... |
56e950098d82a4e5af92788fb15cafbe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-tm-thebiggulp20-story.html | THE BIG GULP | THE BIG GULP
My name is David. And I drink. A lot. Every day. In fact, the first thing I do when I stumble out of bed is pour myself a tall one. I usually finish it while standing at the dining room table looking at the sports headlines. Then I plop a second one next to the computer in my home office while I check my e... |
fdbb78af2516a868e2164d05307a3245 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-21-et-cannesweitz21-story.html | New Line launch has a familiar ring | New Line launch has a familiar ring
There’s no denying that Hollywood worships sequels. New Line Cinema has taken the love affair one step further: It’s cloning not a movie, but a movie launch.
For the second time in six years, the studio has come to the Cannes Film Festival with a few minutes of an unfinished film in ... |
4e8cc74479cdf2f7810ce463966f6e8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-21-et-channel21-story.html | It’s a 30-year tuneup for ‘Bionic Woman’ | It’s a 30-year tuneup for ‘Bionic Woman’
OF all the new fall series unveiled by the broadcast networks last week in New York, the title that got the most attention was familiar to anyone who trod grade-school corridors between, say, the Watergate hearings and the Tehran hostage crisis.
Some of today’s most serious-mind... |
41a93ab8297b0f50178b394f02e141f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-22-sci-avandia22-story.html | Diabetes drug alert issued | Diabetes drug alert issued
A widely prescribed drug to treat Type 2 diabetes substantially increases the risk of heart attacks and death from cardiovascular disease, according to a study released today that critics say questions the government’s ability to monitor drug safety.
Patients who took Avandia to reduce their ... |
c71d104eff5b55f2a5c3d21edc52278b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-23-na-goodling23-story.html | Justice aide took lead to replace prosecutor | Justice aide took lead to replace prosecutor
Last fall, after Debra Wong Yang announced that she was leaving her job as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, Monica M. Goodling went to work to find a replacement.
Goodling, then the Justice Department’s liaison with the White House, helped organize a series of interviews at the... |
5950336e5f4fdad7c810fe6e178eddea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-24-fg-pope24-story.html | Pope acknowledges colonial abuses | Pope acknowledges colonial abuses
Confronted with continued anger in Latin America, Pope Benedict XVI on Wednesday acknowledged that the Christian colonization of Indian populations was not as rosy as he portrayed in a major speech earlier this month in Brazil.
The pope did not apologize, as some indigenous and Latin A... |
588a45e6abc7c4515ccec2025e6ed4bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-24-na-danger24-story.html | Strike at nuclear site stirs concerns | Strike at nuclear site stirs concerns
The Energy Department, facing concerns that a fractious strike by unionized guards is leaving a nuclear weapons plant in Texas vulnerable to a terrorist attack, is dispatching its top security official to conduct an urgent assessment at the site, officials said Wednesday.
The strik... |
c70cf689253ca5a412c36f74ccc102f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-24-na-immig24-story.html | Senate gets tougher on the border | Senate gets tougher on the border
After a brief but tense standoff, the Senate on Wednesday bolstered the security provisions in a controversial immigration bill after a Republican senator charged that it failed to do enough to stop illegal immigrants from crossing the southern border.
The unexpected challenge by Sen. ... |
b7fc69bc00cd46939ef745dea7a46b1e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-25-et-idol25-story.html | TiVo users ‘Idol’s’ big loser | TiVo users ‘Idol’s’ big loser
The results are in on “American Idol,” and the Fox juggernaut’s ratings are down significantly from its finale last year. According to Nielsen Media Research’s national numbers, Wednesday’s “Idol” drew an audience of 30.7 million. While that is certainly hefty, last year 36.4 million peopl... |
e41ba35193514cfa12cfa382b2ac3867 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-25-fg-mexico25-story.html | Mexico to boost phone and e-mail taps with U.S. aid | Mexico to boost phone and e-mail taps with U.S. aid
Mexico is expanding its ability to tap telephone calls and e-mail using money from the U.S. government, a move that underlines how the country’s conservative government is increasingly willing to cooperate with the United States on law enforcement.
The expansion comes... |
74835059693a2da114d32cc7d92e1950 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-26-fg-confessions26-story.html | Court case may shine light on Japan’s interrogations | Court case may shine light on Japan’s interrogations
For the first time, a DVD recording of a suspect confessing his crime to police was admitted as evidence in a Japanese court Friday, a move that could lead to stricter checks on the lengthy, secret police interrogations that defense lawyers say result in pressure on ... |
074ff155bc527e3c8f73c6384a22581a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-26-fi-men26-story.html | Study: Men’s earnings shrink | Study: Men’s earnings shrink
American men in their 30s earn less than their fathers’ generation did at the same age, potentially reversing longtime assumptions that each successive generation will be better off than their predecessors, according to a study released Friday.
Family incomes of thirtysomething men have con... |
b898fd6c12ce47a0c660ea78013ce93e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-27-bk-kellogg27-story.html | Oblivion | Oblivion
DESPITE the ebullience of its title, the stories of “Yes, Yes, Cherries” eddy around forlorn characters and their thwarted desires. The Angelenos in Mary Otis’ debut collection are the grandchildren of Nathanael West’s mob, anger and violence dissipated, left empty, bewildered. But where West looked away with ... |
3f9b2be6a0c715b090d0b299a09f5182 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-28-0e-ferguson28-story.html | Reviving the evil empire | Reviving the evil empire
THERE IS NO such thing as the future. There are only futures, plural. Historians are supposed to confine themselves to the study of the past, but by drawing analogies between yesterday and today, they can sometimes suggest plausible tomorrows.
Seven years ago, the economist Brigitte Granville a... |
33f618f5218cc6f4bc3d74ea77779567 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-28-fi-prices28-story.html | Doctors’ list puts a price on care | Doctors’ list puts a price on care
California’s largest private physician practice has become one of the first doctor groups in the nation, and almost certainly the largest, to make prices for its medical procedures widely available to consumers.
The move by Torrance-based HealthCare Partners Medical Group, which serve... |
f97fad251319e26d98c09c5d8f701d94 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-28-na-webterror28-story.html | Alabama terror website is pulled amid outcry | Alabama terror website is pulled amid outcry
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a website it operated that included gay-rights and antiwar organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.
The website identified different types of terrorists and included a list of groups it sugges... |
e4175c8e0094abf674c0e17089d109b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-29-ed-starwars29-story.html | ‘The Force’ and you | ‘The Force’ and you
DEVOTEES OF THE six “Star Wars” films have churned out an epic number of tributes and parodies. Now, after years of warily eyeing fan filmmakers, Lucasfilm is trying to draw them in -- not to the dark side, but to its website.
The studio has made about 250 clips available on StarWars.com, inviting v... |
ab8377a11ac4864ad99a07a069006cf5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-29-et-nighy29-story.html | His special kinship with freaks of nature | His special kinship with freaks of nature
To play Davy Jones, the heartless captain of the ghostly Flying Dutchman who appears in the second and third films of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” trilogy, Bill Nighy did not have to spend hours in the makeup trailer, attaching waving tentacles to his face or claws to his han... |
e0e1833fc1f6621d2b2e2679cd5ef40c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-29-fg-usiraq29-story.html | Goals for Iraq still not in reach | Goals for Iraq still not in reach
U.S. military leaders in Iraq are increasingly convinced that most of the broad political goals President Bush laid out early this year in his announcement of a troop buildup will not be met this summer and are seeking ways to redefine success.
In September, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus... |
9cdef8e2de776795eb52c80eab33dc10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-29-fg-ventv29-story.html | In Venezuela, popular TV station goes dark | In Venezuela, popular TV station goes dark
Venezuelan folk music, a Cuban documentary and heavy doses of government propaganda glorifying “21st century socialism” highlighted the first day of a new television channel that on Monday took over airspace of this nation’s oldest and most popular station, a frequent critic o... |
d169b1745139ae585debf153805da816 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-29-me-carnegie29-story.html | Finding a home in music | Finding a home in music
THREE Decembers ago, middle school band teacher Ron Wakefield brought his 35-member orchestra to a crowded homeless shelter in Santa Ana. They performed a Christmas concert on a concrete slab in the backyard where some of the families slept.
Tiffany Zoller, a skinny girl with stick-straight blon... |
9ae38a4d94e569cc20bddbd213c8f319 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-30-fg-diyala30-story.html | U.S. toll climbs as battles shift to new Iraq ‘hotspot’ | U.S. toll climbs as battles shift to new Iraq ‘hotspot’
Six U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing attack and two more in a helicopter crash in Diyala, the U.S. military announced Tuesday, as the eastern Iraqi province supplanted the notorious Al Anbar region as the most dangerous area outside the capital.
Tho... |
201b5de376015e2111c7641504ebb9e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-30-fg-venez30-story.html | Venezuela’s last opposition station on notice | Venezuela’s last opposition station on notice
As tens of thousands of people marched here Tuesday in protest of President Hugo Chavez’s closure of opposition television station RCTV, the leftist leader called the news channel Globovision an enemy of the state.
The protests were in their fourth consecutive day, but stat... |
2db055ee70ca7eef10efd1d64b3c3238 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-30-fi-cbs30-story.html | CBS to buy social network | CBS to buy social network
CBS Corp. is buying a popular social-networking website organized around musical tastes for $280 million, combining a traditional broadcast giant with an early leader in online radio.
CBS is expected to announce today that it has acquired London-based Last.fm, which claims more than 15 million... |
8bab03e48b7cfb7a0945cc53104b7da6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-30-me-whales30-story.html | Wayward whales cruise into S.F. Bay | Wayward whales cruise into S.F. Bay
After a wandering, two-week voyage up the Sacramento River, a pair of humpback whales steamed purposefully into San Francisco Bay on Tuesday in what experts hoped would be a last dash to the ocean.
The pair, now recovering from wounds that were probably caused by a ship’s propeller a... |
e62e6183fa5e8468b514f71e26dc6643 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-fg-abuse31-story.html | Marine recalls scene of Haditha killings | Marine recalls scene of Haditha killings
A Marine lieutenant testified Wednesday that he had never considered that Marines might have done anything wrong in killing 24 people in the Iraqi town of Haditha, even as he found the bodies of two women and six children huddled on a bed.
Lt. Max Frank, who had been ordered to ... |
74161712fd4268ec1f5cac5a1fe1c31b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-fg-bushiraq31-story.html | White House sees long-term role for U.S. forces in Iraq | White House sees long-term role for U.S. forces in Iraq
President Bush would like to see the U.S. military provide long-term stability in Iraq as it has in South Korea, where thousands of American troops have been based for more than half a century, the White House said Wednesday.
Tony Snow, the White House press secre... |
39095ff3e0aa4aa661cd337808304cc6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-me-super31-story.html | More bad news for troubled district | More bad news for troubled district
The man selected to become superintendent of the troubled San Juan Capistrano Unified School District has backed out of the deal, officials said Wednesday.
Dennis M. Smith, who had been expected to assume his duties July 1, said in a letter to the district’s board that he had reconsi... |
db838318b48c269bbe06f8a92719f8e0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-me-uci31-story.html | UC Irvine chancellor calls harsh speech free speech | UC Irvine chancellor calls harsh speech free speech
Facing a polite but skeptical Jewish audience, UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake walked a tightrope Wednesday as he tried to explain that campus events seen by some as anti-Semitic are actually expressions of constitutionally protected free speech.
Drake met with ... |
6fd4e87ce7af139322f67974be292670 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-oe-boot31-story.html | Fire the incompetents, find the Pattons | Fire the incompetents, find the Pattons
THE NAVY IS ON a tear. Last week, for the sixth time in six weeks, a skipper was relieved of command. The latest to get the sack was Cmdr. E.J. McClure of the guided missile destroyer Arleigh Burke, which had a “soft grounding” while heading back to port in the well-charted water... |
4654cb44143c33e904068d60706b1150 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-31-sp-adande31-story.html | He doesn’t wait two years to opt out of his L.A. deal | He doesn’t wait two years to opt out of his L.A. deal
Looks like I’m leaving The Times at the right moment. If Kobe Bryant goes away, he’ll take most of the good column material with him.
Bryant always dominated the news, so it’s appropriate that he takes over my farewell column as well. And in a way it fits in with th... |
65993c62b7bb4bea754de8c707e55a92 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-et-bookit1-story.html | BOOKIT | BOOKIT
The deal
Actress Jessica Biel options the film rights to Edgar-nominated writer Megan Abbott’s “Die a Little,” a Los Angeles noir novel set in the 1950s with an intriguing character twist.
The players
Biel (recently in “I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry”) and her producing partner, Michelle Purple, sign an opt... |
9d473ab2c05ff828d67e700d7688d688 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-fg-violence1-story.html | Iraqi civilian deaths plunge in last 60 days | Iraqi civilian deaths plunge in last 60 days
Iraq’s civilian body count in October was less than half that at its height in January, reflecting both the tactical successes of this year’s U.S. troop buildup and the lasting impact of waves of sectarian death squad killings, car bombings and neighborhood purges.
October a... |
f20e61ad1844e4404b0e69d8ada5bd63 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-fi-strike1-story.html | Studios, writers quit talks at deadline; strike looms | Studios, writers quit talks at deadline; strike looms
It’s a script many had hoped would not be written. Hollywood’s film and TV scribes and their employers failed to reach an agreement before their contract expired at midnight Wednesday, setting the stage for a possible showdown that could ripple across the streets of... |
22a4114a0f01e08746a299220df3ba63 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-me-forsberg1-story.html | Randall Forsberg, 64; founder of nuclear freeze movement in ‘80s | Randall Forsberg, 64; founder of nuclear freeze movement in ‘80s
Randall Forsberg, who founded the nuclear freeze movement of the early 1980s and wrote its manifesto, died Oct. 19 of endometrial cancer at a New York City hospital. She was 64.
An arms control expert and political science professor at City College of New... |
31ed6f6f4e8a772b6abafc1362da8e50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-na-ufo1-story.html | A side trip to Roswell on the road to the White House | A side trip to Roswell on the road to the White House
Presidential candidates have flip-flopped on taxes, abortion, gun control and the war. But rarely has one flip-flopped on flying saucers.
Until now.
In September, a spokeswoman for Dennis J. Kucinich dismissed a report emanating from a Washington conference about UF... |
7e2940ce6a64e4d0960fc855a97c8d6f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-01-oe-london1-story.html | Why I use animals in my research | Why I use animals in my research
For years, I have watched with growing concern as my UCLA colleagues have been subjected to increasing harassment, violence and threats by animal rights extremists. In the last 15 months, these attempts at intimidation have included the placement of a Molotov cocktail-type device at a c... |
ed3f6e48a62a7f9fe636843046eade68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-03-fi-groceries3-story.html | Natural selection among grocers | Natural selection among grocers
After shopping at conventional stores for decades, Patricia Gonzales has switched to “natural” and organic food.
The Pasadena grandmother worries about serving her family anything genetically modified or grown with chemicals, pesticides and hormones.
“I don’t shop at Ralphs or Vons anymo... |
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