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0822fbd6fce45649345b44ef14c8222e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-08-sp-klinsman8-story.html | Klinsmann takes name out of the hat | Klinsmann takes name out of the hat
Juergen Klinsmann, once the strong favorite to become the next men’s national soccer team coach for the United States, withdrew from consideration Thursday after talks broke down with the U.S. Soccer Federation, opening the door for Chivas USA Coach Bob Bradley.
Bradley was expected ... |
ece412456d90f792f0c0e6cedb537292 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-08-sp-lakerep8-story.html | Play against Hornets was a team no-effort | Play against Hornets was a team no-effort
Twelve hours after saying his team “fussed around” in a confounding loss to New Orleans, Lakers Coach Phil Jackson was still in a fussy mood.
There was a lot to sift through after Wednesday’s 105-89 home loss to the Hornets, with Jackson targeting the Lakers’ centers and point ... |
96721eed08014333caa253176724aaab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-08-sp-nflcol8-story.html | As money flows, L.A.'s odds grow | As money flows, L.A.'s odds grow
The NFL salary cap will increase next season from the current $102 million per team to $109 million, then to $139 million in 2008.
In addition, the NFL owners voted Thursday for the New York Giants and Jets to receive a $300 million loan from the league for their $1.2 billion mega-stadi... |
de06fec3f642d054532e67c4a014a926 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-et-apocalypto9-story.html | In ‘Apocalypto,’ fact and fiction play hide and seek | In ‘Apocalypto,’ fact and fiction play hide and seek
A key consultant among several archeologists who served as advisors on Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” said he is disappointed that the film overlooks many of the Mayas’ cultural and scientific achievements and portrays the people as “bloodthirsty savages.”
As a chase movi... |
91cd6d1fd92eec181219b8c962dbef00 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-et-jingle9-story.html | Justin brings a little more jingle | Justin brings a little more jingle
When Justin Timberlake sauntered into the middle of Nelly Furtado’s performance as the “special surprise guest” of KIIS-FM’s annual Jingle Ball concert Thursday night, he did it without announcement or fanfare. Still, when his lightly stubbled visage was beamed by the two big screens ... |
0a88ff75563d046cce356875c3c679d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-et-letters9.5-story.html | He’s got guts | He’s got guts
JIMMY CARTER may be the most courageous public figure in America [“Carter’s Frontal Attack,” by Josh Getlin, Dec. 4]. He has accurately described media coverage of the “Israel-Palestine” conflict as “abominable” and the U.S. government’s pro-Israel bias as unequivocal. It is the ultimate irony that in a c... |
c2e465b9ef481d0b7751ea1cf84cff53 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-et-quick9-story.html | Missing Nolde portrait located | Missing Nolde portrait located
A portrait by German Expressionist Emil Nolde worth about $660,000 has been discovered more than 25 years after it went missing, a spokesman for Germany’s Baden-Wuerttemberg state police said Friday.
The oil painting “Nadja” was discovered by an art historian who said he stumbled across i... |
6b28a4d1e41eafca6cf085ac2f178f4c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-fg-briefs9.1-story.html | Inmates riot over comrade’s transfer | Inmates riot over comrade’s transfer
More than 150 prisoners escaped from a state penitentiary in Cancun after hundreds of inmates overpowered guards with knives and bats in an effort to stop the transfer of a gang leader to another prison.
Police had recaptured most of the men.
Guards fatally shot three inmates during... |
e89e36fc3ef2dacbf963cc4672f9a3d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-fg-insurgency9-story.html | Afghanistan war nears ‘tipping point’ | Afghanistan war nears ‘tipping point’
The conflict in Afghanistan has entered a dangerous phase, and the next three to six months could prove crucial in determining whether the United States and its NATO partners can suppress a revitalized enemy -- or will be dragged into another drawn-out and costly fight with an Isla... |
5e721c8d2e5c05e0c43768bd995972b5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-fi-briefs9.1-story.html | Viacom executive to leave with $9.8 million in pay | Viacom executive to leave with $9.8 million in pay
Viacom Inc., the media company controlled by Sumner Redstone, said it would pay outgoing Chief Financial Officer Michael Dolan $9.8 million in salary, bonus and deferred compensation.
Dolan, who resigned Nov. 9, also will receive vesting of 257,780 stock options and 5,... |
1bfcf62d7f78acac1a521dca8f5f28cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-fi-jobs9-story.html | U.S. payrolls grow more than expected | U.S. payrolls grow more than expected
U.S. employers added more workers than expected in November, the Labor Department reported Friday, as strong hiring in finance, healthcare and other service industries raised expectations that the economy would avoid recession.
Recruiting by financial services firms contributed hea... |
90c27e81a61fff65f82907f6d5fb6bc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-le-saturday9.2-story.html | Mixed reaction to Iraq Study Group | Mixed reaction to Iraq Study Group
Re “Bush not swayed by findings in Iraq study,” Dec. 8
The new mandate sent to the president by way of a national vote is being ignored. The president is deaf to the voices of the people once again.
His vision of victory in Iraq is egotistically intact, and he has not even mentioned t... |
d2bb0f6722d5fb727770547456234199 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-le-saturday9.3-story.html | The burdensome cost of college | The burdensome cost of college
Re “The old school cheer,” editorial, Dec. 2
Attending college is a tremendous milestone and accomplishment in anyone’s life. However, affording college is difficult for almost everyone. I attend a Cal State where the tuition is not as expensive as a UC or a private school. I was accepted... |
23e70c27b8cf52e026fbb105518bc8ab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-me-kirkpatrick9-story.html | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 80; first American woman to serve as U.N. ambassador | Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, 80; first American woman to serve as U.N. ambassador
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, a staunch Reagan-era anti-Communist who infused American foreign policy with firm conviction as the first woman to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., has died. She was 80.
Kirkpatrick died in her sleep late Thursday ... |
602bc2e46265f1b42fb363e576857f54 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-me-lakeforest9-story.html | New front on day-labor battle opens | New front on day-labor battle opens
In a move bound to spark controversy, Lake Forest city officials have agreed to let property owners pay a security guard to patrol for day laborers who gather at the edge of a strip mall looking for work.
The guard, who would be permitted to patrol a strip mall, an area a half-mile a... |
c2d83926da25270b334aa1e9626cb886 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-me-ocbriefs09.3-story.html | Taxpayers get a day’s grace; deadline Monday | Taxpayers get a day’s grace; deadline Monday
Last-minute taxpayers get a one-day reprieve on paying their property taxes this year.
Because the Dec. 10 deadline for first installments falls on a weekend, county tax officials said, property owners can pay their bills Monday. But payments without a postmark of Dec. 11 or... |
b01c4b71805ad95e87b1bb81f4e359db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-me-ocbriefs09.4-story.html | Teen riding bicycle is shot to death | Teen riding bicycle is shot to death
A 17-year-old boy was shot to death while riding a bicycle on a Buena Park street, police said Friday.
Antonio Jesus Vidrio of Fullerton was in the 7300 block of 9th Street about 9 p.m. Thursday when two men on foot approached him, said Sgt. Gary Worrall, a spokesman for the Buena P... |
51b57028c22dcb8c0e8a3960808e30ab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-me-twins9-story.html | With hope comes worry | With hope comes worry
Nate Draper, 16 months old, lay on the couch and gave a piercing wail. His identical twin, Nick, lay nearby, face scrunched. He began to spit up. Their mother stood over them, ready for another cleanup, and kept an eye on her other three youngsters.
This moment of domestic mayhem, she said, was a ... |
8be79473c484459201acacebf50e611f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-na-briefs9.1-story.html | Senate approves new FDA chief | Senate approves new FDA chief
The Senate voted 80 to 11 to confirm Andrew C. von Eschenbach to head the Food and Drug Administration, but only after breaking a filibuster in which he was accused of impeding congressional investigations.
Von Eschenbach, a former head of the National Cancer Institute, has been acting hea... |
09fdb7f9017441fb322c44042fd4a5e8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-oe-hill9-story.html | Bargaining at a tilted table | Bargaining at a tilted table
WHILE President Bush points to low unemployment and a resurgent stock market as signs of a strong economy, most Americans don’t feel so bullish. Median incomes are flat, healthcare costs are soaring, pensions are being de-funded and corporate employers are threatening to shred the social co... |
9a78d4cd571a9f786e21368900634acc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sci-briefs9.2-story.html | Key plants at risk in global warming | Key plants at risk in global warming
Global warming will stifle life-giving microscopic plants in the surface layer of the oceans, accelerating climate change, according to a study in Thursday’s journal Nature. Besides being the foundation of the marine food chain, phytoplankton remove more than 100 million tons of car... |
a9aebb75b3a353a878f10249ae257f33 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sp-ducks9-story.html | Ducks win this one for the road | Ducks win this one for the road
Here’s how well things are going for the Ducks this season: They bring up journeyman Shawn Thornton from the minors, and he scores 57 seconds into his first game back in the NHL.
Thornton scored his first goal since the 2003-04 season, Teemu Selanne scored his team-high 16th goal and had... |
1e268b28d30b022d21a5db0172582759 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sp-dwyre9-story.html | BCS, we thank you. No, really. | BCS, we thank you. No, really.
They are the three letters that make us crazy every year: BCS. No lowercase in this big deal. It is now an American institution that, like crabgrass, is unstoppable.
The Bowl Championship Series is the Big College Shank. Take a swing at it and it will veer, uncontrollably, off line.
It is... |
fb6f7ba4a8599fad08541e7d6c7fccf1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sp-elliott9-story.html | They’ll need Bryant to get better | They’ll need Bryant to get better
Phil Jackson had said he might change the Lakers’ starting lineup for their game against Atlanta on Friday, and he kept his word.
But his switch didn’t involve benching center Kwame Brown, as he had indicated. This one was born of necessity, not choice.
Kobe Bryant, still bothered by t... |
9237bcc9fc4ca742e05bc771c21ee4c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sp-nba9-story.html | Magic unable to close the deal against Pistons | Magic unable to close the deal against Pistons
The Detroit Pistons had too much late-game experience for the improving Orlando Magic.
Chauncey Billups scored a season-high 31 points to lead the Pistons to their second impressive road win in two nights, an 87-83 victory over the Orlando Magic on Friday night.
Playing th... |
cbd2dd0ee3a907c02c81781b4a48c330 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-09-sp-southland9-story.html | UCLA beats Delaware State, 64-54 | UCLA beats Delaware State, 64-54
After trailing by one point at halftime, UCLA outscored Delaware State by 11 in the second half Friday to win the opening game of the Lobo Shootout at Albuquerque, 64-54.
The Bruins (6-4), who extended their winning streak to three games, will play New Mexico tonight for the championshi... |
50ffe55be45ae4894112c067ca845a48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-adfg-pen10-story.html | Self-esteem flows at their fingertips | Self-esteem flows at their fingertips
In this age of cellphones, text messages and computer keyboards, one Scottish school has returned to basics. It’s teaching youngsters the neglected art of writing with a fountain pen.
There is no clacking of keyboards in most classrooms at the Mary Erskine and Stewart’s Melville Ju... |
bc4e82b852d2f385a60102267db98072 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-bk-max10-story.html | Carefully chosen words | Carefully chosen words
ANYONE who reads a lot knows how remarkable an experience it is to find four wonderful books in a row and how much gratitude you feel toward the publishers behind them. That’s the experience I’ve had with New York Review Books -- not entirely unexpected as its editor is an old friend whose litera... |
fff84a55ff08b1e5f6c3ade3907a1626 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-bk-papersellers10-story.html | BESTSELLERS | PAPERBACKS | BESTSELLERS | PAPERBACKS
Rankings are based on a Times poll of Southland bookstores.
*--* SO. CAL. RATING Fiction 1 The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards (Penguin: $14) A father hides the birth of a twin from his wife.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Dec. 17, 2006 For The Record Los Angeles Times Tuesday December 12, 2... |
4f66b5be734af47528c98329dbd30d0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-bk-ulin10-story.html | Everything is illuminated | Everything is illuminated
THE summer my son Noah was 5, he went on a “Charlotte’s Web” kick. Or no, not kick: That doesn’t quite capture the binge-like insistence of it, the way E.B. White’s 1952 children’s classic became the centerpiece of his life. For months, we read it to him every night, chapter by chapter, beginn... |
5ab38d775e7c20406a6a6428c8f9144d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-ca-brotherston10-story.html | Inventing ‘Scissorhands’ | Inventing ‘Scissorhands’
LEZ BROTHERSTON loves a challenge. That’s one reason he’s the perfect match for Matthew Bourne, the choreographer-provcateur whose wide-ranging imagination might daunt a less creative collaborator. Bourne has become a pop icon famous for spinning fresh tales out of well-trodden classics. Crucia... |
d0cbd898814b932ffb382b2d5774a6ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-ca-cinefile10-story.html | Orchestrator of outsider angst | Orchestrator of outsider angst
ICONOCLASTIC American director Nicholas Ray tapped into the post-World War II existential blues in a series of uncompromising films he made from the late 1940s through the ‘50s.
Though critics and audiences of the time unjustly neglected many of his films, Ray’s stock soared in subsequent... |
6ff4440dcbc24e278128901f2e5d104d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-ca-tobey10-story.html | A crusader answers the call of the antihero | A crusader answers the call of the antihero
THERE’S a moment in “The Good German,” Steven Soderbergh’s hommage to 1940s film noir, when baby-faced Tobey Maguire turns shockingly nasty. The quivery voice is still there, but instead of projecting vulnerability, it’s full of ego and self-satisfaction. The wide-eyed look, ... |
15d32effe0073cf4752c874f5294afb4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-ca-women10-story.html | Back to labeling it a boys’ club | Back to labeling it a boys’ club
IN between helping her three children with their homework and trying out a new chicken casserole recipe she hopes will pass muster with the trio, Teresa LaBarbera Whites sets up studio time for Britney Spears, approves a final version of a Christmas tune recorded by Nick Lachey, arrange... |
15932bf314c7c60025516bca429dd56f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-fg-briefs10.4-story.html | Lawyer says he led Al Qaeda acts | Lawyer says he led Al Qaeda acts
Turkish police have detained a 25-year-old lawyer who admitted he was the leader of Al Qaeda in Turkey, news reports said. Nine other suspects were also held.
The lawyer and two of the suspects, reports said, were also members of the Great Islamic Eastern Warriors Front, a group that cl... |
42117147b08af85861a413c534582713 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-fg-briefs10.5-story.html | Army is deployed ahead of elections | Army is deployed ahead of elections
President Iajuddin Ahmed ordered deployment of the army across the country to ensure peaceful elections next month. More than 40 people have been killed and hundreds injured in clashes between rival political activists since late October, when Khaleda Zia, leader of the Bangladesh Na... |
69f8faa3b3e099aeea7965e5f44567ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-fg-iraq10-story.html | Hussein nephew escapes from Iraqi prison | Hussein nephew escapes from Iraqi prison
A nephew of Saddam Hussein serving a life sentence in a northern Iraqi prison escaped Saturday in what authorities believe might have been an inside job.
Ayman Sabawi, the son of Hussein’s half-brother, was captured last year during a raid near Tikrit, Hussein’s hometown. He was... |
5379162e93a07a42f6eb3579175c3b84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-fg-poison10-story.html | A German twist in poisoning trail | A German twist in poisoning trail
The mystery surrounding the poisoning death of a former Russian spy has veered to Germany, where investigators Saturday found traces of radiation in an apartment connected with a businessman who met the ex-KGB agent on the day he fell ill.
Police said “hints” of radiation were detected... |
128837dd32cd1c311d0d0b6b63c2ebd7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-fi-letters10.2-story.html | Mixing it up over guacamole lawsuit | Mixing it up over guacamole lawsuit
Regarding “Lawsuit stirs up guacamole labeling controversy” (Nov. 30):
Kraft Foods Inc.'s rationalization of the guacamole snafu is astoundingly laughable. The company surely knows from its extensive consumer research that people tend not to read ingredient labels.
True to form, Kraf... |
d6c47530529df11e9e4ad3cb0dec8da9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-a2anniversary10-story.html | Harrowing trek to save ailing miner | Harrowing trek to save ailing miner
Dec. 10, 1909: Six men prospecting in the lower Holcomb Valley north of Big Bear Lake made it safely to San Bernardino “after a harrowing trip of three days,” The Times reported.
“The men fought their way, night and day, through snowdrifts, blizzards and blinding rain” to rush one of... |
a0ce5b04dc76518ed2b2696cfc6fb19b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-firefighters10-story.html | Bill shields donations to 5 firefighters’ kin | Bill shields donations to 5 firefighters’ kin
Congress voted early Saturday to ensure that nearly $1 million donated to benefit the families of five firefighters killed in October’s Esperanza fire is protected from federal taxes.
The legislation was approved unanimously in the House and Senate as one of the last action... |
9517093c48817775c14529ddf2423333 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-gonzalez10-story.html | Marine Lance Cpl. Mario D. Gonzalez, 21, La Puente; killed in explosion | Marine Lance Cpl. Mario D. Gonzalez, 21, La Puente; killed in explosion
They always got a laugh as they related the story about how the young man who would grow up to be a strapping Marine got seasick while fishing as a boy with his father.
Mario Gonzalez and his son of the same name had to debark and walk three hours ... |
f99d922f987aae6342ad2c77bc81db73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-housing10-story.html | Renters press officials for affordable housing | Renters press officials for affordable housing
In another sign of the growing potency of low-income housing as a political issue in Los Angeles, a group of about 100 tenants held a forum Saturday to press elected leaders to create more affordable units and to prosecute slum landlords.
Meeting in a South Los Angeles com... |
30b7ee32d25a5d7c37469ab218c42b8f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-schools10-story.html | Mayor names school reform team | Mayor names school reform team
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Saturday named five people -- among them an executive of the Riordan Foundation, a teacher with 51 years of experience, a former local superintendent for the Los Angeles school district and a retired Long Beach assistant superintendent -- to spearhead his adm... |
45ac0d1402e5e86177c28d37c2eea0ae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-me-tompkins10-story.html | Effie Mae Howard, 70; quilt artist was known as Rosie Lee Tompkins | Effie Mae Howard, 70; quilt artist was known as Rosie Lee Tompkins
The quilts of Rosie Lee Tompkins hung in museums, graced the pages of art magazines and left awestruck critics scrambling to describe them.
The critics compared her work to modernist paintings, jazz music, African textiles. They marveled at the quilts’ ... |
544e618cf5f841400982552f90748a98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-na-bigfoot10-story.html | Professor puts his stamp on the legend of Bigfoot | Professor puts his stamp on the legend of Bigfoot
At a glance, professor D. Jeffrey Meldrum would seem to be a star on the Idaho State University campus here.
A popular instructor, Meldrum has written or edited five books, written dozens of articles in academic journals, and ranged across the American West and Canada f... |
1998cf2e25d87df74a13cd70280a2094 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-na-jefferson10-story.html | Rep. Jefferson holds on to his seat in Louisiana | Rep. Jefferson holds on to his seat in Louisiana
U.S. Rep. William J. Jefferson, the beleaguered congressman at the center of a federal bribery investigation, pulled off what many had believed would be impossible: He won reelection Saturday to Louisiana’s 2nd Congressional District seat.
Jefferson, plagued by more than... |
cd1f177410dc72ab03aabbd7f672f705 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-op-jones10-story.html | The next horror in Somalia | The next horror in Somalia
TO MOST Americans, Somalia is the place where “Black Hawk Down” happened, or the place with the pictures of the starving African children, or, for some, the biblical land of Punt. (Scholars quibble about locating Punt.) Americans tend to confuse African countries with one another except when ... |
c1ba3f4699c374f99b4fcaab8b119115 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-op-movies10-story.html | Why the food court is a bad scene | Why the food court is a bad scene
WHAT DO the movies teach us about shopping malls? Mostly that they’re the geographical equivalent of the famous, two-note theme from “Jaws.” “Danger ahead!” bellows the celluloid mall. “Be careful of your pocketbook, your charge cards, your very soul!”
Like the River Styx, the mall is ... |
99e5a4cce29f14e23796b0a72662e467 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-re-associations10-story.html | Remember, management firm isn’t the boss; the owners are | Remember, management firm isn’t the boss; the owners are
Question: Our homeowner association has hired a management company that sends out its company’s literature to all the owners. Besides being free advertisements for the company and their trade groups, these mailers often relay what I believe is wrong and illegal i... |
4eeadb6fcd43ca2809eda86a542483c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-re-words10-story.html | Maybe it’s locution, locution, locution | Maybe it’s locution, locution, locution
Words matter. Wars have started over them. Civilizations have collapsed because of them. And it would appear that the speed with which a house sells may be determined by them.
As listings grow old on the vine in this flush-with-inventory market and frustrated sellers grapple for ... |
324fca3949ed1fbd89b0aea0efd1d1df | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-adande10-story.html | UCLA just good enough | UCLA just good enough
The beauty of college basketball is that there’s no beholder who matters.
That’s good news for UCLA, because to these brown eyes, the Bruins don’t have the look of a No. 1 team right now. No dominant low-post scorer, no consistent outside shooting, shaky at the free-throw line, no overwhelming tal... |
f53bf16db79952982c64f383f27e0213 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-cliprep10-story.html | Cassell not a starter now, but he knows how to finish | Cassell not a starter now, but he knows how to finish
It appears the torch has been passed from Sam Cassell to Shaun Livingston, at least in Coach Mike Dunleavy’s mind.
Livingston continued to impress at times with the first unit in Saturday’s 89-82 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum.
The third-year playe... |
8c609b78b5e6d6d7db79753649d7d0db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-hsfootball10-story.html | Orange Lutheran is top of heap | Orange Lutheran is top of heap
A few years ago, Orange Lutheran could count on getting to the Southern Section title game, only to lose to Ventura St. Bonaventure in a small-schools showdown.
The Lancers have come a long way from Division XI, and on Saturday at the Home Depot Center in Carson, solidified themselves as ... |
4c3bc9caeb1a3555afbd12849bf75d47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-kingreport10-story.html | Kopitar starting to get star treatment | Kopitar starting to get star treatment
Anze Kopitar is living the typical life of a Southern California teenager.
He hangs out at his Manhattan Beach apartment, checking out the surf. He occasionally gets to a Lakers game. Once in a while, he hits the mall.
What makes him different? He’s slowly becoming the face of the... |
23dd2f3f7ab5691be1d284117149d19f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-nflinsidedog10-story.html | HBO show celebrates 30th year | HBO show celebrates 30th year
After Len Dawson made his debut as a host of HBO’s “Inside the NFL” in 1978, he couldn’t critique his work because his home city was not yet hooked up for cable TV.
“I live in Kansas City, Mo., and back then I never saw the finished product unless I called up friends in Kansas City, Kan., ... |
ae2e8e80baed8a3e9dddf5a80e3f577c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-nickeldbs10-story.html | 5 BIG-PLAY DEFENSIVE BACKS | 5 BIG-PLAY DEFENSIVE BACKS
Most combined sacks, interceptions, passes defended and forced fumbles this season:
Kerry Rhodes
New York Jets
* 19: He might be only the second Jets safety to make the Pro Bowl, joining Erik McMillan of the late 1980s.
Charles Woodson
Green Bay
* 19: Nine-year veteran has five interceptions,... |
9c953facb50e652f45ef24560786871d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-sp-uclahoopsrep10-story.html | Tough times not a worry | Tough times not a worry
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, UCLA’s sophomore forward who was Pacific 10 Conference freshman of the year last season and perhaps UCLA’s best player during its run to the Final Four, had only four points and two rebounds Saturday in the Bruins’ 65-62 win over Texas A&M.; That was after he had two po... |
c223d79fc2325588c7bbd0ad7914556c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-tm-ramirez50-story.html | The Long Road to the Other Side | The Long Road to the Other Side
The Border Is Broken! Adios Mexico! Amnesty Now! America Is a Nation of Immigrants! We Pick Your Fruit and Vegetables! Migration Fractures Families! Business Exploits Immigrants! Got Papers? Why Can’t They Be More Like Us?
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I’ve heard a lot of slogans and rally chants this year--often s... |
1ec4cf655ce5c18cd95762e252e1967e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-tr-deal10-story.html | Deal of the week | Deal of the week
Celebrate the 95th birthday of the Galleria Park Hotel in San Francisco with a rate of $95 per night Dec. 17-30.
The recently renovated boutique hotel is in San Francisco’s Financial District. The special rate is based on double occupancy; it’s subject to availability and does not include 14% tax.
For ... |
3f420fd52f6bc67c4a7ec95a10b8383d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-tr-letters10.3-story.html | Norway gets royal treatment | Norway gets royal treatment
JUST wanted to send praise for the article on Oslo [“Norway’s Grand Prize,” Nov. 26]. I thought Beverly Beyette did a good job of showing the many sides of Oslo’s cultural life, history and tourist attractions.
It is not often a foreign journalist takes such time to go in-depth. Having lived... |
4c5499b886b469ab31d05fb731d056cc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-et-chamber11-story.html | Sharps, flats and a natural: Kahane on keys | Sharps, flats and a natural: Kahane on keys
There aren’t that many programs that inspire such happy anticipation as hearing a Mozart piano concerto. Unless, of course, it’s hearing three Mozart piano concertos.
That’s what Jeffrey Kahane, conducting from the keyboard, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra offered Satur... |
2f86dfa701886576212469702af0d14b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-et-weekarts11-story.html | Captured on video: Acts of provocative art | Captured on video: Acts of provocative art
The work of three provocative, influential contemporary artists -- Robert Smithson, Isaac Julien and Ana Mendieta -- will be highlighted Friday at 7 p.m. in an Armand Hammer Museum presentation of “Hammer Screenings: Selections From the Hammer Video Library,” drawn from the mu... |
6b66bc558f849ecb8217182b19262eee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-et-weekmovie11-story.html | A schoolboy’s taken under (dragon) wing | A schoolboy’s taken under (dragon) wing
Eighteen-year-old British actor Edward Speleers says he was just minding his own business, appearing as “Hamlet” in a school play, when he decided to go on an audition for the title role of “Eragon.”
The special-effects laden adaptation of Christopher Paolini’s 2003 bestselling f... |
194dcd9bcbb0f63ed00a933e00c875ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fg-briefs11.1-story.html | One march halted; another proceeds | One march halted; another proceeds
Dozens of Cuban government supporters broke up a silent march marking International Human Rights Day, roughing up participants and accusing them of being mercenaries of the U.S. government.
A second opposition march by wives of political prisoners took place without incident.
The firs... |
4e9e060d30e736a7aa945094d5e9ae1d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fg-briefs11.3-story.html | Nobelist sees loans as anti-terror tool | Nobelist sees loans as anti-terror tool
Economist Muhammad Yunus accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his breakthrough program to lift the poor through tiny loans, saying he hoped the award would inspire “bold initiatives” to eradicate a problem at the root of terrorism.
Yunus, a 66-year-old Bangladeshi, shared the award... |
8849ed66a82c2baa4f2d8e26db4256f2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fg-darfur11-story.html | 30 refugees slain in Darfur | 30 refugees slain in Darfur
Militiamen on horseback ambushed a refugee convoy in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, executing about 30 civilians, the United Nations and aid workers said Sunday.
African Union peacekeepers called to investigate were briefly taken hostage by other refugees, the U.N. reported.
The aid worke... |
726bac76c878f6bbd36c01b8f1be314a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fg-iraq11-story.html | Iraqi leader denounces report | Iraqi leader denounces report
Iraq’s president lashed out at the Iraq Study Group report Sunday, saying it undermines his nation’s sovereignty and constitution and “works against Iraq’s long struggle against dictatorship.”
President Jalal Talabani, head of state for two consecutive Iraqi governments and a longtime U.S.... |
16f94f6dd9bb47cb93d7e7a7127abbba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fg-pinochet11-story.html | Iconic dictator led ’73 Chilean coup | Iconic dictator led ’73 Chilean coup
Augusto Pinochet, the embodiment of the brutal and intensely anti-communist South American military dictator, died Sunday, a military doctor said. He was 91 and had suffered a heart attack a week earlier.
Pinochet ruled this Andean nation for 17 years after seizing power in 1973 in ... |
31b275f6e37d38a641c478f3db7c4132 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fi-dinar11-story.html | Iraqi dinar builds head of steam amid nation’s chaos | Iraqi dinar builds head of steam amid nation’s chaos
An unexpected bright spot has appeared in this war-ravaged Iraqi capital: The national currency is strengthening against the U.S. dollar.
The dinar has appreciated to about 1,400 dinars to the dollar, near its two-year high, triggering a dinar buying frenzy among cur... |
a657be52e95572a9b99f338be77c73b8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-he-ask11-story.html | Heart attack signs look different in women | Heart attack signs look different in women
What are the symptoms of heart disease or a heart attack in women?
DENISE
Burbank
Although heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in the United States, it has been recognized less often by doctors and patients because of a long-held belief that women are protected from hea... |
d631de478d973f194be8bc270332704c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-he-grunting11-story.html | Those gym grunts have a purpose | Those gym grunts have a purpose
It was the grunt heard around the world.
When Albert Argibay, a 40-year-old corrections officer, emitted a loud Uuuunh! while lifting weights at Planet Fitness, the gym’s manager asked him to quiet down. He didn’t take kindly to the request, and eventually was booted from the Wappingers ... |
00763f69a4b160a9327cfb81b7f86503 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-me-film11-story.html | ‘Iwo Jima’ wins L.A. critics’ top film honor | ‘Iwo Jima’ wins L.A. critics’ top film honor
Clint Eastwood’s World War II drama “Letters From Iwo Jima” -- a recollection of the famed 1945 battle told from the Japanese perspective -- was named best movie of the year Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn.
It’s the second such honor for the film in less than a w... |
fb8ac7b19a23d2dfb24aad1c4a7fe813 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-me-fund11-story.html | Anaheim homeless children get room to stretch | Anaheim homeless children get room to stretch
The answer to the question had been simple for the homeless teenager, Michael Baker says, but it stunned the banquet audience into silence: What’s most challenging about your situation?
“Doing my homework,” Shaquila had told potential supporters of the Anaheim Boys & Girls ... |
a182121257df952c5863ea1ed955c363 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-me-jackman11-story.html | Santa Monica’s new chief is called ‘a cop’s cop’ | Santa Monica’s new chief is called ‘a cop’s cop’
Timothy Jackman traces his desire for a career in law enforcement to the first grade, when he tried to discourage a classmate from pursuing a girl that Jackman liked.
“I said to him, ‘You better not do anything to my girlfriend, or I’ll arrest you,’ ” Jackman, now 47, re... |
08ff11bb12991c9d7b716f90b3a4fdf0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-na-pelosi11-story.html | Who defines Pelosi? Just ask Pelosi | Who defines Pelosi? Just ask Pelosi
When Nancy Pelosi appeared on national television on the morning after voters returned the House to Democratic hands, Leon Rebibo’s phone started ringing in Los Angeles.
A pearl wholesaler, Rebibo fielded calls from more than four dozen women of all political stripes who wanted a mut... |
4c422e64ed9d2d64ec166ab0242dbe84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-sp-dolphins11-story.html | Dolphins make it a bad day for Brady | Dolphins make it a bad day for Brady
As Tom Brady prepared to take a snap, he shouted and pointed across the line, anticipating a blitz from Miami end Jason Taylor, who was lined up at middle linebacker.
Maybe Brady’s teammates didn’t hear him. They failed to block Taylor, who swooped up the middle untouched to force a... |
1aafece288dfa1a934851302398e16c8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-sp-giants11-story.html | Manning, Barber put team back in the race | Manning, Barber put team back in the race
Eli Manning and Tiki Barber put the New York Giants back in playoff shape. Chris Weinke couldn’t revive Carolina’s sinking season.
Manning threw three touchdown passes and Barber ran for 112 yards as the Giants ended a four-game losing streak with a 27-13 win over the banged-up... |
174952b751ae76fcfa66645e2a58dc6f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-sp-lakerep11-story.html | Brown rises to challenge in second half | Brown rises to challenge in second half
Kwame Brown knew he was in for a tough night when asked ahead of time whether he would be guarding Tim Duncan.
“Unfortunately, yes,” he said.
Fortunately for the Lakers, Brown came up large in the second half of the Lakers’ 106-99 victory Sunday against San Antonio.
He finished w... |
a30381a48847ee6f0eabbe07832102a4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-sp-nflroundup11-story.html | Bengals roll past Raiders, 27-10 | Bengals roll past Raiders, 27-10
Only a month ago, the Cincinnati Bengals looked as if they were on the verge of imploding. The defending AFC North champions were openly pouting and regularly losing.
Look at them now.
Carson Palmer threw for two touchdowns and Rudi Johnson ran for two Sunday, setting up a well-rounded ... |
36fe02203148dc3f526722764500a7fc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-ed-epa12-story.html | Political science | Political science
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency has been rightly criticized under the Bush administration for repeatedly allowing political appointees to run roughshod over scientists, ignoring their findings and crafting regulations that please industry but fail to protect the public. Now the agency is making th... |
e3d4e7d22e80fec94d4d6b4a950799b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-backtracking12-story.html | A revealing ’56 session with young lions of pop | A revealing ’56 session with young lions of pop
The first rock ‘n’ roll summit meeting occurred 50 years ago this month when Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins got together in Memphis’ famed Sun Records studio -- and we finally can hear the whole thing.
Various versions of the session have bee... |
c8d8bec8ca4747f284cd08e8fbe82e49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-book12-story.html | A mind for smells and a nose for writing about them | A mind for smells and a nose for writing about them
LUCA TURIN, the author of this engaging if odd book, has a rule when he is reading that he calls the “Paragraph Rule”: In almost every science textbook there is one point, usually of paragraph length, where the style of the author matches exactly one’s style of unders... |
7bdd4acd25efdd2b9efc69bdbdc4e852 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-dreamgirls12-story.html | One stage of film’s marketing is on stage | One stage of film’s marketing is on stage
Even in seen-it-all Hollywood -- which never fails to pull out the stops in a quest for Oscar gold -- one publicity campaign in particular stands out this year.
DreamWorks has been building support for its Oscar-gunning adaptation of the stage musical “Dreamgirls” by paying lic... |
3f9dcc4520e86837c9ab6b801c8ae555 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-kroq12-story.html | Crashing the boys’ club with power | Crashing the boys’ club with power
It’s been a long time since patrons at the annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas concerts have seen something like Amy Lee: a living, breathing, assertive, wailing singer of the female persuasion.
When she fronted her band Evanescence during the second night of this year’s edition Sun... |
731ad9470f820062bd2abba54e82fa61 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-quick12.2-story.html | Apology is sought from ‘View’ hosts | Apology is sought from ‘View’ hosts
An Asian American media watchdog group is demanding an apology from “The View’s” Rosie O’Donnell and Joy Behar for their recent on-air mimicking of the Chinese language.
While referring to guest Danny DeVito’s recent and highly publicized visit to their show, in which he appeared dru... |
8eb42996eec90428aea171e4be1cfd34 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-quick12.3-story.html | FINALLY | FINALLY
National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia received unanimous confirmation from the Senate Monday for his reappointment as leader of the NEA.
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95670ef48879c8e727bbe7b840290b41 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-et-quick12.4-story.html | Charles Dickens’ letter up for sale | Charles Dickens’ letter up for sale
A Christmas Day letter written by Charles Dickens is up for sale at an Amherst, N.H., auction house.
But the Dec. 25, 1849, letter penned by the author of “A Christmas Carol” and other classics contains a good deal more “bah humbug” than Christmas cheer.
In the letter to William Jerd... |
148077e6c842102d57e0223e7c84c52a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fg-briefs12.1-story.html | President targets deadly drug cartels | President targets deadly drug cartels
Mexico’s new government announced that it was sending more than 6,500 soldiers, marines and federal police to the western state of Michoacan to crack down on execution-style killings and beheadings that have left hundreds dead.
The operation is the first major offensive against dru... |
eb708b883b5d199639ed2d71ce71d4e1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fg-iraq12-story.html | Iraqi group seeks power shift | Iraqi group seeks power shift
A group of prominent politicians made up of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds said Monday that it was seeking to form an alliance that could shift Iraq’s balance of power and end months of political inaction.
Representatives of anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada Sadr were not invited to join the coalition, ... |
e5ebba266cef8a68dfdb0341764dbb91 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-briefs12.3-story.html | Short-term T-bill yields are mixed in auction | Short-term T-bill yields are mixed in auction
The Treasury Department auctioned $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 4.8%, down from 4.87% last week. An additional $16 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 4.865%, up from 4.84% last week.
The new discount rates understate the ... |
d2d93b1bd2590cf5903ac0987e732e8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-ge12-story.html | GE accuses Mexico’s TV firms of Telemundo plot | GE accuses Mexico’s TV firms of Telemundo plot
General Electric Co. lashed out Monday at a lack of competition in Mexico’s broadcasting industry and said it had been vilified because of plans by its Telemundo unit to start a network in the country.
GE said in full-page ads in several Mexican dailies that Mexico’s secon... |
25df914f6650361a7e77f59f75a97045 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-nissan12-story.html | No need to merge, Nissan CEO says | No need to merge, Nissan CEO says
Nissan Motor Co. is under no pressure to merge with a new partner, but will do so if an appropriate opportunity arises, Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn said today.
His comments follow scuttled talks between Nissan, Renault and General Motors Corp. on a merger that would have produced an a... |
13bff9c6a06982be392dde0998db53aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-prosieben12-story.html | 3 bids expected for German TV broadcaster | 3 bids expected for German TV broadcaster
ProSiebenSat.1 Media, Germany’s biggest broadcaster, is expected today to receive three competing bids valuing the company at about 6 billion euros ($7.9 billion), two people familiar with the discussions said.
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Permira Advisers are preparing a ... |
60b93b79153daebd9bb369e43586d4da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-shell12-story.html | Shell said to yield project to Russia | Shell said to yield project to Russia
Royal Dutch Shell has offered to cede control of the $22-billion Sakhalin-2 project, Russia’s biggest single foreign investment, to state gas monopoly Gazprom after months of government pressure, industry sources said Monday.
Such a deal would appear to mark a victory for the Kreml... |
57856189cc3ff5de607225bf9122518b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-skilling12-story.html | Skilling wins delay in starting sentence | Skilling wins delay in starting sentence
Former Enron Corp. Chief Executive Jeffrey K. Skilling, sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in a massive fraud that destroyed the company, won a last-minute delay of his sentence so a court could consider his motion for bail.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans on ... |
05b874669f1bf5ce5a89f55124e1d918 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-wrap12.2-story.html | Lockyer taps ex-banker to head state bond sales | Lockyer taps ex-banker to head state bond sales
California Treasurer-elect Bill Lockyer on Monday chose a former De La Rosa & Co. investment banker to take charge of handling bond sales for the state, which is the largest issuer of tax-free municipal bonds in the U.S.
Paul Rosenstiel, 56, was picked by Lockyer to direc... |
599b0c8da9bcdf13f786b7c9ac30217a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-le-tuesday12.3-story.html | House ethics and oxymorons | House ethics and oxymorons
Re “Ethics panel faults GOP leaders in Foley case,” Dec. 9
No sanctions for House leaders in the Mark Foley scandal? Representatives were concerned about protecting the fact that Rep. Foley (R-Fla.) was a homosexual? Since when does the majority of Congress worry about homosexual rights? Does... |
658456237273a5b47ccf8b24fe382c8f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-le-tuesday12.4-story.html | Passing similarity | Passing similarity
It is ironic that Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s death (obituary, Dec. 11) should follow so closely that of our former U.N. ambassador, Jeane Kirkpatrick (obituary, Dec. 9). It was her policy of excusing “authoritarian” (as opposed to “totalitarian”) dictators like Pinochet that was so helpful i... |
a64e8b7fcee3e652154fb3e93a8bc01f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-le-tuesday12.6-story.html | Time to determine Rumsfeld legacy | Time to determine Rumsfeld legacy
Re “The Rumsfeld show’s finale a classic, by golly,” Dec. 9
The Pentagon loses a giant of a man with the resignation of Donald H. Rumsfeld as Defense secretary. Time will tell a different story than the one now told by the media and shortsighted politicians who love their time in front... |
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