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cb25b085ffcc37941385b786c5237ddf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-30-fi-murdoch30-story.html | Murdoch’s Heir Apparent Abruptly Resigns His Post | Murdoch’s Heir Apparent Abruptly Resigns His Post
Relinquishing his status as heir apparent in one of the world’s most powerful media dynasties, Rupert Murdoch’s elder son abruptly resigned as deputy chief operating officer of News Corp. on Friday, raising questions about who will eventually take the reins of the famil... |
f7212154300abf6682f9571a71a0a04a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-30-fi-occidental30-story.html | Occidental to Resume Oil Operations in Libya | Occidental to Resume Oil Operations in Libya
Occidental Petroleum Corp. said Friday that it won approval from the Libyan government to resume operations there in territory the company was forced to abandon in the mid-1980s because of U.S. sanctions on the North African country.
The Westwood-based oil company said last ... |
6cee4221f9aeaa1b4c8b20630d577c29 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-31-fi-emotional31-story.html | Gadgets Include User Attachment | Gadgets Include User Attachment
Scott Rose is gaga for his iPod.
“Imagine being in a romance so perfect, you wonder how you ever managed to survive before this person came into your life,” said Rose, a 33-year-old Los Angeles computer consultant. “That’s how I feel about my iPod.”
Rose’s passion for his digital music p... |
1aa65a428751702aff808a74168c5f6e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jul-31-tm-garden31-story.html | A Little Bit of Britain | A Little Bit of Britain
There’s a long tradition of what we think of as the English garden, with its rustic cottage-swathed-in-flowers charm. In the late 1800s, British gardeners had rebelled against the formal patterns of Victorian beds in favor of looser, more romantic shapes. Leading the charge were English writer W... |
13d6389eb59ddbd28be36244cc60fe73 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-01-hy-neil1-story.html | Wow, what a trip | Wow, what a trip
THE award for automotive non sequitur of the year goes to Subaru for its new B9 Tribeca, a handsomely sculpted luxury crossover from a company generally known for putting the “ugh” in ugly.
Just keeping it real, dog. The company catalog is full of weirdly proportioned, arrhythmic and lumpy products suc... |
433e6e7c2846f157bb139aa110e6a7a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-02-me-greenhouse2-story.html | Gov. Vows Attack on Global Warming | Gov. Vows Attack on Global Warming
Vowing to lead the world’s response to global warming, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday announced a series of ambitious targets for cutting California’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80% over the next half-century, but provided few details on how the state could achieve... |
72d78954479a1d67235ba5be4cb80742 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-02-wk-lohan2-story.html | Lohan’s car hit; paparazzo arrested | Lohan’s car hit; paparazzo arrested
Lindsay Lohan earned her celebrity stripes Tuesday after a rush-hour paparazzo pursuit ended, police say, with the photographer crashing his car into the actress’ Mercedes in an attempt to get her picture. She and a companion escaped with minor injuries, and the 24-year-old North Hol... |
6e7c659e8b1269c2df29a9b635b426db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-03-fg-warm3-story.html | Arctic Warming Is Drying Up Lakes, Study Finds | Arctic Warming Is Drying Up Lakes, Study Finds
An accelerating Arctic warming trend over the past quarter of a century has dramatically dried up more than a thousand large lakes in Siberia, probably because the permafrost beneath them has begun to thaw, according to a paper to be published today in the journal Science.... |
8404fce4c362a8075fc25fca1e4e6db1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-03-me-cambodian3-story.html | Man Indicted in Phnom Penh Attacks Active in GOP Causes | Man Indicted in Phnom Penh Attacks Active in GOP Causes
Yasith Chhun often boasted to newspapers and magazines about masterminding an attack on government buildings in Cambodia and his plans to overthrow the Southeast Asian country’s communist regime.
The U.S. State Department declared the group he headed, the Cambodia... |
d7ca42d8b74c61f4baa60ba65d5184e8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-03-sp-motors3-story.html | Gordon Takes a Pounding for Complaints | Gordon Takes a Pounding for Complaints
Robby Gordon’s remarks about Danica Patrick’s 100-pound weight giving her an advantage in the Indianapolis 500 over heavier drivers would carry more weight if he were speaking of a road or street race, rather than a big oval.
So says Phil Casey, senior technical director of the In... |
95e73dda1ea8823f11c95d462310ba55 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-fg-lebanon4-story.html | Lebanese Pay Tribute to Slain Anti-Syria Writer | Lebanese Pay Tribute to Slain Anti-Syria Writer
Fellow journalists and anti-Syria politicians stood in silence and held pens aloft at a vigil Friday for Lebanese newspaper columnist Samir Kassir, who was killed by a car bomb a day earlier.
Demands continued for the resignation of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, an all... |
ac93e685935956e8906d3398ffeb10a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-04-me-areacode4-story.html | THE PREFIX IS IN | THE PREFIX IS IN
To some people on the Westside and in the South Bay, 310 is more than just an area code.
It’s a geographic marker -- one that many associate with wealth, glamour and the beach.
“It stirs up feeling of ‘Ah, Ooh.’ You always have great expectations,” said Larry Steele, who with his partners recently chri... |
316d1dbdbf56fcf1c0512f421d64f077 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-05-fg-interpret5-story.html | ‘Combat Linguists’ Battle on Two Fronts | ‘Combat Linguists’ Battle on Two Fronts
Tarik, a newly minted U.S. Army private first class, recalls his first challenge in Iraq: convincing fellow GIs he wasn’t a terrorist.
The 24-year-old Morocco native was among the first graduates of a U.S. military program to provide Arabic-speaking “combat linguists” for America... |
ef790d674ed9379c94f9feca82f7c8f6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-06-me-oleary6-story.html | Jean O’Leary, 57; Groundbreaking Lesbian Activist | Jean O’Leary, 57; Groundbreaking Lesbian Activist
Jean O’Leary, a pioneering lesbian activist who helped raise discussion of gay equality to a national level through a historic White House meeting in 1977 and who battled for gay rights in employment and on other fronts, died Saturday of lung cancer in San Clemente. She... |
71c99b026d171e886348aebdf66f8140 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-08-fg-ambassador8-story.html | Bush Nominee for Top Envoy Unveils Plan | Bush Nominee for Top Envoy Unveils Plan
President Bush’s nominee to be ambassador to Iraq offered a seven-point plan Tuesday to tackle the challenge of stabilizing the troubled country, but experts questioned whether chaotic conditions there would allow him to set it in motion.
Testifying at a Senate Foreign Relations ... |
998594e63919258281aa8bf7d54ad05c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-08-fg-security8-story.html | U.S. Marines Detained 19 Contractors in Iraq | U.S. Marines Detained 19 Contractors in Iraq
U.S. Marines forcibly detained a team of security guards working for an American engineering firm in Iraq after reportedly witnessing the contractors fire at U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians from an armed convoy, the military said Tuesday.
After three days of detention in jai... |
44998eac7f721a65bbafce541a0ff99f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-10-et-galleries10-story.html | At once childlike and monstrous | At once childlike and monstrous
Nature is almost always described with feminine attributes, starting with motherhood. Perhaps that’s also why women are regularly assigned the role of civilizing agent for society’s brutal and authoritarian play of power. Tokyo-based artist Chiho Aoshima collapses these contradictory cha... |
a7f97842ad1d5187b4459b001fc0ec5d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-10-fg-mistake10-story.html | Disputed Iraq Raids Blamed on Bad Intelligence | Disputed Iraq Raids Blamed on Bad Intelligence
Erroneous U.S. raids targeting Sunni Arab political organizations were the result of bad intelligence mistakenly linking the groups to insurgent activity, a senior U.S. military official said Thursday.
Raids on the two Sunni offices last month inflamed sectarian tensions a... |
553e72f9e579b0a5cef2bb3a6046315b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-10-oe-chait10-story.html | Envy Them? No. Tax Them? Oh Yeah. | Envy Them? No. Tax Them? Oh Yeah.
There are certainly subjects that liberals refuse to discuss without resorting to hysteria and name-calling. (Ask Harvard President Lawrence Summers, who has spent much of the year groveling abjectly for having delicately suggested the possibility that maybe inherent differences play a... |
5f4c1a48d259b02e6c6c636573235063 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-11-et-hilton11-story.html | Gay pride parade hails Paris Hilton and mom | Gay pride parade hails Paris Hilton and mom
When asked to be co-grand marshal of the Los Angeles Gay Pride celebrations this Sunday in West Hollywood, celebutante Paris Hilton answered with her trademark, “That’s hot.”
But some gay activists are offended that the 24-year-old heiress and her mother, Kathy Hilton, have b... |
97362bda15e17f0731985a8ce2bda558 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-11-fg-mexgas11-story.html | Oil and Robbers Make for a Volatile Mix in Mexico | Oil and Robbers Make for a Volatile Mix in Mexico
The thieves are nothing if not brazen, backing their tanker trucks right up to refinery terminals and hauling away thousands of gallons of gasoline at a time.
They mix the good gas with junk additives, including solvents and used motor oil, then sell the adulterated bre... |
cbd70e1280aef13be00d3490e73ba350 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-12-na-patriot12-story.html | Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right | Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right
A closed-door vote by the Senate Intelligence Committee last week to expand law enforcement powers under the USA Patriot Act is prompting sharp criticism from some conservative leaders who are otherwise among the most vocal allies of President Bush and the Republican leadership in ... |
d58ae033bb91baaa6974d5a467feca03 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-12-re-hotprop12-story.html | Dr. West’s Topanga house call | Dr. West’s Topanga house call
Rick Schroder and his wife, Andrea, have purchased a 21-acre ranch in Topanga for about $4.2 million. The couple recently listed their nearly 15,000-acre Mesa Mood Ranch in Colorado at $29 million.
The actor-writer-director, 35, made his home on the range near Grand Junction, Colo., for 15... |
c39841722da7729a456beaf0381d6815 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-13-fi-golden13-story.html | Optimism as NASA Chief Charts New Course | Optimism as NASA Chief Charts New Course
“We’ve gone from what I would say is the worst morale we’ve had in the 23 years I’ve been here, to some of the best,” the NASA engineer told Michael Griffin, “and the trajectory is still up.”
Griffin was presumably gratified, if a little mystified, at this effusive vote of confi... |
26008f926c3747135644fcb2e64407d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-14-fg-uskorea14-story.html | Official Says U.S. Won’t Do as N. Korea Demands | Official Says U.S. Won’t Do as N. Korea Demands
A senior State Department official said Monday that he believed North Korea wanted to return to six-nation talks on its nuclear weapons program, but that the United States would not parrot language demanded by North Korea like a circus animal to lure Pyongyang back to the... |
9aa7efd311673df310e4057905f840a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-17-fg-nukes17-story.html | U.S. Warns Iran on Nuclear Issue | U.S. Warns Iran on Nuclear Issue
The United States continued its drumbeat of criticism of Tehran’s efforts to obtain nuclear capability Thursday, saying it would not tolerate an Iran with nuclear bombs.
Separately, Washington warned North Korea that the U.S. would look at “other options” unless Pyongyang returned to si... |
b28669eee7b9f90ebb5b2400fcce3f50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-19-na-jones19-story.html | In a Military Stronghold, a War Hawk Circles Back | In a Military Stronghold, a War Hawk Circles Back
With its sprawling military bases and huge population of military retirees, eastern North Carolina has believed in the Iraq war, and sacrificed for it, like few other regions.
But as summer heat has settled over the piney lowlands in recent days, a debate has unexpected... |
6870ab6a2fd77ab58343bb712ae7a9bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-20-me-quake20-story.html | Aftershocks Persist in Wake of Bigger Quakes | Aftershocks Persist in Wake of Bigger Quakes
Aftershocks from strong earthquakes last week continued to ripple throughout California over the weekend.
A magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck 129 miles off the coast of Eureka at 2:27 a.m. Sunday, just south of the epicenter of a 7.2 magnitude quake Tuesday night that prompted... |
b2b5ae89d4b70fa442c1668cc29b6337 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-20-oe-ivins20-story.html | Never Steal a Turkey in Lubbock, and Other Tales of Texas Justice | Never Steal a Turkey in Lubbock, and Other Tales of Texas Justice
The U.S. Supreme Court rules yet again that another Texas case was wrongfully decided -- this time because 19 of 20 blacks had been knocked off the jury pool -- and I’m asked to explain what’s wrong with criminal justice in Texas, in 750 words. Sure, no ... |
e66f2154562747369887f2759608e8bd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-21-na-wiki21-story.html | ‘Wikitorial’ Pulled Due to Vandalism | ‘Wikitorial’ Pulled Due to Vandalism
The Los Angeles Times has canceled a novel Internet feature that allowed readers to rewrite an editorial on the newspaper’s website, after some users sabotaged the site with foul language and pornographic images.
The newspaper launched the experimental “wikitorial” Friday and killed... |
0bd3ef1c73274e5f984aea7766fdf089 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-23-fi-rup23.3-story.html | Microsoft Pushes Anti-Spam Technology | Microsoft Pushes Anti-Spam Technology
Microsoft Corp. is stepping up the pressure on e-mail senders to adopt its Sender ID spam-fighting technology despite problems that could send as many as 10% of legitimate messages to junk folders.
By the end of the year, Microsoft’s Hotmail and MSN services will get more aggressiv... |
54b17e7db3a853855cc95b9a91a3d8b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-23-oe-boot23-story.html | Why the Rebels Will Lose | Why the Rebels Will Lose
No wonder public support for the war is plummeting and finger-to-the-wind politicians are heading for the exits: All the headlines out of Iraq recently have been about the rebels’ reign of terror. But, lest we build up the enemy into 10-foot-tall supermen, it’s important to realize how weak the... |
6f3bb6cdc669fc43ea9b3cf2050a8fdb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-25-fg-cia25-story.html | Italy Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Operatives | Italy Orders Arrest of 13 CIA Operatives
An Italian judge has ordered the arrest of a group of CIA operatives who investigators believe kidnapped a radical Egyptian imam from the streets of Milan and bundled him off to Cairo, where he said he was tortured.
As part of the inquiry, Italian police Thursday night raided th... |
8e6e5c95995d9fb563e84826c9595977 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-26-ca-stunts26-story.html | It’s a life of hard knocks | It’s a life of hard knocks
It is a chilly evening on the set of the Warner Bros. television pilot “Supernatural” as 70-year-old Hollywood stuntman Eddy Donno climbs behind the wheel of a black Chevy Impala, adjusts his goggles and revs the engine.
Wearing a mop-haired wig to double for an actor, Donno waits for the dir... |
84dea6322ec7fde21cb2c13166e8c186 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-26-me-baldwin26-story.html | Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful | Immigration Protest in Baldwin Park Is Peaceful
A face-off Saturday in Baldwin Park over illegal immigration, sparked by a piece of public art, was peaceful despite authorities’ fears of violence.
Next to City Hall, where about 60 protesters opposed to illegal immigration waved signs and American flags, about 600 count... |
cf27a131e0b31eb417a869edbc35adcf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-27-fg-tribunal27-story.html | Tribunal Issues Video of Hussein’s Lieutenants | Tribunal Issues Video of Hussein’s Lieutenants
The Iraqi tribunal investigating members of Saddam Hussein’s regime released a videotape Sunday showing two of the ousted dictator’s half-brothers being questioned about their alleged role in displacing and killing Kurds.
The Iraqi Special Tribunal also stressed that it wa... |
041ddcf15813f17029f1f9ba2b9cf00c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-27-fi-fat27-story.html | Insurers Weigh Surgery Risks | Insurers Weigh Surgery Risks
It’s not unusual for doctors and insurance companies to clash over coverage. But when it comes to obesity surgery, insurance companies disagree even among themselves.
Worried about the safety and costs of stomach stapling and similar weight-loss operations, many insurers have tightened elig... |
62e929250c557860972571028917e02e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-27-oe-barash27-story.html | Does God Have Back Problems Too? | Does God Have Back Problems Too?
In 1829, Francis Henry Egerton, the eighth Earl of Bridgewater, bequeathed 8,000 pounds sterling to the Royal Society of London to pay for publication of works on “the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation.”
The resulting “Bridgewater Treatises,” published be... |
d9ce1bd67cbe50531e8f2141341c55d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-28-fg-iran28-story.html | EU Urges Iran to Stay With Halt on Uranium | EU Urges Iran to Stay With Halt on Uranium
European negotiators urged Iran’s president-elect Monday to maintain a suspension of uranium enrichment activities, a day after he promised to restart the nation’s controversial nuclear program.
The call came as two inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency arrive... |
0704636d61cc81e985e72a29cc4df642 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-28-oe-lott28-story.html | The Big Lie of the Assault Weapons Ban | The Big Lie of the Assault Weapons Ban
This wasn’t supposed to happen. When the federal assault weapons ban ended on Sept. 13, 2004, gun crimes and police killings were predicted to surge. Instead, they have declined.
For a decade, the ban was a cornerstone of the gun control movement. Sarah Brady, one of the nation’s ... |
23e0e592e72c0894ab88557c144a7384 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-30-fi-rup30.3-story.html | Home Depot to Test Convenience Stores | Home Depot to Test Convenience Stores
Home Depot Inc. will put convenience stores selling gasoline and food next to four of its Nashville warehouse stores to increase customer visits.
The shops, some with car washes, will open in December in a pilot program that could be expanded to other Home Depot stores, the Atlanta... |
a2a129a4ec68a56b934114be1247c79e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-30-na-intel30-story.html | Spy Czar Gains Clout | Spy Czar Gains Clout
President Bush on Wednesday handed Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte broad authority over America’s disparate and often-competing spy agencies, bringing U.S. domestic and foreign intelligence operations more closely under White House control.
Bush ordered the changes three months... |
0206f65755299c38d411fa8a03187c2b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-30-na-medicaid30-story.html | Senate Takes On Medicaid Loopholes | Senate Takes On Medicaid Loopholes
Congress is considering a crackdown on financial planning strategies increasingly favored by middle-class families to shift the cost of nursing home care for elderly parents onto the federal government.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) denounced the pract... |
a3e056c37fb7fec14535e60b3740785d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-jun-30-na-rehnquist30-story.html | It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Uncertainty | It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Uncertainty
The possible retirement of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has taken shape as a hulking storm front approaching this anxious city. It won’t rain. It won’t blow over. It’s just parked there. Rumbling.
An entire industry of activist groups is waiting to lurch into action should ... |
393aa4ab942416cde793a55b768b738d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-01-oe-winans1-story.html | High Cost of Media Circuses | High Cost of Media Circuses
When Martha Stewart leaves prison this weekend, she will walk into the arms of a media circus and a commercial juggernaut that promises to turn what would be a shameful moment for anyone else into a triumph of marketing. There’s something terribly wrong with this picture, and what it says ab... |
390cf8af7f5a6666cdf88440036c1316 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-02-me-nibley2-story.html | Hugh Nibley, 94; Mormon Scholar, Professor and Author | Hugh Nibley, 94; Mormon Scholar, Professor and Author
Hugh Nibley, a Mormon scholar, historian and gadfly who defended his faith yet openly criticized what he saw as many members’ conformity and materialism, has died. He was 94.
Nibley died Thursday in Provo, Utah, in the small, green house where he lived for 50 years.... |
d849045df82a2d542833762f85174232 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-03-fg-chat3-story.html | N. Korea, Without the Rancor | N. Korea, Without the Rancor
He arrived at the entrance to a North Korean government-owned restaurant and karaoke club here in the Chinese capital with a handshake and a request. “Call me Mr. Anonymous,” he said in English.
This North Korean, an affable man in his late 50s who spent much of his career as a diplomat in ... |
53253f5ecc635fece98515e9dcb9264c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-03-me-marathon3-story.html | A very L.A. marathon | A very L.A. marathon
For the more than 22,000 runners and a legion of volunteers, this Sunday’s Los Angeles Marathon and bike tour will showcase the City of Angels. The top women runners start at 7:57 a.m., followed 20 minutes and 30 seconds later by the top men. The route is mostly on the flatter, faster course first ... |
fa260d29f37fc910552c137a74f31033 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-03-sp-bryant3-story.html | Bryant and His Accuser Settle Civil Assault Case | Bryant and His Accuser Settle Civil Assault Case
Kobe Bryant and the woman who accused him of sexual assault settled her civil lawsuit out of court Wednesday, marking the end of an often-graphic 20-month legal saga that drew worldwide attention but never resulted in a trial.
Bryant and the 20-year-old woman said in a s... |
dc974e983d9e2ebbd7727d7e3fd7f0af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-04-fg-condition4-story.html | N. Korea Lists Conditions for Negotiations | N. Korea Lists Conditions for Negotiations
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il told a Chinese envoy last week that his country would resume talks over its nuclear weapons program only if it got assurances that the United States had no hostile intent and a promise that its negotiators could speak directly to the Americans, ... |
b414a9dc594850092b4228ba84701d56 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-04-oe-chait4-story.html | When Democrats Join the Dark Side | When Democrats Join the Dark Side
Not long ago, I was listening to Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) being interviewed, and I was struck at how intelligent and morally serious he was. Biden is justly viewed as a smart foreign policy hawk, but he also expressed his opposition to Social Security privatization in a particularly luc... |
cf7ca1b58e62490918fc557ad61872a7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-06-me-deathpen6-story.html | Death Row Often Means a Long Life | Death Row Often Means a Long Life
When prison guards strapped nervous three-time killer Donald Beardslee to a gurney and administered a lethal injection just after midnight here Jan. 19, it was the first California execution in more than three years.
Beardslee, who in 1981 brutally murdered two young San Francisco-area... |
72282e51f0d7f783f9691723676aa814 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-06-me-rbriefs6-story.html | Chimp Attack Survivor in Stable Condition | Chimp Attack Survivor in Stable Condition
A West Covina man who was attacked Thursday by a pair of chimpanzees was in stable condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center, according to his wife, who spoke Saturday on NBC’s “Today” show.
St. James Davis lost all of his fingers, an eye, part of his nose, cheek and li... |
341e10261fce49b198de9d58d7346ffd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-06-re-guide6-story.html | A part of the city, yet apart from it too | A part of the city, yet apart from it too
Verdant Bel-Air is divided into two distinct parts. The strictly residential lower portion consists of relatively flat acre-plus older estates north of Sunset Boulevard. Upper Bel-Air meanders north to the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains and has somewhat smaller post-Wo... |
8650c080d7479a679010d2c4446ef4e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-07-me-arnold7-story.html | At His Fitness Fair, Gov. Pushes for Fitter Fare | At His Fitness Fair, Gov. Pushes for Fitter Fare
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime advocate of healthier food in schools, said Sunday that all “junk food” in vending machines on California campuses should be replaced with nutritious snacks such as fresh vegetables.
“I think we should use our vending machines in th... |
c9119e7cac6ba3bbceeaccce901476ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-07-me-slo7-story.html | ‘Skateboard Murder’ Stuns Town | ‘Skateboard Murder’ Stuns Town
Horrified residents call it the “Skateboard Murder,” a description chilling enough for its reference to the object allegedly used to kill 87-year-old Gerald O’Malley.
But the label’s combination of youthful plaything and mortal violence also summons a ghastlier element of the case: that t... |
aa6e9c40e6e0f13b4b8dc76d00465db9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-09-me-hahn9-story.html | Hahn’s Record Draws Yawns From Voters | Hahn’s Record Draws Yawns From Voters
Mayor James K. Hahn projected confidence when talking about his reelection bid on a local radio talk show last April. “I’m going to run on my record,” he told listeners.
That record has proved a tough sell.
Two things Hahn touted as his primary achievements-- his successful fight a... |
de8ae1b4156146f0dc9160965d16dc67 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-10-me-pork10-story.html | State Audit Finds Misuse of ‘Pork’ Money | State Audit Finds Misuse of ‘Pork’ Money
A state audit of pet projects funded at the behest of various lawmakers found widespread misuse of the money, with investigators concluding that more than $1.1 million never went where it was supposed to go or cannot be accounted for.
The report, which was released Wednesday by ... |
891f1bb7a5ed2343f41affce2a4dcc98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-10-me-surf10-story.html | Surf’s Up and So Is the Chance of Flooding | Surf’s Up and So Is the Chance of Flooding
It’s the kind of weather forecast surfers love: big waves and no rain to ruin the fun.
Even as work crews in coastal Orange County cities began bracing for another round of flooding and erosion, thanks to a powerful storm off Alaska, local surfers were making plans to take adv... |
90137d232d73c3276c42416866e36c76 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-12-ed-nato12-story.html | The French Definition of ‘Help’ | The French Definition of ‘Help’
It’s official: France is suddenly trying to help the United States in Iraq.
President Jacques Chirac said to NATO leaders in late February that “France wants to contribute to stability” in Iraq. The contribution? Some $660,000 to a NATO fund for military and police training in Iraq and o... |
697d7cca76c58087d030cfc9d74e0b9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-13-re-solar13-story.html | Skies to brighten for solar? | Skies to brighten for solar?
Decades since the energy crises of the ‘70s sparked research and interest in turning sunlight into power, solar panels have yet to arrive in the mainstream of residential building in Southern California.
Largely the domain of environmentally conscious homeowners who add systems to existing ... |
7372ba05bea49b9e7e6f20902e6b5435 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-14-fg-videos14-story.html | Extreme Cinema Verite | Extreme Cinema Verite
When Pfc. Chase McCollough went home on leave in November, he brought a movie made by fellow soldiers in Iraq. On his first night back at his parents’ house in Texas, he showed the video to his fiancee, family and friends.
This is what they saw: a handful of American soldiers filmed through the gr... |
c7820d8eaf85ce6e24179eb9bfd08416 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-14-fi-dissearch14-story.html | Questioning Disney Search’s Legitimacy | Questioning Disney Search’s Legitimacy
When he announced that Robert Iger would be Walt Disney Co.'s next chief executive, Chairman George J. Mitchell went to great lengths to deflect criticism that the hiring process was flawed.
In a conference call with reporters, Mitchell emphasized that the search was exhaustive, p... |
0ff1816295c8227035d4eda9d4d6bf60 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-14-fi-eisner14-story.html | It Was Eisner’s Show to the End | It Was Eisner’s Show to the End
During just the last year, Michael Eisner has weathered several storms, any one of which could have sunk a less seasoned, or stubborn, executive.
In March 2004, after Walt Disney Co. shareholders blistered him with a 45% vote of no confidence, he was removed as chairman of the board. Lat... |
1d75a76e1234df1097c822789ce99530 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-19-et-book19-story.html | Phyllis Diller keeps brightening corners | Phyllis Diller keeps brightening corners
In the late 1950s, Phyllis Diller was not only a successful female comedian, she was pretty much the only one. Drag queen impersonators notwithstanding, there’s still no one like her.
Excerpts from Diller’s routines run throughout her autobiography, “Like a Lampshade in a Whoreh... |
94f4d8ad8d7679762d07745a25b51076 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-20-fg-briefs20.2-story.html | 41 Die as Flood Sweeps Truck Into River | 41 Die as Flood Sweeps Truck Into River
A flash flood washed a tractor-trailer carrying pilgrims from a Muslim shrine off a road and into a fast-flowing river in central Pakistan, killing at least 41 people, police said.
The torrent of water hit the truck late Friday as it crossed a riverbed near Dera Ghazi Khan, 50 mi... |
9d59517ce3f27594a62efeaa1299d7f5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-20-fi-jecon20-story.html | Outsiders Now Insiders as Corporate Japan Casts Off Unprofitable Ways | Outsiders Now Insiders as Corporate Japan Casts Off Unprofitable Ways
The management training seminar at Ajinomoto Co. was nothing out of the ordinary until the participants were directed to a tiny house on the food company’s campus here. There they took turns sitting on a tatami mat as a tea master, dressed in a red k... |
9208d1cdfdb2f8826ac61f69767630f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-20-na-schiavo20-story.html | Congress Gives Parents a Voice in Schiavo Case | Congress Gives Parents a Voice in Schiavo Case
With the clock running down on how much longer Terri Schiavo can remain alive, congressional leaders Saturday announced an unprecedented agreement that would allow Schiavo’s parents to petition the federal courts to have a feeding tube replaced for their brain-damaged daug... |
a261a170824afdf2df5e6dd0129f37f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-21-fi-brandx21-story.html | Justices Take Up Future of Net Access | Justices Take Up Future of Net Access
Jim Pickrell’s business -- providing Internet service to about 350 residential, government and business customers -- may be doomed. But he’s not giving up without a fight.
While keeping two dozen servers running and stuffing billing statements into envelopes, the owner and only ful... |
c8c01c3febe83d0ca0f7c8b490d62559 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-21-na-schiavo21-story.html | Bush Approves Schiavo Review in U.S. Court | Bush Approves Schiavo Review in U.S. Court
Capping a day and night of political, legal and emotional drama, Congress passed and President Bush signed legislation early this morning permitting the parents of a brain-damaged Florida woman to ask a federal judge to order her feeding tube reconnected.
The president, who tr... |
6fef9a25081f19922b74ba5a544bf12a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-23-fg-sudan23-story.html | Darfur Shooting May Speed U.N. Action | Darfur Shooting May Speed U.N. Action
A 26-year-old U.S. aid official was shot in the face in Sudan’s Darfur region Tuesday when her convoy was ambushed, an incident likely to lend more urgency to a U.S. push to resolve the humanitarian crisis in the African nation.
State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the United... |
9ad816df38e59fc60c5e78f534922567 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-23-fg-uslebanon23-story.html | With Lebanon, Washington Shows ‘Soft’ Side of Power | With Lebanon, Washington Shows ‘Soft’ Side of Power
Over dinner in Brussels last month, President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac hashed out a strategy to force a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon that included keeping pressure on Damascus and accepting a political role for the powerful Lebanese militant group He... |
5b927c4514cca26595ac7f1482fbb10d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-24-me-graduate24-story.html | Nearly Half of Blacks, Latinos Drop Out, School Study Shows | Nearly Half of Blacks, Latinos Drop Out, School Study Shows
Nearly half of the Latino and African American students who should have graduated from California high schools in 2002 failed to complete their education, according to a Harvard University report released Wednesday.
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, ... |
963a01329266481622680c85d1cf8c6e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-24-me-juvenile24-story.html | Juvenile Courthouse Opening Celebrated | Juvenile Courthouse Opening Celebrated
Ventura County officials celebrated the opening of a juvenile courthouse in El Rio on Wednesday with laudatory speeches, a marching band and lots of bad hair.
Winds whipped across the front lawn of the limestone-and-glass building during a ceremony marking completion of the long-a... |
d5d2ff45eea6bea5cec6a46c7172eb21 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-24-me-lawsuit24-story.html | Gov. Wins Initiative Fundraising Case | Gov. Wins Initiative Fundraising Case
California politicians can raise unlimited amounts of money to promote ballot initiatives, a judge said Wednesday, handing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger a significant victory as he promotes his political agenda this year.
In a preliminary ruling, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelle... |
224b95df652575baa75a47a5e387e943 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-24-na-judges24_-story.html | For Schiavo, Republicans Invite Federal Activism | For Schiavo, Republicans Invite Federal Activism
The legal struggle over the fate of Terri Schiavo is exposing what some see as a credibility gap for the Bush administration, Republicans in Congress and social conservatives who want to rid the federal judiciary of so-called activist judges and even strip them of author... |
38fbf9f5080650edd029fcc8495e727c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-25-fi-nazi25-story.html | Yahoo Seeks Legal Protection | Yahoo Seeks Legal Protection
Yahoo Inc. asked a federal appeals court Thursday for legal protection for U.S.-based Internet portals whose content is protected by the 1st Amendment, but is illegal in foreign countries.
Some of the judges acknowledged the need for a shield for American companies in such situations, but s... |
bc789e25b3c0969f60c61ee358f8b534 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-26-fg-russia26-story.html | Russia Fumbles, and Former Sphere of Influence Deflates | Russia Fumbles, and Former Sphere of Influence Deflates
The revolt in Kyrgyzstan that toppled Russia’s strongest ally in Central Asia was the result of the latest in what analysts say is an astonishing and painful series of diplomatic missteps by Moscow.
Three largely nonviolent revolutions over the last 16 months have... |
4f7aecee75822583122940f35a093bed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-27-me-then27-story.html | ‘Girl Photog’ Was Headline News During the 1940s | ‘Girl Photog’ Was Headline News During the 1940s
Helen Brush Jenkins got her start in newspapers by showing off photos of snakes. And no, they weren’t slithering around the newsroom.
Jenkins was a Los Angeles newspaper photographer well before women had secured a place in the media. She didn’t take society-page picture... |
03a8a500ca81feaf836a39368c3461f9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-27-na-delay27-story.html | DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads | DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads
A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal -- without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the debate raging outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice.
The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak a... |
de278bb52f0e4bcafc09169f47077772 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-27-sp-plaschke27-story.html | PUT IN HIS PLACE | PUT IN HIS PLACE
Aisle 25, first row, seats 1, 2, 3, 4.
Numbers to anyone else, but a life’s work for Irving Zeiger, who has had the best seats in the house for as long as there has been a house.
Zeiger mailed his initial deposit for Dodger season tickets while the team was still in Brooklyn, reportedly the first check... |
534efedab954b5a53b22088ee57681ef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-28-na-assess28-story.html | ‘Culture of Life’ Issues Split GOP | ‘Culture of Life’ Issues Split GOP
Over a roller-coaster week, the Terri Schiavo case demonstrated both the political gains religious conservatives have achieved over the last generation and the challenges they still face in building a consensus for their agenda.
The aggressive intervention by President Bush and congre... |
b70065db56395a3a7346974cfeb35c5e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-29-fi-rup29.1-story.html | Cigarette Maker Told to Pay $18.8 Million | Cigarette Maker Told to Pay $18.8 Million
A New York jury told Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA to pay $18.8 million to a woman who said smoking gave her lung cancer, her lawyer said.
Norma Rose, 72, and her husband, Leonard, won the verdict, which includes $17.1 million in punitive damages, from Philip Morris, th... |
6c16ff4a662e520e28ca1126ab2bca87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-29-oe-fanton29-story.html | U.S. Obstructs Global Justice | U.S. Obstructs Global Justice
When a United Nations commission of inquiry recommended this year that gross human rights abuses in Darfur be referred to the new International Criminal Court, Pierre-Richard Prosper, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes issues, made headlines by rejecting the idea. “We don’t want t... |
26964098ace1c5f05d66290685dfddc9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-31-fi-wattles31-story.html | Founder of Hollywood Video May Sell Entire Stake in Chain | Founder of Hollywood Video May Sell Entire Stake in Chain
The founder and former head of Hollywood Entertainment Corp. may sell all of his remaining shares in the video rental chain before its sale to smaller rival Movie Gallery Inc., according to a filing with U.S. regulators Wednesday.
Mark Wattles, who last week off... |
855b458799c23bf39ce5d02badf03ec9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-mar-31-na-bolton31-story.html | Democrats Set to Reject Pick for U.N. | Democrats Set to Reject Pick for U.N.
Democrats are likely to vote unanimously against John R. Bolton when his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations comes before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee next week, according to Democratic and Republican lawmakers and aides.
It would be the first time that... |
c1fef0d37d39c2ad18a0cfb86b0affac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-01-adna-command1-story.html | Space Shuttle, Yes; Space Mountain, Oh No | Space Shuttle, Yes; Space Mountain, Oh No
Eileen Collins, commander of the next space shuttle mission, is eager to strap herself into a rocket ship loaded with explosive fuel and fearlessly shoot from zero to 1,000 mph in a minute flat.
Just don’t ask her to get on a roller coaster.
Collins -- the first woman to pilot ... |
1fde26e3ac78fbaa680b2739d64d0f77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-01-fg-stalin1-story.html | Stalin Has Foot Back on the Pedestal | Stalin Has Foot Back on the Pedestal
The last public statue of Josef Stalin in Moscow stands forlornly in a postmodern graveyard of Communist-era monuments here, missing part of his nose.
But more than 500 miles away, in the city once known as Stalingrad, the infamous Soviet leader is getting more respect.
Authorities ... |
ef65517ca9c5fe040571c6ff8762e86b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-01-oe-weigel1-story.html | The Spiritual Malaise That Haunts Europe | The Spiritual Malaise That Haunts Europe
America’s “Europe problem” and Europe’s “America problem” have been debated for years. The debate is usually framed in terms of policy differences: over prosecuting the war on terrorism; over the United Nations’ role in world affairs; over the Kyoto Protocol on the global enviro... |
737ac5169a704163361c15a966d5784d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-04-0e-sartwell4-story.html | Wikipedia: See ‘Information,’ ‘Amazing,’ ‘Anarchy’ | Wikipedia: See ‘Information,’ ‘Amazing,’ ‘Anarchy’
Encyclopedias -- whether paper (Britannica, for example) or software (Encarta) -- are intended to be representations of the scope of human knowledge at the moment of their publication. This idea, of course, has a long history. But the most interesting thing about it ma... |
1244bee57431172e6e998a538fa34499 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-04-fo-matters4-story.html | A proper noir mystery | A proper noir mystery
It was a most intriguing e-mail.
Joe Gargiulo, a publicist based in Sonoma County, was alerting me to what he called the “coming-out, 2002 vintage” of Adelaida Cellars’ Hoffman Mountain Ranch Pinot Noir, the first from new winemaker Terry Culton, made in the Adelaida district of Paso Robles.
But i... |
40bccdac7bf51a1fb4dd98b5df55137b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-06-fi-blockbuster6-story.html | Blockbuster CEO, Icahn Hurl Barbs During Call | Blockbuster CEO, Icahn Hurl Barbs During Call
John Antioco could have used a pause button Thursday.
The chief executive of beleaguered video rental giant Blockbuster Inc. found himself in a nasty telephone debate with dissident shareholder Carl Icahn during what otherwise was a conventional earnings conference call wit... |
9ca8acafc4e2fe0802c0f3f69ccd81c1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-08-fg-history8-story.html | Like Japan’s, Chinese Textbooks Are Adept at Rewriting History | Like Japan’s, Chinese Textbooks Are Adept at Rewriting History
When Li Xuanyao, a student at Beijing’s No. 55 Middle School, wants to learn about the Great Leap Forward, she has her work cut out for her. Mao Tse-tung’s disastrous 1950s policy, which saw 30 million Chinese die of starvation, is relegated to a few paragr... |
9f56074cbd83b5c36cb3a2338fe40c63 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-08-op-putin8-story.html | It’s OK to Scold the Backslider | It’s OK to Scold the Backslider
Before George W. Bush touches down in Moscow this week, he should reread his second inaugural address. In that speech, Bush made clear that advancing freedom and liberty around the world is going to be the foreign policy focus of his second term. His legacy in foreign affairs will now be... |
c06c111f459a896798df33f03bad3cec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-09-na-myers9-story.html | General Ranked on Rumsfeld Campaign | General Ranked on Rumsfeld Campaign
Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers is preparing to leave public service with the distinction of being the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ever to preside over two wars. But inside the Pentagon, debate about his tenure focuses as much on a third front -- guarding the uniforme... |
16ac9ca44643f787d51b0554e5cbeb1d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-10-me-traffic10-story.html | L.A. Traffic Moving a Bit Faster | L.A. Traffic Moving a Bit Faster
It may be hard to believe -- especially if you drive to work on U.S. Highway 101 or Interstate 405 -- but traffic congestion in Los Angeles and Orange counties eased off a little bit, according to a national report released Monday by the Texas Transportation Institute.
Residents of Los ... |
d538f4a92fe6044f266445ee1c699b9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-11-fi-yahoo11-story.html | Yahoo Offers Subscription Service for Online Music | Yahoo Offers Subscription Service for Online Music
Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc. is expected to launch a deeply discounted music service today, betting that low prices and personalized features will lure customers away from the troves of free but illicit music online.
With 176 million users, Yahoo is the biggest playe... |
f71c052819845e1d8ca1be31b9208499 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-11-na-cheney11-story.html | Court Lets Cheney Keep Talks Secret | Court Lets Cheney Keep Talks Secret
A federal appeals court threw out a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday and ruled that he was free to meet in secret with energy industry lobbyists in 2001 while drawing up the president’s energy policy.
The ruling, which was expected, all but ends a four-year legal... |
7fd0ceb6fa3dc6f66afb98efd5084266 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-12-fg-platoon12-story.html | AN UNSEEN ENEMY | AN UNSEEN ENEMY
The Marines of Kilo Company were on the fourth day of an offensive against insurgents in western Iraq, but they had seen little action Wednesday until a loud boom rocked this Euphrates River village, followed by the frantic screams of young troops.
They stopped their convoy and looked back to see an amp... |
bcd820598f8737370bb7e886b670cfa8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-may-12-na-bias12-story.html | Muslims Cite a Rise in Hate Crimes | Muslims Cite a Rise in Hate Crimes
The number of reported bias crimes and civil rights violations committed against Muslims in the United States reached its highest level last year since the period immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a report finds.
The report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations ... |
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