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49db950fea3f016bee81da2583d8d5d3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-14-et-bell14-story.html | Another battle for the CPB | Another battle for the CPB
Less than a year after the chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was forced to resign amid charges that he injected partisanship into the agency, President Bush has nominated to the nonprofit’s board a television sitcom producer who has described himself as “thoroughly conservat... |
3fc68994cd385765577b6f835af3fc4a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-14-me-tap14-story.html | Supreme Court Says Californians Can’t Be Taped | Supreme Court Says Californians Can’t Be Taped
Out-of-state callers may not surreptitiously tape record telephone conversations with people in California, the state Supreme Court decided unanimously Thursday.
The high court said that California privacy law forbids such taping without permission even if the calls were r... |
2fb4430298a73ee1025c2599934ac802 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-14-na-immig14-story.html | Senate Approves Border Security Bill | Senate Approves Border Security Bill
Even as prospects for a sweeping overhaul of immigration policy remain in doubt, Congress is moving on other fronts to bolster security along the border with Mexico and to toughen enforcement against illegal immigrants already in the United States.
The latest steps came Thursday wit... |
1cabb504cbaa97d1121a2e57925027d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-bk-papersellers16-story.html | BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS | BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS
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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Fiction 1 The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (Broadway: $13.95) A college grad enters fashion publishing.
2 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House: $13.95) Two women in 19th century China.
3 The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (W.W. Norton: $13.... |
968172df2aa2cbee8a3e701a4e56b25e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-ed-nsa16-story.html | License to wiretap | License to wiretap
ARLEN SPECTER WAS one of the first members of Congress to raise questions about the National Security Agency’s warrantless wiretapping of Americans. So Americans who value their privacy should welcome his agreement with the Bush administration to bring NSA spying under judicial oversight, right?
Wron... |
89ab67675070391b3b61884136257b69 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-fi-overheat16-story.html | Fears of Dot-Com Crash, Version 2.0 | Fears of Dot-Com Crash, Version 2.0
Is the bubble about to burst -- again?
Investment in Internet companies has climbed so steeply since the dot-com crash of 2000 that some Silicon Valley veterans worry that too much money is again pouring into too many unproven, unprofitable ideas -- setting the stage for another high... |
9153c1c3d8d9af664b21a99fb89cdcd5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-re-home16-story.html | For her, the fit was a bit roomy | For her, the fit was a bit roomy
Singer Ashlee Simpson bought an Encino estate last year for its closet.
Not just any closet -- this one is the size of a small two-bedroom apartment. Tucked within its 700-plus square feet are a washer, a dryer and space to hang clothes to drip-dry.
The closet is part of the master-bedr... |
87da4bb7ad6784eb1c5a15d7232ccd1e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-re-kit16-story.html | 12,000 easy pieces | 12,000 easy pieces
SHORTLY after Craig and Kim Proctor moved into their Monrovia house in 1993, they discovered the original blueprints for their two-story 1926 Tudor.
Much to their surprise, they learned they were living in a house built from a kit. Craig turned to the Web and learned that the classy oak floors downst... |
4cf107516ad1f1b87dd5ff88b57838bd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-16-tm-neil29-story.html | The Verdict: Oink | The Verdict: Oink
As we consider the worst fast-food offering ever, let us begin with the artifact itself: KFC’s new Famous Bowls product consists of a plastic tub of mashed potatoes or rice, topped with yellow corn, fried chicken nuggets,
gravy and three varieties of grated cheese. All in one container, all to be cons... |
d2d85b63cc0f3c65b522e9d28998646f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-18-me-irs18-story.html | IRS Warns Churches to Stay Neutral on Politics | IRS Warns Churches to Stay Neutral on Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is warning churches and nonprofits that improper campaigning in the upcoming political season could endanger their tax-exempt status.
The agency also launched a program to expedite investigations into claims of improper campaigning, prompting a... |
c1ddbccf3e4e81d16396492734f9bb2c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-18-oe-black18-story.html | A blogger’s blast at Lieberman | A blogger’s blast at Lieberman
SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer, “Either Sen. Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot, or he knows he’s spinning a line.”
Although Ware was r... |
c415f639644f7a4dd069998b3d1cca81 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-18-oe-grossman18-story.html | Shaken awake by war | Shaken awake by war
There is no justification for the large-scale violence that Hezbollah has unleashed from Lebanese territory on dozens of peaceful Israeli villages, town and cities. Israel has counterattacked, and it has every right to do so. No country in the world would remain silent and abandon its citizens when ... |
44a636be7995027e9a9a6a6e88127f61 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-19-fg-havoc19-story.html | Dazed Refugees Flood Beirut | Dazed Refugees Flood Beirut
Nonstop battles between Israel and Hezbollah have wreaked a massive humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, driving as many as 500,000 people from their homes, according to United Nations estimates.
The frazzled refugees who have flooded Beirut are struggling to find food, water and medicine. They s... |
901c3e0d7454632a8848dab3f1290950 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-19-fi-saul19-story.html | Classical Station Owner Sticks to Playing Solo | Classical Station Owner Sticks to Playing Solo
In 1958, atop Mt. Wilson overlooking Los Angeles, Saul Levine built a radio station almost solely with his own hands.
He used a rented tractor to clear scrub brush from a patch of land so remote that the U.S. Forest Service leased it to him for $350 a year. With the help o... |
59219850eb0945f5bc4c9b308ecf508f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-19-me-kreuger19-story.html | Kurt Kreuger, 89; Actor Chafed at Being Typecast as a Nazi in 1940s War Movies | Kurt Kreuger, 89; Actor Chafed at Being Typecast as a Nazi in 1940s War Movies
Kurt Kreuger, a Swiss-German actor who fled Hollywood in frustration over being typecast as a Nazi in 1940s war movies, died July 12 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a stroke, said his friend Lynne Riehman. He was 89.
With... |
c710568c4648b5799ba523c7141168eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-19-oe-oz19-story.html | Caught in the crossfire | Caught in the crossfire
MANY TIMES in the past, the Israeli peace movement has criticized Israeli military operations. Not this time. This time, the battle is not over Israeli expansion and colonization. There is no Lebanese territory occupied by Israel. There are no territorial claims from either side.
Last Wednesday,... |
c44a3219c9c1b347be9fa274327a3c87 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-21-fg-flee21-story.html | Fleeing for Their Lives Into the Grim Unknown | Fleeing for Their Lives Into the Grim Unknown
The orders from Israel spread at dawn Thursday by radio, leaflet and menacing cellphone text messages: All civilians south of the Litani River should clear out immediately or risk death.
Panicked by the evacuation order, families packed into cars and poured north on a tortu... |
51d8b1e37f7d7b4eb39b51e48c6b0f39 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-21-na-fragment21-story.html | Campaign ’08 Preview: Podcasting Politicians | Campaign ’08 Preview: Podcasting Politicians
Donnie Fowler has seen the future of American politics. Pull out your cellphone and you can see it as well.
As people increasingly tailor their leisure time to suit their lifestyles -- through blogs, MySpace, iPods, video on demand -- politicians and their promoters are faci... |
2fa5e2a5a497c1fdfee5e5b2ebf02b7f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-21-oe-washburn21-story.html | The best minds money can buy | The best minds money can buy
MOST OF US place enormous faith in our universities. We trust that they are autonomous, independent institutions committed to education, scholarship, academic freedom and the production of knowledge free from the influence of special interest groups. Right?
Wrong. In the last 25 years, the ... |
34d7b8a18a24acdbb234fa42f2245aa2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-23-ca-friendship23-story.html | The significance of others | The significance of others
EVERY now and then, a study comes along that declares our modern life terminally fractured, inspiring weeks, sometimes years, of despairing headlines and intellectual navel-gazing. This year, it’s the so-called friendship study, which announced that nearly one in four Americans has no confida... |
d609853c77d86abc06a372058b411eb1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-23-ca-long23-story.html | Not strictly commercial | Not strictly commercial
JUSTIN LONG has about an hour and a half before he has to drive from Santa Monica to Burbank to shoot some footage for the website of his upcoming movie “Accepted.” And though the hip and trendy Urth Caffe on Main Street does have awesome soup, and he is very into soup, the line is prohibitively... |
e88184df26d96cb21818649d0d1dbbd7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-23-me-mako23-story.html | Mako, 72; Actor Opened Door for Asian Americans | Mako, 72; Actor Opened Door for Asian Americans
In the early days of his acting career, when most roles offered to Asian American actors were caricatures or stereotypes, Mako took just such a part and used it to open the doors of Hollywood and Broadway to others.
In the 1966 film “The Sand Pebbles,” he played the Chine... |
1a1580d0ad49968eb9f36a05babbf644 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-et-comicon24-story.html | Comic-Con, because the studios are listening | Comic-Con, because the studios are listening
Shannon Page, 18, an aspiring actress and self-proclaimed “nerd” from Carlsbad, took a step toward breaking into the movies this weekend.
She joined would-be record producer Stephen Matteson, 20, of Chula Vista and scores of others performing in “video auditions” at Comic-Co... |
718fe61620798829fc3fb25b3609fbec | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-fg-iraqleb24-story.html | Iraqis Find Rare Unity in Condemning Israel | Iraqis Find Rare Unity in Condemning Israel
Though embroiled in a bloody war over the future shape and identity of their country, Iraq’s Sunni Arabs, Shiites, Kurds and even Christians have unified in condemning Israel over its fighting in Lebanon against the Hezbollah militia.
Condemnation of Israel’s actions in Leban... |
83244e2f68196ef9c642a0abfa923d0e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-24-oe-oreskes24-story.html | Global warming -- signed, sealed and delivered | Global warming -- signed, sealed and delivered
AN OP-ED article in the Wall Street Journal a month ago claimed that a published study affirming the existence of a scientific consensus on the reality of global warming had been refuted. This charge was repeated again last week, in a hearing of the House Committee on Ener... |
ecd8fe5ac7663718fbff66e6ce302b12 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-25-me-nightheat25-story.html | It Was a Dark and Sweaty Night | It Was a Dark and Sweaty Night
The windows are all open, and the ceiling fan in his bedroom is going full blast. But to graphic designer Terry Payne, it doesn’t matter. It’s just too hot to sleep.
So Payne, a 48-year-old Pasadena resident, takes his sheets to the backyard, where he and his dog, a Newfoundland mix, can ... |
5ef8f545e1753d8586b1f6d828ad1e01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-25-na-academic25-story.html | Wisconsin Lawmakers Want Islam Teacher Booted | Wisconsin Lawmakers Want Islam Teacher Booted
After Kevin Barrett started talking about a class he planned to teach this fall on Islam, the little-known lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found himself in the middle of a fierce political battle between the school and state politicians.
Barrett told a Milwa... |
6d3b17cd9858177a8181426028e9cbd2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-26-fg-briefs26.4-story.html | 1 of 2 Brothers Who Led Rebel Force Surrenders | 1 of 2 Brothers Who Led Rebel Force Surrenders
One of the twin brothers who led a small band of ethnic Karen rebels called “God’s Army” has turned himself in to Myanmar’s military government, state radio and television reported.
Johnny Htoo and eight fellow members of the group left a refugee camp in Thailand this mont... |
247e53252ad50e5e87591ec0a107c87d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-26-fo-market26-story.html | Know your melons, then pick a winner | Know your melons, then pick a winner
Peak season
Melons: As if all those triple-digit temperatures weren’t enough to clue you in, the markets are awash in melons -- one of the surest signs that we have hit the heart of summer. How do you pick a good one? It depends. There are two main families of melons: those with rou... |
a079a252673f3fd3a1ec6b92179dc670 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-26-fo-watch26-story.html | Japanese home cooking, worlds apart | Japanese home cooking, worlds apart
IF miso soup and sushi are all that come to mind when you think of Japanese cuisine, it’s time to step away from the takeout California rolls and pick up a santoku bocho (all-purpose Japanese knife). But learning the fundamentals of a cuisine requires more than blindly testing recipe... |
cde3a6284ff65e785ae93579a9a67140 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-27-fi-wtc27-story.html | 9/11 Film Resonates With an Unlikely Group: Teens | 9/11 Film Resonates With an Unlikely Group: Teens
Typically, when movie studios set out to market an adult drama about a historic event, they write off teenagers.
But when Paramount Pictures executives first screened director-producer Oliver Stone’s upcoming release, “World Trade Center,” for a test audience last month... |
ac62d9bf921c0baa4eb7e7f78bb34732 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-27-hm-jacobs27-story.html | Curb, and pocket, appeal | Curb, and pocket, appeal
THE last days of Karrie Jacobs’ tenure as the founding editor of Dwell had been difficult. Her passion for the principles of Modernism -- not what she calls “the self-consciously historic style it has become” -- was losing its place within her own pages. “There was increasing pressure to show r... |
532462257012746705ded0eebcd60629 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-27-me-morris27-story.html | J.M. Wright Morris, 21; Child Actress Got a New Heart | J.M. Wright Morris, 21; Child Actress Got a New Heart
J. Madison Wright Morris, a former child actress who underwent a heart transplant at 15 and had a heart attack a day after returning from her honeymoon in Hawaii, died Friday. She was 21.
Morris, who on July 8 married Brent Joseph Morris, a medical student at the Un... |
124a163e7cc206d7de6ec4f40102546b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-28-et-aquaman28-story.html | A green light for ‘Aqua’? | A green light for ‘Aqua’?
“Aquaman,” one of Hollywood’s hottest inside jokes, might make the move from fiction to reality. As a key plot line in HBO’s “Entourage,” the “movie” directed by James Cameron shattered box-office records (a feat that got it a real ad in Variety), turned an unknown actor into a $20-million mov... |
98d20459e39975c734f64a39e13e0aa0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-28-fg-mideast28-story.html | Israel Begins to Mobilize Reservists | Israel Begins to Mobilize Reservists
Israel said Thursday that it was calling up at least 15,000 reservists, as a senior official asserted that the lack of an international consensus on a cease-fire in Lebanon amounted to “permission from the world” for Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah.
But the Israeli government de... |
08b90fae21161ead525385c59bd9bc8e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-28-fi-fox28-story.html | Media Mogul Summons the Powerful to Expound | Media Mogul Summons the Powerful to Expound
When 250 News Corp. executives gather this weekend for a management retreat at a posh California seaside resort, they’ll skip the typical team-building exercises that such confabs are known for. Why role-play when you can pick the brains of actual world leaders and rock stars... |
faaceffacf99cabbb3afa67fa1bb6b06 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-28-me-antonio28-story.html | Mayor Plays a Waiting Game | Mayor Plays a Waiting Game
Nearly two months after he won his party’s nomination for governor and many of the state’s leading Democrats endorsed him, Phil Angelides has yet to secure Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s blessing.
Villaraigosa says publicly that he is holding off for now because he needs to secure bipartisan su... |
a8e2ba7314240ee0170a843a8cc9eede | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-30-op-ravitch30-story.html | Bill Gates, the nation’s superintendent of schools | Bill Gates, the nation’s superintendent of schools
WARREN Buffett’s gift of $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will double the foundation’s assets, bringing it to more than $60 billion, and will increase its annual giving to nearly $3 billion.
Never before has an individual given such a large amount o... |
39497ce47cce68c528047871e97e655d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-30-re-hotprop30-story.html | Stand-up adds a new home, baby to routine | Stand-up adds a new home, baby to routine
David Letterman once produced a TV special starring comedian Carol Leifer that was called “Carol Doesn’t Leifer Anymore.” And now it’s true. Leifer has moved out of her house in the Hollywood Hills.
The “Seinfeld” writer turned Nick at Nite executive producer and her partner, L... |
c0228bf35b56df5d0547e127611442f3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-31-me-brown31-story.html | Anthony Cave Brown, 77; Wrote About Spy Craft | Anthony Cave Brown, 77; Wrote About Spy Craft
Anthony Cave Brown, a British journalist who wrote several books exploring the inner workings of 20th century espionage, has died. He was 77.
Brown died July 15 at Oak Springs, a nursing home in Warrenton, Va., of complications of dementia.
Early in his career, he was a glo... |
1a719e37b6015646dbd8e63ed9d30155 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jul-31-sp-aba31-story.html | The TV Deal the NBA Wishes It Had Not Made | The TV Deal the NBA Wishes It Had Not Made
Roughly once a month, the NBA cuts 31 checks to NBA teams as revenue from its multibillion-dollar national television contract.
There are only 30 NBA franchises, so who gets the extra check?
The money goes to brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, co-owners of the long-forgotten ABA te... |
4ccd4d0a62c12ae11c866a367a765d84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-01-fg-haditha1-story.html | A Town Awoke to Slaughter | A Town Awoke to Slaughter
The killing began shortly after sunrise on a November day. As a U.S. patrol rolled through Haditha, a homemade bomb exploded beneath the belly of a Humvee, rocking the sleepy riverside town.
“The Americans who were in the first vehicle came back to the damaged car. They started to scream and s... |
3b6d6d6dcf57008bafee750c6671cc6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-01-fi-piratebay1-story.html | Sweden Pulls the Plug on Pirate Bay | Sweden Pulls the Plug on Pirate Bay
Swedish authorities Wednesday shut down one of the world’s most notorious websites for directing Internet users to pirated music, movies and software files as part of a large-scale raid.
U.S. media companies have complained repeatedly to the Swedish government that operators of ThePi... |
8dcf49a544335acecc1957ac3c9dbaae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-01-me-cap1-story.html | Digging Deep Reveals the Differences Between Angelides, Westly | Digging Deep Reveals the Differences Between Angelides, Westly
Treasurer Phil Angelides and Controller Steve Westly agree on a lot, but they’re hardly two peas in a pod. They’d make strikingly different governors.
Democratic voters do not face a choice without meaning in Tuesday’s primary election.
It has been commonpl... |
1178213d6dd7e92fc6e9a2a48522aaf2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-02-et-superman2-story.html | How will it fly? | How will it fly?
STUDIOS love magazine stories that breathlessly hype their summer popcorn movies, so you would think that Warner Bros. might have been happy with Alonso Duralde’s cover story about “Superman Returns,” which gushed, “Superheroes -- let’s face it -- are totally hot.”
There was a twist: Duralde’s “Superma... |
30382f4636c6c708c5664b88a9e54904 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-02-fg-marines2-story.html | Murder Charges Likely for Marines in Iraq Death | Murder Charges Likely for Marines in Iraq Death
The Marine Corps will file criminal charges, including some murder counts, against several enlisted Marines and a Navy corpsman in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian in April, officials close to the investigation said Thursday.
The Marines and the corpsman were broug... |
eb5c7fa7cf61f5aae76cb58f388ef7b2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-02-fi-internet2-story.html | Online Privacy Again at Issue | Online Privacy Again at Issue
Big Internet and telephone companies are girding to fight an unprecedented call by the Bush administration for them to keep detailed records of customers’ online activities for two years.
The request by Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III would dramaticall... |
eddc10201401c8797f2d181b7c489585 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-02-oe-luttwak2-story.html | The civil war solution | The civil war solution
CIVIL WARS can be especially atrocious as neighbors kill each other at close range, but they also have a purpose. They can bring lasting peace by destroying the will to fight and by removing the motives and opportunities for further violence.
England’s civil war in the mid-17th century ensured th... |
302655b2cd7fac04eab12ff42fdfd26c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-03-me-ucla3-story.html | A Startling Statistic at UCLA | A Startling Statistic at UCLA
This fall 4,852 freshmen are expected to enroll at UCLA, but only 96, or 2%, are African American -- the lowest figure in decades and a growing concern at the Westwood campus.
For several years, students, professors and administrators at UCLA have watched with discouragement as the numbers... |
5852c3dcec6c851598c371d5710249bc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-04-fi-doctors4-story.html | Needs of Patients Outpace Doctors | Needs of Patients Outpace Doctors
A looming doctor shortage threatens to create a national healthcare crisis by further limiting access to physicians, jeopardizing quality and accelerating cost increases.
Twelve states -- including California, Texas and Florida -- report some physician shortages now or expect them with... |
e441fa676ac30c60d720ef3d4f8ab581 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-04-me-widmer4-story.html | Arthur Widmer, 92; Pioneer of ‘Blue Screen’ Special-Effects Process | Arthur Widmer, 92; Pioneer of ‘Blue Screen’ Special-Effects Process
Arthur Widmer, a pioneer in film special-effects technology who received a lifetime achievement award last year from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has died. He was 92.
Widmer died of cancer May 28 at his home in Hollywood, according ... |
3398109d095f98e20d0e7e760384922f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-04-oe-beinart4-story.html | Bring back the vital center | Bring back the vital center
IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war -- with each other. The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s former vice president and the most popular politician on the American left, and Harry S. Truman, Roosevelt’s successor and a man widely derided as a party hack.
The ... |
75917ffc66dbeef7e0ef521d505f07cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-04-oe-maggin4-story.html | Look! Up in the sky ... It’s Al Gore! | Look! Up in the sky ... It’s Al Gore!
WHEN MY daughter Sarah was in utero, all we knew of her was a sonogram that we brought home from the gynecologist. I framed that photo and labeled it with the name “Jor-El.” In our family, we generally name our kids after deceased relatives whom we want to honor. Jor-El seemed a go... |
27a2a60a826f52029e9ae092140c4efc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-05-na-torture5-story.html | Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule | Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule
The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans “humiliating and degrading treatment,” according to knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from st... |
460e5b239d6d323f7d2e098dccc8955d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-07-me-preston7-story.html | Billy Preston, 59; Dazzling, Troubled Keyboardist Known as the ‘Fifth Beatle’ | Billy Preston, 59; Dazzling, Troubled Keyboardist Known as the ‘Fifth Beatle’
Billy Preston, a soul singer and keyboardist who scored such hits as “Nothing From Nothing” and “Outa-Space” in the 1970s but was best known for sitting in on historic recording sessions with the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin a... |
2d5e511e161a176056fa4203e5e9ab3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-08-me-olgahelen8-story.html | 3rd Death Probed in Insurance Scam Case | 3rd Death Probed in Insurance Scam Case
Fred Downie had lived more than nine decades in Massachusetts when an attractive Southern California woman, some 60 years younger, suddenly packed the widower up and moved him to Santa Monica.
The 97-year-old Downie ended up in an Ocean Park Boulevard apartment owned by the woman... |
6cfdb9de041bceb1e3f66610032f7bf2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-08-na-vegas8-story.html | In Las Vegas, They’re Playing With a Stacked Judicial Deck | In Las Vegas, They’re Playing With a Stacked Judicial Deck
LAS VEGAS -- When Judge Gene T. Porter last ran for reelection, a group of Las Vegas lawyers sponsored a fundraiser for him at Big Bear in California. Even by Las Vegas standards, it was brazen. Some of the sponsors had cases before him. One case was set for a ... |
507e04c239463a4a157d7dac8045720c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-09-fg-zarqawi9-story.html | He Was More Symbol Than Sweeping Leader | He Was More Symbol Than Sweeping Leader
His somber face, fiery invective and bloody legend helped lure foreign volunteers and cash to fuel the insurgency in Iraq. He taunted his enemies, stirred sectarian rage and took credit for some of the most shocking acts in the annals of modern terrorism.
But Abu Musab Zarqawi wa... |
d52f9e40a79059d7955a54f2f4293c50 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-09-na-delay9-story.html | DeLay, ‘the Hammer,’ Goes Out With a Bang | DeLay, ‘the Hammer,’ Goes Out With a Bang
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay bid farewell to the chamber Thursday the same way he wielded his power for more than a decade -- by attacking Democrats and making no apology for partisanship.
“You show me a nation without partisanship, and I’ll show you a tyranny,” DeLay... |
94920c77dec4bafc49589ee2c4176a59 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-11-bk-papersellers11-story.html | BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS | BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS
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*--* SO. CAL. RATING Fiction 1 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Anchor: $7.99) A Louvre curator’s killing leads to a secret society.
2 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (Random House: $13.95) Two women in 19th century China.
3 March by Geraldine Brooks (Penguin: $14) Imagining the Civ... |
c25aae35a434ba02c171405693466f90 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-11-ca-salva11-story.html | Victor Salva’s horror stories | Victor Salva’s horror stories
WHEN film director Victor Salva first read Dan Millman’s classic new-age memoir, “Way of the Peaceful Warrior,” he immediately bonded with the book about a troubled young man who is freed from his selfish strivings by the teachings of a grizzled, guru-like gas station attendant named Socra... |
37f852a5756316a321d4b947c3c23fbf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-11-fg-ramadi11-story.html | Fear of Big Battle Panics Iraqi City | Fear of Big Battle Panics Iraqi City
Fears of an imminent offensive by the U.S. troops massed around the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi intensified Saturday, with residents pouring out of the city to escape what they describe as a mounting humanitarian crisis.
The image pieced together from interviews with tribal leade... |
a66dddbbf9a09bac771e741c7d6edad4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-11-me-graffiti11-story.html | Caltrans to Taggers: Spray Away | Caltrans to Taggers: Spray Away
The confluence was unusual to say the least.
In a Caltrans maintenance yard Saturday under the looming interchange of the 5 and 134 freeways near Glendale, some of the best known and most prolific Los Angeles graffiti artists -- many would say vandals -- of the last two decades wielded s... |
2474abadfce85655f4b6f2c49429ecae | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-11-op-schaeffer11-story.html | In this paper, heroes are MIA | In this paper, heroes are MIA
DURING THE last two weeks, the Los Angeles Times has printed at least four front-page articles, and several others on inside pages, about a Marine squad accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha and possibly falsifying reports about the incident. Some of the information reported by ... |
18b9c0f701f03cabd6d8095f3acf7a7b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-12-fi-catmull12-story.html | Disney’s Low-Key Superhero | Disney’s Low-Key Superhero
It’s tempting to see “Cars,” the seventh movie from Pixar Animation Studios, as a parable about the future of Walt Disney Co.
Early in the film, which opened Friday, a cocky race car named Lightning McQueen declares, “I’m a one-man show.” But by the time the credits roll, McQueen realizes he’... |
cce0935b555297c2a5b195cac721755f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-12-le-monday12.4-story.html | Accusations on gun law research are unfounded | Accusations on gun law research are unfounded
Re “Shooting holes in a lawsuit,” Opinion, May 31
Jon Wiener claims that “nobody” tried to replicate my research, which demonstrated that right-to-carry laws reduce crime rates.
This is false. Not only has everyone who tried managed to replicate my findings, but many academ... |
5f0f29d8816d119e2b178d653c44d54b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-13-et-nazarian13-story.html | He’s No Angel, He’s a P.I. | He’s No Angel, He’s a P.I.
It’s 10 p.m., and John Nazarian, a burly 53-year-old private eye, is hurtling around Beverly Hills in his immaculate red Scion looking for garbage. Nazarian treats trash as his private archeological site, the detritus of human existence that exposes all our hidden vulnerabilities -- financial... |
6d4995f7604791b7a1de0571fa1903fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-13-me-ligeti13-story.html | Gyorgy Ligeti, 83; a Mercurial Composer Who Despised Dogmas | Gyorgy Ligeti, 83; a Mercurial Composer Who Despised Dogmas
Gyorgy Ligeti, a musical giant respected for his ability to simultaneously honor and modernize musical traditions and a cult pop figure whose work was used in the film “2001: A Space Odyssey” to evoke the mystery of outer space, died Monday in Vienna. He was 8... |
44c8ab60745a2ea038c43348f2c19cdb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-13-oe-lemoine13-story.html | Saving us from terrorism, one T-shirt seller at a time | Saving us from terrorism, one T-shirt seller at a time
Arriving at JFK from Dubai recently, I was stopped at customs by an officer from the Department of Homeland Security and directed to a drab backroom filled with Arabs, South Asians and Africans. I wasn’t surprised, really, having just spent six months working and t... |
e1f69b462ed9ef37fe1f75cea8a5b7f7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-14-fi-tribune14-story.html | Talk Grows of Possible Sale of L.A. Times | Talk Grows of Possible Sale of L.A. Times
Could the Los Angeles Times once again be up for sale?
That question is on the minds of several of the city’s richest businessmen, who reaffirmed this week their interest in bidding for the country’s fourth-largest daily newspaper.
Billionaire investor Ron Burkle, former Olympi... |
71f385fcd459bca475e6261c413ae079 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-14-me-cameron14-story.html | James Cameron, 92; Lynching Survivor Founded Black Holocaust Museum | James Cameron, 92; Lynching Survivor Founded Black Holocaust Museum
The bruised and battered bodies of two young men hung from the limb of a maple tree. Between the corpses was a space: wide enough for a black boy to be lynched, room enough for more death.
The space was intended for James Cameron.
That summer’s night i... |
66f35fe9688c1ff3e8027005d1926f62 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-14-oe-boot14-story.html | The Truman myth | The Truman myth
WHEN HE delivered the West Point commencement address last month, President Bush compared his efforts to stand up to terrorists to Harry Truman’s efforts to stand up to communists during the early years of the Cold War. Liberal pundits were outraged. How dare this Republican cite a sainted Democrat as h... |
735cf30e3fdc2f641955ec5070bb05dd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-15-fi-netscape15-story.html | Users Decide What’s News at Netscape | Users Decide What’s News at Netscape
AOL plans today to relaunch its Netscape Internet portal as an experiment in community journalism, trying to recapture the magic of the once-famous online brand.
Netscape will rely on its users to submit, rank and comment on news stories, videos and blog postings from across the Web... |
082733a732d8a3f705ec14d5afb50273 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-15-fi-nielsen15-story.html | Nielsen Plans to Track TV Use on Web | Nielsen Plans to Track TV Use on Web
Television audience tracker Nielsen Media Research on Wednesday unveiled wide-ranging plans to expand its coverage to the Internet, mobile phones and other gadgets as it adapts to rapidly changing ways people view TV programs.
The move by Nielsen and sister company NetRatings Inc., ... |
5221ea826d0ed3534a88640bbd73a1a5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-16-fi-kbhome16-story.html | KB Home Reports Plunge in Orders, Slashes Forecast | KB Home Reports Plunge in Orders, Slashes Forecast
The nation’s cooling housing market is starting to give KB Home a bit of a chill.
The Westwood-based builder reported Thursday a 19% drop in new-home orders in the second quarter, traditionally the strongest home-selling season of the year.
KB, the nation’s fifth-large... |
8bbff1bbab07d7c7f31d2d1e68714069 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-16-na-briefs16.4-story.html | Woman Gets Life Term for Newborn’s Death | Woman Gets Life Term for Newborn’s Death
A 27-year-old woman was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison for leaving her newborn daughter in a Wal-Mart restroom in Macon last year.
Amy Shorter covered her face after the verdict was read, and several relatives cried as they left the courtroom. They declined ... |
0ad707e1a6a8577485761c33bb381814 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-16-na-carbon16-story.html | Global Warming Threat Is Seen in Siberian Thaw | Global Warming Threat Is Seen in Siberian Thaw
Ancient woolly mammoth bones and grasslands locked in the Siberian permafrost are starting to thaw and could potentially unleash billions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, accelerating global warming, a team of Russian and American scientists has concluded.
Th... |
5f9a78a28b17a0ea462d1f336ad9455e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-17-ed-fed17-story.html | The Fed’s cred | The Fed’s cred
LIKE NANCY REAGAN OR FANS of the Chicago Cubs, people who work on Wall Street are always on the watch for omens. So it’s no wonder that so many hang on every sniffle, twitch and gulp from new Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Nor is it surprising that some blame him for the market’s recent gyrati... |
6791b7b7d0ef81217b5714c391997c89 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-18-ca-socalsongs18-story.html | ‘Celluloid Heroes’ The Kinks|1972 | ‘Celluloid Heroes’ The Kinks|1972
Take New York, remember Paris or sing of Chicago, but don’t ever forget that Southern California is the leading landscape of pop-music dreamers. From the days when Bing Crosby crooned of the San Fernando Valley as a giddy heaven on Earth (how’s that going?) and up through N.W.A.'s slig... |
0ca6e6d1271eaf5a960ef999ef8e5dd6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-18-fg-guns18-story.html | Gun Control System Targeted in Canada | Gun Control System Targeted in Canada
Police began kicking down doors before dawn on a chilly May morning while gang members in Toronto’s Jamestown neighborhood still slept. By lunchtime, officers had made 106 arrests, collected 33 guns and announced that they had broken an international gun ring run by the notorious J... |
215d7072ef97b04cffa8bb293d46e198 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-18-op-williams18-story.html | Covering Gitmo | Covering Gitmo
IN THE BEST of times, covering Guantanamo means wrangling with a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, with logistics so nonsensical that they turn two hours of reporting into an 18-hour day, with hostile escorts who seem to think you’re in league with Al Qaeda, and with the dispiriting reality that you’re sure to enc... |
aa23b50cd343314526d74915188baabe | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-18-sp-brown18-story.html | For Abbott, Break Was Clean | For Abbott, Break Was Clean
I wondered if Jim Abbott holds any sympathy for today’s ballplayers, given that so many are unable to play the game without a crutch.
How fortunate he must consider himself, I thought, born so strong and determined, and to have pitched 10 major league seasons with such grace and humility.
In... |
23a9ad464b76fce2d9b39d1d6826bf51 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-20-fi-options20-story.html | SEC Broadens Stock Option Investigation | SEC Broadens Stock Option Investigation
In a broadening investigation, the Securities and Exchange Commission is examining whether companies timed stock option grants so executives would benefit from company news.
Much of the recent scrutiny of the alleged misconduct has centered on whether companies backdated grants t... |
d4f259c1a93437e88b4709bc94ca6cf8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-20-me-mayor20-story.html | Mayor Seeks Truce With Teachers | Mayor Seeks Truce With Teachers
Seeking to jump-start his stalled bid for control of the Los Angeles public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sought a compromise Monday with an old ally that has become his chief nemesis, the state’s largest teachers union.
But even as leaders of the powerful California Teachers Assn.... |
8ec46a695a79ee2f072190039569a64a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-21-fi-giants21-story.html | Christians on Football Film: Give Us a G! | Christians on Football Film: Give Us a G!
A low-budget, inspirational football movie made by Baptist pastors in Georgia has triggered a flood of attacks by Christian groups that accuse Hollywood’s main trade association of penalizing the film by giving it a PG rating.
In the last week alone, the Motion Picture Assn. of... |
405fa4f5dadeca3e2313437211cf2aeb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-21-oe-boot21-story.html | NATO’s latest, greatest test | NATO’s latest, greatest test
THE NORTH Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 to contain communist expansionism in Europe. When the Soviet Union collapsed, the widespread expectation was that NATO would go the way of the Warsaw Pact. Instead, the alliance’s role has grown since the end of the Cold War. In 199... |
f29254e85e945c9329edc5c35ddfb996 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-23-me-autism23-story.html | Study Links Air Pollutants With Autism | Study Links Air Pollutants With Autism
Children with autism disorders in the San Francisco Bay Area were 50% more likely to be born in neighborhoods with high amounts of several toxic air contaminants, particularly mercury, according to a first-of-its-kind study by the California Department of Health Services.
The new ... |
dbfae973620753f95dc95f24262856ed | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-23-na-swift23-story.html | U.S. Secretly Tracks Global Bank Data | U.S. Secretly Tracks Global Bank Data
The U.S. government, without the knowledge of many banks and their customers, has engaged for years in a secret effort to track terrorist financing by accessing a vast database of confidential information on transfers of money between banks worldwide.
The program, run by the Treasu... |
7730584816bd7795fa9be3fccbe4c8fd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-25-fg-deathtoll25-story.html | War’s Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000 | War’s Iraqi Death Toll Tops 50,000
At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, according to statistics from the Baghdad morgue, the Iraqi Health Ministry and other agencies -- a toll 20,000 higher than previously acknowledged by the Bush administration.
Many more Iraqis are believed to ... |
7db1610f0a5aea6b0fb3a3ac7ec7cfc3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-25-fg-withdrawal25-story.html | U.S. Commander Presents Drawdown Plan | U.S. Commander Presents Drawdown Plan
The top U.S. commander in Iraq has drawn up plans that could lead to sharp reductions in American forces there as early as September and cut the number of combat brigades by nearly two-thirds by late 2007.
Army Gen. George W. Casey presented his plan to Pentagon leaders and Preside... |
84b99935ccb35fd7e9651dc40768e800 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-25-oe-chait25-story.html | Democrats, don’t put it in writing | Democrats, don’t put it in writing
AFTER THE 2004 presidential election, some of us liberals came away with the conclusion that it’s awfully hard to defeat an incumbent president during wartime. And some of us came away with the conclusion that John Kerry is a really awful politician.
Other liberals, though, decided th... |
27cc5081b71dc25272a2f189cb486240 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-25-sci-greenland25-story.html | Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away | Greenland’s Ice Sheet Is Slip-Sliding Away
Gripping a bottle of Jack Daniel’s between his knees, Jay Zwally savored the warmth inside the tiny plane as it flew low across Greenland’s biggest and fastest-moving outlet glacier.
Mile upon mile of the steep fjord was choked with icy rubble from the glacier’s disintegrated ... |
533a878978e396619722b98f6e634507 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-fi-buffett26-story.html | Buffett Pledges Billions to Gates | Buffett Pledges Billions to Gates
Business titan Warren E. Buffett, the world’s second-richest person, has pledged to begin giving away 85% of his $40-billion-plus fortune in July -- most of it to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Some experts are calling it the biggest philanthropic gift ever.
The donations, to b... |
3f5751b277056ffeb62c83a923384060 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-he-privacy26-story.html | At risk of exposure | At risk of exposure
PATIENTS of the land, unite! You have nothing to lose but your privacy.
There’s a growing national effort to bring medical records into the 21st century by converting the paper records now scattered in doctors’ file cabinets to electronic records by 2014. It’s a grand idea -- in many ways.
If medica... |
586d11b595bcd047a5e13cac7f3fbd3a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-me-dream26-story.html | California, Here They Come | California, Here They Come
Some planned their moves with meticulous care, plotting over many years to swap dank skies for California’s enduring sunshine. Others decided on a whim over wine: Goodbye, Queens; hello, Temecula.
Some were drawn by age-old lures -- opportunity, a shot at reinvention -- while others fled home... |
b07c124631562670a60c24b226a7ea07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-26-oe-dresser26-story.html | They hate him, but they made him | They hate him, but they made him
MANY MEXICANS VIEW presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as a dangerous man. “He’s a fiery populist,” they say. “He’ll destroy the country,” they argue. “He’s a false messiah,” they insist. But the efforts to portray the left-wing leader as the Mexican version of Venezuela’... |
eb2b3203b20c7c19230657fcde02981c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-27-fi-commodore27-story.html | Fond Computer Memories | Fond Computer Memories
Robert Bernardo spent a week this spring traveling the Pacific Northwest, trying to save part of yesterday’s future.
The high school English teacher swung through Portland and Astoria, Ore., and then on to Ethel, Wash., to drop off a collection of antiquated computers -- a PET8032, three VIC-20s,... |
1403c53edce25e2791296a66a79898e4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-29-fg-surkov29-story.html | Official Asserts Russia’s Rights | Official Asserts Russia’s Rights
President Vladimir V. Putin’s top political advisor Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking international energy domination under the guise of promoting democracy and insisted that Russia is committed to building its own style of political pluralism without outside interference.
“When our... |
7ed8cc5f8f4f53f510b0b01f4bd08cd7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-29-hm-fickett29-story.html | L.A.'s great unknown | L.A.'s great unknown
THOUGH he designed about 60,000 houses by one estimate -- 10,000 in the San Fernando Valley alone -- Modernist architect Edward H. Fickett never achieved the public prestige of such midcentury contemporaries as Richard Neutra, Craig Ellwood, Gregory Ain, Clifford May, A. Quincy Jones and even his f... |
ae6d84799596139cf3d7e9c8856abcdd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-30-fg-iraq30-story.html | 6 Iraqis Die in Bomb Attack on Mourners | 6 Iraqis Die in Bomb Attack on Mourners
A suicide bomber Thursday drove his car into a crowded funeral tent in Kirkuk, killing six people and injuring 34, and sectarian violence flared anew near Baqubah.
A witness to the attack in Kirkuk, about 150 miles north of Baghdad, said the bomber drove a white sedan into the te... |
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