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6325a001f2ad4f5ed9d33d2647d5c421 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-26-sp-bush26-story.html | New Link in Bush Case | New Link in Bush Case
New details emerged Tuesday suggesting that Reggie Bush’s family had significant ties to -- and perhaps a business agreement with -- an aspiring sports marketer who hoped to sign the USC tailback as a client.
The relationship, laid out in court documents and interviews, has come under investigatio... |
bc92301f073edff2ecdd68cd945949ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-27-fi-oilimage27-story.html | Oil Firms Cast as Villains | Oil Firms Cast as Villains
Oil company earnings have never been sweeter. Stock prices are up. Shareholders are pocketing ever-bigger dividends. By nearly every measure, the petroleum industry is in its heyday.
But in the realm of public opinion, things could hardly be worse.
Motorists paying up to $3.50 a gallon for ga... |
2c9a3084fdfe37502cb245a3256e7f2b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-27-na-palestine27-story.html | A Tank Shot and Its Echo | A Tank Shot and Its Echo
In her tidy living room, Maria Isabel Permuy keeps lighted candles next to photos of her dead son, Jose Couso. Consumed by grief, she believes American soldiers murdered him as he filmed the battle for Baghdad from the Palestine Hotel three years ago this month.
Half a world away, in Kentucky, ... |
00e12c36169cba65946d008a2c6009ad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-27-sp-sanchez27-story.html | USC’s Sanchez Arrested by LAPD | USC’s Sanchez Arrested by LAPD
USC quarterback Mark Sanchez, who was battling to become the Trojans’ starter, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of sexual assault.
Los Angeles Police Department officers took the 19-year-old redshirt freshman into custody about 4 p.m., after a female USC student told police she had bee... |
d468dea8b698639712120b3dc44bc41a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-28-et-lost28-story.html | Maybe it all adds up online | Maybe it all adds up online
Get ready to get more “Lost” than ever.
Beginning Wednesday, when the popular mystery drama returns to the ABC schedule with original episodes for the entire month, fans will have new and, of course, mysterious ways to get clued into a new “Lost” world that begins on the Internet but also wi... |
1d6a01c5c6b23d2fa3bc63098b825f6f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-fg-drugs29-story.html | Mexican Senate OKs Possession of Small Amounts of Drugs | Mexican Senate OKs Possession of Small Amounts of Drugs
The Senate approved a bill Friday decriminalizing possession of small quantities of drugs for personal use -- including heroin, cocaine, LSD and Ecstasy.
President Vicente Fox’s office indicated that he would sign the bill, which has already passed the lower house... |
099e5da87f3d80c454b498724b5d7091 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-boycott29-story.html | National Boycott Plans Creating a New Divide | National Boycott Plans Creating a New Divide
Los Angeles restaurant worker Jose Mendez says he will risk his job.
The 45-year-old illegal immigrant plans to skip work and march for immigrant rights on Monday for one reason: He hopes someday to become a legal resident of the United States. After six years here, he wants... |
7aa2b1ae4ea0732762b41a100f478741 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-carhop29-story.html | End of the Road for Drive-In | End of the Road for Drive-In
Roll up your windows; it’s time to go home.
Ontario’s A&W; drive-in, the last root beer stand in Southern California with carhop service, is closing Sunday.
In the birthplace of fast food, where car culture is king, the carhop is going the way of the Model T.
For 46 years, the curbside serv... |
72185db4b12c4369d61f068799dea422 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-racks29-story.html | News Rack Destroyed in ‘Bomb’ Scare | News Rack Destroyed in ‘Bomb’ Scare
A newspaper promotion for the upcoming movie “Mission: Impossible III” misfired Friday when a Los Angeles County sheriff’s arson squad blew up a news rack, thinking it contained a bomb.
Instead, the Los Angeles Times coin machine near the intersection of Sand Canyon and Soledad Canyo... |
c2ea4e584639815387a2469b8e3ac053 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-me-sweeps29-story.html | Sweep Rumors Raise Worries for Immigrants | Sweep Rumors Raise Worries for Immigrants
With planned rallies and a boycott for immigrant rights just days away, rumors are spreading throughout California that la migra is conducting sweeps at bus stops, schools and work sites.
The reports of random arrests by immigration agents have caused fear among many illegal im... |
e1454138a764945292120db66bcf2298 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-na-limbaugh29-story.html | Limbaugh Deal Avoids Drug Prosecution, Defense Says | Limbaugh Deal Avoids Drug Prosecution, Defense Says
Radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh was booked on drug charges in Florida on Friday, and his lawyer said that Limbaugh had agreed to a deal enabling him to avoid prosecution in the prescription abuse case if he continued treatment for addiction problems and avoided any... |
ec522132d5adab8f984421acaf93ba1b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-na-parsons29-story.html | Contractor’s Plans Lie Among Ruins of Iraq | Contractor’s Plans Lie Among Ruins of Iraq
Parsons Corp., the Pasadena engineering firm that won one of the largest rebuilding contracts in postwar Iraq, fell dramatically short of a number of goals, according to interviews and documents that cite shoddy work and negligent government oversight.
The firm was to have reb... |
e7cd8bb33f582f483f9abe4248e99d99 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-na-terror29-story.html | U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism | U.S. Reports a Surge in Global Terrorism
The State Department’s annual report on global terrorism, released Friday, concludes that the number of reported terrorist incidents and deaths has increased exponentially in the three years since the United States invaded Iraq, largely because of Iraq itself.
The report also sa... |
671f3f2784054c4e7add19524a546eac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-29-sp-bush29-story.html | Bad News for Bush | Bad News for Bush
As the hours ticked down toward the NFL draft, Reggie Bush hurried to various promotional appearances around the city, flanked by security guards, ducking tough questions the way he usually sidesteps tacklers.
As news swirled Friday that he wouldn’t be the No. 1 pick, the former USC tailback faced an ... |
8344b3b1895fd6744d7907f44a2740c3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-30-ca-fasttracks30-story.html | A Stripe nursing a grudge? | A Stripe nursing a grudge?
HELL hath no fury like a White Stripe scorned.
To wit: the group’s frontman, Jack White, pleaded guilty in 2004 to assault and battery after an argument with Von Bondies’ singer Jason Stollsteimer escalated into a bar punch-up that left White’s fellow Detroit rocker with facial bruises and a ... |
85cc4d103c43b93cdb5b01b664d34f34 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-30-sp-usc30-story.html | FALLING STARS | FALLING STARS
USC’s football program, already embroiled in controversies surrounding Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and quarterback Mark Sanchez, now faces a new issue involving an upscale apartment that All-American receiver Dwayne Jarrett shared with former quarterback Matt Leinart.
School compliance officials are... |
d433122dff1d89b17f3494d7f45e1ed2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-01-fg-afghanistan1-story.html | 8 Killed by Blast at Funeral for Afghan Warlord | 8 Killed by Blast at Funeral for Afghan Warlord
A car bomb apparently targeting a provincial governor leaving a funeral killed eight people Monday as NATO took command of the first ground combat mission in the alliance’s 57-year history.
The bomb, which was hidden in a police car, exploded outside a mosque 12 miles sou... |
24f279eea9e12d21ad578d792578abcf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-01-fg-mexico1-story.html | Boulevard Blockade Prompts Grumbling in Mexico City | Boulevard Blockade Prompts Grumbling in Mexico City
Work crews pounded stakes into the roadway and raised steel frames for the giant tarps that rose Monday over Paseo de la Reforma, the capital’s grand boulevard that protesters overnight turned into a pedestrian walkway.
Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obr... |
a9c8c9d9459d85794c6bc14e25b5cbb5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-02-me-avenues2-story.html | 4 Latino Gang Members Are Convicted of Anti-Black Plot | 4 Latino Gang Members Are Convicted of Anti-Black Plot
Four members of a Latino gang in Highland Park were found guilty Tuesday of unleashing a barrage of assaults and killings to push African Americans out of the predominantly Latino community in northeast Los Angeles.
The verdicts in a downtown federal courtroom mark... |
d7730101f91f6ee07dd96f0f0c81d946 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-02-me-hamdan2-story.html | Buena Park Man Revels in His Reunion With Family | Buena Park Man Revels in His Reunion With Family
A tired but jubilant Abdel Jabbar Hamdan thanked supporters Tuesday and said that after being jailed for two years on suspicion of having terrorist ties, he just wanted to get his life in order again.
“The first thing I did when I saw my family was to hug them and I said... |
ba2a116913a2319d84b1138a1a38eed9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-02-me-ocregistrar2-story.html | County Orders Inquiry of Voter Official | County Orders Inquiry of Voter Official
Orange County supervisors decided Tuesday to order an investigation into the registrar of voters’ illegal handling of petitions to recall the Capistrano Unified School District trustees.
The supervisors voted unanimously to spend as much as $25,000 to hire a retired registrar to ... |
5062d2dadfe04d84005c43914d278f31 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-02-na-house2-story.html | GOP Sees Few ‘Safe’ House Seats | GOP Sees Few ‘Safe’ House Seats
Election day was five long months away, but Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-Ohio) decided to air her first television campaign ad early to set the tone for what promised to be a tough reelection fight.
But when the ad was broadcast in June, it contained an embarrassing error. Pryce’s first name wa... |
73afcff059a44067a94ef06b404e1842 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-03-fg-probes3-story.html | Officers Allegedly Pushed ‘Kill Counts’ | Officers Allegedly Pushed ‘Kill Counts’
Military prosecutors and investigators probing the killing of three Iraqi detainees by U.S. troops in May believe the unit’s commanders created an atmosphere of excessive violence by encouraging “kill counts” and possibly issuing an illegal order to shoot Iraqi men.
At a military... |
d0a3c64777477532cac3376e04dc79ce | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-03-fi-defaults3-story.html | Mortgage Default Notices Soar 67% | Mortgage Default Notices Soar 67%
As the housing boom fades, a rising number of Californians are struggling to hold on to their homes.
Lenders warned 20,752 homeowners in the second quarter that they were on the path to foreclosure because of missed payments, according to data Wednesday from DataQuick Information Syste... |
50df798f005eeb25c7426709e0510414 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-03-na-toxics3-story.html | Senate Panel Weighs Toxic Chemicals Law | Senate Panel Weighs Toxic Chemicals Law
At the first Senate hearing in more than a decade to review the nation’s toxic chemicals law, the Bush administration on Wednesday agreed with chemical industry representatives that the 30-year-old statute was strong enough to protect public health.
James B. Gulliford, an assista... |
d077ff35e235528a56e069b9d2aaf9ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-04-et-pinkberry-story.html | The taste that launched 1,000 parking tickets | The taste that launched 1,000 parking tickets
This is a story about yogurt, but it is also about entrepreneurship, financial and cultural expectations, beating the heat, beating the caloric system and parking. It’s a feel-good story about an ambitious 32-year-old Korean woman whose small business has become successful ... |
371ce28e35418679693f26470d26afb3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-04-fg-diary4-story.html | Day to Day Among the Viet Cong | Day to Day Among the Viet Cong
“No, I am not a child. I am grown up and already strong in the face of hardships, but at this minute why do I want so much a mother’s hand to care for me? ... Please come to me and hold my hand when I am so lonely, love me and give me strength to travel all the hard sections of the road a... |
333f4ff91bc25d169d87afec3c941b0c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-04-fg-qana4-story.html | Officials Say 28 Died in Qana, Not 54 | Officials Say 28 Died in Qana, Not 54
Five days after Israeli airstrikes demolished a building where dozens of people had taken shelter in the town of Qana, human rights investigators and medical authorities have confirmed 28 deaths, well below the official toll of 54.
A doctor at the government hospital in Tyre, where... |
29a320e459aa2872f62a6d953a386530 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-04-fi-tower4-story.html | Firms Said to Stop Supplying Tower Records | Firms Said to Stop Supplying Tower Records
At least three major music companies cut off CD shipments to Tower Records on Thursday after record executives said that the iconic music retailer had stopped paying its bills.
Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Group sources confirmed privately that each ... |
74c36731842ac4d8b3b611c1c43767a1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-05-me-capo5-story.html | Dubious Ties Taint Capistrano District | Dubious Ties Taint Capistrano District
The Capistrano Unified School District Board of Trustees has approved hundreds of thousands of dollars in contracts with a construction consultant that employs the school board president’s daughter.
Additionally, the district’s director of construction failed to disclose his wife’... |
3b09f9e840e8bed1e527cdb95ff1df9a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-05-me-dems5-story.html | Hollywood Trio Endorses Governor | Hollywood Trio Endorses Governor
Some of Hollywood’s most reliable and generous donors to the Democratic Party -- Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and media mogul Haim Saban -- are endorsing Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bid for reelection.
Their support is partly a matter of friendship over partisanship. But it cou... |
1f8fb925f6864bed8aa3c0c5e66487a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-06-fg-mexico6-story.html | No Full Recount in Mexico | No Full Recount in Mexico
The Federal Electoral Tribunal on Saturday unanimously rejected a petition for a full recount in Mexico’s presidential election, setting the stage for escalating protests by supporters of losing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador who last week blockaded the capital’s main boulevard.
In an e... |
fac16488d1c0bdeee0fcde2edbee9e7a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-06-fg-soldiers6-story.html | Israeli Soldiers Expected Lesser Foe | Israeli Soldiers Expected Lesser Foe
From his position in a Lebanese village, Israeli infantryman Alon Gelnik could hear the Hezbollah missiles exploding closer and closer, until one slammed into the ground just yards from him.
There was a flash and a jolt that threw him to the ground. Trembling, he crawled to safety, ... |
c24d8de020594690d17fae1562868ecd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-06-re-fraud6-story.html | Nigerian 419 scam is back, with a twist | Nigerian 419 scam is back, with a twist
When real estate agent Jennifer Caveness decided to sell her Huntington Beach town house recently, she listed the two-bedroom, two-bathroom property in the Multiple Listing Service, the traditional method of attracting sellers. She also advertised it on two popular websites, Crai... |
8eefbd03f72fd2b6051a088013c8cfad | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-07-fi-policyboom7-story.html | Weighing High-Tech Bills in Analog | Weighing High-Tech Bills in Analog
Halfway through a recent House hearing on MySpace and other online social networks, lawmakers had to switch gears to deal with another technology issue: a vote on Internet gambling.
But Congress isn’t exactly a haven for the tech-savvy. The alert to rush to the House floor was deliver... |
8e7644c0739c56abb59f389ef605554b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-07-he-themd7-story.html | Signs of intelligence? | Signs of intelligence?
MELANIE GERSTEN started signing to her son, Zachary, when he was a newborn. At 3 months he started using the sign she had taught him for milk, and by 9 months he was developing some degree of fluency, picking up most signs she presented to him.
Both Gersten and her son have superb hearing. The Ga... |
5d0431e5601a339c3c95c7901553e7b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-08-me-books8-story.html | Key Provision Cut From Bill on Gays in Texts | Key Provision Cut From Bill on Gays in Texts
Facing a certain veto, state lawmakers have abandoned their effort to require that textbooks in California schools detail the history and achievements of gays and lesbians in America.
Supporters removed that provision of the gay rights bill, which passed the California Senat... |
e68d2fc859ea2f0d5b73fa75271f96a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-08-na-gop8-story.html | GOP Leaders Are Hoping to Turn the War Into a Winner | GOP Leaders Are Hoping to Turn the War Into a Winner
Some Republican candidates are distancing themselves from President Bush in fear of voter discontent with the war in Iraq. But a new GOP strategy memo argues that the war could prove to be an advantage for many Republican candidates, citing it as one of the most effe... |
5c60835eeaeee851b5b4c9b33ce725b3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-09-fi-sempra9-story.html | Sempra Ordered to Turn Over Tapes | Sempra Ordered to Turn Over Tapes
Sempra Energy and more than a dozen other energy companies must provide hundreds of hours of recorded conversations with their natural gas traders to attorneys who are hoping to prove that they illegally inflated prices for California gas customers, a judge ruled Tuesday.
The ruling, w... |
b5a526b119bc8984ee8d97815d5ceac2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-09-me-christian9-story.html | UC Loses Bid to Stop Christian School Suit | UC Loses Bid to Stop Christian School Suit
A Los Angeles federal judge said Tuesday that he would allow a discrimination lawsuit filed against the University of California by a small Christian school in Riverside County to proceed.
Acting in a case that is being closely tracked by educators and free speech advocates na... |
21714ad7f20999e657aaeac93bd31962 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-09-oe-boot9-story.html | It’s time to get radical | It’s time to get radical
PRESIDENT BUSH admitted in late July that the security situation in Baghdad was “terrible” and announced that he was sending more troops to quell the violence. Because this is what I advocated in a May 24 column, I should be happy with the president’s decision. But, alas, as with so many Americ... |
cf8df1e45a60ba3765797f606c36ca4c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-10-fi-viacom10-story.html | Viacom Isn’t Going Private, Redstone Says | Viacom Isn’t Going Private, Redstone Says
Viacom Inc. Chairman Sumner M. Redstone dashed cold water Wednesday on the much-rumored idea that the media conglomerate might address its lagging stock price by going private.
“We like the company exactly as it is,” Redstone said. “We think it’s going to grow tremendously,” he... |
141e03a7d25057dac5849db969ef818e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-10-sp-simers10-story.html | A Signature Moment for This Relationship | A Signature Moment for This Relationship
We almost won, we almost won.
Had the streak continued, we would have been in first place, but that’s all right, the guys are still great, and it’s like I was telling my bro Jeff Kent before the game, we’re one big family around here when the Dodgers are going good.
Now you’ve p... |
7cebe915179b847d3a88f59dd26cc7d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-11-fg-farmers11-story.html | Hope Has Withered for India’s Farmers | Hope Has Withered for India’s Farmers
He found his father’s body during his early-morning chores. Sixteen-year-old Vijay Chatale had barely adjusted his eyes to the gloom in the dirt-floor kitchen when he looked up and saw his dad hanging from one of the rafters.
Tragedy also struck the Gurnule household in the nearby ... |
bc287de6e0b26fa7b69c53c98b988516 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-11-sp-ucla11-story.html | Defense Takes a Hard Line Against Past Efforts | Defense Takes a Hard Line Against Past Efforts
The last time UCLA had a big, physical defensive line was 2003 when the Bruins controlled the line of scrimmage behind a group led by Dave Ball and Rodney Leisle.
Since then, however, it has been a different story for the Bruins, as opponents have roughed up their front-li... |
27abafb54cede4dbb717bab16776fc3d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-12-fg-pakistan12-story.html | Pakistan’s Arrests Leave U.S. Uneasy | Pakistan’s Arrests Leave U.S. Uneasy
The trail of evidence in the British terrorism investigation is leading to an uncomfortable question for the Bush administration: Is Pakistan -- and not Iraq, Afghanistan or some other country -- the central front in the war on terrorism?
The alleged conspiracy described by British ... |
296aa91a7fd7f54abbc99c00e99f2ab3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-12-sp-ucla12-story.html | Olson, Cowan Battling for Spot | Olson, Cowan Battling for Spot
UCLA Coach Karl Dorrell is keeping open the quarterback competition involving sophomores Ben Olson and Patrick Cowan, but he has not ruled out selecting a starter before next week’s scrimmage.
“I’ve thought about that, but we still have some camp work to do,” Dorrell said after UCLA compl... |
55402b092132da57af6fcf4bb71fffc2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-13-op-santiago13-story.html | My murderous moment with Fidel | My murderous moment with Fidel
It’s a horrifying feeling to wake up every morning wishing someone was dead. Yet, that is the way it has been for millions of Cubans for almost 50 years.
How strongly this death wish is embedded in the Cuban consciousness became apparent to me 10 years ago. I was working on a short-lived ... |
21e9ec4855beccc748b11c9f4c9a8321 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-14-fi-global14-story.html | Hostile Climate Greets Governor’s Plan to Save Earth | Hostile Climate Greets Governor’s Plan to Save Earth
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is running for reelection as a self-styled bold leader, who can boost the business climate at the same time he protects the planet from global warming.
But Schwarzenegger’s latest plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions beginnin... |
267bd3eacc70cde9028912aa45ea75c6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-14-sp-tv14-story.html | ESPN Set to Add Vermeil for Game | ESPN Set to Add Vermeil for Game
ESPN, which kicks off its regular-season coverage of “Monday Night Football” on Sept. 11 with a doubleheader, is expected to announce today that it has hired Dick Vermeil to work the second game as a commentator.
The former UCLA and NFL coach will join play-by-play announcer Brad Nessle... |
1571b3b0bd38e6500aa2e5ebd02ec271 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-15-et-goldstein15-story.html | Critics’ voices become a whisper | Critics’ voices become a whisper
WHO says critics don’t matter anymore? The new trailer for Paramount’s upcoming numskull comedy “Jackass: Number Two” is full of quotes from reviews of the first movie. There’s just one tiny twist: The studio uses the vitriolic reviews attacking the first film (“A disgusting, repulsive,... |
b49d79d2b4bb0fd7f4e70ce148ebf29e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-15-fi-thornberg15-story.html | Real Estate Economist Leaves UCLA Forecast | Real Estate Economist Leaves UCLA Forecast
Bearish real estate economist Christopher Thornberg, who says the Southern California housing market is a bubble beginning to pop, has left UCLA Anderson Forecast to strike out on his own.
Thornberg, 38, will continue to teach economics at UCLA but will no longer be part of th... |
ee21c4dd9e2884c3947437384e6f7adc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-15-me-capo15-story.html | Officials Raid O.C. School District | Officials Raid O.C. School District
Orange County district attorney’s investigators raided the Capistrano Unified School District office Monday, seizing at least one computer and reviewing documents in the superintendent’s office. They also handed out grand jury subpoenas to an unspecified number of district employees.... |
c1a3b91bc1a7b02ee5f903302a79c15d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-16-me-bells16-story.html | Saga of the Bells Comes Full Circle | Saga of the Bells Comes Full Circle
The ladies did the heavy lifting 100 years ago.
So it was fitting that their descendants in the California Federation of Women’s Clubs and the Native Daughters of the Golden West on Tuesday helped ring in the El Camino Real bell’s second century.
Members of the two groups helped stat... |
25edaa444b5deef3a606e8f9aef12f01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-16-me-kernsuit16-story.html | L.A. Fights Kern County Sludge Ban | L.A. Fights Kern County Sludge Ban
In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Los Angeles challenged a recently passed Kern County law that bars the city from dumping some 250,000 tons of sewage sludge annually on farm fields near Bakersfield.
The ban was overwhelmingly approved in June by Kern County voters, who were convinc... |
af85c382d392d32d31bc3a1af765ded7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-16-sci-planets16-story.html | Round and Orbity? Must Be a Planet | Round and Orbity? Must Be a Planet
There goes the solar system.
The elite society of nine lordly bodies of rock, ice and gas would grow to at least 12 and as many as 53 members under a new definition of “planet” proposed Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union.
The core of the definition? Planets are round. And... |
97a329d4f308c90593ea27918b7cb00c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-17-me-missions17-story.html | Church-State Issues Topple Proposal to Restore Missions | Church-State Issues Topple Proposal to Restore Missions
Concerned over possible church-state conflicts, legislators have rejected an effort to channel state funds into the restoration of California’s deteriorating missions.
The proposal by state Sen. Abel Maldonado (R-Santa Maria) would have brought the question of sta... |
f3609b0269a27b396d9125869f45c109 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-17-na-terror17-story.html | Extremists Are Homing In on the Internet, Says Gonzales | Extremists Are Homing In on the Internet, Says Gonzales
Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales said Wednesday that more than 5,000 Internet sites were being used by extremists to train and coordinate internationally, filling the gap caused by the crackdown on the Al Qaeda terrorist network.
He also rebutted allegations circula... |
a319fb884af66b42f8f451ca8bab2139 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-17-oe-candaele17-story.html | Organize, don’t politicize | Organize, don’t politicize
LAST MONTH, the Chicago City Council voted to require all big-box stores -- those with at least 90,000 square feet of retail space -- to pay their employees a “living wage”: $9.25 in 2007, $10 in 2010, and inflation-indexing thereafter. Although the move will affect large retailers such as Se... |
56ce43c8221fb6ce5b56c03f6ecdf4c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-17-wk-shakira17-story.html | Shakira’s dance of dynamism | Shakira’s dance of dynamism
Shakira is one of the most successful musician of Lebanese descent on the planet. The Colombian-born singer is also Latin pop’s defining crossover artist; call her the most charismatic rock star of the new century and you wouldn’t be wrong, either. Nobody has more of a right to claim the ove... |
c42804e1a0a783d18a2a87203dc83f38 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-18-ed-nsa18-story.html | Listen to the judge | Listen to the judge
IN THE LATEST JUDICIAL REBUKE of the Bush administration’s tactics against terrorism, a federal judge in Detroit ruled Thursday that warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens violates the Constitution and federal law. The decision is an embarrassment for President Bush, but it also should be a source... |
7adb4cefad651c067b949ad6d406ecc3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-18-et-rhoades18-story.html | He left behind one last puzzle | He left behind one last puzzle
When Los Angeles artist Jason Rhoades died suddenly this month at age 41, most published obituaries said the cause of death was unknown, pending autopsy results. Others cited the cause as heart failure, per one of Rhoades’ primary art dealers.
For this enigmatic artist -- known for large-... |
b10bafeca09c32dfdafb42210d015e4f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-18-fi-krispy18-story.html | Nothing Left but the Hole in the Middle | Nothing Left but the Hole in the Middle
Fans and employees of Krispy Kreme went from glazed to confused Thursday morning as the chain’s La Habra store -- the first on the West Coast -- pulled down its signs, packed up its doughnut mix and shut its doors for good.
From opening day in January 1999, the workers toiling in... |
b246cd39b42549db00462c0e8a6b7717 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-18-me-mannequin18-story.html | Store Mannequin in a Suit -- a Lawsuit, That Is | Store Mannequin in a Suit -- a Lawsuit, That Is
“Attack of the Mannequins” might sound like a horror film title, but, for some shoppers, it could also be a documentary.
Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster sued the J.C. Penney Co. last month after she was allegedly thwacked on the head by a department store dummy.
Newton s... |
2a88ccf7f84cd710bae933fe867f4ed1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-19-fg-trial19-story.html | Activist’s Trial Proceedings Called Unfair | Activist’s Trial Proceedings Called Unfair
A blind Chinese activist who attracted international attention by defending villagers forced to undergo late-term abortions went on trial Friday, but only after Chinese authorities arrested his main lawyer.
Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer, has been charged with illegal a... |
f43b3d0a1db240f595b657745568d664 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-fg-stalemate20-story.html | Mexico Bracing for Social Unrest | Mexico Bracing for Social Unrest
A line of armored vehicles awaits outside Mexico’s Congress building. Most are brand-new and have never seen action. But many Mexicans wonder whether their menacing presence is a harbinger of this divided country’s future.
Federal authorities deployed the tanks to prevent supporters of ... |
0a941b1bf97b316e2e8f4a4810f4c4d1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-fi-radio20-story.html | The Reason KZLA Up and Left for Another Fan | The Reason KZLA Up and Left for Another Fan
Cowboy crooners know that more country music is sold in Los Angeles than anywhere else, a distinction on display Thursday night when singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw opened the first of three sold-out shows at the Staples Center.
But Los Angeles listeners would have trouble ... |
e29f55c0db24b647c0d0b1d69bcedf70 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-me-anderson20-story.html | Victim’s Resolve Brings Down a Star of Science | Victim’s Resolve Brings Down a Star of Science
The girl set the showdown for the oak-shaded lawn in front of the South Pasadena public library, a lovely spot for an ugly encounter.
She was a high school student with a painful secret that surfaced on her wrists, scarred where she had cut herself.
He was William French A... |
7f6970bcae4426e806e879ccc4b3dcba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-me-gop20-story.html | Gov. Tries to Calm GOP Anger | Gov. Tries to Calm GOP Anger
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to narrow his rift with conservatives Saturday by casting himself as tougher on illegal immigration than his Democratic challenger, Phil Angelides, but failed to quell a Republican revolt over his call for billions in borrowing for housing and school constru... |
2ed54921632ef47bb6823be9825b9a13 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-20-oe-chait20-story.html | Can you believe that they believe that? | Can you believe that they believe that?
SINCE ALMOST immediately after Sept. 11, 2001, Republicans have been saying that the Democratic approach to fighting Islamic radicalism is to curl up in a little ball and hope the bad men go away. President Bush constantly asserts things such as: “Some say, ‘Well, this is just a ... |
44d191ab2753323428fa880a2edd5659 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-21-et-channel21-story.html | Let’s just dance the news away | Let’s just dance the news away
Sometime between the Israeli-Hezbollah cease-fire and the arrest of a suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey slaying last week, a story of grave national import broke on the newswires.
Yes, MSNBC host Tucker Carlson will waltz -- or perhaps tango, lambada or funky-chicken -- across our screens as... |
338e9d8873facb4e3abfbbb3593b83fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-21-me-cap21-story.html | Angelides Banking on Working People to Come to Rescue | Angelides Banking on Working People to Come to Rescue
Treasurer Phil Angelides is sitting on the front edge of a chair, hand gestures flying, trying to convince me he still has a crack at being elected governor.
“The fact is that after a barrage of $40 million in negative ads against me -- add up what was spent in the ... |
e5efccf7292a4a1c92a3707022dbd250 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-23-fi-cyberpol23-story.html | ‘Yes on Prop. 87' Group Sued Over Cyber No-No | ‘Yes on Prop. 87' Group Sued Over Cyber No-No
For many Web surfers this week, a simple search request led to a crude awakening.
Anyone looking for information on Proposition 87, a proposed tax on oil produced in California, and going to the “No on 87" website was instead redirected to “Yes on 87.” At least for a while.... |
e5a20cf0cdbd6f92d8d5098648690087 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-23-fo-surfas23-story.html | Will Surfas stay or will it go? | Will Surfas stay or will it go?
PEOPLE say one can’t fight City Hall, but Les Surfas is giving it a valiant try.
As local blog watchers are aware, Surfas and his eponymous restaurant supply and gourmet food store in Culver City have lately been the focus of frenzied online speculation now that Culver City has decided t... |
086c938dd857501c7a7824bb5001dc59 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-23-fo-wine23-story.html | Loire wines: So much to love | Loire wines: So much to love
WHEN sommeliers speak of wines from the Loire Valley, a funny thing happens to their tone of voice. It gets softer, more tender, as if they’re not talking about wine anymore, but maybe showing you pictures of their children.
“I love each one of them for slightly different reasons,” says Lou... |
24a79b17951b9b055dba1a633c1beb68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-23-oe-rassam23-story.html | Iran hostage crisis, take 2 | Iran hostage crisis, take 2
IF THE ANTIWAR CROWD and Democrats have their way, the United States will be Iran’s hostage once again. An immediate pullout from Iraq would be a victory for Iran, a regime that has declared its ambitions to wipe Israel off the map and establish a caliphate throughout the Middle East. If we ... |
ef5ebbdcb75154fbc92c2e88616bb257 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-24-fi-fallingstar24-story.html | Money Is the Real Star in Hollywood | Money Is the Real Star in Hollywood
Being a big Hollywood star means getting luxury cars as gifts, visiting exotic locales on the studios’ dime and cashing checks with lots of zeros.
But the traditional -- and often extreme -- deference shown A-listers is changing along with the economics of Hollywood, as demonstrated ... |
6d855e77c9fec7fc1ff736a02f6156ee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-24-oe-conant24-story.html | Yoga in combat boots | Yoga in combat boots
YOGA MAGAZINES seldom fail to offer a glossy dive into the sandalwood-scented world of downward-facing dog poses, toned bodies and organic tank tops. But the August edition of Fit Yoga magazine is an exception. Turn to Page 6 and you’ll see a pair of mildly euphoric U.S. naval aviators on the deck ... |
340495fa9e9c3628a64feaee2fce826e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-ed-ownership25-story.html | What can we own? | What can we own?
MEDIA COMPANIES IN THIS COUNTRY face unreasonable government restrictions on their activities. Yet for the Federal Communications Commission, rewriting the ownership limits for television and radio stations has been a labor fit for Sisyphus. The commission updates the rules every few years, as required... |
b43f39e3bf04279e6eef746792a12e98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-fi-walmart25-story.html | Wal-Mart Reaches Out, Gets Slapped | Wal-Mart Reaches Out, Gets Slapped
For Wal-Mart Stores Inc., even trying to make new friends is controversial.
The Bentonville, Ark.-based company is joining the corporate advisory council of the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. But not all of its usual supporters -- nor some gay activists -- welcomed the ... |
2093a5f8d09270b19c80edfbeebd4ebb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-na-scotus25-story.html | Integration Plans Opposed | Integration Plans Opposed
The Bush administration has urged the Supreme Court to strike down voluntary school integration programs across the nation that exclude some students because of their race.
Administration lawyers filed briefs this week in pending cases from Seattle and Louisville, Ky., on the side of white par... |
8a44ad2cbef2bd906e4ac5f6829136c4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-25-sci-pluto25-story.html | Pluto Learns Eight Is Enough for Planets | Pluto Learns Eight Is Enough for Planets
Like the Edsel, the Flying Wing, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the ninth planet became a relic of history Thursday when international astronomers meeting in the Czech Republic decided Pluto was too small to remain a full member of the planetary club.
Members of the Internatio... |
d0d4ac63a7d0a60d240869a90882a2b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-26-fg-amara26-story.html | Looters Descend on Iraqi Camp After British Soldiers Pull Out | Looters Descend on Iraqi Camp After British Soldiers Pull Out
Looters ravaged a former British base near the southern Iraqi city of Amarah on Friday, a day after the remaining troops abruptly pulled out in what followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr hailed a victory over the “occupiers.”
The scene at Camp Abu ... |
137a2c563cc6c2dd81986d721d2eb080 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-26-fi-pbs26-story.html | PBS to Sell Banner Ads on Website for Children | PBS to Sell Banner Ads on Website for Children
PBS plans to resume selling advertisements on its popular PBS Kids website, angering parents, children’s advocates and consumer watchdog groups concerned that the plan would pollute one of the last commercial-free bastions for kids on the Internet.
“Children are basically ... |
5f99b4248ce00227f52052620cb7d594 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-27-me-fadl27-story.html | Islamic Law Professor Fears Unseen Enemy | Islamic Law Professor Fears Unseen Enemy
Who wants Khaled Abou el Fadl dead?
The question has haunted the UCLA Islamic law professor since April, when he says a bullet whizzed past his ear and lodged in a book as he was standing near his living room bookshelf in front of his open front door.
His fears intensified this ... |
329561cde6da9e462ce7de67da3bb843 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-me-mccollum28-story.html | Vashti Cromwell McCollum, 93; Won Her Case Against Religion in Schools | Vashti Cromwell McCollum, 93; Won Her Case Against Religion in Schools
Vashti Cromwell McCollum, the Illinois housewife whose objection to her son’s taking religious training in school led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling affirming the separation of church and state in public education, has died. She was 93.
McC... |
f57e2cf9cd71f3066d459d76fb7301fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-me-paradox28-story.html | Healthier Than You Might Expect | Healthier Than You Might Expect
Thousands of Latino patients stream though the East Los Angeles practice of Dr. Hector Flores and his partners each year.
The older ones go to the family practice with arthritis and hypertension, the younger ones with diabetes and asthma.
What surprises Flores, however, is not how sick t... |
3de1979dcfb7405a4bcca3c6bbbec67a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-me-watertaxi28-story.html | Floating the Idea of Southland Water Transportation | Floating the Idea of Southland Water Transportation
One man boarding the WaterBus on this sunstruck afternoon in Marina del Rey is headed home after a beer at a waterfront restaurant. A weary couple clambers on with two bikes. The motor whirs loudly as the little craft moves into the channel, seagulls cawing overhead.
... |
8a37df2c9de56ee09d97baafbba9fc48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-na-ernesto28-story.html | Ernesto Drops to Tropical Storm Status | Ernesto Drops to Tropical Storm Status
Hurricane Ernesto lashed southern Haiti with 75-mph winds Sunday, and despite slowing to tropical-storm speeds as it bore down on Cuba, the erratic tempest prompted Gulf Coast officials from Florida to Louisiana to scramble emergency response teams.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared ... |
e3d1e09791817b848b639c45ec56b54d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-na-missile28-story.html | U.S. Set for Biggest Missile Defense Test in 18 Months | U.S. Set for Biggest Missile Defense Test in 18 Months
The U.S. military will test its missile defense system Thursday, the fullest demonstration since a pair of tests grounded the program 18 months ago.
Military officials are seeking to lower expectations. Although a target missile will be fired from Kodiak Island, Al... |
3afd85808fe2c57fbbb15ffc3521a454 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-28-oe-doherty28-story.html | What is it? That’s a burning question | What is it? That’s a burning question
TWENTY YEARS AGO, a pair of San Francisco bohemians, Larry Harvey and Jerry James, burned a handmade wooden effigy on San Francisco’s Baker Beach. That simple gesture, through word of mouth, attracted more participants in following years, and by 1990 the crowds pushed it off the be... |
d41aa03d5c961c0184f1686cad8d5e2f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-29-et-katrina29-story.html | Wonder, Marsalis, others prepare Katrina benefit jam | Wonder, Marsalis, others prepare Katrina benefit jam
Ticket sales have been far from spectacular, but Ivan Neville says performing at the same Hurricane Katrina anniversary concert tonight as Stevie Wonder is going to be incredible no matter how many people are there.
“What an honor,” said the New Orleans keyboardist a... |
cf531b2705b93909266596cb7165e98a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-29-me-flow29-story.html | L.A., O.C. Traffic Patterns to Switch | L.A., O.C. Traffic Patterns to Switch
When planners designed Southern California’s freeway system, one goal was to get commuters from their homes in suburban Orange County to their jobs in Los Angeles County.
But Orange County’s days as primarily a bedroom community have been over for a long time, and transportation of... |
ab29cb534ee3454151ee67a83b86990e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-30-fg-terror30-story.html | Three More Charged in Alleged Bomb Plot | Three More Charged in Alleged Bomb Plot
Three British Muslims arrested during an investigation of an alleged plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners were charged Tuesday with conspiracy to murder and commit acts of terrorism, police said.
Mohammed Yasar Gulzar, Mohammed Shamin Uddin, 35, and Nabeel Hussain, 22, brought to... |
bd69c2106e4e77480210edc613b2f34e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-30-oe-weiner30-story.html | The positive model that isn’t | The positive model that isn’t
DOES HISTORY provide any models suggesting that the unhappy war in Iraq might have a happy ending? Journalists and military experts are pointing hopefully to the U.S. war in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century as an example of how Americans can fight a tough guerrilla insurgenc... |
a3593e83cb298cc144d1600ebd2a259f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-aug-31-me-stefano31-story.html | Joseph Stefano, 84; Was Screenwriter Behind ‘Psycho,’ ‘Outer Limits’ | Joseph Stefano, 84; Was Screenwriter Behind ‘Psycho,’ ‘Outer Limits’
Joseph Stefano, who wrote the screenplay for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller “Psycho” and was the influential first-season producer-writer of the 1960s science-fiction anthology TV series “The Outer Limits,” has died. He was 84.
Stefano, who under... |
cf13f4bc4ca9309cd566c4b59f149d79 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-ed-email01-story.html | Raiding your inbox | Raiding your inbox
IN THE LATEST illustration of the Bush administration’s disregard for your privacy, the Justice Department is trying to convince a panel of federal judges that the FBI should be free to read your e-mail without obtaining a warrant.
It’s not all your e-mail -- only messages left on a Web-based system ... |
957dbf558e8532c232961dce8d87076b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-01-et-rudy1-story.html | $75,000 a case? He’s buying | $75,000 a case? He’s buying
DRESSED IN scruffy jeans, a tight, gray T-shirt and cowboy boots, Rudy Kurniawan slid into a front-row seat at a Christie’s Beverly Hills auction room. He didn’t blend with the cashmere and Cole Haan crowd hoping to pick up a few bottles of rare and old wine. And it wasn’t just his wardrobe.... |
2529dfbfbb8a599c5251c7dae6b2fca3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-03-ca-apocalypto3-story.html | Waiting for the end to come on ‘Apocalypto’ | Waiting for the end to come on ‘Apocalypto’
SQUANDERING precious resources is one of many underlying themes in Mel Gibson’s “Apocalypto” and it became a recurring theme during production.
Consider this oft-repeated account from the crew on location in Veracruz, Mexico, this spring: Makeup and wardrobe departments arriv... |
7a4a8ca1b1af6f5f1bd94a2da806acd8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-03-fg-usmideast3-story.html | Mideast allies near a state of panic | Mideast allies near a state of panic
President Bush and his top advisors fanned out across the troubled Middle East over the last week to showcase their diplomatic initiatives to restore strained relationships with traditional allies and forge new ones with leaders in Iraq.
But instead of flaunting stronger ties and st... |
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