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9a85bd6c0c2972ad1b5e58cdcd04c2ea | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-12-me-holocaust12-story.html | Fresh Muslim-Jewish Discord on Campus | Fresh Muslim-Jewish Discord on Campus
Controversial events scheduled at UC Irvine next week with such provocative titles as “Holocaust in the Holy Land” and “Israel: The Fourth Reich” are sparking outrage among Jewish students who are asking administrators to denounce aspects of the event.
Jewish students and community... |
fa02220144d7404c989e5d43e59906de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-13-fi-oiltax13-story.html | Oil Tax Is Likely to Appear on Ballot | Oil Tax Is Likely to Appear on Ballot
Supporters of a ballot initiative that would slap a $400-million-a-year extraction tax on California oil producers submitted almost 1.2 million signatures to state election officials Friday, virtually assuring that the measure would go before voters in November.
Winning a place on ... |
5ee59d3889a4728647aeb28838959e77 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-13-me-shelley13-story.html | U.S. Orders State to Repay $536,000 in Election Funds | U.S. Orders State to Repay $536,000 in Election Funds
The federal government on Friday ordered California to give back $536,000, saying that funds allocated to improve elections were misused by former Secretary of State Kevin Shelley.
A federal audit found that Shelley either misspent or didn’t properly account for mor... |
8c59d25b4b3e3d230f749f64e5668aef | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-13-na-college13-story.html | A Clash of Ideas at Evangelical College | A Clash of Ideas at Evangelical College
Patrick Henry College, the small evangelical Christian school founded six years ago to train students for careers in public life, gained national prominence for placing many students in White House internships and other government positions. Now five of the school’s 16 faculty me... |
88cb04bb264ea3bc5b51f29535403264 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-14-fi-boom14-story.html | Emerging Nations Powering Global Economic Boom | Emerging Nations Powering Global Economic Boom
The global economy is on a growth streak that is shaping up to be the broadest and strongest expansion in more than three decades.
Rising spending and investment by consumers and businesses worldwide are boosting national economies on every continent, pushing down unemploy... |
742e2f89f7d085b273f21b7f376d2c38 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-14-me-unocal14-story.html | Gas Station Icons Being 86ed | Gas Station Icons Being 86ed
In January, an earnest woman named Kim Cooper was driving through Lincoln Heights when her neighborhood gas station caught her eye. The station’s familiar 76 insignia, its stocky blue numbers splashed against a sea of orange, had been supplanted with a sign that looked like, well, everywher... |
ad5aa38fe88ae7bbedb400063a1a331f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-14-op-fairbanks14-story.html | A hot paper muzzles academia | A hot paper muzzles academia
DID YOU THINK there was a controversy in academia over “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” the paper by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer contending that a shadowy “Israel Lobby” -- including everyone from the New York Times and Hillary Clinton to Pat Robertson and Paul Wolfowitz --... |
f738e8de05b972be69cade7ca9a0f600 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-14-tm-kaufman20-story.html | Why Charlie Kaufman Is Us | Why Charlie Kaufman Is Us
It’s Charlie Kaufman’s world. We just live in it.
The day after I first saw Kaufman’s movie “Adaptation,” my wife and I took our daughter to a birthday party. It was mid-December, an afternoon of flat white sunlight, washed out in that Southern California winter way. At the door, a tangle of b... |
b15567af3a3d14b4c97129f152baa1d9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-15-fg-truffles15-story.html | Namibia’s Four-Star Fungus | Namibia’s Four-Star Fungus
It resembles nothing so much as a lump of desiccated donkey dung, nestled beneath the desert sands and guarded by knee-high grass and deadly puff adders. It’s difficult at first to see why people in Namibia are wild about this humble-looking fungus.
But you only need to nose into a sack of th... |
2baffb012e68fac49d39fc091cf30f1a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-15-me-kamar15-story.html | Pascal Kamar, 83; Toymaker Who Created JFK, E.T. Dolls | Pascal Kamar, 83; Toymaker Who Created JFK, E.T. Dolls
The bottom nearly fell out of Pascal Kamar’s toy business on the day John F. Kennedy was shot.
When Kamar’s 11-inch JFK doll, packaged in a musical rocking chair that played “Happy Days Are Here Again,” debuted in early 1963, he quickly took in more than $1 million... |
6ac0b4a437bd828ef564491acde19a9a | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-15-oe-cowen15-story.html | Unskilled doesn’t mean unnecessary | Unskilled doesn’t mean unnecessary
GOOGLE, YAHOO and Sun Microsystems were all founded by immigrants -- from Russia, Taiwan and India, respectively. There is near-universal agreement that skilled immigrants are an enormous boon to the American economy.
But what about the millions of unskilled laborers who arrive in thi... |
7221e6c40a8052a167ef92afde437766 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-16-et-virtual16-story.html | Investors hope to cruise but sometimes sink | Investors hope to cruise but sometimes sink
The grim “Poseidon” opening of just $22.1 million claimed any number of victims, including director Wolfgang Petersen, the disaster film genre and distributor Warner Bros. But the film’s single greatest casualty may be an obscure Wisconsin investment fund on the hook for half... |
c8c0654a98c114095d5eabc7d366c172 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-16-me-trump16-story.html | Trump Drive Hits a Rough Patch | Trump Drive Hits a Rough Patch
He controls the chips. But they hold the trump card.
That’s the gist of the high-stakes card game being played in Rancho Palos Verdes as billionaire developer Donald Trump struggles to rename a street that leads to his new $250-million oceanfront golf course, Trump National Golf Club Los ... |
8bc721e8f24f49893e8c44dd34b82c3f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-17-me-exotic17-story.html | Chasing Exotic Cars Is Their Pursuit | Chasing Exotic Cars Is Their Pursuit
Spyder Dobrofsky, his younger brother and four friends tumbled out of his mother’s Ford Explorer on a recent Sunday morning in Beverly Hills, sprinting down Rodeo Drive with video cameras in hand.
They were on a reconnaissance mission, and it didn’t take them long to find what they ... |
c74996da958fcefd695609f496d1c519 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-17-me-thomas17-story.html | Frankie Thomas, 85; Starred in TV’s ‘Tom Corbett, Space Cadet’ | Frankie Thomas, 85; Starred in TV’s ‘Tom Corbett, Space Cadet’
Frankie Thomas, a popular stage and screen juvenile actor in the 1930s who gained widespread fame on TV in the early 1950s as the star of “Tom Corbett, Space Cadet,” has died. He was 85.
Thomas, who later became a leading recreational bridge instructor and ... |
c02c7928970ac9a8ea87be7865e0eda3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-fi-briefs18.4-story.html | Controller, Accounting Chief Are Leaving GM | Controller, Accounting Chief Are Leaving GM
General Motors Corp., under federal scrutiny for its accounting practices, said two top financial officers would leave the world’s biggest automaker.
Chief Accounting Officer Peter Bible, 48, will resign June 1 after almost 10 years on the job. Controller Paul W. Schmidt, 61,... |
1a5c84405055d1aec3239fcdec2876e6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-me-calguard18-story.html | State Officials Chafe at Bush’s Plan for Guard | State Officials Chafe at Bush’s Plan for Guard
California’s highest-ranking officials were reacting with displeasure and exasperation Wednesday to President Bush’s plan to use thousands of National Guard troops to support border patrols and curb illegal immigration.
State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata (D-Oakland)... |
a98786d5d058a94ee4c8d180608b6c32 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-me-feuer18-story.html | Cy Feuer, 95; Produced ‘Guys and Dolls’ and Other Hit Musicals on Broadway | Cy Feuer, 95; Produced ‘Guys and Dolls’ and Other Hit Musicals on Broadway
Cy Feuer, who with Ernest H. Martin produced some of Broadway’s biggest hits including “Guys and Dolls” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” as well as the movie version of “Cabaret,” died Wednesday at his home in New York City... |
c79b768b5e6562fc99719e24409eb995 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-me-westly18-story.html | Westly Stumbles in the Mud | Westly Stumbles in the Mud
In a new television ad, Steve Westly wags his index finger and jabs a hand into the air to show how adamant he is about running a clean campaign for governor.
“I promise, unilaterally, I will not do a single negative ad on TV against my opponent unless he attacks me first,” he tells a crowd.
... |
bba958f34f1489cd103fe3bfa035e5aa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-na-foggo18-story.html | Former CIA Official’s Family Trips Called Focus of Inquiry | Former CIA Official’s Family Trips Called Focus of Inquiry
Federal agents who raided the home and office of former high-ranking CIA official Kyle Dustin “Dusty” Foggo apparently were looking for evidence about trips that he and his family took with the family of San Diego defense contractor Brent Wilkes and whether Fog... |
f0689d03ab8fb63aabb05e9d61accea5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-18-na-harman18-story.html | Harman Resists Push Off Spy Panel | Harman Resists Push Off Spy Panel
Rep. Jane Harman, who has gained national prominence as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, is fighting to hold on to the job amid indications she will be rotated off the panel next year.
The dispute pits the Venice lawmaker against House Democratic leader Nancy Pelos... |
e349aa92d64dced206ac869830d9e1e6 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-19-na-eldorado19-story.html | Jimmy Doyle, the local justice of the... | Jimmy Doyle, the local justice of the...
Jimmy Doyle, the local justice of the peace, circled his Piper Cherokee plane over the fast-sprouting mini-city where polygamist prophet Warren Jeffs, one of the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted fugitives, may be hiding.
More than half a mile below, a monolithic white temple encased in thic... |
d1f323421ab5d902d82e811974364ff9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-21-me-bomb21-story.html | L.A. Doubles for Iraq as Bomb Site | L.A. Doubles for Iraq as Bomb Site
Flying bodies and booming pyrotechnics turned the warehouse district east of downtown Los Angeles into a make-believe killing ground Saturday, with the filming of an unusual public service ad for Iraqi TV meant to discourage suicide bombings.
About 200 actors and extras took part in t... |
46c13efc98c80af50c20918d71968930 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-21-op-tolan21-story.html | The incredible shrinking Palestine | The incredible shrinking Palestine
THE HISTORY of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can be glimpsed through a series of maps.
First is the sepia-toned map of Palestine under the British Mandate, circa 1936. On its surface it suggests one unified country where Arab and Jew can live together between the Jordan River and t... |
9ae40a9cc6628c8ee05008470b630b51 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-21-tr-durango21-story.html | In Durango, don’t worry, be funky | In Durango, don’t worry, be funky
I saw the members of the wedding party twice. The first time was on a sunny Colorado afternoon as they bicycled down Durango’s Main Avenue in gowns and tuxedos, waving at tourists.
The second time, they were still biking, they were still on Main Avenue, and many were still in formal we... |
1e7980bcc42519ca72d10bf2c0e246f8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-22-oe-mcgovern22-story.html | The end of ‘more’ | The end of ‘more’
I HAVE NEVER wavered in my support for policies that relieve poverty and improve the standard of living of American workers. As a lifelong liberal, I supported Medicare and Medicaid, civil rights, Social Security and workplace safety requirements. Today, I strongly support universal healthcare.
And I ... |
7b43e275754a3ebd927e49d2ab664bfb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-23-sci-parkinsons23-story.html | From Blessing to Curse? | From Blessing to Curse?
Faced with steady deterioration from Parkinson’s disease, Jim Sweet leapt at the chance to try a new drug that promised to relieve the tremors brought on by the death of cells deep in his brain.
Like older Parkinson’s medicines, Mirapex could bolster the fading supply of a critical brain chemica... |
063c263178904cb56057b5bb05368102 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-24-fg-uschina24-story.html | Chinese Threat Is Expanding, Pentagon Says | Chinese Threat Is Expanding, Pentagon Says
A Pentagon report on Chinese military modernization issued Tuesday reveals growing American concern over China’s ability not only to threaten Taiwan, but also to throw its power around throughout East Asia and confront other U.S. allies.
This year’s edition of the annual repor... |
a9ef042eddeb3552cd3ffa3f57b7c82c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-24-fo-marketcook24-story.html | Caught up in the moment | Caught up in the moment
THIS time of year, a chef in a farmers market is like a kid in a candy store. Among all the stands overflowing with gorgeous produce, chefs’ eyes -- and often their arms -- grow as wide as their imaginations.
Last Wednesday at the Santa Monica farmers market, Ortolan chef Christophe Eme’s arms w... |
36a8b739524c7de0fc0dc910b15caecf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-24-me-sorrentino24-story.html | Gilbert Sorrentino, 77; Avant-Garde Novelist, Professor | Gilbert Sorrentino, 77; Avant-Garde Novelist, Professor
Gilbert Sorrentino once wrote, “If you make a better book the world will build a mousetrap at your door.”
With one exception over a five-decade writing career, the mousetrap was always at Sorrentino’s door.
The author of 15 novels -- including a parodist’s feast c... |
ffc9ca4a88a95975f9fd2eeb2304b05d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-25-na-fda25-story.html | FDA’s Role in Blocking ‘Morning-After’ Pill Cited | FDA’s Role in Blocking ‘Morning-After’ Pill Cited
The last two appointees to head the FDA were closely involved in decisions to overrule the agency’s medical reviewers and block the “morning-after” birth control pill from being sold without a prescription, according to court transcripts to be released today.
Last year,... |
c00160c45525193f2c667058d03debd1 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-26-et-duke26-story.html | Ugly stereotypes surface in Duke rape case | Ugly stereotypes surface in Duke rape case
She was black, they were mostly white, and race and sex were in the air.
But whatever actually happened the night of March 13 at Duke University -- the reported rape and its surrounding details are hotly disputed -- it appears at least that the disturbing historic script of th... |
ac95995a76c0296778a8604890c27dc7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-26-fg-marines26-story.html | Probe Finds Marines Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians | Probe Finds Marines Killed Unarmed Iraqi Civilians
Marines from Camp Pendleton wantonly killed unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, and then tried to cover up the slayings in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha, military investigations have found.
Officials who have seen the findings of the investigat... |
8fa8b92eb8928462a51c3fdf6e114501 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-26-me-fox26-story.html | U.S., Mexico Need to Cooperate on Migration, Fox Says | U.S., Mexico Need to Cooperate on Migration, Fox Says
Mexican President Vicente Fox said Thursday that border walls and aggressive policing by themselves won’t stop illegal immigration, while pledging that his government would create enough jobs that people won’t want to flee to the United States.
Speaking at a joint s... |
67b829ae1c3b8e11ef01ae1f80b6e4e5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-27-fg-marines27-story.html | Photos Indicate Civilians Slain Execution-Style | Photos Indicate Civilians Slain Execution-Style
Photographs taken by a Marine intelligence team have convinced investigators that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them “execution-style,” in the insurgent stronghold of Haditha after a roadside bomb killed an American in November, officials clos... |
b11ffd40a0875f994c54d517764004de | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-27-me-koce27-story.html | KOCE Sale Ruled Invalid | KOCE Sale Ruled Invalid
A state appeals court for the second time ruled Friday that an Orange County community college district should not have sold its public television station to a foundation instead of televangelists who offered more money.
The 4th District Court of Appeal said the Coast Community College District ... |
b2f6d6a1cba3b56a88a154efac6c3c00 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-28-op-heilbrunn28-story.html | Return of the liberal hawks | Return of the liberal hawks
DON’T LOOK now, but neoconservatism is making a comeback -- and not among the Republicans who have made it famous but in the Democratic Party.
A host of pundits and young national security experts associated with the party are calling for a return to the Cold War precepts of President Truman... |
76d5b26c6699a299c265533e0416cd9f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-28-tm-wedick22-story.html | The Agent Who Might Have Saved Hamid Hayat | The Agent Who Might Have Saved Hamid Hayat
Before the wins and losses are tallied up and the war on terror goes down in the books as either wisdom or folly, it might be recalled what took place this spring on the 13th floor of the federal courthouse in Sacramento. There, in a perfectly dignified room, in front of prose... |
b7823ba45b775d9de6f50145f6e91a8d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-29-fg-marine29-story.html | Bloody Scenes Haunt a Marine | Bloody Scenes Haunt a Marine
Lance Cpl. Roel Ryan Briones says he is tormented by two memories of Nov. 19, 2005, in Haditha, Iraq.
The first is of the body of his best friend and fellow Marine blown apart just after dawn by a roadside bomb. The second is of the lifeless form of a small Iraqi girl, one of two dozen unar... |
f8d76eb36222aee97b4cd47d64e6769b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-30-oe-albee30-story.html | Chimps don’t draw | Chimps don’t draw
AROUND THE TIME Darwin published “The Origin of Species,” people began thinking really hard about what it was that distinguished us from all the other animals. For a while it was thought that we were the only animals capable of using tools. But it soon became clear that many species were very inventiv... |
59080439b7fe5df642ec7f1e5a6db386 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-31-fg-reinforce31-story.html | Hopes for Iraq Pullback Fading | Hopes for Iraq Pullback Fading
The Pentagon’s hopes of making substantial reductions in U.S. troop levels in Iraq this year appear to be fading as a result of resurgent violence in the country, particularly in the Sunni Arab stronghold of Al Anbar province, military officials acknowledge.
Army Gen. George W. Casey, com... |
b2cedc58e0ec8f71b3b4c696540a8946 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-31-me-olgahelen31-story.html | Portrait Emerges of a Baffling Pair | Portrait Emerges of a Baffling Pair
In early April, the two women dropped by a Sunday lunch for the homeless at Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
They fit the picture of the charity-minded, a pair of kind souls happy to spend the afternoon helping the less fortunate.
They chatted with church volunteers and found themselve... |
165f4cb361fe019d04ac104b4c7e47ac | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-may-31-oe-wiener31-story.html | Shooting holes in a lawsuit | Shooting holes in a lawsuit
COULD IT BE that more guns cause less crime? Could it be that criminals who suspect their potential victims are armed would be deterred from committing crimes? That’s what John R. Lott Jr. argued in his 1998 book, “More Guns, Less Crime.”
But could it be that Lott is wrong; that other resear... |
d030ecd13405858bd2518497dd17920b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-01-en-strategies1-story.html | Escape from the valet of the dolls | Escape from the valet of the dolls
THE celebrities were A-list, the guest of honor charming, the Champagne flowing. But if you got trapped in the gridlock heading into and out of the recent American Cinematheque salute to George Clooney at the Beverly Hilton, here’s what you needed more than one of those (very heavy) g... |
09ed6ab761e90756d024826d9d30f7eb | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-02-fg-norkor2-story.html | SQUEEZE ON NORTH KOREA’S MONEY SUPPLY YIELDS RESULTS | SQUEEZE ON NORTH KOREA’S MONEY SUPPLY YIELDS RESULTS
For three years, the Bush administration has waged a campaign to choke off North Korea’s access to the world’s financial system, where U.S. officials say the nation launders money from criminal enterprises to fuel its trade in missile technology and its efforts to bu... |
cd1348a4c09b38b5a23e752664450c96 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-02-fg-summit2-story.html | China turns on charm for summit with African nations | China turns on charm for summit with African nations
As heads of state and dignitaries from 48 African nations poured into this city Wednesday to attend the largest summit China has ever played host to, signs of courtship were everywhere.
Bright red banners lining the streets proclaimed, “Friendship, Peace, Cooperation... |
8cdbf11e4ffb31cb11541f594e8099d4 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-03-fg-briefs3-story.html | Missiles fired as maneuvers get underway | Missiles fired as maneuvers get underway
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired missiles carrying cluster warheads at the start of 10 days of military maneuvers, state television reported.
Tehran had said the maneuvers, which will include drills in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, were to demonstrate “defensive strength.”
... |
847dec19c5f6a2ccbefd9ae0424a3fd2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-03-fg-nukes3-story.html | Website said to have A-bomb directions | Website said to have A-bomb directions
The federal government has shut down a website it set up in March containing documents seized during the Iraq war after arms experts and officials raised concerns that it contained a guide to building a nuclear bomb, the New York Times reported Thursday.
The newspaper said the Bus... |
3288948ac8ca7af22e6f658690acfdcd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-03-me-cafeteria3-story.html | End of the line for cafeterias | End of the line for cafeterias
It’s getting harder to find that plate of green jello.
There was a time when the cafeteria was the undisputed king of Southern California dining. Before World War II, the cheap food and sprawling dining halls brought together strangers new to the region and created lasting bonds.
For the ... |
aef19dc9f168e338a0641371ad3519cd | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-03-na-flu3-story.html | GOP has bad reaction to flu shots | GOP has bad reaction to flu shots
This city’s Democratic mayor thought it was appropriate to mix polling places and flu shots. This city’s Republicans thought they were going to be sick.
The administration of Mayor Bill White, former chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, approved a privately funded plan to launch a s... |
45510dd8eb9e88e00bdedcacaac20537 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-04-et-quick4-story.html | Burstyn’s 14 seconds of Emmy fame | Burstyn’s 14 seconds of Emmy fame
Ellen Burstyn was just as flabbergasted as everyone else when she heard she’d been nominated for an Emmy this year for her blink-and-you-miss-it role in the TV movie “Mrs. Harris.”
In an interview with AP Radio, the 73-year-old Academy Award winner spoke publicly for the first time abo... |
21f9f82008d5069ef97239b733939154 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-04-sp-lettersfolor4.2-story.html | What’s so bad about baseball? | What’s so bad about baseball?
Jeff Weaver, World Series champion. Is this a great country or what?
ROLLIE RODRIGUEZ
Santa Monica
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Thanks, Bill Plaschke, for informing me that I should be overjoyed that baseball has ended for the year. Now, I can get back to all the other major sports where mental and physical mistakes... |
131572fec1d755e0f360e6421f2bfa5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-05-me-then5-story.html | In this blaze, fame couldn’t stop the flames | In this blaze, fame couldn’t stop the flames
Among the most notorious California wildfires, the Bel-Air/Brentwood fire began in a trash heap 45 years ago this month -- a blaze that left hundreds of the rich and famous homeless in what Life magazine called “A Tragedy Trimmed in Mink” and prompted brush clearance laws an... |
0535a0c43853d41f359b9932ca3b5f93 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-05-tm-poker45-story.html | Bluff | Bluff
The World Series of Poker is played nowadays in the Rio’s Amazon Room. This hangar of a convention hall seats 2,431 players and dealers at 211 oval tables, each one lighted by a white Noguchi-esque lantern, and far above that by scores of spotlights hung from black scaffolding along with surveillance cameras, ad ... |
b68fe057ea0e57259c1b362f834d5506 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-06-fi-conspiracy6-story.html | Lower pump prices fuel political conspiracy theories | Lower pump prices fuel political conspiracy theories
Filling the tank of his Honda Accord, Daniel Carmolinga eyed the blinking numbers on the gasoline pump with a mixture of relief and suspicion -- relief that the total was significantly lower than it would have been a few months ago, but suspicion that Tuesday’s elect... |
0f23e2b28e54d82b105d81f5055fe737 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-06-he-sprawl6-story.html | Road to fat city starts at home | Road to fat city starts at home
Some questions have pat answers -- such as, “Does this dress make me look fat?” (Of course not.)
More tricky is the question of whether a person’s address can make her fat. Many urban planners and health researchers think it can. In study after study, they have all but concluded that urb... |
e95c1c34625d78b515592d86142b722c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-06-oe-hari6-story.html | Legalize it | Legalize it
JAMILLA NIAZI is a 40-year-old woman with a freckly face and high cheekbones. When she arrives in a refugee camp in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan to speak to me via Internet camera phone, her features are hidden behind the blue burka she is forced to wear in the scorching summer heat. She peels b... |
23953fcb43c3586bad29ba363411d98c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-07-me-carey7-story.html | Ernestine Carey, 98; wrote a comical look at her big family in ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ | Ernestine Carey, 98; wrote a comical look at her big family in ‘Cheaper by the Dozen’
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, who teamed up with a younger brother to write “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the bestselling book that lightheartedly chronicled their life growing up in a family of 12 children in the early part of the 20th century... |
266ad7f6e32b174a99ce472fb6ab2c9c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-07-na-partial7-story.html | Abortion method returns to justices | Abortion method returns to justices
When Douglas Johnson, the lobbyist for the National Right to Life Committee, first heard a description 14 years ago of a midterm abortion procedure, he felt a sense of revulsion and saw an opportunity.
He was convinced that if most Americans knew about it, they would think differentl... |
b32d25b505d6a2f1b4e571b33b312788 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-08-en-meister8-story.html | The art of the mingle | The art of the mingle
IN golf, they tell you to keep your head down, but when it comes to awards show mingling, the opposite holds true: Keep your head up or risk missing a celebrity walk-by.
While waiting for an awards show to start, you can get neck strain from watching everyone else peer over other people’s shoulder... |
743df672ffc6ad46379ff92198ec8079 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-08-fi-disney8-story.html | Disney to make Nintendo games | Disney to make Nintendo games
Walt Disney Co.'s Buena Vista Game unit Tuesday announced a new video game studio that would focus on creating new and Disney-inspired titles for Nintendo Co.'s hand-held DS player and upcoming Wii console.
Scott Novis, who headed the Rainbow Studios team that developed the popular video g... |
8d22e47187fd47b91e75cce1652878da | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-10-fg-rafsanjani10-story.html | Argentina issues arrest warrants | Argentina issues arrest warrants
An Argentine judge handed down international arrest warrants Thursday for ex-Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani and eight other former Iranian officials in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center here that killed 85 people and injured more than 200.
An Argentine i... |
43dc3b4f529c92f4696759bbe5bc3727 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-10-fg-widows10-story.html | A sorrowful, shunned casualty of the war | A sorrowful, shunned casualty of the war
Chivalry compelled Wafa Abd’s husband to cross the cordon line.
Qusai Hussein Saidie was driving home from work and discovered U.S. troops had blocked off his neighborhood during a search for gunmen. But he was worried about Wafa, then seven months pregnant.
“He told them, ‘My w... |
dc10db665383331c1f0d2273f2896dab | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-10-me-beating10-story.html | LAPD, FBI probe arrest on videotape | LAPD, FBI probe arrest on videotape
The FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department are investigating two officers for allegedly beating a man during an arrest last summer that was captured on video and posted on the popular YouTube website.
The video of the Aug. 11 arrest in Hollywood shows an officer sitting on 23-year... |
d4361b89dca8305ac7feb42f981eea3c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-fg-health11-story.html | Decrepit healthcare adds to toll in Iraq | Decrepit healthcare adds to toll in Iraq
Thousands of Iraqis are believed to have died from shortages of medicine, vital equipment and qualified doctors, despite an infusion of nearly half a billion dollars from U.S. coffers into this country’s healthcare system, Iraqi officials and American observers say.
Raging secta... |
2e0658652b1ab99395996505d8f559e2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-fi-kiosk11-story.html | Hi, may our machine take your order? | Hi, may our machine take your order?
White or wheat? Cold or toasted? Mayo, mustard, oil, vinegar?
The Subway sandwich chain prides itself on giving customers lots of choices: two dozen sandwiches featuring more than 10 meats and nearly 20 toppings and condiments, each nestled within one of five breads.
That variety al... |
f7edc21dadf308700756fc85a4ebcb01 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-me-airport11-story.html | John Wayne Airport shut down, flights delayed after report of armed man | John Wayne Airport shut down, flights delayed after report of armed man
Orange County’s John Wayne Airport was shut down and hundreds of passengers were delayed for more than an hour Friday as airport officials investigated a report that a boarding passenger had pulled a weapon out of a duffel bag.
“We were called to f... |
dd1b7a5461f399176c332f3cd4b0c040 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-me-beating11-story.html | Video, arrest report at odds | Video, arrest report at odds
The LAPD officers under investigation for allegedly using excessive force while arresting a suspect in Hollywood this summer appeared to have downplayed in their arrest report how many times they hit the man.
The report, obtained by The Times on Friday, says that Officer Patrick Farrell pun... |
ba612f87e49f021d380c71622f26b035 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-na-guard11-story.html | Guard units could do 2nd tour in Iraq | Guard units could do 2nd tour in Iraq
The Pentagon is developing plans that for the first time would send entire National Guard combat brigades back to Iraq for a second tour, the Guard’s top general said in the latest sign of how thinly stretched the military has become.
Smaller Guard units and individual troops have ... |
ef3e2d0d7570cc669246510aedf1e38b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-na-usiraq11-story.html | Parties inch closer to new policy in Iraq | Parties inch closer to new policy in Iraq
With the Democratic capture of Congress boosting pressure for a bipartisan approach to the Iraq war, a rough consensus is emerging that could lead to a new direction and a gradual U.S. disengagement from the costly conflict.
There are those on both sides of the aisle who favor ... |
f3b8a1b94d1b33d64187d0544af8899c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-sci-briefs11.1-story.html | Map of sea urchin genome is drawn | Map of sea urchin genome is drawn
Researchers have mapped the genome of the California purple sea urchin, a development that could advance genetic research into human diseases, according to a report published Friday in the journal Science.
Sea urchins are popular research animals because they are easy to manipulate gen... |
1ffc833c63f904bddd53d3192d93b9cf | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-ca-feet12-story.html | One small step for a dancer | One small step for a dancer
IN what has to be one of the strangest requests he’s ever gotten, Savion Glover was asked to attend penguin school ... and he did.
The tale begins with “Happy Feet” director George Miller -- who melded digital animation and lovable animals in 1995’s “Babe.” Miller was convinced the only way ... |
77fa7e415b4cec613514e18797076a7b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-fg-iraq12-story.html | Top commander says U.S. won’t abandon its mission | Top commander says U.S. won’t abandon its mission
Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the top commander in Iraq, voiced confidence Saturday that the United States would not abandon its mission in this violence-racked country amid a postelection reevaluation of Iraq strategy.
“The weeks and months ahead will require courage and d... |
f978360860242da78086dcc1cdfa6f7d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-me-shellhorn12-story.html | Ruth Shellhorn, 97; landscape architect for Bullock’s, Disneyland | Ruth Shellhorn, 97; landscape architect for Bullock’s, Disneyland
After studying landscape architecture at Cornell University in the 1930s, Ruth Shellhorn traveled home to South Pasadena on a mail boat through the Panama Canal. On her journey, she kept a meticulous diary of the exotic plants she encountered in Central ... |
657c038b6a78156ada6e073da621807e | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-na-dems12-story.html | LIBERAL GROUPS INSIST ON RESULTS | LIBERAL GROUPS INSIST ON RESULTS
After toppling the long-dominant Republicans in a hard-fought election, the Democratic Party’s incoming congressional leaders have immediately found themselves in another difficult struggle -- with their own supporters.
Some of the very activists who helped propel the Democrats to a maj... |
253dd65529a334124a31a2d7b52bdfdc | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-op-chandler12-story.html | Advice for a troubled Times | Advice for a troubled Times
FOR MONTHS, many of us have been wringing our hands about the situation at the Los Angeles Times. And last week, when Tribune Co. forced out Editor Dean Baquet, it only underscored how dire the situation is at the newspaper. As a member of the Chandler family, which founded and controlled th... |
e704b8d183745046e053859b9ae5d9a9 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-12-op-tomasky12-story.html | How the Dems did it | How the Dems did it
THE OFFICIALLY ACCEPTED VERSION of the Democrats’ victory last week, touted on television Tuesday night and repeated here and there in the following days, was that the party won by deftly running moderates in red states. This argument implied that the presumed incoming speaker of the House, Rep. Nan... |
531d96a91fb64750ff1dc152cdc03fa2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-13-oe-ferguson13-story.html | Borat, Blue Dogs and the GOP joke | Borat, Blue Dogs and the GOP joke
IN ADDITION TO being a brilliant satirist, Sacha Baron Cohen was once a rather good historian. In fact, he is by far my most successful former student. I can still remember how well he used to play the part of a studious Cambridge undergraduate, taking me in completely. With the charac... |
bdc6ffabf0fe1441066f615ed0fddd5c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-13-oe-weiner13-story.html | Be like Bhutan | Be like Bhutan
A QUICK QUIZ. What do the following have in common? The war in Iraq. Sales of cigarettes. The recent fires in Southern California.
The answer: They all contribute to our nation’s gross domestic product, or GDP, and therefore are all considered “good,” at least in the dismal eyes of economists.
GDP is the... |
4fe81fdc8fc81e18c74dcecc4eb0a481 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-13-sp-cliprep13-story.html | Thomas’ long-range shots help Brand find right zone | Thomas’ long-range shots help Brand find right zone
All-Star forward Elton Brand benefited from Tim Thomas’ long-range shooting in Sunday’s 92-76 victory over the New Orleans Hornets at Staples Center.
In an effort to make things difficult for Brand and center Chris Kaman, the Hornets often played zone in the first hal... |
c76bdfe36acc67aa4e130480403e752d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-14-me-arvizo14-story.html | Mother in Jackson case accepts plea | Mother in Jackson case accepts plea
The mother of the teenage boy whose allegations launched pop star Michael Jackson’s sensational molestation trial last year pleaded no contest Monday to one count of welfare fraud in a deal that will spare her jail time.
Janet Arvizo, 38, agreed to pay Los Angeles County more than $8... |
3bdbbf389975750de4ab8ef1eca3af49 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-15-fi-lexus15-story.html | In Japan, a Lexus just doesn’t have that cachet | In Japan, a Lexus just doesn’t have that cachet
These days no one scoffs at Toyota Motor Corp., the world’s most profitable auto manufacturer with an apparently fine-tuned sense of what drivers want.
So it may be hard to recall the skepticism in the 1980s when this Japanese company, known then for engineering dependabl... |
0365bd166babf4eeb3d0cbffcc2e7f60 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-15-na-tally15-story.html | By whom the toll is counted | By whom the toll is counted
NO one asked Michael White to count the dead soldiers in Iraq.
He is not a military man, and he has no friends or relatives who serve. He is a guy with a Honda Civic, a mortgage and a job in a suburban office park. A guy with a wife and a 7-year-old daughter who has soccer games to go to.
Bu... |
664c6bc82a8b4107c034bc68888a878f | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-15-sci-chocolate15-story.html | Good for the heart, way tastier than aspirin | Good for the heart, way tastier than aspirin
This should get your blood flowing.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have found that chocolate thins blood and protects the heart in the same way aspirin does. The keys are compounds in chocolate called flavonoids, which slow down platelet clumping that can block of... |
17d030152b917af2376ec76af12fd59c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-16-me-cellcamera16-story.html | A third incident, a new video | A third incident, a new video
The latest in a recent spate of cellphone videos documenting questionable arrest tactics surfaced Wednesday, this one showing a UCLA police officer using a Taser to stun a student who allegedly refused to leave the campus library.
Grainy video of the Tuesday night incident at UCLA’s Powell... |
4de8a13550aa895fffa92b04881876d0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-16-oe-rozen16-story.html | Unleash the Shiites? | Unleash the Shiites?
AS SECTARIAN violence rises in Iraq and the White House comes under increasing pressure to revamp its strategy there, a debate is emerging inside the Bush administration: Should the U.S. abandon its efforts to act as a neutral referee in the ongoing civil war and, instead, throw its lot in with the... |
5c78b63dcaf5b373fb32a47de608a0ba | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-16-oe-rubin16-story.html | Fund the Iraqi grass roots | Fund the Iraqi grass roots
THE DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has proved a grave disappointment. Security has worsened since Maliki has been in power. Ignoring the pleas of U.S. officials, he has been unwilling to crack down on the militias and death squads that fuel sectarian vi... |
81384dbb69b6a718368bc394937bd2fa | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-17-me-gifts17-story.html | Educators demanded lavish gifts, parents say | Educators demanded lavish gifts, parents say
To get proper schooling for their severely autistic son, an Irvine couple say they were forced to shower employees at his elementary school with diamond jewelry, Coach bags, Chanel perfume and other lavish gifts worth a total of $100,000, according to a legal claim filed thi... |
7d22725409bf7eec9960171f301f21a2 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-18-fg-organs18-story.html | DEATH ROW IS ORGAN SOURCE, CHINA ADMITS | DEATH ROW IS ORGAN SOURCE, CHINA ADMITS
After years of denial, China has acknowledged that most of the human organs used in transplants here are taken from executed prisoners and that many of the recipients are foreigners who pay hefty sums to avoid a long wait.
Speaking at a conference of surgeons in the southern city... |
1bae447eaa54dc660b126382da399ae5 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-19-bk-sorrentino19-story.html | Modern times | Modern times
NEARLY 50 years into the Thomas Pynchon era, it’s our failing if we don’t understand the author’s manner and method, which are inseparable from the artifacts he has produced. Despite the legendary slowness of his process, and his even more legendary “reclusiveness,” Pynchon has delivered seven books, inclu... |
97238d299bcbb861a1db2499fdc6abe3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-19-fg-kissinger19-story.html | Kissinger says Iraq isn’t ripe for democracy | Kissinger says Iraq isn’t ripe for democracy
Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, a frequent advisor to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, has concluded that the United States must choose between stability and democracy in Iraq -- and that democracy, for now, is out of reach.
“I think that’s realit... |
65c45544a65e650680ccd108024a9bb8 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-19-me-southpas19-story.html | A new era in South Pas | A new era in South Pas
South Pasadena is the kind of town that takes its history seriously -- a place that’s proud of slogans like “South Pasadena -- where the past is the present” and “South Pasadena: 1888 with all the modern amenities.”
And that was Sherry Hodge’s life.
The mother of one child lived in a 100-year-old... |
f6cd9bf417ef09384211da4cc69ee9a0 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-21-fg-italspies21-story.html | Italy’s spy chief ousted over CIA kidnap case | Italy’s spy chief ousted over CIA kidnap case
Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi on Monday dismissed the government’s top intelligence chief, a veteran spymaster under investigation for his role in the alleged CIA abduction of a radical Egyptian cleric from Milan three years ago.
With his removal, intelligence chief N... |
efb522ed354ad366c421be1b43dc622c | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-21-fi-buyouts21-story.html | Private cash fuels boom in takeovers | Private cash fuels boom in takeovers
Elite private investors are buying up major companies at a record pace, in a wave of deals that is raining riches on Wall Street but also may be raising the risk of a financial bust.
Investors led by Blackstone Group announced late Sunday the biggest takeover ever by a so-called pri... |
41fe65bd5f4a84ea99f0ce7be1b658db | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-21-me-internet21-story.html | Ruling limits Internet liability | Ruling limits Internet liability
Internet users and providers cannot be held liable for posting defamatory material written by someone else, the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday.
“The prospect of blanket immunity for those who intentionally redistribute defamatory statements on the Internet has disturb... |
17cabc39bca0cdcaf0e173c4563effa7 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-21-na-briefs21.2-story.html | Ex-official in jobs scheme sentenced | Ex-official in jobs scheme sentenced
A former high-ranking aide to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for covering up illegal patronage hiring at City Hall.
“The offense is corruption -- corruption with a capital C,” U.S. District Judge David H. Coar told 43-year-old Robert A. S... |
bfdf6b7a916fe7cb3d2a5bfdb22970e3 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-22-fg-samesex22-story.html | Married gays win Israeli court ruling | Married gays win Israeli court ruling
The Israeli Supreme Court touched off a fresh controversy over gay rights Tuesday when it ordered the government to register same-sex marriages performed abroad.
The ruling by a seven-judge panel, though limited in scope, reignited a debate over the rights of homosexuals in Israel ... |
1e9a36aab850e8744570189863225418 | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-22-fg-settlement22-story.html | Israeli group says data prove land theft | Israeli group says data prove land theft
An Israeli peace group said Tuesday that it had obtained government data showing that nearly 40% of land covered by Jewish settlements in the West Bank is privately owned by Palestinians, including big portions of blocs that Israel intends to keep under any future peace agreemen... |
93954785a4b0794af6decf0910e7a39b | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-22-sci-births22-story.html | C-sections at record high; teen births at record low | C-sections at record high; teen births at record low
The Caesarean delivery rate for U.S. women hit a record high in 2005 while teen births fell to a new low, government health officials said Tuesday.
Close to a third of all babies born in the United States -- 30.2% in 2005, up from 29.1% in 2004 -- were delivered surg... |
adb26d473ea854bf1871bb1bbc64fb2d | https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-23-fg-laredo23-story.html | On the Mexican border, fear rules | On the Mexican border, fear rules
The top cop in this unhinged border city has 300 openings on a 600-member police force, and his fearful greeting gave a big clue why.
“Please, please don’t use my name or take a photograph,” the interim chief begged.
One police chief was killed last year, a second quit in the spring, a... |
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