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b003302592ad204845c567a01ff9586a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-30-me-arnold30-story.html | Governor Addresses Gays in L.A. | Governor Addresses Gays in L.A.
In his first appearance before a gay rights group, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday acknowledged that he would continue to disagree with activists on critical issues but pledged to respect them and foster a spirit of “respect, equality and inclusion” in California.
“Whether you are... |
a66a5a99d3874b8fb4e8b1b953ec6a7e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jun-30-sp-farm30-story.html | They’ve Rebuilt the Farm | They’ve Rebuilt the Farm
In the batting cages at Dodgertown, wrapped in catcher’s gear, staring through horizontal bars, pelted by hard and undeveloped sliders, Russell Martin still knew.
He had left third base at the passing suggestion of it, not because he didn’t like it there, where the air isn’t clogged with quite ... |
181bc6571259465c12cfee2cbfdeb632 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-01-fi-cramer1-story.html | CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ Host Was Subpoenaed by SEC | CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ Host Was Subpoenaed by SEC
A second financial news organization was subpoenaed for records in an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, whose chairman has put the subpoenas on hold amid controversy.
TheStreet.com and co-founder and major shareholder Jim Cramer were served subpoenas ... |
20efd6f16facb78de432aac0c4f8a753 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-01-me-cartoons1-story.html | Cartoon Display Protested | Cartoon Display Protested
Praying, shouting and waving signs, about 200 Muslims and their supporters converged on the UC Irvine campus Tuesday evening to protest a forum on Islamic extremism that included the unveiling of cartoons lampooning Muhammad.
The caricatures, first printed in European newspapers, incited riots... |
d87761e4272c51100691c59002528c98 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-01-me-mahony1-story.html | Immigrants Gain the Pulpit | Immigrants Gain the Pulpit
Wading back into the growing debate over illegal immigration, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony on Tuesday denounced what he called “hysterical” anti-immigrant sentiment sweeping California and the nation.
In an interview on the eve of Ash Wednesday, Mahony said he planned to use the first day of the ... |
2344e2bd2907f0d788a3e7c949ba40c5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-04-fi-simmons4-story.html | The Outrageous Entrepreneur | The Outrageous Entrepreneur
As the tongue-wagging singer for the rock band KISS, Gene Simmons likes to brag about turning a band into a brand.
Behind the garish makeup, Simmons, 56, was the driving force behind a blitzkrieg of KISS-themed products, including lunch pails and caskets. The band’s heyday is long gone, but ... |
ca46226c0033eed1fb0da5f26639aa3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-04-oe-shatz4-story.html | Remember Beirut? Welcome to Baghdad | Remember Beirut? Welcome to Baghdad
Even before the Iraq war began, supporters and opponents engaged in a war of analogies. Supporters invoked the battle against Adolf Hitler or, more humbly, the “humanitarian interventions” in Bosnia and Kosovo, while opponents warned of a Vietnam on the Euphrates. After Saddam Hussei... |
26b2f058f10ae6c6ac12376b85650dc0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-05-fi-kinkade5-story.html | Dark Portrait of a ‘Painter of Light’ | Dark Portrait of a ‘Painter of Light’
Thomas Kinkade is famous for his luminous landscapes and street scenes, those dreamy, deliberately inspirational images he says have brought “God’s light” into people’s lives, even as they have made him one of America’s most collected artists.
A devout Christian who calls himself t... |
b77d27ac399693377c9e45639bf37bca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-05-na-outlook5-story.html | As Iraq Conflict Changes, Has Bush Kept Up? | As Iraq Conflict Changes, Has Bush Kept Up?
President Bush barreled straight ahead with old answers when ABC’s Elizabeth Vargas asked him a new question about Iraq last week. And like any driver who missed a turn in the road, the president quickly found himself in a ditch.
Vargas sensibly asked Bush how the growing civ... |
730efaeca176416dfea8d2e800d3e845 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-05-op-allen5-story.html | The return of the happy housewife | The return of the happy housewife
BETTY FRIEDAN, it seems, died just in time to roll over in her grave.
A new study by two University of Virginia sociologists concludes that stay-at-home wives whose husbands are the primary family breadwinners don’t suffer from “the problem that has no name,” as Friedan famously wrote ... |
350f9381e3ef1a691b911de68d2acc6c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-05-op-sharansky5-story.html | Does democracy end tyranny? | Does democracy end tyranny?
THE U.S. AGENDA to promote democracy in the Middle East appears fatally wounded. The results of recent elections in Iraq, Egypt and especially Gaza and the West Bank have led many to conclude that this agenda is terribly misguided: wonderful in theory but disastrous in practice, enabling the... |
74a8f4071ce78ea87306d2699edb787c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-07-sci-solar7-story.html | Strong Sunspot Cycle Is Forecast | Strong Sunspot Cycle Is Forecast
The next sunspot cycle will be a year late and as much as 50% stronger than the last one, according to a forecast released Monday by scientists from NASA and the National Science Foundation.
Such predictions are vital because the solar storms associated with the sunspots not only endang... |
8686ef709269c736f3ad479d3574e01c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-08-fo-celery8-story.html | Beyond the crunch | Beyond the crunch
SOMETIMES it’s the flavors that are right under our noses -- or buried in the crisper drawer -- that are most worth celebrating.
Take celery. Because it’s integral to so many recipes, a dedicated cook always has it around. Celery is one of the triumvirate of aromatic vegetables that forms mirepoix, th... |
a234392690e43b0d365aa45751bac2ca | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-08-na-impeach8-story.html | Vermont Town Votes to Impeach President | Vermont Town Votes to Impeach President
In a white-clapboard town hall, built circa 1832, voters gathered Tuesday to conduct their community’s business and to call for the impeachment of President Bush.
“In the U.S. presently there are only a few places where citizens can act in this fashion and have a say in our natio... |
15a7c9495df06379c4fcd86970c630ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-09-me-reiner9-story.html | Panel Run by Reiner to Be Audited | Panel Run by Reiner to Be Audited
A state commission founded by Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner is facing increased state scrutiny after lawmakers Wednesday approved a broad audit of the panel’s spending.
At the same time, the Sacramento County district attorney is reviewing a separate request for an investigation of th... |
51e9fc17fef269eb898605980e9d0f52 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-09-na-food9-story.html | House Approves Food-Safety Warnings Bill | House Approves Food-Safety Warnings Bill
Legislation passed the House on Wednesday that would give federal regulators the final word over food-safety warnings -- a measure critics said could nullify state laws, such as California’s Proposition 65, that provide alerts to consumers about substances that may pose a health... |
29dc3537442390b8bb71387d05647ee4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-10-et-fante10-story.html | An L.A. story, and its author’s too | An L.A. story, and its author’s too
JOHN FANTE’S “Ask the Dust” is among the ur-texts of Los Angeles literature, a book that, nearly 70 years after its initial appearance, still offers a vivid portrait of the city’s life. Although hardly the earliest Southern California novel (that would be Helen Hunt Jackson’s 1884 ro... |
1c0f4f8073361c2da758e4e51f3b7274 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-10-na-fraud10-story.html | U.S. Contractor Found Liable for Fraud in Iraq | U.S. Contractor Found Liable for Fraud in Iraq
In the first action of its kind, a federal jury on Thursday found that a private security firm had bilked the U.S.-led interim government in Iraq out of millions of dollars.
Custer Battles, which is based in Virginia, was found to have used shell companies, faked invoices ... |
8f46c273e20f35307000fb5f38ef3834 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-11-me-bettie11-story.html | A Golden Age for a Pinup | A Golden Age for a Pinup
Bettie Page was plunging into the day’s work: autographing pinups of herself in various Naughty Girl personas, with kitschy bangs, high heels, mesh hose and tasseled underwear.
Nurse Bettie. Jester Bettie. Substitute Teacher Bettie. Maid Bettie. Voodoo Bettie. Cowgirl Bettie. Jungle Bettie. Wil... |
6fde53ed1c89377c7e91704d9ad4081b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-11-me-haidl11-story.html | 6-Year Terms in O.C. Sex Assault | 6-Year Terms in O.C. Sex Assault
Four years after their videotaped sexual assault of an unconscious 16-year-old girl, three young men, including the son of an ex-assistant sheriff of Orange County, received six-year prison sentences Friday from a judge who said their remorse came too late.
The sentences cap a saga that... |
1b684f13c6fef75b260fbdcdb6b7eb82 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-12-me-movie12-story.html | At Wax Museum, the Ending Is Bidder-Sweet | At Wax Museum, the Ending Is Bidder-Sweet
Daniel Roebuck showed up at Buena Park’s Movieland Wax Museum on Saturday with one major goal.
“I want their Frankenstein to live in my house,” said the 43-year-old Los Angeles actor, writer and monster collector.
Roebuck was one of about 400 movie fans who came to bid in the d... |
a162d638bfc40c0d2c3dd9c61959fe07 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-12-me-sexbiz12-story.html | Bathhouses Not Sex Venues, Suit Says | Bathhouses Not Sex Venues, Suit Says
Underwear “always optional” here, boasts one ad, offering three floors of pleasure, the hottest men and erotic theme nights.
Another ad in the Los Angeles gay magazine Frontiers features a bare-chested worker, his utility belt bulging with condoms, with the logo, “play safe--condoms... |
8e749e0f9a07d519057649080c22ed0d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-13-ed-cameras13-story.html | Put cops on camera | Put cops on camera
VIDEO CAMERAS IN POLICE CARS are such a terrific idea that just about everybody involved with the Los Angeles Police Department agrees they should be installed, including Chief William J. Bratton, the police union, community watchdog groups and the federal monitors overseeing police reform. The conse... |
3f6de571e67240de7261bc35cf06bda1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-13-he-rejuvenate13-story.html | Intimate makeover | Intimate makeover
SINCE the dawn of its days as a medical specialty, plastic surgery has been marching inexorably down women’s bodies, straightening, slimming, tucking as it goes, restoring the appearance of youth to features sagging with age and smoothing those marked by eccentricity.
Plastic surgery’s southward expan... |
03e91cb18fb8944308ef4e6685415ff4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-13-me-cap13-story.html | Gov. Must Be Persuasive, Not Picky, on Infrastructure Deal | Gov. Must Be Persuasive, Not Picky, on Infrastructure Deal
To be reelected in November, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to muscle a public works plan through the Legislature this week and persuade voters to pass it in June.
He at least needs to negotiate a compromise by August so he can run with the jumbo bond proposa... |
45f2530227a9267fa984587cdd115e9d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-13-na-gop13-story.html | Republicans Start the 2008 Political Dance | Republicans Start the 2008 Political Dance
More of the same, only different.
That was the mixed message offered by Republicans who want to succeed President Bush, as they gathered over a three-day weekend here for the first White House audition of the 2008 campaign.
For the most part, the hopefuls stayed true to their ... |
fe4965909e57a878974f714692442719 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-14-et-goldstein14-story.html | Revolutionary ideas are afoot | Revolutionary ideas are afoot
THE day before the Academy Awards, a swarm of the people behind this year’s amazing crop of politically conscious films were enjoying a warm day in the courtyard of Bob Bookman’s Hancock Park home, scene of the CAA agent’s annual celebration of his agency’s Oscar nominees. In one corner wa... |
52f22a16a72a2d97529b3f5b93ccf9c4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-15-fg-rice15-story.html | Rice Presses Indonesia on Military Reform | Rice Presses Indonesia on Military Reform
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Indonesia on Wednesday to make greater efforts to reform its armed forces, echoing calls from critics of Washington’s decision to restore military ties last year.
In an address to Indonesia’s World Affairs Council, Rice stressed th... |
4225f847f3269a11436bee407bb3af84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-16-me-iconic16-story.html | Capitol Condos? Critics Hate the Sound of It | Capitol Condos? Critics Hate the Sound of It
For generations, industry titans wishing to place their mark on Los Angeles often did so through their buildings. These were structures destined to become landmarks like the Romanesque 1924 Gas Co. building and the towering Art Deco Title Guarantee building.
As Los Angeles l... |
ffabd0e872ea7b96b984000d76f02447 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-17-na-mentalhealth17-story.html | Emotional Toll of Katrina Is Still Rising | Emotional Toll of Katrina Is Still Rising
Dispersed across the nation, survivors of Hurricane Katrina are suffering such severe psychological distress that the federal government has launched the broadest -- and probably the most costly -- counseling program in the nation’s history.
An estimated 500,000 people need som... |
34586d1fcfc2e37bb1482905af3a2600 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-17-oe-brooks17-story.html | Immigration -- the game | Immigration -- the game
HERE’S AN IDEA for a reality TV show. Call it “Aliens.” The contestants will be drawn from the U.S. Congress.
To start, they’ll have their credit cards, cellphones, computers and cars confiscated. Next, they’ll be sent -- with their families -- to live in rural villages and urban shantytowns in ... |
237906ae2dc96904005e6f008f8e9fa8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-17-oe-hanna17-story.html | A real fence for a real problem | A real fence for a real problem
THE U.S. SENATE is about to fumble an opportunity to take meaningful action on border security. The latest threat to an effective border security system is the claim that we no longer need to build a physical fence -- that we can do the job with a “virtual fence.” This is a dangerous pre... |
d2dd4335c153bdad5659bc8d612e39d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-18-et-channel18-story.html | Clamor outside ‘South Park’ closet | Clamor outside ‘South Park’ closet
Closetgate is heating up! Paramount has joined Tom Cruise’s public relations rep in denying reports that the movie star strong-armed the studio into spiking a “South Park” episode that ridicules him and Scientology. According to the site Hollywood Interrupted, Comedy Central yanked a ... |
1928cc2aa110a36a8507982e42b416b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-18-fi-concessions18-story.html | Now Showing: Declining Sales at Theater Snack Bars | Now Showing: Declining Sales at Theater Snack Bars
Moviegoers tend to stuff themselves full of salty popcorn and sweet candy. When people start steering clear of the multiplex -- as audiences have done for three straight years -- the manufacturers of those theater snacks are the ones left with a sour taste in their mou... |
9a95692743ef2f3d25865afcbfab2509 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-18-me-cassini18-story.html | Oleg Cassini, 92; Designed an Elegant American Look | Oleg Cassini, 92; Designed an Elegant American Look
Oleg Cassini, the son of Russian aristocrats who became a savvy influence in the world of fashion and helped define the style of Jacqueline Kennedy, has died.
Cassini died of still undisclosed causes at 92 on Long Island.
For the record:
12:00 AM, Mar. 19, 2006 For Th... |
16f8d20edfaf750f8e7c26caac7796d8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-20-na-comeback20-story.html | Citizens Panel to Share Its Post-Katrina Vision | Citizens Panel to Share Its Post-Katrina Vision
A commission that has been a magnet for criticism as well as a channel for emerging citizen activism will wind up its work today, bringing to a close the first planning stage for a post-Katrina New Orleans.
The Bring New Orleans Back Commission formally issues its final r... |
c9d04abbf3ec16e334a6493c56a125e7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-21-fg-briefs21.5-story.html | Read My Words, Go to Heaven, Leader Says | Read My Words, Go to Heaven, Leader Says
Turkmenistan’s autocratic leader told his nation’s youth to read his book three times a day in order to go to heaven, Turkmen television reported.
President Saparmurad A. Niyazov said at a concert to celebrate a national spring holiday that young people should read the Ruhnama, ... |
3798ae7810a281c57e4bd0514cbec0c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-21-fg-iranterror21-story.html | Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al Qaeda | Some U.S. Officials Fear Iran Is Helping Al Qaeda
U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran’s potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the country.
Some... |
cc076926f75b16586a4128f638630016 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-22-fg-iran22-story.html | Iranian Leader Reaffirms Offer of Talks | Iranian Leader Reaffirms Offer of Talks
Iran pushed ahead on its nuclear program Tuesday as the country’s most powerful figure reaffirmed its willingness to hold face-to-face talks with the United States on Iraq -- sending a somewhat mixed message to the international community.
Talks at the United Nations Security Cou... |
b48acf420b3e54956cc1eedebe6c7ff9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-22-me-cancer22-story.html | State’s Air Is Among Nation’s Most Toxic | State’s Air Is Among Nation’s Most Toxic
Despite two decades of cleaning up carcinogenic fumes from cars and factories, Californians are breathing some of the most toxic air in the nation, with residents of Los Angeles and Orange counties exposed to a cancer risk about twice the national average.
A nationwide, county-b... |
7d217d39b06cfa3d715bad2d793ce7a7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-23-na-moussa23-story.html | Witness Lists FAA Measures Available for a Pre-9/11 Tip | Witness Lists FAA Measures Available for a Pre-9/11 Tip
A week after their case nearly imploded amid allegations of witness tampering, federal prosecutors began introducing aviation testimony Wednesday in Zacarias Moussaoui’s sentencing trial, hoping to prove that had he cooperated, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks could... |
c0f4533f987927f8804880ed1bea639f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-23-na-roads23-story.html | U.S. Loosens Its Policy on Building Roads in Parkland | U.S. Loosens Its Policy on Building Roads in Parkland
Guidelines issued by Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton on Wednesday will make it easier for counties to lay claim to old trails and closed roads they would like to open across federal lands in the West, including national parks in Southern California.
In one of her ... |
1ad073fec6e8a2f7c3e0d615dd335985 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-23-na-sat23-story.html | Stung by SAT Grading Errors, College Board Launches Reform Measures | Stung by SAT Grading Errors, College Board Launches Reform Measures
The College Board on Wednesday announced measures to avoid a repeat episode of the grading errors that plagued SAT exams taken by high school students in October.
The New York-based nonprofit organization, which owns the SAT, also revised upward -- by ... |
4482c6f653ca1519ae33fa3255e55e3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-24-fg-dirtywar24-story.html | Argentines Remember a Mother Who Joined the “Disappeared” | Argentines Remember a Mother Who Joined the “Disappeared”
Azucena Villaflor was not a woman who sought fame or notoriety. The ex-telephone operator and shopkeeper with a grade-school education ran an orderly home, put meals on the table and fretted about her four children.
For most of her 53 years, Villaflor’s only maj... |
03ce112860035384fbaefd28afd7ddfa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-24-me-homeless24-story.html | A Plan to Spread Homeless Countywide | A Plan to Spread Homeless Countywide
Los Angeles County officials Thursday proposed establishing five regional homeless centers in an effort to reduce “dumping” by hospitals and police agencies in skid row, while spreading out the burden of providing care for homeless people beyond downtown Los Angeles.
The plan marks ... |
ab3b2022edb507126afebaae194ef1eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-24-me-iebriefs24.1-story.html | Council Declares City an Illegal Migrant Haven | Council Declares City an Illegal Migrant Haven
Coachella has become the latest Southern California city to declare itself a haven for illegal immigrants.
Council members this week approved a resolution condemning a proposed federal crackdown on illegal immigration and declared Coachella a “safe, healthy and dignified p... |
0cf1804ed6af7a26390dd0c31d91d2c0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-24-na-usiraq24-story.html | Bush’s Requests for Iraqi Base Funding Make Some Wary of Extended Stay | Bush’s Requests for Iraqi Base Funding Make Some Wary of Extended Stay
Even as military planners look to withdraw significant numbers of American troops from Iraq in the coming year, the Bush administration continues to request hundreds of millions of dollars for large bases there, raising concerns over whether they ar... |
f29d0409cae87d76012149774b0bc2d6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-24-sp-clippers24-story.html | Grizzlies Prey Upon Defenseless Clippers | Grizzlies Prey Upon Defenseless Clippers
This isn’t the time for congratulatory slaps on the back.
The Clippers still have much room for improvement, which was apparent again Thursday night in a 95-85 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies at FedExForum.
The Grizzlies became the latest team to expose the Clippers’ defensive wea... |
d1537316a9a8766c5e191f8e47b9a100 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-25-me-carradine25-story.html | Keith Carradine Sues Pellicano | Keith Carradine Sues Pellicano
Actor Keith Carradine on Friday became the biggest name allegedly wiretapped by Anthony Pellicano to file a civil lawsuit against the former Hollywood private investigator, saying that his privacy was invaded when his phone line was tapped on behalf of his ex-wife.
Carradine and fiancee H... |
7829792b67533e7747d6827a35f6a14b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-25-na-right25-story.html | Right Is Might for GOP’s Aspirants | Right Is Might for GOP’s Aspirants
Most Americans know one thing about Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, if they know anything at all: He lost more than 100 pounds in one year, a triumph touted in a weight-loss book that he has hawked around the country.
But evangelical conservative activists know one or two other things th... |
904dbce9ae336cf9b868d3ddf8dd9b45 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-25-oe-talamante25-story.html | Surviving to tell the tale of torture | Surviving to tell the tale of torture
THE BURLAP BAG felt rough and scratchy against my cheek, but it also smelled earthy and deceptively comforting. Thick tape already covered my eyes, so the bag’s only purpose was to frighten me. And it worked. I knew I had entered another dimension.
A day earlier I had been a not-to... |
5a270a02c0ad06811b5f0c2658d363ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-26-ed-superhero26-story.html | Set our Super Heroes(trademark symbol) free | Set our Super Heroes(trademark symbol) free
TICKETS TO THE California Science Center’s latest exhibit, “Marvel Super Heroes Science Exhibition,” sell for $6.75 and up. But there’s one lesson the exhibition offers free of charge to anyone who wanders by the museum, and it’s not about science.
The lesson is in the giant ... |
97941e55131d41ee5de5c0a917e77f66 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-26-me-fleischer26-story.html | Richard Fleischer, 89; Movie Director | Richard Fleischer, 89; Movie Director
Director Richard Fleischer, who made such films as “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” “The Boston Strangler,” “Tora! Tora! Tora!” and “Soylent Green,” died at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, it was announced late Saturday. Fleischer was ... |
b56703150a81db0be16c0b9b05ef2fd0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-26-me-immig26-story.html | 500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills | 500,000 Pack Streets to Protest Immigration Bills
A crowd estimated by police at more than 500,000 boisterously marched in Los Angeles on Saturday to protest federal legislation that would crack down on undocumented immigrants, penalize those who help them and build a security wall along the U.S.’ southern border.
Spir... |
ed76df511bcbdc9218939b1677d4115e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-26-me-march26-story.html | Many Stories, a Single Theme | Many Stories, a Single Theme
Candido Hernandez, 26, trekked through the mountains from Mexico more than two decades ago and now works construction to support his three U.S.-born children.
Carmen Vazquez, 50, cleaned homes in Los Angeles while relatives raised her daughter in El Salvador before she became a legal reside... |
7a3e86b09a4307ea9634de44cc7ee290 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-27-na-briefs27.4-story.html | Sept. 11 Families Warned 911 Tapes to Be Released | Sept. 11 Families Warned 911 Tapes to Be Released
New York City has sent letters to 24 families of people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks advising them that partial transcripts and recordings of 911 calls made by the victims soon will be released to the public because of a court order.
The letters, sent by express mail ... |
df2b6bfa621f171b0b862c22396a2332 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-28-et-hedwig28-story.html | Just an inch shy of original ‘Hedwig’ | Just an inch shy of original ‘Hedwig’
“Hedwig and the Angry Inch” at the Roxy Theatre burns like a supernova. John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask’s 1998 cult hit receives a crowd-pleasing revival starring Donovan Leitch as the title East German transsexual in search of his/her self.
An Obie winner in its original p... |
94b470013d89e5b77015f4ca1ebc6c8a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-28-me-protests28-story.html | Massive Student Walkout Spreads Across Southland | Massive Student Walkout Spreads Across Southland
Nearly 40,000 students from across Southern California staged walkouts to protest proposed immigration legislation Monday, blocking traffic on four freeways and leaving educators concerned about how much longer the issue will disrupt schools.
The protests are believed to... |
82cebdccbcac7e5cb826c6a1e6de1dc6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-28-na-moussa28-story.html | Moussaoui Says He Was to Fly 5th Plane | Moussaoui Says He Was to Fly 5th Plane
Taking the stand over his lawyers’ protests, Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui declared Monday that he and Richard Reid, later arrested as the so-called shoe bomber, were slated to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.
But Moussaoui’s bo... |
b5f27df8d4290d7ccbabb4207d32ab30 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-28-oe-arellano28-story.html | The protests of allegiance | The protests of allegiance
NINE YEARS AGO, the Mexican norteno supergroup Los Tigres del Norte recorded “El Mojado Acaudalado” (“The Wealthy Wetback”), a bouncy mestizo polka about a Mexican immigrant who found prosperity in the United States but ached for his home. The song’s protagonist bids adios to the places where... |
94c8b77a4426dd6ed95092d3de63d93a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-28-oe-schwarznegger28-story.html | Next step for immigration | Next step for immigration
THIRTY-EIGHT YEARS ago, I first arrived in America owning nothing but a dream.
I had few friends, little money and knew even less English. But of this I was certain: Here was a land where I could go as far and as fast as my dreams and my desire would take me. Now, nearly 40 years later, my imm... |
cfdb589ea86d3ccb474826174070b347 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-29-fg-iraq29-story.html | U.S. Tells Shiite Bloc It Opposes Jafari as Premier | U.S. Tells Shiite Bloc It Opposes Jafari as Premier
In an effort to break a deadlock in forming Iraq’s new government, the Bush administration has notified the leading Shiite Muslim alliance that it opposes the nomination of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari for another term in office, a U.S. official and Shiite politician... |
c8df1f3e72ba9bf228e0036f8e79719e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-29-oe-boot29-story.html | Policy analysis -- paranoid style | Policy analysis -- paranoid style
IN HIS CLASSIC 1964 essay, “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” the late Richard Hofstadter noted: “One of the impressive things about paranoid literature is the contrast between its fantasied conclusions and the almost touching concern with factuality that it invariably shows. I... |
f35afad59694743ebddbd0d4cf54b824 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-29-oe-rupp29-story.html | Terrorist or terrorized? | Terrorist or terrorized?
IN HIS SECOND inaugural address, President Bush made a stirring commitment to oppressed people yearning to be free: “When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.”
For half a century, one of the best expressions of that bond has been the federal Refugee Resettlement Program. This Sta... |
e38635d96c883b555fc1f94c7bf1b22f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-29-sp-plaschke29-story.html | UCLA’s Playing Style Is for Some a Final Bore | UCLA’s Playing Style Is for Some a Final Bore
The scoreboard flickered with the sort of numbers that Southern Californians love.
At a football game.
The playing surface was littered with the sort of diving stops and up-the-middle defense that Southern Californians adore.
At Dodger Stadium.
To many in its hometown, UCLA... |
f180e958d4c7e53ac6f85e633e7c84f8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-30-me-cap30-story.html | Weinberger and Nofziger Made Rise of Reagan Possible | Weinberger and Nofziger Made Rise of Reagan Possible
Few people are indispensable, but at least two were for Ronald Reagan. It’s unlikely that Reagan would have become the successful governor he did without the early, vital help of Caspar W. Weinberger and Lyn Nofziger.
And without an impressive record to brag about --... |
5822527013e4bf09535d4efe47a3c595 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-30-na-workplace30-story.html | Laws and Funding Thwart Search for Illegal Workers | Laws and Funding Thwart Search for Illegal Workers
Every year, the Social Security Administration collects information from companies that could make it easier to crack down on illegal immigration.
A New Jersey labor broker and a security guard firm in California are among thousands of businesses that have filed Social... |
3b961309c07c916ddfeef6ec4bb944a1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-30-sci-brain30-story.html | Brain Development Rate Linked to IQ | Brain Development Rate Linked to IQ
Smart children have a different rhythm in their heads -- a seesaw pattern of growth that lags years behind other young people -- say government scientists who mapped the brains of hundreds of children.
Seeking a link between neural anatomy and mental ability, researchers at the Natio... |
8582ebf7d1bdfd262e496a6421a8a8d5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-et-berman31-story.html | A Beltway insider is downsized | A Beltway insider is downsized
Michael Berman is a Democratic loyalist and lawyer who has helped organize 10 presidential nominating conventions, worked on 11 presidential campaigns and served two presidents. He is also a man known to eat an entire salami, 2 pounds of chocolate or a 40-ounce steak in a single sitting. ... |
974c85e484dc5843946811d124d4909f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-me-students31-story.html | Student Protests Echo the ‘60s, but With a High-Tech Buzz | Student Protests Echo the ‘60s, but With a High-Tech Buzz
Shuffling her feet in her Garden Grove home last weekend, Mariela Muniz stared into the carpet and suffered, as teenagers do, the silent deliberation of her parents. Soon, her father nodded and her mother uttered the words she’d been waiting to hear: “Lo puedes ... |
da9f968a82f09b7ca3da443b9619a138 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-mar-31-sci-prayer31-story.html | Largest Study of Prayer to Date Finds It Has No Power to Heal | Largest Study of Prayer to Date Finds It Has No Power to Heal
The largest study yet on the therapeutic power of prayer by strangers has found that it provided no benefit to the recovery of patients who had undergone cardiac bypass surgery.
In an unexpected twist, patients who knew prayers were being said for them had m... |
3f3fef08362f15a3a17adc19e4445fe3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-01-na-gas1-story.html | High Gas Prices Will Last Years, Bush Aides Say | High Gas Prices Will Last Years, Bush Aides Say
Gasoline prices will remain high for years to come and will be largely unaffected by a new White House plan to bring them down, Bush administration officials said Sunday.
Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said the United States faced an oil price “crisis” because surging ... |
93431d02ddf8599a1b03f3fb481c3d11 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-01-sp-usc1-story.html | Jarrett Might Have to Sit Out Part of Season | Jarrett Might Have to Sit Out Part of Season
The financial arrangement by which USC receiver Dwayne Jarrett shared an apartment with former quarterback Matt Leinart last season might constitute an NCAA violation and force him to sit out a portion of next season.
Leinart’s father told The Times on Saturday that Jarrett ... |
39590e43540b921624da572640b4fd4b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-02-fi-gas2-story.html | Pump Prices Pass $3.20 in California | Pump Prices Pass $3.20 in California
Pump prices in many places around the country have started to slide, a federal survey showed Monday.
But Californians, who are paying the most ever for gasoline, face a bleaker picture, in part because of refinery problems.
The statewide average cost of self-serve regular leaped 13.... |
307b842cb6296c6fa5d523c8a69fd9af | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-03-fg-legalize3-story.html | Mexico to Allow Use of Drugs | Mexico to Allow Use of Drugs
Mexican President Vicente Fox will sign a bill that would legalize the use of nearly every drug and narcotic sold by the same Mexican cartels he’s vowed to fight during his five years in office, a spokesman said Tuesday.
The list of illegal drugs approved for personal consumption by Mexico’... |
57fef13c69ccc39c41f00404271d439e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-05-me-disneyjobs5-story.html | Disney Goes Intern-Shopping | Disney Goes Intern-Shopping
The bubbly, blue-eyed college freshman wasn’t sure how a Disneyland internship would fit in with her primary field of study, psychology. But then, the Cinderella wannabe attending a recent Cal State Fullerton job fair didn’t much care.
“It’s been a lifelong dream to work at Disneyland,” said... |
d8066fe3b3ec87add64f4acf7edb0edd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-05-oe-klein5-story.html | A rising tide that lifts only yachts | A rising tide that lifts only yachts
LAST WEEK WAS a good one for economists, as the normally dour practitioners of the dismal science got to use decidedly non-dismal, even exhilarating, words such as “surging” and “momentum” to describe the new quarterly growth numbers.
And they had cause for such enthusiasm. From Jan... |
2849735ee2523ed1596b3119f1c0c654 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-06-fg-south6-story.html | Iraq’s Shiites Now Chafe at American Presence | Iraq’s Shiites Now Chafe at American Presence
A visitor need not go far or search hard to hear and see the anti-American venom that bubbles through this ancient shrine city, which once welcomed U.S. forces as liberators.
“The American ambassador is the gate through which terrorism enters Iraq,” says a banner hanging fr... |
b5bceda98f5649682208c57a927f9288 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-06-me-a2anniversary6-story.html | The principal who resorted to a gun | The principal who resorted to a gun
May 6, 1940: Soon after learning that he would be fired as principal of what was then South Pasadena Junior High School, Verlin Spencer pulled out a gun at a board meeting and shot six colleagues -- five fatally. The Times described the 38-year-old “striking with lightning precision ... |
555ada07e7230db5e7c0fb7581f699bf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-ca-cars7-story.html | The inside track | The inside track
IF Mattel thought that its “Cars” Hot Wheels line was good enough, John Lasseter, the animated film’s director, had a different message for the toy line’s designers: At Pixar Animation Studios, good enough doesn’t quite cut it.
On a July morning last year, Lasseter was in the thick of finishing “Cars” ... |
14c29fd641517ddf646725d5caaad23c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-ed-nsa07-story.html | Wiretapping oversight | Wiretapping oversight
AT LEAST SOME SPINES IN Congress are stiffening when it comes to challenging President Bush’s assertion that the National Security Agency can eavesdrop on Americans without a court order. But it will take a stronger show of resolution to call the administration to account.
In a recent meeting with... |
1794c2a937b186a6189dbb3fff143e6b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-fi-msgoogle7-story.html | Goliath vs. Goliath | Goliath vs. Goliath
The more things stay the same, the more they change -- as Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. demonstrate in their brewing struggle for Internet dominance.
For more than a decade, Microsoft has made fending off antitrust complaints seem as much a part of its big product rollouts as bug testing is for ot... |
50f699ed09cfe64c4d5c647e83d4b363 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-na-kerry7-story.html | Kerry Rips Bush Over ‘Intolerance’ for Dissent | Kerry Rips Bush Over ‘Intolerance’ for Dissent
Sen. John F. Kerry accused the Bush administration on Saturday of stirring up a “spirit of intolerance” to suppress dissent over the war in Iraq.
The Massachusetts Democrat said the administration was targeting opponents of the war in much the same way he was attacked for ... |
a14160c6e442d165a2b29d1bcc2d4c39 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-na-virginity7-story.html | Many Youths Disregard Their Virginity Pledges, Harvard Study Says | Many Youths Disregard Their Virginity Pledges, Harvard Study Says
Virginity pledges, in which young people vow to abstain from sex until marriage, have little staying power among those who take them, a Harvard study has found.
More than half of the adolescents who make the signed public promises give up on their pledge... |
026c3f3996f46106e7b5383b482fad84 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-oe-chait7-story.html | Don’t let the left defeat Lieberman | Don’t let the left defeat Lieberman
WATCHING the left wing of the Democratic Party trying to take down Joe Lieberman has been a deeply confusing experience for me. The lefties say the Democratic senator from Connecticut is a self-righteous suck-up who lends President Bush undeserved credibility. Lieberman’s allies say ... |
b5d5c9143165c7f0adc7323a39eada89 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-07-op-klavan7-story.html | Draft Hollywood | Draft Hollywood
THERE HAS NEVER been an age without war, not ever. Mass violence is a continual aspect of the human condition. Peace, like good weather, is always local and temporary -- and what is peace anyway but the result of past victories in war and the effective threat of future war against would-be aggressors?
W... |
f50eeb1f504aeb338002a9b91e23b84e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-ed-textbooks09-story.html | Politically correct history | Politically correct history
IT IS, FORGIVE US, A TEXTBOOK LESSON in political meddling. State Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) has introduced a bill, SB 1437, that would require California textbooks to tell the stories of the contributions made to history by gays and lesbians. If we didn’t know any better, we’d say t... |
640c66cab8df66b144c05ae9abe6dd78 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-fg-iran9-story.html | White House Calls Iranian Letter a Ploy | White House Calls Iranian Letter a Ploy
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sent an unexpected letter to President Bush on Monday, in what was seen as an overture for direct talks about Tehran’s nuclear program, but U.S. officials dismissed the missive as an eleventh-hour ploy to forestall punitive action by the Unit... |
5612f07baf886b9cc3681ff6d7f8b2fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-fi-torrent9-story.html | Studio Sees Profit in What Was Piracy | Studio Sees Profit in What Was Piracy
Extending Hollywood’s tradition of converting enemies to allies into the digital age, Warner Bros. today is expected to announce plans to use file-sharing technology to distribute movies and television shows online.
By the summer, BitTorrent Inc. will allow users to download and wa... |
a23727f1ddcd747afc544eeab0489214 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-na-assess9-story.html | Selection Ensures Welcome Revival of Wiretap Debate | Selection Ensures Welcome Revival of Wiretap Debate
By picking Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden as the next CIA director, President Bush faces another brawl over his controversial program to eavesdrop on suspected terrorists -- including people on American soil -- without court approval.
But far from fearing such a fig... |
53f83101651de6da8c1b8a260242ee0a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-na-hayden9-story.html | Despite Opposition, Bush Backs Hayden as CIA Chief | Despite Opposition, Bush Backs Hayden as CIA Chief
Ignoring opposition from Congress, President Bush nominated Gen. Michael V. Hayden on Monday to be the next CIA director, setting the stage for a confirmation struggle that is certain to focus on Hayden’s military background and his role in a controversial domestic eav... |
2945b59a470001ff41a05afd0b921678 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-oe-castaneda9-story.html | Mexico, up for grabs | Mexico, up for grabs
CONTRARY TO recent expectations, Mexico has a competitive presidential election on its hands. With about two months to go before the July 2 vote, former front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the populist ex-mayor of Mexico City, has lost his lead in the polls and, most important, the aura of in... |
4506a3a64a4e519668ea426922d7397c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-09-oe-faison09-story.html | The Vatican’s China problem | The Vatican’s China problem
WHEN Mao Tse-tung and his Communist forces swept across China and won its civil war in 1949, the pope’s representative to China, Msgr. Antonio Riberi, sent a message from his office in Nanjing to the 5,500 Catholic missionaries spread across the country. It ordered the faithful to stay on po... |
942313eac337eec5737739fbfbc5723c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-10-et-westwing10-story.html | ‘West Wing’s’ Scarlett and Rhett finally do the deed | ‘West Wing’s’ Scarlett and Rhett finally do the deed
Wouldn’t you think the people who work in the White House would have more important things to do than worry about their love lives? They do, of course, which is why NBC’s multiple Emmy Award-winning “The West Wing,” which will air its final episode Sunday night, was ... |
6fb1abc8744ac912db04bb9f672b6bd3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-10-fg-reporters10-story.html | Slaying of 2 Journalists Adds to Profession’s Toll | Slaying of 2 Journalists Adds to Profession’s Toll
The mournful music played for hours Tuesday on the upstart Iraqi television station, formed with high hopes after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Across the bottom of the screen, a banner in blue framed the faces of two young men, beside the words: “The Two Martyrs of the ... |
b2c8bdb38f2a41096264e3121a620321 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-10-fi-godgames10-story.html | Converting Video Games Into Instruments of God | Converting Video Games Into Instruments of God
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
As the video game industry gathers at the Los Angeles Convention Center this week for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, a devout group of publishers is praying for a direct strike on their elusive target: the eternal souls o... |
629ec725b0cdec770e06f8419ed7728a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-10-oe-barash10-story.html | Resisting the urge | Resisting the urge
THE GERMAN PUBLIC was recently shocked to learn that 30% of “their” women are childless -- the highest proportion of any country in the world. And this is not a result of infertility; it’s intentional childlessness.
Demographers are intrigued. German nationalists, aghast. Religious fundamentalists, d... |
48aedf9ffc85a13f1919ee6f7439387a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-11-me-brotherhood11-story.html | Challenge in Aryan Gang Case: Witnesses | Challenge in Aryan Gang Case: Witnesses
Prosecutors seeking justice for Terry Lamar Walker in death found little good to say about him in life.
A convicted burglar, stickup man and bank robber, Walker spent much of his adult life behind bars. His killing in May 1999, at the high-security federal prison in Marion, Ill.,... |
1084e076e2776730ea881c310e1cf3d7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-11-me-suit11-story.html | L.A. Psychologist Who Didn’t Get Tote Bag at Mother’s Day Angel Game Files Lawsuit | L.A. Psychologist Who Didn’t Get Tote Bag at Mother’s Day Angel Game Files Lawsuit
A Los Angeles psychologist who was denied a tote bag during a Mother’s Day giveaway at an Angel game is suing the baseball team, alleging sex and age discrimination.
Michael Cohn’s class-action claim in Orange County Superior Court alleg... |
90a49b6a46d20d58e9b87d246035e5b0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-12-me-disneypred12-story.html | State Fires Parole Chief Amid Controversy | State Fires Parole Chief Amid Controversy
Amid controversy over the placement of paroled sex offenders at hotels and motels near Disneyland, the state fired its parole chief and began removing offenders from areas closest to the theme park, officials said Thursday.
Parole and Community Services Division Director Jim L’... |
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