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What happened on April 20, 2004
ENTERTAINMENT
NC-17 comes out from hiding Elaine Dutka, Times Staff Writer
Fox Will Launch New Shows In June Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer
Traveling with bass in hand Josef Woodard, Special to The Times
Staring down a ratings ruckus Mark Olsen, Special to The Times
Jokes & Riddles
Brokaw sets departure date From Reuters
Little sparkle in USC concert Daniel Cariaga, Special to The Times
British TV to televise abortion From Reuters
Fest looks at forgotten films From Associated Press
Fired? Not if you're CIA, FBI PATRICK GOLDSTEIN
Classic 1922 film unearthed From Reuters
Weekend box office
Glee, gloom, bafflement by way of Notoriety, Inc. Victoria Looseleaf, Special to The Times
Understanding the shy bobcat
Standing the heat Lisa Rosen, Special to The Times
A singer who has come into his own Mark Swed, Times Staff Writer
'Quetzalcoatl's Gift' Tori Smith, Special to The Times
The feeling rock cult figure returns Richard Cromelin, Times Staff Writer
TV Land will tune in to 'Friends' From a Times staff writer
His core value hasn't changed Robin Abcarian, Times Staff Writer
Chayanne's new look fools no one Agustin Gurza, Times Staff Writer
Despite sexuality study, real 'Fuhrer' stays hidden Robert Lloyd, Times Staff Writer
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
Court Rules for Shoplifter in 3-Strikes Case Henry Weinstein, Times Staff Writer
As Hate-Crime Concerns Rise, So Does the Threat of Hoaxes Nora Zamichow and Stuart Silverstein, Times Staff Writers
Man Offering to Kill for Bryant Accepts Plea Deal From a Times Staff Writer
Frank Morrison, 98; Governor of Nebraska for Three Terms in 1960s From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Woman Found Dead Near Camarillo Was Pregnant Gregory W. Griggs, Times Staff Writer
Slain Girl Identified as Montessori School Founder's Descendant Christine Hanley, Times Staff Writer
State, County May Require Condoms in Adult Films Lisa Richardson and Caitlin Liu, Times Staff Writers
Jim Cantalupo, 60; Led Turnaround at McDonald's Corp. From Associated Press
March restaurant closures
Simi Native Killed in Iraq Amanda Covarrubias, Times Staff Writer
Abraham Spiegel, 97; Donated to Many Causes From a Times Staff Writer
Lawmakers Want Klamath Investigation From Times Wire Reports
Hahn Defends Ethics Policies, Renews Pledge to Cut Crime Noam N. Levey and Jessica Garrison, Times Staff Writers
L.A. County Calling for More Cuts Sue Fox, Times Staff Writer
Search for Missing Man Halted as Leads Sought From Times Wire Reports
Public Advice Sought on 405 Freeway Upgrades From Times Staff Reports
Gangs Suspected in Shooting Death of Man From Times Staff Reports
County May Rate Eateries Hugo Martin, Times Staff Writer
Pasadena Building Moratorium Gets Initial OK Cynthia Daniels and Kristina Sauerwein, Times Staff Writers
Even Investigations Fail to Make L.A. City Hall Exciting Patt Morrison
6 Hurt in 2-Car Collision in Camarillo From a Times Staff Writer
A Call to Transit Operators: Please Hang Up and Drive Sharon Bernstein, Times Staff Writer
Study Says Project's Effects Remediable From Times Wire Reports
Fatal Leap Off Overpass Closes Part of Freeway From Times Staff Reports
Ruling Affirms Sale of KOCE Jeff Gottlieb, Times Staff Writer
Autopsy of Body Found in Car Is Inconclusive From Times Staff Reports
Unlicensed Contractors in Fire Area Are Charged Lance Pugmire, Times Staff Writer
March restaurant closures
Without Their Secretaries, Some People Can Be Totally Helpless Steve Harvey
Students Both Learn and Teach About the Holocaust Regine Labossiere, Times Staff Writer
3 Suspects Arrested After Man Is Shot From Times Staff Reports
Filmmaker Caught Up in a Foreign Drama From Times Wire Reports
Change Plates, or Make Them Carl Ingram, Times Staff Writer
School's No-Bias Wording Gets OK Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writer
Witness Unable to Testify About Transgender Teen's Slaying From Associated Press
Anaheim Man Identified as Drowning Victim Mai Tran, Times Staff Writer
Increased Security Is Asked for Dance Halls From Times Wire Reports
LAX Hit by 2nd Electrical Outage William Wan and Jennifer Oldham, Times Staff Writers
Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, 83; Led Fiji to Independence, Became President From Associated Press
3 Dead in Apparent Murder-Suicide Karima A. Haynes, Times Staff Writer
Concert to Aid Surf Effort Serving Kids With Autism From a Times Staff Writer
NATIONAL
'Master of Their Skies' Kevin Sack, Times Staff Writer
More Funds Raised in Bid to Beat Bush Lisa Getter, Times Staff Writer
Schools Review Excessive Force Claim Tomas Alex Tizon, Times Staff Writer
Bush Uses Pennsylvania Trip to Urge Patriot Act Extensions Edwin Chen and Richard B. Schmitt, Times Staff Writers
The Media Fund
Judge Backs Clinton's Creation of Monument From Times Wire Reports
University to Decide Fate of Fest That Got Rowdy From Times Wire Reports
White House Raises Limit for Overtime Pay Mary Curtius and Janet Hook, Times Staff Writers
Nontoxic Gas Test Near Pentagon to Aid Defense Against Attacks From Associated Press
Security to Tighten for Elections and Party Conventions Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Times Staff Writer
Sept. 11 Commission Debunks a Few Myths, Clarifies Claims Greg Miller, Times Staff Writer
Nader Plays the Antiwar Card Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writer
High Court Takes Up Key Pension Case David G. Savage, Times Staff Writer
Delay in Satellite Test of Einstein's Theory From Times Wire Reports
Kerry Latches On to Claim of a Bush-Saudi Oil Deal Matea Gold and Nick Anderson, Times Staff Writers
Bush Takes Lead Over Kerry, New Polls Show From Associated Press
DNA Leads to Suspect in Decades-Old Kansas City Slayings P.J. Huffstutter and Lynn Marshall, Times Staff Writers
Bush's Prewar Funding Is Criticized Richard Simon and Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writers
Amtrak Locomotive Hits Commuter Train From Times Wire Reports
SPORTS
It's Geek to Him Bill Shaikin, Times Staff Writer
The Times' All-Region Boys' Basketball Teams
The Times' All-Region Girls' Basketball Teams
Farmar Answers Call for Taft in Every Way Dan Arritt, Times Staff Writer
Summer Tennis Series Unveiled Lisa Dillman, Times Staff Writer
The Times' Rankings
Horry Earns His Spurs From Associated Press
Malone Knows What to Do With Retake J.A. Adande
World Cup Controversy Is Brewing in Munich Larry Stewart, Times Staff Writer
Mother of Bryant's Accuser Talks at Rally Steve Henson, Times Staff Writer
Team Is Passing Chemistry Jason Reid, Times Staff Writer
Efficient Offense Is a Steal Mike DiGiovanna, Times Staff Writer
Yao Underwhelms Amid Expectations Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
Heartbreak Hill Still Belongs to Kenyans From Associated Press
Kovalev, Montreal Finish Off Boston From Associated Press
Iran Match Falls Through Grahame L. Jones, Times Staff Writer
Red Sox Defeat Yankees Again From Associated Press
Bonds Homers in Giants' Victory From Associated Press
Sharks Arrive, if a Little Late Helene Elliott
Artest Is Chosen Top Defender From Associated Press
Game 2 Report Rob Fernas, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Larionov Retires at 43 From Staff and Wire Reports
The Times' Rankings
Van Gundy Lured Into Jackson's Trap Bill Plaschke
Quotebook
Court Puts Williams, Clarett Out of Draft Sam Farmer, Times Staff Writer
Bryant Is Perfect to Van Gundy Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
Maradona's Condition Improves From Associated Press
In a Nutshell, O'Neal Could Hurt the Lakers T.J. Simers
Justice, Former Trojan Fletcher Are Arraigned Gary Klein, Times Staff Writer
Bengals Trade Dillon to Patriots From Associated Press
Rush Hurting but Finds Range Tim Brown, Times Staff Writer
An Off-Center Victory Tim Brown, Times Staff Writer
The Times' All-star Girls' Basketball Team
The Times' All-star Boys' Basketball Team
Wiley-Gatewood Shows Poise Under Pressure Martin Henderson, Times Staff Writer
NCAA Repeals Rule on Scholarship Limits From Staff and Wire Reports
BUSINESS
Mattel May Copyright Barbie's Facial Features From Bloomberg News
FCC Backs Buyout Plan for O.C. Register's Owner E. Scott Reckard, Times Staff Writer
CalPERS Will Keep Philippines Stocks Tom Petruno, Times Staff Writer
Injunction Upheld Against Ex-Von Dutch Owner Arlene Martinez, Times Staff Writer
Coalition Takes On FCC View of Indecency Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer
Economic Growth on Track, Data Show From Reuters
Short-Term Rates Up in Treasury Auction From Associated Press
Also
Carmakers Boost Incentives 6.4% in Effort to Pass Rivals John O'Dell, Times Staff Writer
CNF's Profit Rises 47% on Trucking Unit From Bloomberg News
RIAA Discontinues Immunity Program From Associated Press
Investors Show Caution Before Fed Chief's Talk From Times Wire Services
Kraft Earnings Sink 34% on Restructuring Expenses From Associated Press
Kroger Sets Aside Funds for Rivals James F. Peltz, Times Staff Writer
SCO Group Asked to Repay $20 Million From Associated Press
Vanguard Hires Firm to Help Run Growth Fund From Bloomberg News
Gas Prices Fall in State, Rise Again Nationwide Arlene Martinez, Times Staff Writer
J.P. Morgan Chase Is Sued Over Tax on Auto Leases E. Scott Reckard, Times Staff Writer
Fannie Mae Earnings Slip 2% in First Quarter From Associated Press
Abbott Sued Over Drug Pricing From Reuters
Microsoft Settles Minnesota Lawsuit Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer
Schwarzenegger Has Long To-Do List to Boost Business Marc Lifsher, Times Staff Writer
N.Y. Requests Tyco Jury Be Sequestered From Bloomberg News
GM, Ford to Invest in 6-Speed Transmission From Associated Press
More Criticism of Gmail Plan From Reuters
McDonald's Quickly Fills CEO Post From Reuters
Shell Execs Knew Reserves Were Overstated From Bloomberg News
Computer Associates Fires Nine Employees From Bloomberg News
Data Suggest Disney 401(k) Members Back Eisner Critics James Bates, Times Staff Writer
Washington Mutual Profit Rises in Quarter From Reuters
Quattrone Jury to See IPO E-Mails From Bloomberg News
County Office Vacancies, Rents in a Balancing Act Roger Vincent, Times Staff Writer
KKR Says It Will Acquire Dynamit Nobel From Bloomberg News
Buffett Sells Tickets to Annual Meeting on EBay From Bloomberg News
Ex-Employee Tells of Lies at Adelphia From Bloomberg News
US Airways CEO David Siegel Resigns From Bloomberg News
O.C. Accountant Pleads Guilty to Role in $45-Million Scam From Associated Press
OPINION
A Thousand Proverbs Later, It's Still a Brutality Mineke Schipper, Mineke Schipper is the author of "Never Marry a Woman With Big Feet: Women in Proverbs From Around the World," forthcoming from Yale University Press.
Victory Not Just Academic
Security That Isn't Sexy
Share Rising Sheriff's Costs
Using Violence, the U.S. Forces Its Help on Iraq
Willing to Work
Affordable Housing
Workers' Comp Bill Hurts Many
Israel Assassinates Hamas Leader Rantisi
A Secret Weapon in the War Against Terror: Inclusion Mansoor Ijaz, Mansoor Ijaz is chairman of a New York-based private equity investment firm.
With God on His Side ... Robert Scheer, Robert Scheer writes a weekly column for The Times.
Entrepreneurship Gets Slaughtered Jonathan Turley, Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington Law School.
Gold Line Train Station Gives Users No Comfort
WORLD
Insurgents Endanger Mosques, U.S. Military Warns Iraqis Tony Perry, Times Staff Writer
Tribunal Cuts Sentence for Bosnian General From Times Wire Reports
British Arrest 10 in Terror Raids John Daniszewski, Times Staff Writer
Plan for Cease-Fire Reached in Fallouja Patrick J. McDonnell and Tony Perry, Times Staff Writers
'It's Real Now,' Troops Say as Bullets Start to Fly Edmund Sanders, Times Staff Writer
Heads of China, N. Korea Meet Quietly in Beijing Ching-Ching Ni, Times Staff Writer
Bush Plans to Boost Peacekeeping Training From Times Wire Reports
Indonesian Ministers Challenge President Richard C. Paddock, Times Staff Writer
Road Perils in Iraq Add to Chaos, Shortages Nicholas Riccardi and Edmund Sanders, Times Staff Writers
N. Korean Nuclear Issue Simmers on a Back Burner Barbara Demick, Times Staff Writer
Citing Shift on Israel, Jordan's King Delays Talks With Bush Maura Reynolds, Times Staff Writer
Officials Quit Amid Mexican Drug Probe Chris Kraul, Times Staff Writer
Female TV Host Reveals Domestic Violence From Times Wire Reports
After 66 Years, Cousins Renew a Bond That Survived the Holocaust Laura King, Times Staff Writer
Bush Picks Envoy to Iraq Sonni Efron and Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writers
NEWS
Bait vs. fly debate never dies Pete Thomas, Times Staff Writer
Go fly a lake with an old float tube Darrell Kunitomi
Hightailing it in a golden realm Michael Koehn
This niche is crawling with opportunities Joe Robinson
Visions of a gill-compulsive Chuck Thompson
Early thaw clears way for opener PETE THOMAS
Deep thinkers? You bet Joe Robinson, Special to The Times
Just Back
A 'roont' reputation
Where mainstreaming hurts Steve Hymon, Times Staff Writer
Raccoon harasser is still at large
Mountain yellow-legged frog David Lukas
How to build a better fish trap Darrell Kunitomi
Fish peace talks break down Bob Sipchen, Outdoors editor
Casting on concrete Darrell Kunitomi
Spare the rod? Never Scott Doggett
Trout savant in a big black cape CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS
That's got to hurt Mary Forgione
Over the limit
Beyond the barbed wire, a string of skinny goldens Darrell Kunitomi, Special to The Times
Know your nymphs Julie Sheer, Times Staff Writer
Stone. Water. Insect. Fish. Sunlight.
Shivers and 8,000 fits Pete Thomas, Times Staff Writer
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