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a308b10afdc775f6413b9639ae4552ff | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-03-me-firewomen3-story.html | Firehouse culture an ordeal for women | Firehouse culture an ordeal for women
Melissa Kelley thought she knew what she was getting into when she joined the Los Angeles Fire Department five years ago. Her grandfather had been a firefighter. She held a degree in fire science. She’d spent five years fighting fires with the California Department of Forestry.
She... |
74d0097307c4e6db7a8356d07fc58259 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-03-re-limit3-story.html | Fannie, Freddie won’t budge: $417,000 is still the limit | Fannie, Freddie won’t budge: $417,000 is still the limit
The conforming loan limit, perhaps the most intently watched number in the mortgage business, will remain unchanged next year at $417,000.
The limit is the legislatively set ceiling on the size of loans that can be purchased or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddi... |
6101435fb1ff124854a642f14f188c68 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-04-ed-guacamole04-story.html | Mock-amole | Mock-amole
WE NOW KNOW the precise day the United States lost its innocence. On Wednesday, Nov. 29, court papers revealed that Kraft Foods Inc. -- the company that has brought us Cheez Whiz, Mallomars and Kool-Aid Mad ScienTwists -- markets some foods that are not 100% natural.
In her lawsuit against the prepared-foods... |
87dc80c22a7c6307742c220f0fed58ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-04-et-borat4-story.html | ‘Borat’ crew ends up shooting blanks in jail | ‘Borat’ crew ends up shooting blanks in jail
Not everyone was bamboozled by Borat.
The jailers for the Imperial County Sheriff’s Department were eager to cooperate with the area’s film commission when a request arrived to show a reporter from Kazakhstan the County Jail. The filming was presumed to be for a documentary ... |
b8dedcaa94865a6d52554f02330fa944 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-04-me-bradford4-story.html | Rosalie Bradford, 63; held record as heaviest woman | Rosalie Bradford, 63; held record as heaviest woman
Rosalie Bradford, who held records for being the world’s heaviest woman and for losing the most weight, has died. She was 63.
Bradford died Wednesday at a hospital in Lakeland, Fla., not far from her Auburndale home in central Florida.
She weighed 1,050 pounds in Janu... |
66076c5383d0f0ffc9f99f3b947de220 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-04-oe-ettelbrick4-story.html | A global license to marry | A global license to marry
WHILE STATE after state in the U.S. closes its doors to the prospect of same-sex marriage, lesbian and gay relationships have been gaining acceptance in the rest of the world.
Last month, South Africa joined the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada and Spain in opening civil marriage to same-sex coupl... |
0808faa009142e11834a36c04a5a3626 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-04-sp-bcs4-story.html | BCS voters provide Gator aid | BCS voters provide Gator aid
After a month of wild upsets in college football, after all the voters cast their ballots and the computers finished computing, the Bowl Championship Series produced a touch of nostalgia to go with the usual controversy.
The final BCS standings had Florida leaping over Michigan for the No. ... |
813946131f41588fb84b11ad6a1e0869 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-06-na-screening6-story.html | Traveler risk assessment system gets more review | Traveler risk assessment system gets more review
Under pressure from Congress and the public, the Homeland Security Department has extended the time for people to comment on its computerized risk assessment system for international travelers, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The deadline was pushed back from Monday to Dec. 29... |
88dfb5910381fe5b5f3c9a724d71313f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-07-fi-uclaecon7-story.html | UCLA analysts back forecast of ‘soft landing’ | UCLA analysts back forecast of ‘soft landing’
Despite the housing downturn, the California and U.S. economies are headed for a “soft landing” because trouble in one sector alone is not enough to trigger a recession, UCLA economists said in a quarterly forecast to be released today.
California could have a soft landing ... |
8ce5233d0cfa139225f9b39ccfddbda4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-07-na-judges7-story.html | Nevada justices decline to bar state judges from fundraising | Nevada justices decline to bar state judges from fundraising
The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected a proposal to prohibit judges from personally soliciting or accepting campaign contributions.
In a hearing earlier this week, Chief Justice Robert E. Rose had called the measure a “serious proposal.” But the court’s seven... |
60ce0aab5dc29395bcf4996930d8a2a6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-07-sp-dodgers7-story.html | Dodgers add two big names | Dodgers add two big names
In the most impressive recovery of the winter meetings, the Dodgers bounced back one day after essentially cutting ties with four free agents by agreeing to terms with starting pitcher Jason Schmidt and veteran outfielder Luis Gonzalez on Wednesday.
Schmidt, the ace of the San Francisco Giants... |
835844f177a9d009ef900ae597da69d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-08-me-lapd8-story.html | Officer is held in attack on teen | Officer is held in attack on teen
A Los Angeles police officer was arrested Thursday on suspicion of assault after he was caught on videotape applying a chokehold to a handcuffed 16-year-old boy inside the Central Division station, authorities said.
The officer’s alleged actions were recorded by a hidden camera that ha... |
4c87ac306f3b9c8259b6e8195e58df47 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-10-op-chait10-story.html | The bubble boy in the Oval Office | The bubble boy in the Oval Office
THERE IS a famous “Twilight Zone” episode about a little boy in a small town who has fantastical powers. Through the misuse of his powers, the little boy has ruined the lives of everybody in the town -- for instance, teleporting them into a cornfield, or summoning a snowstorm that dest... |
68262ef53a9628e57a9ff79b32009e95 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-fi-imax11-story.html | Imax seeks new capital to help in regaining focus | Imax seeks new capital to help in regaining focus
Imax Corp. may be staring at a bigger mountain of problems than the climbers in “Everest,” the hit documentary shown in its gargantuan-screen theaters.
Troubles for the company started earlier this year with the disclosure of an informal inquiry by the Securities and Ex... |
a60aa01cd2f8066acb9d2ab347759309 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-la-me-doping11dec11-story.html | Athletes see doping case appeals as futile exercise | Athletes see doping case appeals as futile exercise
Second of two parts
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A panel of international sports arbitrators hearing a doping case against Olympic sprinter Torri Edwards went out of their way to sing her praises.
They described Edwards, then a 27-year-old USC graduate, as “a diligent and hardw... |
524f4273d86c0e2cd17039b0172d6cee | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-11-sp-crowe11-story.html | Schroeder learns to grin and bare the naked truth | Schroeder learns to grin and bare the naked truth
It’s one thing to parade naked in front of your bathroom mirror, quite another to face the world in the altogether.
Terry Schroeder knows.
A four-time U.S. Olympic water polo player from Santa Barbara, Schroeder is immortalized in bronze outside the Coliseum, his nude t... |
ef778dbe3e66b9137d3dd3e4d402776d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fg-pinochet12-story.html | Chile reveres, reviles Pinochet | Chile reveres, reviles Pinochet
They came not to bury the ex-despot but to praise him.
“El general saved us from communism,” said Maria Elena Tiznado, one of thousands of Chileans who stood in line for hours beneath the blazing sun Monday to pay final respects to Augusto Pinochet. “We would be another Cuba now if it we... |
c0493e210bd96d0aa98349b59a03d92c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-fi-amc12-story.html | AMC plans to go public 2 years after going private | AMC plans to go public 2 years after going private
Coming soon to a stock market near you: AMC Entertainment Inc.
Two years after going private, the nation’s second-biggest movie theater chain filed Monday to return to the stock market through an initial public offering, sending a bullish signal about a beleaguered ind... |
460ac6c0024c10ec5cecf52436411964 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-12-me-miller12-story.html | Ex-aides allege abuse of power | Ex-aides allege abuse of power
With community activists packed into the Monrovia Community Center one winter night in 2000, U.S. Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) implored City Council members to purchase 165 acres he owned in the foothills and turn the land into a wilderness preserve.
Earlier that day, according to int... |
0d1e248e1611bc324826db2553076f7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-hood13-story.html | 3 men still missing on Mt. Hood | 3 men still missing on Mt. Hood
The three men had all climbed bigger mountains.
When they set out Thursday to tackle Oregon’s tallest peak, their plan was to practice an alpine technique known as a rapid ascent, which puts a premium on traveling with a minimum amount of gear. They’d get to the 11,239-foot summit of Mt.... |
b7479ddbeb385830383c4457c9fa905a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-na-military13-story.html | Larger U.S. effort in Iraq is proposed | Larger U.S. effort in Iraq is proposed
As President Bush weighs new policy options for Iraq, strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind a military plan to “double down” in the country with a substantial buildup in American troops, an increase in industrial aid and a major combat offensive against Muqtada Sadr,... |
264c93ef6322cda33f30433f9cb2d88c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-14-na-johnson14-story.html | Democratic Sen. Johnson undergoes surgery | Democratic Sen. Johnson undergoes surgery
Sen. Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) was undergoing surgery early today after becoming ill Wednesday at the Capitol, raising concern among Democrats about their slim new majority in the Senate.
Johnson, a centrist elected to the Senate 10 years ago, became disoriented during a midday conf... |
a38d46463d2829ac5eb9bcf96fcb00b1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-16-le-saturday16.7-story.html | Israel’s admission | Israel’s admission
Re “Fallout rains on Olmert after nuclear remark,” Dec. 13
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has finally admitted his country’s nuclear capability. Will he now apologize to former Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu for exposing this already well-known sham and whom they once jailed and stil... |
ed89db0550f11344193d8a8113c24c3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-16-na-duke16-story.html | Duke case worsens for prosecution | Duke case worsens for prosecution
In the latest setback to the prosecution in the Duke University lacrosse rape case, the director of a private lab hired by the district attorney testified Friday that he withheld exculpatory DNA evidence after conferring with prosecutors.
Under questioning from defense lawyers, the lab... |
7b8e9800552d99ca6ff14cf4f26267ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-16-na-rumsfeld16-story.html | Rumsfeld’s parting shot | Rumsfeld’s parting shot
Donald H. Rumsfeld used his farewell address as Defense secretary Friday to warn against a weakening of American will in Iraq, saying a withdrawal of troops may provide short-term relief from U.S. casualties but would only embolden extremist enemies.
Joined by President Bush and Vice President D... |
02c6dc5080b7d10ff196a85c22d8fc86 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-17-na-bayh17-story.html | Bayh says bye to ’08 bid | Bayh says bye to ’08 bid
Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, a centrist Democrat who had prepared for years to seek the presidency, announced Saturday that he had decided not to run -- underscoring how daunting it is to build support in the shadow of the celebrity candidates who dominate both parties.
Bayh had announced two wee... |
b5705161caf95b1b24e562f64acd89b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-17-re-hotprop17-story.html | The Strip gets a bit less sexy | The Strip gets a bit less sexy
Matthew McConaughey is looking to sell his romantic Sunset Strip hideaway, behind gates, for nearly $3.3 million.
The place he’s selling is pretty hard to top, and that’s probably why it’s already in escrow even though it was just listed in early November.
The hacienda, built in the late ... |
d6bdce0ec2fd989c0ebf73a853520a4e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-18-me-calprez18-story.html | Candidates have their hands out | Candidates have their hands out
With nearly two dozen contenders jostling for an early edge in the 2008 race for the White House, governors, senators and others eyeing a presidential run are already elbowing their way into the good graces of California’s big-money donors.
The wide-open field in both major parties has i... |
2cdee081cff7541add1f76ec01ff8c02 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-18-me-pot18-story.html | Pot is called biggest cash crop | Pot is called biggest cash crop
For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America’s biggest cash crop. Now they’re citing government statistics to prove it.
A report released today by a marijuana public policy analyst contends that the market value of pot produced in the ... |
9ff9fb86629af05f36e88acc10dc9c7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-19-et-children19-story.html | There’s no place like hell for the holidays | There’s no place like hell for the holidays
As imagined by British novelist P.D. James in “The Children of Men,” the very near future isn’t a place you’d ever want to visit.
A worldwide infertility crisis threatens the human race, terrifying gangs prey upon the dwindling populace, and the desperate and elderly queue up... |
563239038c53ecff2a90163db619f982 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-19-fg-escape19-story.html | Private U.S. team linked to jail escape | Private U.S. team linked to jail escape
A once-prominent Iraqi American, jailed on corruption charges, was sprung from a Green Zone prison this weekend by U.S. security contractors he had hired, several Iraqi officials said.
Ayham Sameraei, a Chicago-area businessman, returned to Iraq after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion a... |
d274fbb2cb99da9fea55cf691b1d4f29 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-20-na-pain20-story.html | Painkiller warnings may get stronger | Painkiller warnings may get stronger
The government Tuesday proposed stronger safety warnings for nonprescription painkillers found in most family medicine cabinets -- as well as many an office drawer and gym bag -- including aspirin, Tylenol, Advil, Motrin and Aleve.
The Food and Drug Administration said it was concer... |
c276667bb00f347dbfdd910676cf4634 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-21-hm-meyers21-story.html | THE SPACES TO DREAM OF | THE SPACES TO DREAM OF
THERE’S a charming stone cottage on a snow-dappled hill, surrounded by mature trees and a low stone wall. Smoke billows from chimneys on either end of the house. Inside, the patina of centuries has settled onto rough-hewn timber beams and floors of large, uneven old bricks. Yet anyone scouring th... |
5198016e1ed13e8fb9aaf325003cdc34 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-21-me-gaymarriage21-story.html | State high court to review ban on same-sex marriage | State high court to review ban on same-sex marriage
The California Supreme Court agreed unanimously Wednesday to decide whether same-sex couples should be permitted to wed, prolonging the contentious legal battle for another year.
Meeting in closed session, the state’s highest court voted without comment to review an O... |
ed472a7ccf70305f90ce23ac485f046e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-21-sp-elliott21-story.html | In long run, it’s about journey, not destination | In long run, it’s about journey, not destination
After running 50 marathons in 50 days in 50 states and finishing with a creditable three-hour, 30-second race in New York on Nov. 5, Dean Karnazes was restless. So he did what he usually does when he feels the walls closing in: He took off for a run.
To San Francisco.
Th... |
36a8eb17d58e51ec9f25873710f46a12 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-22-et-bell22-story.html | A feud over Bush’s pick | A feud over Bush’s pick
President Bush quietly appointed television sitcom producer Warren Bell to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting this week, overriding opposition from public broadcasting advocates who fear the outspoken conservative will politicize the post.
Bell’s nomination had been stalled sin... |
fd89f8a25bd13ed39ab0cb2c31dfa966 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-22-et-diller22-story.html | Diller can still pack a punch line | Diller can still pack a punch line
“Haaaaahaaaaaaaahaaaa!”
Phyllis Diller may be 89 years old, but her famous laugh -- an infectious combination of a cackle and a honk -- is as strong as ever.
“I’m busy,” Diller reports. “I have never been so busy in my life.”
Though she retired from live performing four years ago, Dil... |
f6ca3d4944e7ce16cfd5b7ea2ed2d8dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-22-et-vandyke22-story.html | Animated by the very idea of it | Animated by the very idea of it
He claims he’s just a hobbyist, but when Dick Van Dyke showed up on the “Night at the Museum” set, the visual effects department was blown away by the 81-year-old actor’s command of the latest computer-animation programs.
“Dick Van Dyke is a huge visual effects aficionado,” says Jim Rygi... |
9cad23ea4d3a608e66aa99cfc5220ce2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-22-oe-epstein22-story.html | The myth of the big bad drug companies | The myth of the big bad drug companies
THE PHARMACEUTICAL industry is getting bad press. Recent books by Marcia Angell, the former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, and Jerome Kassirer, another former editor of the journal, have harshly condemned the industry for recklessness, insensitivity and all-consumi... |
5dc444206452bad57ac54d8c98addb66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-23-et-wonderful23-story.html | On a wing and a prayer | On a wing and a prayer
IT is arguably one of the most magnetic moments ever captured on film. This enduring celluloid juncture from 1946’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” can be summoned to mind by merely mentioning “the prayer scene.” In it, a tearfully reduced George Bailey -- played by Jimmy Stewart -- sits at a bar and con... |
ee67f9891e2bc0ef43990c9b9ff369ec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-23-na-troops23-story.html | GENERALS SAY MORE TROOPS NEEDED IN IRAQ | GENERALS SAY MORE TROOPS NEEDED IN IRAQ
Top U.S. military commanders in Iraq have decided to recommend a “surge” of fresh American combat forces, eliminating one of the last remaining hurdles to proposals being considered by President Bush for a troop increase, a defense official familiar with the plan said Friday.
The... |
68a6c4eb917e9924b2b156974783a3b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-24-fg-border24-story.html | On the trail of Taliban’s support | On the trail of Taliban’s support
The guerrillas followed a dirt road from the Pakistan border through a valley surrounded by low, grassy mountains to their target: an Afghan police post.
Not long after sunset, they opened fire from several sides. For almost four hours, scores of suspected Taliban fighters outgunned th... |
8bcd69dd91e39a2040a587c7fdb2aa2a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-24-fg-iran24-story.html | U.N. SLAPS IRAN WITH SANCTIONS | U.N. SLAPS IRAN WITH SANCTIONS
The Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to impose sanctions on Iran intended to curtail its nuclear program, ending two months of haggling that highlighted the divisions among council members rather than their unity.
The resolution, delayed by disagreements over how restrictive th... |
f47fa90b8b0ff455ae3343449422c255 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-24-fg-surge24-story.html | Iraqis see uses for more U.S. troops | Iraqis see uses for more U.S. troops
Asked how he felt about a proposal to increase the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, Kamil Nasser described a recent encounter with the Americans.
Along with a contingent of Iraqi troops, U.S. forces raided his home just before dawn, he said. They broke down the door, damaged furniture... |
7b6a8d982760606d98694eff2aa41f48 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-24-fi-toys24-story.html | As toys get pricier, grown-ups pay up | As toys get pricier, grown-ups pay up
Michelle Chavez wanted her daughter to open the perfect gift Christmas morning, one that would add a bit of magic to her daughter’s holiday.
So the day after Thanksgiving, she dragged her husband, a MetroLink conductor, to Wal-Mart just in time to buy the store’s last FurReal Frien... |
c48b3d2e418ad497f8d915822bce8ffb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-24-me-epa24-story.html | EPA OKs fuel-cell car production | EPA OKs fuel-cell car production
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has cleared the way for automakers to produce hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars to meet zero-emission vehicle requirements in California and 10 other states.
In a waiver signed last week, EPA officials approved amendments adopted in 2003 by the Cal... |
7ecae280481fa14731449fd4a0203b5b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-25-et-studio25-story.html | Comedy writers aren’t laughing about ’60' | Comedy writers aren’t laughing about ’60'
It is generally accepted that doctors hate shows about doctors, lawyers hate shows about lawyers, and so on. So perhaps it’s the order of things that many comedic writers appear to hate Aaron Sorkin’s “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip,” the dramatic series about a “Saturday Night ... |
c499ea0125e3b5d79bef63cbbb1018fc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-25-na-brown25-story.html | Soul singer James Brown dies | Soul singer James Brown dies
James Brown, the legendary singer known as the Godfather of Soul, has died, his agent said today. He was 73.
Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia on Sunday at Emory Crawford Long Hospital and died around 1:45 a.m. today, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music. Longtime friend Cha... |
b0ccf7dbb15ffc950ae3dfd028b7a5dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-25-na-intel25-story.html | ALARMING 9/11 CLAIM IS BASELESS, PANEL SAYS | ALARMING 9/11 CLAIM IS BASELESS, PANEL SAYS
The Senate Intelligence Committee has rejected as untrue one of the most disturbing claims about the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes -- a congressman’s contention that a team of military analysts identified Mohamed Atta or other hijackers before the attacks -- according to a summa... |
a8e1fbd2007f26eeb1e9e88c911e7248 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-26-me-heroin26-story.html | HEROIN FROM AFGHANISTAN IS CUTTING A DEADLY PATH | HEROIN FROM AFGHANISTAN IS CUTTING A DEADLY PATH
Supplies of highly potent Afghan heroin in the United States are growing so fast that the pure white powder is rapidly overtaking lower-quality Mexican heroin, prompting fears of increased addiction and overdoses.
Heroin-related deaths in Los Angeles County soared from 1... |
13425c7cd24d1363a825b18a8fda7337 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-26-oe-klein26-story.html | Going universal | Going universal
THE STATISTICS, by now, are well known. Forty-seven million uninsured Americans. Premium increases of 81% since 2000. Small businesses failing, big businesses foundering, individuals priced out and, amid all this, skyrocketing profits for insurers, hospitals and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
The America... |
a0f6bd3f64279560cc3323a2f914e249 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-26-oe-summers26-story.html | The future’s so bright? | The future’s so bright?
THE YEAR 2007 will begin with a vast divergence between the popular view of global risks and the risks as priced in financial markets. While the commentariat has been more alarmed about the state of the world than global markets for some years, the gap increased in 2006 as markets became more se... |
dd7ff02bb5c9a70207f9e5a4c0a6f7a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-26-sci-archimedes26-story.html | Book with a buried treasure | Book with a buried treasure
THE book cost $2 million at auction, but large sections are unreadable.
Some of its 348 pages are torn or missing and others are covered with sprawling purple patches of mildew. Sooty edges and water stains indicate a close escape from a fire.
“This manuscript is, by far, the worst of any ma... |
2db884713a98addc9dfd24f3dfbfa628 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-27-et-baquero27-story.html | Fairy-tale ending | Fairy-tale ending
MEXICAN writer-director Guillermo del Toro almost gave up after auditioning nearly 100 young girls for the lead in his new movie, “Pan’s Labyrinth.”
None of the actresses he interviewed seemed capable of a performance that alternated the maturity and innocence necessary to carry the movie. Del Toro be... |
51362af3fbda1af62b550ce639cff872 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-27-na-iraqpol27-story.html | Democrats will soon get a say on Iraq | Democrats will soon get a say on Iraq
After years of playing a marginal role in the Iraq war, congressional Democrats plan to move quickly next month to assert more control and undercut any White House effort to increase troop levels.
As President Bush prepares to outline his plan for Iraq in a major speech in the next... |
fd4d4985f4e1e438407c0a28ee33ae25 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-28-na-houston28-story.html | Houston is feeling energized | Houston is feeling energized
FINE wine flows freely at Tony’s, the dining room of the rich and powerful in this dynamic Sun Belt city. But it always flows a little faster when the price of crude oil is high -- and these days, owner Tony Vallone said, the bottles are emptying at a brisk pace.
On a recent Friday evening,... |
8a872262d7a534c2f7b2d6936fe5b8a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-29-na-bridge29-story.html | New Orleans police officers face charges | New Orleans police officers face charges
A grand jury on Thursday indicted seven New Orleans police officers on murder and attempted murder charges for their role in a chaotic post-Katrina shooting that left two dead, including a mentally disabled man.
The criminal charges against the officers, who had been cleared of ... |
27a4fca169888de73caca5049be426a8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-30-fg-hussein30-story.html | Violence marked his rise, rule and fall | Violence marked his rise, rule and fall
Saddam Hussein, who ruled Iraq with ruthless force and led his people into three devastating wars while pursuing his goal of dominating the Arab world, cast a large shadow over world events and the nation that he controlled for most of the last 30 years.
Though never an army offi... |
6f7cd2d46440e28ea56b93513f467aa5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-30-fi-ownit30-story.html | Ownit seeks bankruptcy protection | Ownit seeks bankruptcy protection
Ownit Mortgage Solutions Inc. of Agoura Hills, which shut down abruptly early this month, has filed for bankruptcy protection, saying it owes more than $165 million to Merrill Lynch & Co. and other financial firms that bought Ownit loans now in default.
The petition, filed late Thursda... |
760b29274cd7164344cbd11ef89bef57 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-31-fi-reject31-story.html | Healthy? Insurers don’t buy it | Healthy? Insurers don’t buy it
Scott Svonkin joined the Los Angeles County Commission on Insurance 10 years ago because he was concerned about an emerging problem: people losing health coverage. Since then, the ranks of uninsured Americans have swelled to more than 46 million.
Svonkin almost became one of them.
It happ... |
416d7bc09e636e9784c3c87b1377da8b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-31-op-seranella31-story.html | Ring it in, I’m ready | Ring it in, I’m ready
I HAVE DEDICATED every shooting star, broken wishbone and blown-out birthday candle to the same thing during the last year: I want my health back.
You see, I have been chosen. Don’t get too excited or wish that it could have been you. I’m one of those people in the midst of a “courageous battle,” ... |
1fcd305b3343d1b987930dff10136d83 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-31-re-hotprop31-story.html | South Bay is home court now | South Bay is home court now
A new year and a new home marks a new beginning for L.A. Lakers forward Lamar Odom, after a difficult 2006.
In June, Odom, 27, lost his son, Jayden, to sudden infant death syndrome. Shortly after that, Odom was mugged at gunpoint by a teenager in New York. Then earlier this month while playi... |
3d992c6b3bf3be3d2eebbd1f0b9acd0f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-01-et-jewelry1-story.html | Diamonds are a guy’s best friend? | Diamonds are a guy’s best friend?
First he raided your grooming products. Then he usurped your aesthetician. And now, ladies, not even your jewelry box is safe.
Today, men are buying themselves bracelets, rings and pendant necklaces with increasing frequency and wearing their bling with a confidence and flair heretofor... |
467cb40aa38732fccae0ba43e99ce5b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-01-na-leaders1-story.html | Hastert Ethics Plan Takes Friendly Fire | Hastert Ethics Plan Takes Friendly Fire
One of three Republicans vying to replace Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas) as House majority leader offered rare public criticism Tuesday of House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), saying he disagreed with key elements of Hastert’s plan to overhaul the chamber’s ethics rules.
Rep. John... |
01362c39e99135101d793f4b384d181a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-01-oe-ehrenstein01-story.html | ‘Brokeback’s’ tasteful appeal | ‘Brokeback’s’ tasteful appeal
HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL. To hear it from conservative pundits that’s one word, not two. But is the “misguided idealism” of liberals (as the right would have it) truly at one with the multimillion-dollar mainstream fantasies manufactured in Tinseltown?
That critique would seem especially apropos ... |
a7c67b35b2857bd91be41fa74962e4f4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-01-oe-meshal1-story.html | ‘We shall never recognize... a Zionist state on our soil’ | ‘We shall never recognize... a Zionist state on our soil’
IT IS WIDELY recognized that the Palestinians are among the most politicized and educated people in the world. When they went to the polls Jan. 25, they were well aware of what was being offered, and those who voted for Hamas knew what it stood for. They chose H... |
55ae8a5bd965174ba1019487cb3c42e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-02-oe-bacevich02-story.html | What isolationism? | What isolationism?
IN HIS STATE of the Union address on Tuesday, President Bush worked himself into a lather about the dangers of “retreating within our borders.” His speech bulged with ominous references to ostensibly resurgent isolationists hankering to “tie our hands” and leave “an assaulted world to fend for itself... |
30db160fc5e3c9c1eb5361eeaca9e308 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-03-fg-muhammad3-story.html | Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates | Anger Over Cartoons of Muhammad Escalates
Protests erupted in the Muslim world and militants issued threats against Europeans on Thursday in response to the publication in Western media of controversial caricatures of the prophet Muhammad.
Debate over the drawings, which were first published in September by a Danish ne... |
6da92ec2413bdc1d495f1b178a5333b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-03-fg-oil3-story.html | Attack Jolts Iraq Oil Business as Civilian, Troop Tolls Rise | Attack Jolts Iraq Oil Business as Civilian, Troop Tolls Rise
A mortar attack set ablaze a major petroleum facility in the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, stopping refining at the plant and further damaging Iraq’s beleaguered oil industry.
Iraqi oil workers were still fighting the fire late Thursday, and U.S. offic... |
270b91b61ccafe9467fd34016fb8dc10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-04-na-whitesinger4-story.html | Her Life Belongs to the Land | Her Life Belongs to the Land
A rifle hangs under Pauline Whitesinger’s mud-packed timber ceiling. It’s placed within easy reach so she can scare off the coyotes that threaten her sheep. But there have been times when she’s imagined other uses.
“Maybe we should have set up firearms at our doorways so we could defend our... |
7a015cfc4cb1d7bea67492ee6be0268b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-05-na-shooting5-story.html | Suspect in Gay-Bar Attack Wounded in Shootout | Suspect in Gay-Bar Attack Wounded in Shootout
A Massachusetts teenager suspected in an attack at a gay bar was apprehended Saturday in a bloody shootout in Arkansas that claimed the lives of a police officer as well as the suspect’s female passenger.
Jacob D. Robida, 18, was in critical condition late Saturday at Cox S... |
87c3890046cbb05171e766d3bc442419 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-07-fi-briefs7.2-story.html | Short-Term Rates Mixed in Treasury Auction | Short-Term Rates Mixed in Treasury Auction
The Treasury Department auctioned $20 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 4.375%, unchanged from last week. An additional $17 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at 4.5%, up from 4.435%.
The discount rates understate the actual return to investors -- 4.485%... |
5eac0845547a24d55c01e6ce0c00b2b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-07-fi-briefs7.4-story.html | Bush Budget Includes $250 Million for Tankers | Bush Budget Includes $250 Million for Tankers
President Bush’s defense budget plan for fiscal 2007 earmarks $250 million to start replacing the military’s aging fleet of aerial refueling tankers, an Air Force budget official said.
Maj. Gen. Frank Faykes said the Pentagon’s longer-term budget plan foresaw spending $8 bi... |
d7f1e07912eedb28f82338d47b0216e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-07-fi-rockthevote7-story.html | Rock the Vote Is Stuck in a Hard Place | Rock the Vote Is Stuck in a Hard Place
For more than a decade, the youth-and-civics group Rock the Vote has been the coolest kid on the political playground.
Founded in Los Angeles in 1990 with the goal of politically empowering the MTV generation, Rock the Vote quickly became a cause celebre among Democratic and enter... |
1faa97603f7ed56c947a177d7334dd19 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-07-sci-lostworld7-story.html | A Trove of Unearthly Species Uncovered in New Guinea’s ‘Eden’ | A Trove of Unearthly Species Uncovered in New Guinea’s ‘Eden’
In one of the world’s most isolated jungles, the Foja Mountains of western New Guinea, naturalists have discovered a vast unexplored preserve of exotic species new to science.
During a 15-day expedition in December, the researchers found hundreds of rare bir... |
81a0686a20077ca5d21dda07f0b0f025 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-08-et-marchesa8-story.html | The Harvey factor? | The Harvey factor?
IN just seven months, Georgina Chapman and Keren Craig did what some designers spend a lifetime dreaming of: They dressed Renee Zellweger for a stroll down the red carpet, at the London premiere of “Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.”
Two months later, Cate Blanchett followed, in a golden, sari-inspi... |
b049c63e3cdee4cd2814aab9d5175c81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-08-na-coretta8-story.html | A Eulogy for King, a Scolding for Bush | A Eulogy for King, a Scolding for Bush
A day of eulogizing Coretta Scott King turned into a rare, in-person rebuke of President Bush, with a succession of civil rights and political leaders assailing White House policies as evidence that the dream of social and racial equality pursued by King and her slain husband was ... |
93174b847775a50823613eed7c8633fe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-08-oe-bovard8-story.html | A terrorist on every corner? | A terrorist on every corner?
PRESIDENT BUSH and Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales insist that the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of American citizens is a necessary “terrorist surveillance program.” And polls show that most Americans support permitting the government to tap the phone calls and e-mails of ... |
8c2337434bf3778be77e5e874ac23f10 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-08-sp-lakers8-story.html | Jackson’s Protests Accomplish Little | Jackson’s Protests Accomplish Little
The Lakers actually led by two, the beginning and the end of a short highlight reel as they came closer to the finality of their lowlight this season, a seven-game trip that just won’t quit.
Kobe Bryant wasn’t Kobe Bryant, Kwame Brown was Kwame Brown, and Coach Phil Jackson called a... |
4c3347701c6533ec18f695150a8c994a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-09-fg-labor9-story.html | Finding American Dream, in El Salvador | Finding American Dream, in El Salvador
The 170 laborers ensconced at the Hacienda San Clemente here consider themselves the champion sugar cane cutting team of El Salvador.
They work seven days a week. The youngest and strongest of them can cut 12 tons of cane stalks in one shift.
“One day, I’m going to tell my childre... |
080b97e04bcfd159971ed1ab004ed71f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-09-sp-anaheim9-story.html | Angel Name Case Is in the Hands of the Jury | Angel Name Case Is in the Hands of the Jury
After five hours of closing statements, four weeks of testimony and 13 months of litigation, a jury will decide whether the Angels broke a stadium lease with the city of Anaheim by changing the club’s name.
During most of the Orange County Superior Court trial, only about a d... |
3c61bd7746bd2f1bd95a45f7c8004a35 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-fg-briefs10.1-story.html | Escaped Terrorists Sought by U.S. Navy | Escaped Terrorists Sought by U.S. Navy
The White House expressed “enormous concern” about the threat posed by 23 escaped terrorists, and U.S. Navy ships patrolled the coast of Yemen in a multinational effort to recapture the militants.
A Yemeni official said authorities had detained prison staff members suspected of pa... |
271196b240e09f58250fb07397f924c2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-fg-hazing10-story.html | Charges of Brutal Hazing Put Russian Military on Defensive | Charges of Brutal Hazing Put Russian Military on Defensive
Just before New Year’s, army Pvt. Andrei Sychyov called his mother and asked her to come bring him home for the holiday. He had four days’ leave, he said. Please don’t make him spend it in the barracks.
But Galina Sychyova thought of the extra hours she had to ... |
468dba1c6fc31c0973fddb1efd58304c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-me-getty10-story.html | Munitz Steps Down as Head of Getty Trust | Munitz Steps Down as Head of Getty Trust
Barry Munitz abruptly ended his controversial eight-year tenure as head of the J. Paul Getty Trust on Thursday, agreeing to resolve “any continuing disputes” by paying the Getty $250,000 and giving up severance pay and benefits that would have exceeded $1.2 million.
Munitz admit... |
31fd07c7a86a316f7d624e3f88b6f1b7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-na-libby10-story.html | Libby Says ‘Superiors’ Authorized Leaks | Libby Says ‘Superiors’ Authorized Leaks
Former vice presidential aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby has told a federal grand jury that his “superiors” authorized him to leak highly sensitive intelligence to journalists, including a New York Times reporter he allegedly tipped off to the name of an undercover CIA operative.
T... |
04bcd8e96c1b0e07f84046a0b4580d7e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-oe-lamott10-story.html | The rights of the born | The rights of the born
EVERYTHING WAS going swimmingly on the panel. The subject was politics and faith, and I was on stage with two clergymen with progressive spiritual leanings, and a moderator who is liberal and Catholic. We were having a discussion with the audience of 1,300 people in Washington about many of the s... |
8021fef5c92913898d103b35b2699907 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-sp-anaheim10-story.html | Anaheim Strikes Out Against Angels | Anaheim Strikes Out Against Angels
Ending a yearlong dispute that sparked regional one-upmanship and talk-show ridicule, an Orange County jury Thursday decided that the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim could keep their geographically awkward name.
After deliberating just over four hours in a trial that pitted the city of ... |
07fb24e2321e07c569075f73624a109b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-10-sp-nascar10-story.html | All Eyes on the Daytona 500 | All Eyes on the Daytona 500
Don’t be surprised to see stock car racing’s top drivers leaning on the wheel -- or on one another -- more than usual as they kick off NASCAR’s season this weekend.
It seems that nearly every driver, except defending Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart, is in a hurry to settle a score. Not with... |
1e07e018b234d712245ff9cdd534a021 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-11-et-marrow11-story.html | The art world voices assent for interim chief | The art world voices assent for interim chief
Deborah Marrow is an arts administrator who knows how to keep her balance and sense of clarity, people who know her say, and that makes her a good choice as interim president of the troubled J. Paul Getty Trust.
Marrow, 57, was chosen to step in as Barry Munitz resigned thi... |
88c64e22d10d20a9470ae316658df77d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-11-na-charities11-story.html | Abramoff’s Charity Began at Home | Abramoff’s Charity Began at Home
In his own way, disgraced super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff engaged in many charitable endeavors over the course of his decade-long career as a Washington insider.
There was the time he laundered money through a religious group’s accounts to try to bribe a congressional aide. He diverted fun... |
516da27d316df022e4f46f128d426318 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-11-na-creation11-story.html | Their Own Version of a Big Bang | Their Own Version of a Big Bang
Evangelist Ken Ham smiled at the 2,300 elementary students packed into pews, their faces rapt. With dinosaur puppets and silly cartoons, he was training them to reject much of geology, paleontology and evolutionary biology as a sinister tangle of lies.
“Boys and girls,” Ham said. If a te... |
ca63c1d14931398c58c8b4c8a01ac8db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-12-op-bardach12-story.html | For one Marine, torture came home | For one Marine, torture came home
ABOUT A YEAR and a half ago, a 40-year-old former Marine sergeant named Jeffrey Lehner, recently returned from Afghanistan, phoned and asked to meet with me. Since his return he had been living with his father, a retired pharmacist, in the Santa Barbara home where he was raised. I firs... |
0c865a906c20abd522388fcbf1400496 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-13-he-physical13-story.html | Let’s get less physical | Let’s get less physical
SITTING in a cold, sterile room in a blue paper dress, you tell yourself you’re taking care of business. That’s when the doctor listens to your heart and lungs, hits the knees with a mallet, shines a flashlight into eyes, nose and mouth -- and pronounces you fit as a fiddle. Ready to go for anot... |
c9d67c8bd4757c25ed0e1d4ce4f57fe5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-13-oe-lieven13-story.html | The limits of propaganda | The limits of propaganda
THE CRUSHING VICTORY of Hamas in the Palestinian elections has starkly revealed the bankruptcy of the Bush administration’s strange strategy of trying to democratize Arabs while ignoring their feelings and opinions. Democracy is, obviously, representative. If the United States acts in ways that... |
f7ae39a1c3f3dab234a9bcdd0bb52f8f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-14-ed-love14-story.html | Massacre Valentine’s Day | Massacre Valentine’s Day
ST. VALENTINE WAS SUPPOSEDLY a martyred 3rd century priest, not a shill for the flower industry or a marketing genius for a certain Kansas City, Mo., greeting-card titan. Still, with all due respect to his martyrdom, we think it’s high time the holiday bearing his name be abolished.
Call us hop... |
24e8a194886527b914ef3a1c12b7236f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-14-fg-klebnikov14-story.html | 1 Killing, Many Stories | 1 Killing, Many Stories
It was late when he left the office, but Paul Klebnikov was the kind of journalist who always had more stories than time, and always worked late. On this night, someone was waiting.
A small, dark car pulled up as Klebnikov made his way down the street. The barrel of a gun appeared. Within moment... |
2a9bd074962878b22937ab05277373c8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-14-fi-hallmark14-story.html | This Card Says It All, Everywhere | This Card Says It All, Everywhere
Turns out love may actually be a universal language.
The world’s largest greeting card maker, Hallmark Cards Inc., has for the first time analyzed individual cities’ data for top-selling Valentines, and it yielded a surprising result.
They were all the same -- a result of the exhaustiv... |
10dfb2a9991567a7e7dc01f8ed0eded6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-14-me-morales14-story.html | Killer’s Legal Team Backs Off in Dispute | Killer’s Legal Team Backs Off in Dispute
Attorneys for death row inmate Michael Morales on Monday withdrew affidavits from jurors urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to stop the defendant’s execution amid allegations that the defense documents were forgeries.
The defense team, led by former Whitewater independent counsel... |
a3c284e101bd2a6b2035bc955de9df66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-15-na-abramoff15-story.html | Abramoff Bragged of Ties to Rove | Abramoff Bragged of Ties to Rove
When the government of Malaysia sought to repair its tarnished image in the U.S. by arranging a meeting between President Bush and its controversial prime minister in 2002, it followed the same strategy as many other well-heeled interests in Washington: It called on lobbyist Jack Abramo... |
7ce5317af0b7048819bca36acccf31b6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-feb-16-fg-colomb16-story.html | Rebels Kill 6 Guards in Colombia Park Attack | Rebels Kill 6 Guards in Colombia Park Attack
Rebels attacked a crew that was removing coca plants from one of Colombia’s national parks and killed at least six police guards Wednesday, authorities said.
The government in January began a risky operation to manually eradicate thousands of acres of coca -- the green bush ... |
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