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b7c605e31c676450f15c7cb979ba8a21 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-03-na-transit3-story.html | Chicago’s transit budget at a crossroads | Chicago’s transit budget at a crossroads
For more than a decade, Keith Williams has relied on the city’s pervasive network of buses, elevated trains and commuter rail lines to get downtown for work, attend school on the south side and shop at the sprawling malls in the northern suburb of Skokie.
But now, Williams is co... |
a47080f6564de0d75363ac51161e2c21 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-04-bk-rayner4-story.html | Two true loves | Two true loves
“I used to like this town. A long time ago. There were trees along Wilshire Boulevard. Beverly Hills was a country town. Westwood was bare hills and lots offering at eleven hundred dollars and no takers. Hollywood was a bunch of frame houses on the inter-urban line,” Raymond Chandler wrote, in the voice ... |
7d3e15bd5dcd91d4ebe62c234e285e8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-04-ca-swank4-story.html | Showing a lighter side | Showing a lighter side
While Hilary Swank was making the inspirational drama “Freedom Writers” with writer-director Richard LaGravenese, he told her that for her next film, “I want you to do something lighter and funny and girlie. You are such a girl, and you are so funny.” ¶ Despite having won best actress Oscars for ... |
60b3c4345550294525c38d77f168980d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-05-ft-goldmines5-story.html | Mines deepen as gold climbs | Mines deepen as gold climbs
South Africa’s gold companies, already mining at the world’s deepest depths, are looking to plumb even deeper veins in a new gold rush spurred by record prices.
The deeper miners go, the richer the ore being uncovered. The price in dangers, though, includes rockfalls, poisonous gas explosion... |
20e703345ea6f533f0b7a75c850cbce0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-05-he-musictherapy5-story.html | Music soothes and awes -- and may help us heal | Music soothes and awes -- and may help us heal
Dan Ellsey, 33, was sitting in his wheelchair in a soulless room at Tewksbury Hospital in Massachusetts, his virtually useless arms and weak torso strapped to the chair for safety.
As we were introduced, he arched his back, grinned broadly and aimed the power of his dark b... |
a3f75dc68d0e488205c92e2785fa5977 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-06-fg-pakistan6-story.html | Arrests mount in Pakistan turmoil | Arrests mount in Pakistan turmoil
Police wielded clubs and fired tear gas as they battled protesting lawyers in Pakistan’s major cities Monday, and the number of opposition politicians, attorneys and human rights activists arrested in a nationwide sweep climbed into the thousands.
The most serious clash took place in t... |
503a5268b5a74ea027815c9e327c001e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-06-me-budget6-story.html | Gov. orders plan for 10% budget cuts | Gov. orders plan for 10% budget cuts
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday ordered all state departments to draft plans for deep spending cuts after receiving word that California’s budget is plunging further into the red -- largely because of the troubled housing market.
State officials have warned the governor that th... |
4d79211f84aace09bbcc29606b279829 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-06-me-runover6-story.html | Car rams crowd, killing woman | Car rams crowd, killing woman
A brawl among about 30 women near a busy South Los Angeles intersection turned deadly Monday when a woman plowed her car into the crowd, killing a woman who was eight months pregnant, authorities said.
Los Angeles police said that at least two other women were hurt, one critically, when th... |
1e95a8db73227bc52983cfe0acdb9b32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-07-en-goldstein7-story.html | FOR HIS CONSIDERATION | FOR HIS CONSIDERATION
JOHN LASSETER is in a classic no-win position. The chief creative officer at both Pixar and the Disney animation group is one of the most influential filmmakers of our era, both as a director (most recently of “Cars”) and as the guiding force behind Pixar’s unprecedented string of creative and com... |
cc242609850f187a261214eee002fd9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-07-et-bookdeal7-story.html | Publishing world braces | Publishing world braces
NEW YORK -- If the writers strike continues for a long period, some book agents fear that many option deals will be nixed, causing major disruptions in the business. Others worry that the market for new literary materials will dry up altogether, as the major studios dig in for the long haul.
The... |
ee05c04a1ea9f5ec09a495059849c969 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-07-fo-muffins7-story.html | For discerning palates | For discerning palates
Muffins are like a baker’s delicious shorthand. Mixed in minutes, baked in about the time it takes to make a pot of coffee, the rows of little cakes can come out of the oven and straight to the breakfast table. If only they were as good for you as they are good to eat, they’d be pretty nearly the... |
4ecc6c04773abbece819be50f1e74801 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-fg-pakchat8-story.html | Amid upheaval, Pakistanis find a haven on the Internet | Amid upheaval, Pakistanis find a haven on the Internet
A blogger alerts fellow students to an imminent campus demonstration. A chat room user offers up a poignant Urdu-language poem. Another message has more practical advice: a homemade tear-gas remedy.
In the days since President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emerg... |
586389a0dd890f8ea36251cd509eb01d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-giuliani8-story.html | Giuliani doesn’t sugarcoat his tough-guy persona | Giuliani doesn’t sugarcoat his tough-guy persona
Next to a crackling fire in a picturesque mountain lodge, in the wooded and lightly populated north country, Rudolph W. Giuliani met some of the people who might help him become the next president.
What he gave them was a dose of New York.
When one woman fretted that a l... |
62d3f7727be19b8ea2677d6ce22d8787 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-paul8-story.html | Long-shot Paul basks in his online fundraising coup | Long-shot Paul basks in his online fundraising coup
He may be pushed to the edge of the stage, literally and figuratively, when the candidates debate. He languishes in the low single digits in polls.
But Rep. Ron Paul is getting his moment in the sun in his long-shot bid for the Republican presidential nomination after... |
8c2c789e6d380835459e9a84c369dbc1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-reagan8-story.html | Reagan library items likely lost or pilfered | Reagan library items likely lost or pilfered
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library is unable to find or account for tens of thousands of valuable mementos of Reagan’s White House years because a “near universal” security breakdown left the artifacts vulnerable to pilfering by insiders, an audit by the National Archive... |
6aff8f12c12258fecd1c73751079817d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-robertson8-story.html | Pat Robertson throws support to Giuliani | Pat Robertson throws support to Giuliani
Republican presidential candidate Rudolph W. Giuliani on Wednesday received the endorsement of televangelist Pat Robertson, who said the former New York mayor’s promises to appoint conservative judges and protect Americans “from the blood lust of Islamic terrorists” should trump... |
54faa28ece7460560dae3d8c701bf90e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-na-sarkozy8-story.html | Bush, Sarkozy stand on common ground | Bush, Sarkozy stand on common ground
President Bush and French President Nicolas Sarkozy saluted the thaw in the French-American relationship on Wednesday, finding common ground on Afghanistan and Iran -- two of the most troublesome foreign-policy challenges -- and suggesting they even agreed on Iraq, the bete noire of... |
b953c7abda0c746b7b318afd5de31bf6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-08-sp-nhl8-story.html | Modano sets scoring mark in Dallas’ victory | Modano sets scoring mark in Dallas’ victory
Dallas center Mike Modano broke Phil Housley’s NHL record for career points by an American-born player with two quick goals in the opening minutes of the Stars’ 3-1 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Wednesday night at San Jose.
Modano’s back-to-back goals, including a short... |
a6249d7ee455b4d7d9b69a9ee98f809f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-et-young9-story.html | Monster task is a struggle | Monster task is a struggle
NEW YORK -- There’s one moment in Mel Brooks’ 1974 movie “Young Frankenstein” that seemed destined to have a life on the stage. It’s the hilarious tap-dance number in which Gene Wilder, playing the amiably neurotic Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (pronounced “Fronken-steen”), coaxes his monster in... |
7cd3c6edfda69ea7aa1e0ee3cc3909e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fg-overtures9-story.html | In peace bid, Karzai opens up to Taliban | In peace bid, Karzai opens up to Taliban
After nearly two years of increased bloodshed, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reaching out to Taliban militants, who have been waging battle against his government, in a renewed push for a political settlement to a conflict that increasingly seems unwinnable militarily, analys... |
c186bb89a4cad4847c37bf9e0c4279eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fi-econ9-story.html | Fed chief fails to calm jittery stock markets | Fed chief fails to calm jittery stock markets
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke failed Thursday either to calm pessimists’ fears or to raise optimists’ hopes about the economy -- leading to the second straight day of losses on Wall Street.
In lengthy congressional testimony, Bernanke tried to deliver a balanced ... |
e638df5da94aff2c22d29596042ae3b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-me-bay9-story.html | Oil oozes in S.F. Bay after ship hits bridge | Oil oozes in S.F. Bay after ship hits bridge
SACRAMENTO -- Crews were racing Thursday to mop up 58,000 gallons of fuel that spilled after a cargo ship bumped into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
Spread by the tides, the fuel slick from Wednesday’s accident shut down several beaches and threatened shorebirds, seal... |
9d61ea74e051c398e7b4549e8f461153 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-me-lapd9-story.html | LAPD to build data on Muslim areas | LAPD to build data on Muslim areas
An extensive mapping program launched by the LAPD’s anti-terrorism bureau to identify Muslim enclaves across the city sparked outrage Thursday from some Islamic groups and civil libertarians, who denounced the effort as an exercise in racial and religious profiling.
Los Angeles Police... |
c970f62db21545d182127075d52a5c57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-na-campaign9-story.html | If it is the economy, GOP hopefuls may be in trouble | If it is the economy, GOP hopefuls may be in trouble
Republican strategists are beginning to fear that a deteriorating economy will pose serious obstacles for their party’s presidential candidates, who may ultimately have to answer for rising gas prices and a slumping housing market.
For most of the year, the campaign ... |
49599884cb9a55d896037b2b4e5f9a15 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-na-mukasey9-story.html | Mukasey confirmed as attorney general | Mukasey confirmed as attorney general
The Senate voted Thursday night to confirm the nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general, despite often emotional opposition from Democrats who said his refusal to disavow a controversial interrogation method made him an unsuitable leader for the U.S. Justice Department.... |
efcd9ec8414372776171b3b3b77392ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-10-et-rutten10-story.html | Court case may strain free speech | Court case may strain free speech
All but unnoticed by most of the news media, a criminal case working its way to trial in a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Va., could create perilous new restrictions on both Americans’ political speech and the right of their free press to report national security issues.
The constitu... |
c429bbbbc80c36f0cb1224cef63d6706 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-10-fi-botnet10-story.html | Security consultant admits to hijacking PCs to use in crimes | Security consultant admits to hijacking PCs to use in crimes
A Los Angeles man entrusted with making personal computers safer has admitted to hacking into them to create a rogue network of as many as a quarter-million PCs, which he used to steal money and identities.
Federal prosecutors Friday said that John Kenneth Sc... |
8cefc30a3904941416c1fcd60119a543 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-10-fi-haroldhay10-story.html | A pioneer refuses to fade away His passion for solar still burns | A pioneer refuses to fade away His passion for solar still burns
Harold Hay wants to help the world save itself, but he’s running out of time.
Forty years ago, Hay invented a simple, inexpensive way to heat and cool a home using the sun’s rays, but without the panels and wiring that come with conventional solar energy ... |
12ce79ee9e586453a29bb9e4db1a704b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-10-me-parents10-story.html | Discord roils L.A. Unified parent panel | Discord roils L.A. Unified parent panel
For months, parents on a Los Angeles Unified School District advisory council have disagreed over whether their meetings should be conducted in Spanish or English. Such arguments became so abusive that district officials canceled meetings for two months and brought in dispute-res... |
2f0afb1319e5b2f0f71b8259a548183a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-10-na-kerik10-story.html | Indictment offers a look at Giuliani’s inner circle | Indictment offers a look at Giuliani’s inner circle
Being a top aide to New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani allegedly brought a lot of perks to Bernard Kerik -- a new Jacuzzi, a “marble entrance rotunda” installed in a Bronx apartment, $9,000 a month in rent payments for a flat on the Upper East Side -- many of them pai... |
f0969aa29dad4b82685aae68c9e26844 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-11-fg-teacher11-story.html | Amid chaos, education has a champion | Amid chaos, education has a champion
A nation overwhelmed by civil war, flooding and, most recently, the threat of starvation might be forgiven for overlooking the back-to-school season.
But Abdulkhadir Wasuge has devoted his life to making sure his corner of Somalia never forgets. Over the last 14 years, Wasuge has em... |
d07fdcf98671a31a6f45a4e082f26161 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-11-me-mailer11-story.html | He was a character, on and off the page | He was a character, on and off the page
Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died Saturday. He was 84.
Beset by serious health problem... |
446076e0c6bdc205d7632dbbb82a9b5f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-12-ed-iraq12-story.html | ‘Surge’ and go | ‘Surge’ and go
The latest statistics are in and, by every reasonable measure, the U.S. military is making commendable progress in lessening the violence in Iraq.
Iraqi civilian and military deaths have plummeted in recent months, as has the number of American soldiers killed or wounded. Bombings are down, attacks on U.... |
bc557db695a79599cf292b25534cf1c7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-12-me-west12-story.html | Donda West, 58; mom of hip-hop star Kanye | Donda West, 58; mom of hip-hop star Kanye
Donda West, mother of the multiple Grammy-winning rap star Kanye West and former chairwoman of Chicago State University’s English department, died Saturday night in Los Angeles, a spokesman for the rapper told the Associated Press. She was 58.
The cause of death was not immedia... |
aafd2cf193f89484c0b1199a3c7e5b0c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-13-et-self13-story.html | Will Self’s best research tools are his own two feet | Will Self’s best research tools are his own two feet
Author Will Self strode off a plane and into the Alaska Airlines arrivals hall at LAX on a recent afternoon, his long legs fairly gulping the yardage and his elongated, funereal face looking toward the outdoors. He barely slowed down long enough to indicate that he d... |
76f3b41bb03f178299c6035b8a6b29c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-13-fi-comics13-story.html | Marvel to give original comics new life online | Marvel to give original comics new life online
Marvel is putting some of its older comics online today, hoping to reintroduce young people to the X-Men and Fantastic Four by showcasing the original issues in which such characters appeared.
It’s a tentative move to the Internet: Comics can be viewed only in a Web browse... |
ca9a1164d488e5585e7e1606fe648db5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-14-na-agent14-story.html | The agent with a secret past | The agent with a secret past
An illegal immigrant from Lebanon with relatives linked to the militant Islamic group Hezbollah paid a U.S. citizen to marry her and then lied her way through national security background checks to become an agent for the FBI and the CIA. She used her position to secretly access government ... |
e4fa61d65347f79d92a2113c7048e141 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-14-na-hillary14-story.html | Clinton campaign called too scripted | Clinton campaign called too scripted
At a campaign stop in Newton, Iowa, last week, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton peered out at the crowd of 250 people and called on a 19-year-old college student, who posed a friendly question about global warming.
The Clinton campaign insists that the New York senator chose the student ... |
49a1f866b8d5a5cb11743d51bcc648c8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-14-oe-levy14-story.html | Unholster the 2nd Amendment | Unholster the 2nd Amendment
It’s been 68 years since the U.S. Supreme Court examined the right to keep and bear arms secured by the 2nd Amendment. It’s been 31 years since the District of Columbia enacted its feckless ban on all functional firearms in the capital. It’s been eight months since the second most important ... |
b0ceb7c0e903eb4402009ef71efa027e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-gd-moviesscreen15-story.html | SCREENING ROOM | SCREENING ROOM
With Mel Brooks’ big new musical version of “Young Frankenstein” having just opened on Broadway, the American Cinematheque’s Aero Theatre is presenting the classic 1974 film comedy Saturday. Shot in glorious black-and-white, “Young Frankenstein” is Brooks’ homage to the 1930s Universal horror films and s... |
17ff2b23893be01eff113af3ce7e8058 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-hm-compost15-story.html | Worms, our waste warriors | Worms, our waste warriors
Sharing lunch with students at the Santa Monica College cafeteria one recent afternoon are a couple hundred thousand lowlife diners that most folks would only be caught dead with. Inside a giant, hydraulically operated bin behind the kitchen, 800,000 red wiggler worms are chowing down, as they... |
ea42012aca8638f8a6f705e7e9615249 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-hm-greenbuild15-story.html | How ‘fat’ is my home? | How ‘fat’ is my home?
HERE at Greenbuild, the world’s largest conference on environmentally responsible design, former President Clinton packed a ballroom with a rapt audience of 8,000 that began lining up for seats two hours before he took to the stage.
Environmental messiah Paul Hawken, author of “The Ecology of Comm... |
7f0fe880c341d403151a4f64bd6305d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-hm-logs15-story.html | Better, cleaner burn | Better, cleaner burn
Greenies will argue that it’s best not to light the fireplace at all. But for those who can’t resist, manufactured logs have evolved. Some use recycled materials, are petroleum-free and, compared with firewood, emit less carbon monoxide and particulates and leave fewer creosote deposits. The three ... |
d2fb5a3db9cdaa04f21897ebcd055d26 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-hm-tire15-story.html | Where rubber meets the room | Where rubber meets the room
RECLAIMED rubber may seem a far cry from mahogany or walnut, but recycled tires can be seen in high-end showrooms throughout the country as an essential component of home furnishings.
Michigan designer Andy Gregg’s made-to-order pieces for Bike Furniture Design include tables and lounge chai... |
9df2d1580b5eba45aa84c633b24b39cb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-hm-websites15-story.html | Going to green on the Web | Going to green on the Web
Abundant information about greening can be found on the Web. Some resources:
Green Home Guide: The U.S. Green Building Council, administrator of the LEED ratings, launched this site last week as an educational tool for consumers. It offers a primer on sustainable homes, an introduction to the ... |
8d5f9d04035ca98bab7ca86974a51e84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-15-me-coalinga15-story.html | Treatment replaced by turmoil | Treatment replaced by turmoil
Two years after California opened the nation’s largest facility designed to house and treat men who have been declared sexually violent predators, Coalinga State Hospital is described by both patients and staff as an institution in turmoil.
Convinced that they stand little chance of being ... |
df199b73cdcb16368637c4f975f2c240 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-16-fi-fine16-story.html | Health Net fined for lack of candor | Health Net fined for lack of candor
The state Thursday slapped a $1-million fine on Health Net Inc., the Woodland Hills-based insurer that acknowledged last week that it set goals for cancellations and paid bonuses in part based on how many policyholders were dropped and how much money was saved.
State officials said t... |
e0e0de271d261c6b94a288359c340829 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-16-na-federalists16-story.html | Bush marks Federalist milestone | Bush marks Federalist milestone
President Bush joined three Supreme Court justices Thursday evening to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group that has had a powerful influence on the law and legal thinking.
The group was organized in 1982 as a legal debating society for y... |
c922e3325a29cd266e99b9fe689517a7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-17-et-culture17-story.html | Shakira in pause mode | Shakira in pause mode
Shakira was sick of being a celebrity. Colombia’s sensationally successful singer-songwriter had just come off her “Oral Fixation” tour earlier this year, taking her to 140 cities on five continents to perform for 2.5 million fans. But even stardom can be a drag.
So she put away her revealing sequ... |
4f3a0dfc7b91fe25f076d7e255d7f8de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-17-fi-wga17-story.html | Writers, studios to resume talks | Writers, studios to resume talks
Hollywood’s film and TV writers and its major studios have agreed to return to the bargaining table, offering the first glimmer of hope that a deal to end a costly two-week strike could be within reach.
The Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Produ... |
84b502af45567f828d4db0863b550c94 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-17-sci-marcy17-story.html | Earth’s twin is out there -- somewhere | Earth’s twin is out there -- somewhere
For the last 20 years, UC Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy has been the world’s leading planet finder. Of the 260-odd planets that have been discovered in other solar systems, Marcy and his team have found 150. His most recent discovery, announced last week, is a fifth planet orbit... |
144cbe75f00f29e1f76f5c5e98f6e449 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-18-ig-online18-story.html | Cyber Monday? Not so much | Cyber Monday? Not so much
According to retail lore, Black Friday -- the biggest or second-biggest brick-and-mortar shopping day of the year -- is followed three days later by “Cyber Monday.” That’s the day the nation’s cubicle dwellers emerge from their collective turkey comas and buy enough L.L. Bean socks, Harry Pott... |
c6f5bd89c9034f03de1d389933fa8cb0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-19-et-channel19-story.html | Strikers trying to rewrite history | Strikers trying to rewrite history
Volcanic rhetoric. Heroes with provocative flaws. Plot twists that hinge on issues no one completely understands.
I tell you, this writers strike has something for everyone. It’s like “Lost” with labor law thrown in!
We all understand that the Writers Guild of America strike has somet... |
8c9ec342b913a5186fd5fab520e6aecb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-19-me-build19-story.html | Appealing to the highest common denominator | Appealing to the highest common denominator
From Chatsworth to El Segundo, private schools are spending an estimated $600 million in a building boom that reflects the strong demand for their services and the intense competition among their ranks.
Brentwood School is building an aquatics center that looks like a modern ... |
3c62787b8c84f3a4750a390dba56754d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-19-na-wildhogs19-story.html | It’s a war on boars, but pork’s winning | It’s a war on boars, but pork’s winning
Edom, Texas
It was a cool Saturday night in East Texas, and many men were surely someplace warm, swilling beer and watching football. That was not Joe Paddock’s idea of good times.
Covered in camouflage and carrying an AR-10 assault rifle, night-vision goggles and enough ammo to ... |
3b5db4d7cd61b7b25d6ba56bb3e064ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-20-me-meruelo20-story.html | L.A. Unified wins right to buy Glassell Park land for high school | L.A. Unified wins right to buy Glassell Park land for high school
The Los Angeles Unified School District won the first round Monday in a legal battle with developer Richard Meruelo over the fate of a former rail yard.
Superior Court Judge Soussan Bruguera ruled that the district had a right to take the 23-acre Glassel... |
79c366059194091b413868666bdac7e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-20-sp-angels20-story.html | Angels are trolling for bigger fish | Angels are trolling for bigger fish
At first glance, the Angels’ trade of Gold Glove shortstop Orlando Cabrera and $1.5 million to the Chicago White Sox for veteran pitcher Jon Garland on Monday is a real head-scratcher.
Why would the Angels, flush with pitching and light on offense, trade a highly productive hitter --... |
765b03d08cfd2a2d09ab2cda915a04a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-21-en-januszqa21-story.html | HE MAKES IT LOOK PICTURE-PERFECT | HE MAKES IT LOOK PICTURE-PERFECT
POLISH-BORN cinematographer Janusz Kaminski has shot every Steven Spielberg film since 1993’s Oscar-winning “Schindler’s List,” for which the visual artist won his first Academy Award for the atmospheric black-and-white cinematography.
Five years later, Kaminski picked up his second Osc... |
883ac7ff212ba7f1404734e95429d65c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-21-et-scriptland21-story.html | Strikers’ dilemma: to write or not | Strikers’ dilemma: to write or not
There’s scabbing and then there’s scabbing. For the Writers Guild and its supporters, it would be easy to condemn and/or punish anyone, union or not, who provided script material to a network or studio during a strike. And rumors have already begun to circulate on the picket lines of ... |
595f0f1409a53d940ed06adabadb8ccb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-21-fi-facebook21-story.html | Latest target of MoveOn: Facebook | Latest target of MoveOn: Facebook
Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org launched a campaign Tuesday on Facebook against Facebook, raising privacy concerns for users of the fast-growing social network.
At issue is Facebook’s new advertising program that lets its members notify friends about movies they rent, items they auct... |
8b7dc12a7d1a35dcaa1537f8e023d939 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-21-oe-turley21-story.html | How to punish a cyber-bully | How to punish a cyber-bully
When Megan Meier logged on to MySpace a little over a year ago, she was seeking a new start with new friends. She’d had some hard times: She considered herself overweight, had been bullied in school and had low self-esteem.
Still, things seemed to be getting better. She had just started eigh... |
34990bd850e058152781a68297b439c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-22-na-suicide22-story.html | A town fights back in MySpace suicide case | A town fights back in MySpace suicide case
For nearly a year, the families who live along Waterford Crystal Drive in this bedroom community northwest of St. Louis have kept the secret about the boy Megan Meier met last September on the social networking site MySpace.
He called himself Josh Evans, and he and 13-year-old... |
60c9e4d3001f6878317ac3978bc196a6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-22-sp-angels22-story.html | Hunter is now richest Angel | Hunter is now richest Angel
The Angels pulled off their second stunning -- and somewhat perplexing -- move of the week late Wednesday night, signing free-agent center fielder Torii Hunter to a five-year, $90-million contract, the highest in team history.
Numerous teams, including Texas, the Chicago White Sox, Atlanta, ... |
f21e4dc1bc3934eddb034899f482f420 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-23-et-mannix23-story.html | ‘Mannix’ can’t seem to crack that DVD case | ‘Mannix’ can’t seem to crack that DVD case
Somewhere out there, in the weird, quivering underbelly of the American dream, “Mannix” still lives.
Somewhere, there’s a place where a sportcoat-clad private eye can whip around L.A. in a convertible, get beaten down by goons, shake it off with a scotch on the rocks, then sol... |
e0fef0cc9899ea0ef26d4a6f7f2f34e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-23-fi-buyout23-story.html | Buyout firms are selling -- a new image | Buyout firms are selling -- a new image
The buyout kings who gathered in a 42nd-floor conference room in Manhattan last year knew they had an image problem.
There was Henry Kravis, the legendary investor whose takeover of RJR Nabisco was immortalized in the movie “Barbarians at the Gate.” Next to him sat Stephen Schwar... |
d64185e8b2f0b8b73ffa577f39f36d50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-23-na-bushecon23-story.html | The president’s economic challenge | The president’s economic challenge
As President Bush spoke about the state of the nation’s economy recently in the century-old Grand theater in New Albany, Ind., his words were as cheery as the vaudeville acts that once played there.
But the storyline beyond the stage is closer to film noir.
Gasoline? More than $3 a ga... |
cd101b1c13e07834410daa761640ca76 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-24-sci-venter24-story.html | Seeing Earth’s future in a petri dish | Seeing Earth’s future in a petri dish
J. Craig Venter, the founder of Celera Genomics, has spent much of the last decade decoding the world. After the federal government spent nearly that long working on the human genome, Venter plunged into the race with a new technology called shotgun sequencing and completed the fea... |
252c7048fedf9f18da53abf5601630df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-25-ig-source25-story.html | BACK TO THE SOURCE | BACK TO THE SOURCE
Incense lingered heavily in the air as cult members wearing silk headbands, caftans and long, long hair swayed to the sounds of YaHoWa 13, a three-man jam band rocking out with guitars and a large gong. The crowd talked about mind expansion and a new era of consciousness, while swirly visuals and fla... |
09c47d40c6baf8b868adca2817f79aaf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-25-sp-cliprep25-story.html | Kaman is avoiding foul trouble, playing longer | Kaman is avoiding foul trouble, playing longer
Chris Kaman is putting up nice statistics so far this season.
A big reason why?
He is staying on the court.
Kaman is playing 38.1 minutes a game, a large upgrade from the 29.0 he averaged in 75 games last season.
So far, he is avoiding unnecessary fouls and staying out of ... |
b7e8232c6986a020264a6ceb9c1d7a47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-26-fg-mideasttalks26-story.html | Syria agrees to join talks, raising hope | Syria agrees to join talks, raising hope
Syria said Sunday that it had decided to attend a U.S.-sponsored conference on Middle East peace after concluding that the agenda would allow it to press its demand for a return of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The decision raised the prospect that Israel might eventually ... |
dbfbfc573a88a0283dc0712770c0cd10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-26-ft-absinthe26-story.html | Absinthe trickling back into the U.S. | Absinthe trickling back into the U.S.
Absinthe, an intense alcoholic spirit favored by artists such as Degas, Van Gogh and Hemingway, is making a comeback in the U.S. after being banned by the government for almost 100 years.
Its rebirth in trendy restaurants and bars is a triumph of marketing -- and of maneuvering thr... |
174fecc79dd924788204301dd6493ea3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-26-me-localgovtqa26-story.html | Forum on transit problems inches toward solutions | Forum on transit problems inches toward solutions
About a dozen elected leaders -- in a nice nod to irony -- gathered at the Petersen Automotive Museum last week to talk about mass transit in general and, more specifically, the proposed “subway to the sea.”
The gathering was organized by Los Angeles City Councilman Jac... |
733082df7405f654d40ad692f4a36597 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-26-me-westside26-story.html | A plan to speed up Westside commute | A plan to speed up Westside commute
In a move that could be a preview of future traffic-busting efforts, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce a plan today that aides say would significantly reduce travel times on Pico and Olympic boulevards while keeping them two-way streets.
The plan, however... |
326bbaa3bbb5f423c91252078860f434 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-27-me-jail27-story.html | Baca’s jail plan gets ACLU’s support | Baca’s jail plan gets ACLU’s support
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has an unusual ally in his plans to manage the nation’s largest jail system -- the American Civil Liberties Union.
Melinda Bird, senior counsel for the ACLU of Southern California, said she planned to tell the Board of Supervisors today that she s... |
40f6daf7ff96684530dbb8303b3fc377 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-me-arnold28-story.html | Gov. pushes private works | Gov. pushes private works
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday signaled a controversial push to engage private companies in the building and management of state and local public works projects, proposing a strategy widely employed in Canada, Europe and elsewhere.
In such partnerships, which could take a variety of for... |
04924b966ba966bd9b8076b87943a12e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-me-transport28-story.html | Southland rebuffed in bid for more road, rail and port funds | Southland rebuffed in bid for more road, rail and port funds
The state Transportation Commission on Tuesday rejected demands of 36 legislators from Southern California to increase their area’s share of transportation funds targeted at improving the flow of goods through ports and along rail lines and highways.
The comm... |
611b54a3101cfcd52ba777bed1c79361 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-me-yagman28-story.html | Yagman sentenced to 3 years | Yagman sentenced to 3 years
Stephen G. Yagman, a pugnacious lawyer who made a career of suing the Los Angeles Police Department and other law enforcement agencies, was sentenced Tuesday to three years in federal prison for tax evasion, money laundering and bankruptcy fraud.
He did not go quietly -- or quickly.
In an un... |
6502928017f6f873afcbef363a85b0fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-na-financier28-story.html | When is a terrorism figure no longer one? | When is a terrorism figure no longer one?
With much fanfare in August 2002, the Bush administration formally designated prominent Italy-based businessman Ahmed Idris Nasreddin as a top financier of terrorism, saying he was a key moneyman for Al Qaeda’s international network.
The United Nations quickly followed suit, re... |
def78f819d0f76489051de2a651101a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-28-na-mccain28-story.html | No support surge for McCain | No support surge for McCain
Finally, nearly five years into the Iraq war, John McCain sees vindication at hand.
More than any other candidate for president, McCain has tied his fortunes to support for sending more U.S. troops into the unpopular war. Now that violence in Iraq has waned after a troop buildup, McCain want... |
23323a2f3d1d82d47bbe3a9998ef7975 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-29-fi-shareholders29-story.html | Investors fail to get broader powers | Investors fail to get broader powers
Companies will continue to have broad authority to block investors from playing a bigger role in electing members of corporate boards, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.
The 3-1 vote by the Securities and Exchange Commission drew rebukes from investor activists, who say average sha... |
c62b0c25ef880688546787c1a6533c61 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-01-fi-boxoffice1-story.html | ‘Game Plan’ scores top spot | ‘Game Plan’ scores top spot
“The Game Plan” went off without a hitch.
Walt Disney Co.'s PG-rated comedy, starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as an NFL quarterback who discovers he has a 7-year-old daughter, topped the weekend box office with an estimated $22.7 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales, the studio said S... |
6e6d5bb8b5312404c5a13946868a7141 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-01-he-mrsa1-story.html | An unlikely victory | An unlikely victory
These days, USC’s football players might seem more like fussy disciples of the TV detective Monk than scrappy athletes. They use paper towels on the practice field and at games, and they shower before setting foot in the training room. Their laundry is washed at a constant 140-degree temperature, wh... |
a19203c326e85d4c9c641f04eba038d2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-et-iraqart2-story.html | Baghdad museum’s sad fate ‘bleeds my heart’ | Baghdad museum’s sad fate ‘bleeds my heart’
A sleekly genteel museum auditorium in Santa Ana filled with shocked gasps and sorrowful groans as Donny George Youkhanna, director of Baghdad’s antiquities museum during the first three years of the Iraq war, described, blow by blow, the robbing of the cradle of civilization... |
fc7946e69b7eea03ffaa2311eb6d2bbf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-et-radiohead2-story.html | A new record price: $0 | A new record price: $0
The great riddle facing the record industry in the digital age has been pricing. Napster and its ilk puckishly offered music for “free” in the late 1990s, and the major labels have largely clung to an average of $13 for CDs despite plummeting sales and seasons of downsizing.
Now, one of the world... |
e9b843424a97c88aeba8f5be1185e3d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-fg-iraq2-story.html | U.S. begins scrutiny of Iraq security practices | U.S. begins scrutiny of Iraq security practices
Members of a team dispatched by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have begun a review of the State Department’s security practices in Iraq after a shooting involving guards contracted by the U.S. Embassy, a spokeswoman said Monday.
The actions of private security compan... |
f6955ae5af2943ee28c394c31c000600 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-fg-myanmar2-story.html | U.N. envoy, Myanmar junta meet | U.N. envoy, Myanmar junta meet
As the military tightened its grip on Myanmar, the United Nations envoy met today with the junta’s top generals to repeat international calls for restraint.
Ibrahim Gambari, a former foreign minister from Nigeria’s military in the mid-1980s, met Myanmar’s senior junta leader, Gen. Than Sh... |
fd28bdc2c9843a2ee9bcbdef1f9ce29d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-fi-yahoo2-story.html | Yahoo to unveil refined search engine | Yahoo to unveil refined search engine
san francisco -- Yahoo Inc. has spent almost four years trying to catch up to Google Inc. in Web-search technology. Today it’s trying to jump ahead.
Yahoo plans to unveil a revamped search engine that it says delivers faster, more relevant and engaging results than market leader Go... |
b52265c1c3326d1c58aef57a6fba607b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-02-oe-walter2-story.html | You can’t win with civil wars | You can’t win with civil wars
Since the beginning of the Iraq war, President Bush has made it very clear that we will stay in that country for as long as it takes to get the job done, and that the United States will prevail in the end. This mantra allows the president to avoid admitting failure, but it ignores everythi... |
188eb52b536929cc1e905eb08924d303 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-03-et-boing3-story.html | BoingBoing.net bounces into TV | BoingBoing.net bounces into TV
BoingBoing.net, the popular everything blog that now gets 7.5 million page views a month, today will launch a daily online TV show.
Five days a week, tv.boingboing.net will feature free three-to-five-minute daily reports on the same sort of eclectic stuff that has made BoingBoing.net such... |
ea5d506eecd9e802a6945059daa77762 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-03-me-griffith3-story.html | Charles B. Griffith, 77; wrote ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ other Corman films | Charles B. Griffith, 77; wrote ‘Little Shop of Horrors,’ other Corman films
Charles B. Griffith, a screenwriter and director best known for writing low-budget Roger Corman movies, including “The Little Shop of Horrors” and “The Wild Angels,” has died. He was 77.
Griffith died Friday at his home in San Diego, said his c... |
d194efadc9750dd4f8a244a6138f075e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-03-me-indianajones3-story.html | ‘Indiana Jones’ items are stolen | ‘Indiana Jones’ items are stolen
Computers and photographs for director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming fourth “Indiana Jones” film were stolen, and DreamWorks Pictures SKG has asked local law enforcement to investigate, a studio spokeswoman said.
“An investigation is being conducted by law enforcement,” said Kristin Stark... |
f3b193cd096d50b54d05d371bfbb8b47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-03-sp-dwyre3-story.html | Baseball should give replay a look-see after close call | Baseball should give replay a look-see after close call
The question of the day Tuesday seemed to be whether Tim McClelland’s face would be on the logo of next year’s new instant replay cameras in Major League Baseball.
McClelland is the veteran umpire -- 25 years, four World Series -- who made the disputed call on the... |
fddbe9a9fea592b51cc2352cb0f4104c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-04-et-arabactors4-story.html | But can you play a terrorist? | But can you play a terrorist?
“What kind of a name is that?” the voice coach asked at the end of the lesson. The name on the check he’d been handed by his student didn’t match the young actor’s European-sounding stage name.
The actor hesitated. He was fairly new in town and leery of any missteps. “Umm, my grandfather w... |
1f2aef3a912baf16ff0d81bdd2a22138 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-04-na-anglican4-story.html | Anglican leaders urge easing of differences | Anglican leaders urge easing of differences
Leaders of the global Anglican Communion responded largely positively Wednesday to pledges from the Episcopal Church to use restraint in consecrating gay bishops and other contentious matters.
But an influential joint standing committee of Anglican bishops, clergy and lay lea... |
5bf0ec42ee9db722099af8093fe1d246 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-05-me-jeff5-story.html | Fired transit chief wants back in | Fired transit chief wants back in
The former head of the Los Angeles Department of Transportation has asked the City Council to overturn her termination amid complaints in the black community about her firing.
In a four-page letter submitted by her attorney, former department general manager Gloria Jeff said Mayor Anto... |
d17cabaadc6b0b7164ab9c47116dcdab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-05-sp-plaschke5-story.html | No one’s pointing fingers at Guerrero | No one’s pointing fingers at Guerrero
BOSTON -- On one coast, a superstar entered these playoffs with four hits in his last 41 postseason at-bats, and he’s never allowed to forget it.
On the other coast, a superstar entered these playoffs with nine hits in his last 50 postseason at-bats, and everyone seems to have forg... |
09f7488e8a38b0d6974b45190ff0e3b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-06-me-pesticide6-story.html | EPA OKs use of toxic pesticide on fields | EPA OKs use of toxic pesticide on fields
Despite the protests of more than 50 scientists, including five Nobel laureates in chemistry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday approved use of a new, highly toxic fumigant, mainly for strawberry fields.
The new pesticide, methyl iodide, is designed for growers,... |
c2d5c7998cce7fe1e6c4421b836eccf9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-07-bk-sims7-story.html | Monster smash | Monster smash
“HEAR my tale,” Frankenstein’s monster begs his creator. “It is long and strange.” In her cultural history of our favorite monster, Susan Tyler Hitchcock shows that the story is longer and stranger than the creature or Victor Frankenstein or even Mary Shelley could ever have imagined. The unloved horror h... |
cff84f8c7fe57515596ce5c3e7a5359f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-07-bk-smith7-story.html | Fire in the flesh | Fire in the flesh
The intricate bonds that link human beings have been a concern of Andrea Barrett’s ever since her debut novel, “Lucid Stars,” in 1993. As she broadened her fictional canvas to examine scientific endeavor in “Ship Fever,” “Voyage of the Narwhal” and “Servants of the Map,” the delicate thread of related... |
1ba4b1f5980c5c3b9413b2c57c5fb50f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-07-me-mastrey7-story.html | Tawn Mastrey, 53; DJ was the voice of L.A.'s ‘80s heavy-metal scene | Tawn Mastrey, 53; DJ was the voice of L.A.'s ‘80s heavy-metal scene
Tawn Mastrey, a well-regarded heavy-metal disc jockey who built her reputation in the late 1980s at KNAC-FM (105.5) when the radio station was the official outlet for the then-thriving metal scene in Los Angeles, has died. She was 53.
Mastrey died Tues... |
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