Archive for Sunday, December 12, 1999

Immigrant Tells Stories From Heart

• U.S. Town Nurtures Its Youth, but Also Its Gun Collectors By Lynn Elber

• Latest Actions Underscore Flynn’s Style By Daryl Kelley

• An Indian Feast By Max Jacobson

• New Kids on Every Block By Karen Alexander

• Lobsters on Parade Mixes Claws and Claus By Catherine Blake

• Canadian Town Puts Emphasis on Respect, Family Togetherness By Todd Lewan

• Dump Foes Pick Up the Pieces By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Santa Ana Voters Show the Spirit of Sacrifice for the Greater Good By Msgr. Jaime Soto

• Huge Throng Hails Virgin of Guadalupe By Margaret Ramirez

• Living With Bankruptcy’s Lessons

• San Gabriel Left a Mark on Roy Bean By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Angry Neighbors Plan to Fight Landfill Expansion By Patrick Mcgreevy

• Celebrating Guadalupe, Sacred Icon of the People By Mary Helen Ponce

• 2,500 Greet Pacoima’s 32nd Annual Christmas Parade By Roberto J. Manzano

• Sale of KACE, Home of R&B Oldies, Reflects Changing L.A. Landscape By John L. Mitchell

• Small Island Offers Unusual New Year’s Destination By Maureen Clark

• Texas ‘Wonderland of Lights’ Display Elevates Spirits, Profits By Susan Parrott

• Kapow! By Duke Helfand

• Spending Habits Have to Change, Analysts Warn By Catherine Saillant

• WHEN THE READING LIGHT WENT ON By Saradeshaprana

• More Options for Pierce Farm

• Paying Tribute to Couple’s Activism By David Reyes

• Artistic Equilibrium By Josef Woodard

• Pesticide Is Poison; Who Needs a Study? By Beverly Kelley

• Their Case Is Truly Textbook By Jeff Gottlieb

• Laemmle Led a Hollywood Migration to the Valley By Jeffrey Gettleman

• Sentenced to Serve Community By Hector Becerra, Louise Roug, and Hudson Sangree

• Court Files By Ann W. O'Neill

• Man, 82, Shoots Self; Wife Killed

• Newport Bay Center to Honor 2 Key Families By David Reyes

• Celebrating the Season in a Blaze of Glory By John O'Dell and Lynn O'Dell

• Pedestrian-Friendly Makes Sense

• Quality of Health Care Is at Issue

• Magnet Schools Brochures on Way By Stephanie Stassel

• Woman, 72, Dies in Car Accident

• Graphic Reminder to Drive Sober

• Melding Old and New

• Veteran Teachers: Overprotected, Not Underpaid By William Chitwood

• County Must Fight Phantom Worker Menace By Steve Chawkins

• Check It Out

• Huntington Officer Hit by DUI Suspect By Bonnie Harris

• Student Evaluation System Frustrates Teachers, Parents By Doug Smith

• O.C. BOOKS & AUTHORS

• Internet Emphasis Does Not Compute By Regina Powers

• Racism Alleged in Lake Forest Mayoral Choice By Alex Katz

• Drawing on Friendship By Ann Shields

• Muslims Seek Ramadan Site By William Lobdell

• Those Who Work Should Not Face Lives of Poverty By Bernardo Perez

• Peace Came Without Bliss By Thao Hua

• Driver Killed in Glendale Crash Identified By Martha L. Willman

• 11 Residents Displaced in Apartment Fire By Martha L. Willman

• Santa Ana Man Shot, Robbed By Seema Mehta

• Is Television to Blame?

• Freeway Art Is Traffic Hazard

• A Scholar and a Role Model

• Dump Is Not the Answer

• Sounds of Another Language By Al Martinez

• Maynard Lyndon; Architect for UCLA’s Bunche Hall By Elaine Woo

• Obituaries

• Once More, With Reason

• Mexico’s Anti-U.S. Law Enforcement

• The Case of Leal vs. the Cop Was for the Birds By Dana Parsons

• ‘The Insider’ Wins Top L.A. Film Critics Award By Susan King

• A Solution, Not a Patch

• Radar Emissions Study Will Define Debate for Nation By Vickie Finan

• External Review Gives Patients Recourse By Adam B. Schiff

Moving Before ‘The Hurricane’

• Open Before Closing By Kathy Sena

• Don’t Move the Door; Just Direct the Chi By Kirsten M. Lagatree

• The Perfect House, but It’s Not for Sale? Web Site Has Option By Kenneth R. Harney

Mild to Hot

• creature comforts

• The Legacy of Vidal Sassoon By Robin Abcarian

• The Uncle’s Apprentice By James Bates

• Not So Trashy By Mary Melton

• You Give Me Fever By Tamar Brott

• A Mac Upgrade By Sally Schneider

• The Man With X-ray Vision By Martin Booe

• A Pinot Going Sour By S. Irene Virbila

• Perfect Town, Perfect Jury By Kerry Madden-Lunsford

• A Survivor’s Guide to Rehab By Robin Scholer

• Millennium Medallions By Leilah Bernstein

Monarchs, Poly Tie One On

• Well-Bred Colt By Steve Springer

• the Defense Rests By Mike Bresnahan

• Political Games Playing a Role By Grahame L. Jones

• Nicklaus Steals Show at Pelican Hill By Peter Yoon

• Kings Marshal Their Forces and Stave Off Canadiens, 4-2 By Jim Hodges

• He Was Touched by Ashe, Now He Is Touching Others By Diane Pucin

• No Stopping Nicklaus After Hot Start By Peter Yoon

• Hornets Rout 76ers as Iverson Returns

• Hart Caps Perfect Season With 34-6 Win Over Valencia By Mike Bresnahan

• Bruins Fail a Real Test By Scott Howard-Cooper

• Reserve Power Charges Lakers By Tim Kawakami

• He Maintained Fix Was Never in for ‘19 Series By Earl Gustkey

• Frustration Builds as Clippers’ Losing Skid Reaches Nine By Lonnie White

• Trojans Roar Past the Lions By Mike Terry

• CAPSULES

• Nordhoff Fumbles Away Upset of St. Bonaventure By Lauren Peterson

• Poly, Mater Dei Can’t Settle the Score in Latest Rematch By Gary Klein

• This Tie Should Be Considered a Victory for Battling Monarchs By Diane Pucin

• SOMETHING TO PROVE By John Mossman

• Does the Browns’ Back Have Hoop Dreams? By Steve Springer

• It’s Tough to Stand Pat, Especially in New York By Mark Heisler

• Dayne’s Victory a Clear Runaway By Chris Dufresne

• SOMETHING TO PROVE - Are the Troubles for Ryan Leaf Finally Over? By Bernie Wilson

• Maple Leafs Fight Off Flyers

• BASKETBALL

• Not Much Behind Shaq By Tim Kawakami

• DIVISION VII By Will Etheridge

• Arizona Gets Bang-Up Effort From Woods

• Long Beach Going Back to Final Four

• Chapman Falls to Claremont

• McKenna Displays a Very Short Fuse By Jim Hodges

• DIVISION VII

• SOUTHLAND By Steve Henson

• UP NEXT

• Narbonne Interrupts Ladycats’ Long Run in Brea Tournament By Martin Henderson

• Hoover’s Siraki Surprises By John Ortega

• Instead of Forum and Its Ghosts, It’s a Centre and an Ugly Specter By Helene Elliott

• Ventura Gets Rare Victory Over Buena By Mitch Polin

• Reds Close Door on Talks for Griffey By Ross Newhan

• Rush Probe Said to Involve Agent By Scott Howard-Cooper

• DIVISION XIII By Steven Herbert

• Bruins Fail Real Test By Bill Plaschke

• Couples Angling for Another Postseason Payday By Steve Kresal

• PREP ROUNDUP

• the Defense Rests By Eric Sondheimer

• IOC Reform Vote Off to a Fast Start By Alan Abrahamson

• Dodgers Looking to Deal Costly Infielders By Mike Digiovanna and Jason Reid

• Aggressive Play Is Paying Off for Colts, Rams By Bob Oates

• Mount Union’s Record Streak Ends After OT Loss to Rowan

• Northridge Win Sweet for Larry, Braswell

• DIVISION VIII

• Two-for-One Deal for Tournament Host

• Paraclete Serves Notice Again By Dave Desmond

• Hart Caps Perfect Season, 34-6 By Mike Bresnahan

• DIVISION XIII By Steven Herbert

• There’s No Chance to Rest for Indiana, Santa Clara By Scott Moe

• SOUTHLAND By Lon Eubanks

• Barkley Almost Had His Moment With the Suns By Mal Florence

• Curtis Makes Good Use of Charity Opportunity By Steve Galluzzo

• USC REPORT

• Pacers’ Arena Gets Thumbs Up By Lonnie White

• San Jose State Is Fodder for Titans By Lon Eubanks

• Pincay Gets to Meet of the Matter By Bill Christine

• Gordon Leads Ice Dogs, 3-2

• Rucchin, Cullen Draw Praise By Elliott Teaford

• NBA TOP TO BOTTOM By Mark Heisler

• Streaking Charter Oak Stopped By Will Etheridge

• DIVISION XII By Dave Desmond

• Indiana State’s Win Over Indiana First Since 1925

• Scioscia Takes On New Position With Quiet Confidence By John Nadel

• USC Doubles Up on Sacramento State

• DIVISION XI By Lauren Peterson

• Ruth, Didrikson Named Top Athletes

• HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

• Martin Leads UCLA Past Pepperdine By Earl Gustkey

• El Camino Real Rallies for Tournament Victory By Danny Schumacher

Phasers on Stun

• Special Education in State Is Failing on Many Fronts By Duke Helfand and Richard Lee Colvin

• The Heavy Breath of Death Chilled Summer in the City By Matt Crenson and Joseph B. Verrengia

• Unconventional Wisdom By Martin Miller

• As Most Folks Get Set to Cocoon, Others Plan Y2Knockout Revels By Michael Quintanilla

• Liberty Bell 7 Yields Clues to Its Sinking By Marcia Dunn

• International Dispute Continues Over Fate of 6-Year-Old Refugee in U.S. By Rachel La Corte

• Tight Race Is Testimony to Democracy in Chile By Sebastian Rotella

• Fresh Holiday Fare By Susan King

• Pope Celebrates Restoration of Sistine Chapel

• Kudos to the People Busy Helping Others By Patt Diroll

• A Hawaiian Morsel Rides the Waves

• Hospices Are Succumbing to Falling AIDS Mortality By Mitchell Landsberg

• Ancient Water Quenches Town’s Thirst By Ted Anthony

• EU Says Turks Lose Bid if Rebel Kurd Is Executed

• Once Obsolete, Folsom Bridge Gets New Life By Eric Bailey

• Clinton Wants to Revise Military Gay Policy By Edwin Chen

• Bradley Plays Down Heart Ailment By James Gerstenzang and Maria L. La Ganga

• Escape Window Is Slowly Closing on Chechen Capital By Richard C. Paddock

• Mourning Croats Look to New Era By Carol J. Williams

• The Dark Side of Holiday Lights By Jura Koncius

• New Museum in Tijuana to Showcase Baja California Heritage By Ken Ellingwood

• Old Spies Refusing to Fade Away By Bob Drogin

• For Jamaicans, Radio Days Are Not a Thing of the Past By Matthew J. Rosenberg

• A Woman’s Journey Back From Prison By Matt Curry

• Those ‘Pocket Monsters’ Spawn a Mini Crime Wave By Meki Cox

• Remains of Bombing Victims Are Buried

• Dream a Little Dream of Mars By Mike Downey

• Poll Finds Chicago Residents Anxious About Y2K Woes

• 3 More Firefighters’ Bodies Recovered

• 6.8 Quake Does Minor Damage in Philippines

• Palm Springs’ Backdrop Gets a Boost By Bart Jansen

• Helped by Biologists, Connecticut River Salmon May Stage a Comeback By Wilson Ring

• Tough Tree Threatens New England’s Arboreal Symbol By Trudy Tynan

• Two Centuries of Seafaring on Display By Lawrence L. Knutson

• LAUGH LINES

• Need a New Year’s Eve Sitter? Forget It By Joanne Kenen

• Respect for Bodies Starts Now

• Running-Away Place By Sue Alexander

• Files Belie Japan’s Nonnuclear Image

• Critics Try to Mar Rally by Supporters of Police in Seattle

• Former Teacher Jailed for Cheating Students

• Students Seek to Exempt Textbooks From Sales Tax By Jeff Gottlieb

• Police Kill Gunman After Fatal Rampage

• MBA Students Drop Out, Link Up, Cash In on Web By Marla Dickerson

• A Word to the Wide: Work Out or Conk Out By Ira Dreyfuss

• City Sets Stage for Biblical Characters By Tracy Wilkinson

• Turkey’s Bid for EU Puts Cyprus at Center Stage By Richard Boudreaux

• Ritual They’ve Learned by Heart By Sandy Banks

• 35 Are Feared Dead in Azores Crash

• At Least 25 Die in Bangladesh Ferry Accident

• Artifacts Cast New Light on Texas Indian Wars By Chris Newton

• Boot Camps Closed After Abuse Reports

• Air Force Shoots the Moon With New Digital Cameras By Bill Kaczor

• 230 Tamil Tigers Killed in Major Rebel Attack

• Drive-Through Offers Fast Food for the Soul By Jamie Stengle

• Discharge Sought for Gay Reservist

• N.Y. Transit Workers Threaten to Strike Amid Holiday Rush

• Lobbyist Was FALN Leader, Report Says

• A Bone of Contention in Divorce Court By Katherine Shaver

• Schools Find Early Intervention Can Save Struggling Students By Martha Groves and Duke Helfand

• JOKES & RIDDLES

• U.S. Travelers Warned of Terrorism By Jim Mann

Haughty but Nice

• Paris, Always in Season By Christopher Reynolds

• This port city tones down its image but still hums with intrigue By Lucretia Bingham

• Hitting the bricks at Legoland, where a little boy’s wish is his parents’ command By Margo Kaufman

• Hotel Grande Dames Do Battle in Paris

• Holiday Travails

• A Variety of Vistas From High Above Yucca Valley By John Mckinney

• Photos of Flora and Fauna on Hawaii’s Garden Isle By Karin Esterhammer

• Lenny Gives Caribbean a New Year’s Hangover By Mark Fineman

• Palm Trees and Tropical Breeze Lure Backpackers to the South Pacific’s Hostels By Lucy Izon

• California Corner By Laurie K. Schenden and Schenden'S E-Mail Address Is lkschenden

• Airport Malls Redefine ‘Shopping on the Fly’ By Naedine Joy Hazell

• Gift-Giving Without Leaving Your Computer Chair By Laura Bly

• Stay Stateside for Good Winter Deals By Arthur Frommer

• MILLENNIUM COUNTDOWN

• A Writer Finds Enchantment and Her Place ‘Under the Tuscan Sun’ By Susan Spano

• Millennium Rates Falling in Vegas

• Readers Recommend

• Traveler’s Notes …

Who’ll Be the Internet’s Jolliest Holiday Merchants?

• South Coast Rep Names Marketing Chief

• Office Worker Is Thinking Outside the Box–the One Called a Cubicle By Susan Vaughn

• Amid Turmoil, Change Is Real This Time in Japan By James Flanigan

• Trouble on the Lines for AT&T Since Its Cable Entry By Elizabeth Douglass and Sallie Hofmeister

• Don’t Be Pressured by Dire Predictions of Soaring Term Life Insurance Rates By Liz Pulliam

• No Law Requires Purging of Disciplinary Item

• Cash Avalanche Suddenly Swamps Tech Stock Funds By Paul J. Lim

When Memory Comes - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

• When Memory Comes - The Unbearable Lightness of Being By Eva Hoffman

• Amadeus By Peter Gay

• Terra Infirma By Peter Green

• Los Angeles Times Bestsellers

• The Law of Unintended Consequences By Christopher Hitchens

• Eros Enters By Jonathan Levi

• Northampton Style By Marie Ponsot

• Book Calendar

• Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds

• First Fiction By Mark Rozzo

• Arithmetic on the Frontier By Rudyard Kipling

The New New Wave

• Showing Their Promise, If Not Always Profits By Robert Hilburn

• EXTREME TEAM

• BEST BETS / DECEMBER 12, 1999

• Finding an Eden Among the Everyday By Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

• Funny in Life, They Kill in Death By Paul Brownfield

• Mad About the Man? By Patrick Pacheco

• No Mere Slip of the Wrist - Paul Mullin’s tale of an ill-fated atomic experiment is the product of years of research. By F. Kathleen Foley

• This Wall Is More Like an Iron Curtain By Steve Hochman

• N.W.A Reunion Propels ‘Next Friday’ Soundtrack By Soren Baker

• The Three Faces of One’s Youth - The young actors who play author Frank McCourt in the adaptation of ‘Angela’s Ashes’ share a brotherly affection for one another. By David Gritten

• Recordings By John Henken

• All the Writing Here Was Re-Rewriting By Patrick Goldstein

• Glorious Noise Returns By Mark Swed

• Songs Sung New By Elysa Gardner

• It’s Not Exactly the Story of His Life, but It’s Close By Susan King

• At the Revolution’s Fore By Barbara Isenberg

• Quick Cuts By Kathleen Craughwell

• Upstart Composer Proves Himself With Spectacular ‘Asyla’ By Mark Swed

• SMALL FACES

• In Brief By Steve Hochman

• Fairfax High Opens Its Doors for New Troupe By Don Shirley

• Recordings By Richard S. Ginell

• In Brief By Natalie Nichols

• In Brief By Soren Baker

Good Judgment Is a Lifetime Task

• An Adult’s Game of Child’s Play By E. Benjamin Skinner

• Don’t Divide Microsoft: Try Code-Sharing, Licensing of Windows By Stuart M. Gerson

• Feinstein May Face Anything but a Coronation By Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

• OK, All Together Now: ‘You Have the Right to …’ By Akhil Reed Amar

• John Kenneth Galbraith By Elizabeth Mehren

• Why Limit Access to Initiative Process? By Joel Fox

• Drug War Money Brings Ever More Corruption By Kenneth Sharpe and Eva Bertram

• Early Assessment Is Key

• Get Art Funding Out of Cellar

• Beware of the Real Galactic Ghoul By Steven A. Stolper

• Inventors Don’t Win ‘em All By David Dreier

• The Fourth World By Roger C. Altman

• The Perils of Being No. 1 By Robert A. Manning

• Social Security

• Mars: Risk Is Always Basic to Exploration By Gregg Easterbrook

• Biotech, Third World-Style