Archive for Sunday, December 05, 1999

Many in O.C. Will Ring In 2000 in Style

• For Baker, It Was a Tale of Two Counties By Tina Dirmann

• Life Lessons From the Big Kids at CSUN

• From Wright Brothers to ‘Right Stuff,’ a Dream Took Wing, Took Over By David Foster

• A Meal Steeped in History By Karen Newell Young

• Fan Slaps Leno With Suit After In-Your-Face T-Shirt Giveaway By Ann W. O'Neill

• Their Story Inspired ‘Ramona’ By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Attacks Spur Call for Cougar Hunts By Luis Cabrera

• WTO Focus on Trade Threatens Family Farms By Jim Churchill

• Irvine’s El Toro Gambit

• Titles on ‘Tender Topics’ By Willoughby Mariano

• Attorneys Give Legal Aid, Comfort to Needy By Roberto J. Manzano

• Worshipers Visit Replica of the Virgin of Guadalupe By Holly J. Wolcott

• Corporate Logos Help Add Some Green to Needy Parks’ Budgets By Nicholas Riccardi

• WHEN THE READING LIGHT WENT ON By Maria Elena Durazo

• A Transformational Place

• Special Education’s Value: Dignity, Not Dollars and Cents By Bill Bowman

• 450 Firefighters Battle Blaze in Ventura County By Anna Gorman

• Why Did It Take a Crisis to Point Out Long-Term Problems? By Steve Maulhardt

• Republicans Propose Infrastructure Fund for Rebuilding By George Runner

• Woman Dies in Simi Valley House Blaze By Holly J. Wolcott

• ‘Blue Ribbon’ School’s Move Criticized By Martha Groves

• Harold Wertz; ‘Bouncy’ in ‘Our Gang’ Films By Myrna Oliver

• Brush Fire Consumes 3,330 Acres By Anna Gorman

• Going Off the Beaten Path - Volunteers Work to Clear a Rancho Mission Viejo Trail By David Reyes

• Yvonne Chan - Education First, Partitioning the District Second, Says Charter Reformer By Bob Rector

• Ice Age Giant Is Going … Going … By Steve Chawkins

• Cultivating Gardens of Self-Sufficiency By Pauline Arrillaga

• Baker Provided an Opportunity for Change By Daryl Kelley

• A Reporter’s Contribution to the Latino Movement By Agustin Gurza

• Shell Game - Hollow female sculptures inspire strong reactions in Ventura College show. By Josef Woodard

• Jekyll and Hyde Go Shopping By Al Martinez

• State Farm Suit Seeks Return of Data Critics Say Indicate Redlining By John M. Glionna

• Questions for the LAPD

• Crime Takes Another Fall - But Issue Is Still a Big Source of Fear for Public

• O.C. BOOKS & AUTHORS

• New Mexico Could Be the Poster Child for Hunger in America By Pauline Arrillaga

• Students Chart PATH of Resistance to Sex By Kristina Sauerwein

• Obituaries

• New Year’s Eve Parties, Festivals, Hoopla - THEME PARKS

• Van Hits Boy as He Runs From Police By Holly J. Wolcott

• Squatters Go Upscale Across the Valley By Sue Fox

• Mystery Amplifies Grief at Service for Huntington Couple By Bonnie Harris

• Changes Planned After Jail Clash By Louise Roug and Jack Leonard

• Creation of Superagency a Catalyst for Calamity By Catherine Saillant

• MTA’s Peak-Hour Expansion of Bus Fleet Begins Today

• Check It Out

• Obituaries

• Officials Identify Woman Killed in Crash in Tarzana By Sue Fox

• Dralions and Acrobats and Clowns, Oh My! By T. H. Mcculloh

• Stevie Wonder Asks About Eye Surgery By Jeff Wilson

• Home-Buying Course Offered by Agency By Matt Surman

• Check It Out

• Bicyclist Seriously Injured in Collision With Van By Anna Gorman

• Area Schools Called Tops for Latinos By Anna Gorman

• DANA PARSONS By Dana Parsons

• Newest Squatters Are Going Upscale Across the Valley By Sue Fox

• Hoping for a Y2-OK

• Episcopalians Plan Ecology Campaign By Larry B. Stammer

• Episcopalians Plan Ecology Campaign By Larry B. Stammer

• Ventura Attorney Is County Bar Chief By Tracy Wilson

• Amgen Sponsors Habitat Project By Anna Gorman

• Special Events for the Holidays By Ann Shields

• A Legacy of Parks, Open Space

• ORANGE COUNTY VOICES

• Add the Pilots, Paramedics

• Parks ‘Passport’ Touts Area Sites By Stephanie Stassel

• Man Killed by Police Is Identified By Sue Fox

• Preaching Earthly Concerns By Seema Mehta and Larry B. Stammer

• It’s Up to Supervisors

• Why Overpay on the Eve of Y2K? By Kate Folmar

• Put Tobacco Settlement Cash to Good Use By William Aulenbach

Viva la Diffa

• The Sport of Exiles By Jesse Katz

• Saving Art by the Sheet By Dianne Bates

• Solo in the City By Allison Adato

• Jenny Armit, Interior Designer By Leslee Komaiko

• The Only Game in Town By S. Irene Virbila

• Hummer Lovin’ By Monica Corcoran

• High Lights By A. Grey Le Cuyer

• GUT CHECK AT MACH 1 By Alan Abrahamson

• Planet of the Ppuppets By Russ Spencer

• Keeping the World Straight When Memory Is a Trickster By Patt Morrison

• Tea and China By Leilah Bernstein

• Let Them Shake Salt By Mark Ehrman

Awash in Elegance

• Malibu Buyer Is His Newest Role By Ruth Ryon

• Furnace Tuneup Cuts Bills By James Dulley

• Written Rental Contract Is Always Best By Kevin Postema

• R.I. Sues Makers of Lead Paint

• Inspection Can Keep Fireplace Usage Safe By Gary Abrams

• One Number Does It All

• Bay Area Gaining on Southland in High-End Sales By Jennifer Oldham

• Disabling Fireplace Damper Keeps Home Safe From Fumes By Barry Stone

• Send Us Your Remodeling Tale

• Times on the Web

Valencia Whites Out Saugus

• IRONMAN By Teresa M. Walker

• ISLAND FEVER By Ross Newhan and Paul Gutierrez

• Newport Harbor Makes It Two in a Row Over Lincoln By Michael Itagaki

• Ducks Keep Mind on Own Business By Elliott Teaford

• Clippers’ Downward Spiral Quickly Gaining Speed By Lonnie White

• Duke Can Take This Victory to the Bank

• Cerritos’ McDonald is King for Day By Steve Kresal

• Lester’s Run Lets Hancock Bowl Over Ventura, 20-13 By Steve Galluzzo

• Even Bears Couldn’t Find a Spot for McNown By Steve Springer

• Few Could Swing the Bat Like Jackson and Wagner By Earl Gustkey

• Lightning Hits Kings in Final Minutes By Jim Hodges

• Heat Clearly Is One to Beat in the Least That Is the East By Mark Heisler

• World Cup 2002 Is All Set to Draw FIFA’s Attention By Grahame L. Jones

• Taylor Has Got It Upstairs By J A. Adande

• Pincay Gets a Big Victory While Narrowing Gap on Shoemaker By Bob Mieszerski

• Just Back From Russia With Love By Eric Sondheimer

• Smith Facing More Charges

• Alabama Dominates Florida

• Third Time Charming for Eagles By Dave Mckibben

• Siraki Outruns Bad Feeling, Comes On for Good Finish By John Ortega

• Ventura Can’t Govern Outcome

• Webber Is Finally the Largest King By Michael Wilbon

• CAPSULES

• NHLPA Not Promising Salary Relief By Alan Robinson

• Possible Florida State Violation Reported

• Mount Union Rallies to Defeat Ohio Northern; Streak Reaches 54

• Emotion Carries Columbine to Title

• When It Comes to the Long Shots, It Increasingly Appears L.A. Has No Shot By Lonnie White

• Northridge Pays the Price for Free Throws in Defeat By Vince Kowalick

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND By Vince Kowalick

• Race Results Confirm Bias By Andrew Beyer

• Golden West Wins to Gain Final

• Dayne’s Uncle Deserves the Heisman By Ken Berger

• Big Comeback Brings a Title to Graceland By Steve Galluzzo

• Minuses a Plus for Kennedy By Chris Shaffer

• NFL Coaches Prefer to Run and Hide By Bob Oates

• Greer Glad to Be an Outsider at St. Mary’s By Lon Eubanks

• Curry, Harris Spark Northridge, 65-55

• Gadzuric and Moiso Have Been Out of Sync Inside By Scott Howard-Cooper

• STATE VOLLEYBALL By Michael Itagaki

• Fullerton Finally in the Win Column By Lon Eubanks

• Pomona Is a 3-1 Loser in Title Game

• Husky Twosome Not Enough By Dave Desmond

• IOC Seeks to Close Bribery Crisis By Stepehn Wilson

• Horry’s Game Is Taking Shape By Tim Kawakami

• Nice Guy Finishes First By Lisa Dillman

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND - Prince Helps Pepperdine Defeat Wichita State

• UCLA Tops Massachusetts, Faces Stanford in Final By Erik Hamilton

• Long Beach State Sweeps Arkansas to Advance

• Golay, Mashia Propel Trojans to 72-60 Win

• Simi Valley Wins in Overtime By Steven Herbert

• BOYS’ BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

• No Explanation for Referee Mix-Up

• WOMEN By Earl Gustkey

• Australia Nears Davis Cup After Doubles Rally

• Escobar, Mejia Gain Nationals By John Ortega

• TOP TO BOTTOM / NBA

• It’s Not a Knockout, but Vargas Keeps Title

• Lions Sign Desmond Howard

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND By Chris Foster

• Azusa Is Dethroned as Champ By Scott Moe

• Back Pain Stops Palffy By Jim Hodges

• HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

• TENTATIVE BOWL MATCHUPS

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND By Lon Eubanks

• Nylander Nets Four Goals for Struggling Blackhawks

• St. Bonaventure, It’s Open and Shut By Mike Bresnahan

• USC Is a Loser on Road By Mike Terry

• Russian Orphans Enjoy Comforts of a Home Game By Diane Pucin

• Nebraska Presents Case as Best It Can

• It’s Not a Knockout, but Vargas Keeps Title

• Navy Defeats Army; Miami Breezes

• St. Margaret’s Players Find Only Themselves to Blame for Loss to Ripon By Michael Itagaki

• JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By Mitch Polin

• COLLEGE BASKETBALL / SOUTHLAND

• USC REPORT

• Westlake Beats Arroyo Grande By Eric Sondheimer

• ISLAND FEVER By Paul Gutierrez

• Cohane Steps Down at Buffalo

• Flores Runs to the National Finals By John Ortega

• Lord, Trotter Help Brea Olinda Girls Beat Don Lugo in Overtime

• SOCCER ROUNDUP

• One-Day Delay Can’t Derail Washington, Brea Olinda By Ben Bolch

• UC Irvine Dwarfs Millard, St. Mary’s With Team Effort By Chris Foster

• GIRLS’ BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

• PREP ROUNDUP

• An Unlikely Course of Help for Redskin Kicker Conway By Thomas Boswell

• Ross Gives Detroit Bigger Bite By Michael Wilbon

• Finley’s Agent to Visit Suitors By Tim Brown

• JUNIOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL ROUNDUP By Steven Herbert

• He Used to Keep His Cowboys on a Short Leash By Mal Florence

• STATE VOLLEYBALL

• Seahawks Try to Bounce Back Against Raiders

• COLLEGE ROUNDUP

• Ducks Catch Break in Goal By Elliott Teaford

• Northridge Women End UC Irvine Streak By Chris Foster

• UNITED NATIONS

• Comeback Puts Kilpatrick in Final By Mitch Polin

Five Winners in the Wasatch

• Transcending Time at Taos By Grace Lichtenstein

• Jackson’s Blazing New Trails By David Gonzales

• Bitten by the June Bug By Dan Blackburn

• Smithsonian to Open Hall Devoted to Africa

• Cooking Up Some Shipboard Memories By Harry Basch and Shirley Slater

• Getting Instant Photo-Gratification By Judi Dash

• Latin American Savings in High Season By Arthur Frommer

• Tips for Staying on the Slopes and Out of the ER By Kathleen Doheny

• Hitting the Sand at Huntington, Bolsa Chica By John Mckinney

• D.C. Monument to Close for Repairs

• Food for Thought and Stomachs in Indonesia By Karin Esterhammer

• Hawaii Plans Fee for Diamond Head

• Touring Hawaiian Coffee, Sugar Farms

• A City Girl Learns About Taking to the Woods–Without Help From a Man By Susan Spano

• California Corner By Laurie K. Schenden

• If Fares Drop, Fliers Are Due a Refund–Maybe By Christopher Reynolds

• Hyatt to Open Resort Near Vegas

• In Canada, Schuss Farther on Packages By Lucy Izon

• Getting Those Toddling Tots on the Ski Slopes By Eileen Ogintz

• MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN

• Cruise Ship Scores

• Readers Recommend

Fresh and Evergreen

• Was It Worth It? Wounded Reporter Assesses His Loss By Ian Stewart

• His Body of Work By Lynell George

• The Slow Lane in Vehicle Safety By Myron Levin

• Revered White Buffalo Draws Pilgrims to Wisconsin Farm By Helen O'Neill

• Silence From Mars Lander Prolongs a Tense Vigil By Robert Lee Hotz

• Belmont Financing Leaves Total Cost in Question By Jeffrey L. Rabin

• 2 Firefighters in Search of Homeless People in Blaze Radioed Distress Call

• Products of the Imagination - Industrial design is enjoying a renaissance as consumers embrace a new crop of visually exuberant goods. By Linda Hales

• Security Increased at VIP Parking Garage in Capitol’s Basement By Carl Ingram

• New Tactics Used Against Tenacious Pike By Eric Bailey

• 13 Killed as Van Hits Big Rig

• Pakistani Police Arrest Kin of Confessed Killer of Children

• Funeral Held for 7 Cubans Who Drowned

• Blue Year’s Eve By Martin Miller

• Inside, Outside Forces Change WTO Forever By Jonathan Peterson

• Ex-Chief Justice Rose Bird Dies of Cancer at 63 By Maura Dolan

• Aliens, Dragons and War Horses

• Holy Sepulcher Guardians Slam Door on Portal Plan By Tracy Wilkinson

• Chilling Web Site Reveals a Killer’s Obsessive Plans By J M. Hirsch

• Seattle Settles Into Post-WTO Holiday Rhythm

• New York State Towns Irate Over Dam By Michael Hill

• Online Voting to Be Offered in Arizona

• Researchers Probe Minds of Mass Murderers

• Lawsuit to Prolong Medical Marijuana Use Is Dismissed

• Agency Oversees U.S. Fuel Rules, Auto Safety Programs By Myron Levin

• Leader, Ruling Party Easily Win Election

• Bethlehem Launches Millennial Festivities

• 5 Snowboarding Fans Killed in Stampede

• The Season to Help Nonprofit Agencies Continue Their Work

• Agency Urges More Affordable Housing Near Lake Tahoe

• What’s Old, Pussycat? By Mike Downey

• Poor Countries Defy WTO ‘Club’ By Evelyn Iritani

• Ex-Mayor’s Libel Suit Is Dismissed

• Nature in the City By Mel Gilden

• Your Gift for Giving May Give Him Pain By Vicki Iovine

• Top Workers Are the Best in U.S. at Faking Sick Days

• 2 Bonfire Pile Victims Were Drunk

• Storm Across N. Europe Leaves 17 Dead, Devastation in Wake

• Teen’s Death at Camp Fuels Debate, Inquiry

• S. Dakota Land Dispute Attests to Racial Chasm By William Claiborne

• U.S. School in Kenya Sends 17 Boys Home

• Man Kills 5 of His Children, Shoots Himself, Police Say

• LAUGH LINES

• Photographers’ Group Sues Kmart Over Illegal Reprints By Steve Karnowski

• States Get Welfare Reform Bonuses

• Community Agencies List Their Wishes By Candace A. Wedlan

• JOKES & RIDDLES

• Severe Organ Shortage Expected to Worsen By Marlene Cimons

• Y2K: Who’s Ready, Who’s Not

• No Fatalities in Warehouse Blasts

• After 25 Years, Silkwood Legacy Endures By Ron Jenkins

• McCain in Good Health, Records Say

• California to Receive More Federal Funds to Fight AIDS By Nick Anderson

• Fitness, Not Weight, Could Be the Key to Good Health By Ira Dreyfuss

• Losers Take All in Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans By Carl Manning

• Sen. DeWine Calls for Easing Teacher Certification Rules

• Officials Dismiss Calls For Resignations

• Banker Killed in Apartment Fire Refused to Heed Pleas of Rescuers

• Dutch Mayors Press for Right to Bar Sex Offenders From Their Cities By Alexander Bon

• Follow the Recipes for Sisterhood By Sandy Banks

King Heads Up Aviation Distributors

• Wardrobe Stylist Hopes to Dress With Greater Success By Susan Vaughn

• Internet Is Kind to Santa’s Smallest Elves By Rachel Beck

• Brazil Debates High Cost of Car Plant in Poor State By Chris Kraul

• Wireless May Come First as Internet Path By James Flanigan

• Answering a Taxing Question By Kathy M. Kristof

• Don’t Learn About Nondeductible Education Expenses the Hard Way By Liz Pulliam

• Carrying On a Butchering Tradition By David Dishneau

• Quick-Read Newspaper Moves Fast By Susanna Loof

• Kill a Turtle for the Dow? No, but Trade Does Matter By Tom Petruno

• Old and New: A Tricky Balancing Act By Ted Anthony

• Internet Is a Gold Mine of Free Information for Plan Investors By Paul J. Lim

• Company’s Docking of Gross Sales Not Lawful

A DANGEROUS FRIEND; By Ward Just; Houghton Mifflin: 256 pp., $25

• PROUST AMONG THE STARS; By Malcolm Bowie; Columbia University Press: 352 pp., $28

• HAY; Poems; By Paul Muldoon; Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 224 pp., $22

• LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERS / December 5, 1999

One Giant Leap

• MTV Aims to Keep It Totally Honest on ‘Total Request Live’ By Steve Hochman

• Back to the Cradle of Conflict By John Clark

• Best Bets / DECEMBER 5-11, 1999

• Latin Pulse By Ernesto Lechner

• From Eternity to Here By Scarlet Cheng

• Going Against the Usual Wisdom By Christopher Noxon

• Pointe Shoe Confidential By Jennifer Fisher

• Recordings By Daniel Cariaga

• All Eyes on DMX By Soren Baker

• Allow Her to Illuminate By Daryl H. Miller

• Building a Vision From the Ground Up By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

• Symphonic Corea, Solitary Jarrett, and More By Don Heckman

• Recordings - Rattle Delivers Decadent Treats By Mark Swed

• Aida, Meet Elton By Patrick Pacheco

• Y2K: Trailer-Compliant By Kathleen Craughwell

• Two Troupes Making NoHo Their Home By Don Shirley

• Recordings By Mark Swed

• Recordings By John Henken

• SMALL FACES

Skewered in Seattle

• Another Step Toward Peace, Another Obstacle By Kelly Candaele

• When Politics Is Also Psychology By Peter Wolson

• Is Villaraigosa a True Consensus-Builder? By Steve Scott

• Why Not Create the $100,000 Teacher? By Lowell Milken

• Lee Kuan Yew By David Lamb

• Seeking to Be the ‘Founder,’ Arafat Tightens His Grasp By Amy Wilentz

• Register Your Car and Your Commitment By Sherry Lansing

• Skewered in Seattle By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge

• The Silence That Won’t Go Away By Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

• Hospital Errors’ High Cost

• Make Those Airports Tighter

• Finding Neighborhoods in L.A.

• Don’t Complete the Belmont Learning Complex By Ira Reiner