Archive for Sunday, December 11, 2005

Encroaching Seas Test Ingenuity of Lowlands

A Beacon in Chinatown

• By David Haldane

• Here’s the Entertaining Side of ‘And Justice for All’ By Steve Harvey

• Girl in Red Velvet Swing Longed to Flee Her Past By Cecilia Rasmussen

• L.A. Film Critics Honor ‘Brokeback’ By Susan King

• Laguna to Vote on Tax to Fix Slide Damage By Sara Lin

• Frederick Ashworth, 93; Weaponeer on Plane That Dropped 2nd A-Bomb By Dennis Mclellan

• Liver Unit Suffered in Silence By Alan Zarembo

• Richard Pryor; a Groundbreaking, Anguished Comedian By Lynell George

• Fights Spoil New Campus’ Hopes By Erika Hayasaki

• Multitude of Personal Touches Will Build an Expanded Shrine By Larry B. Stammer

• Williams’ Lawyer Appeals to Supreme Court By Henry Weinstein

• Glitz and Gore of Williams Case Draw Foreign Media By James Rainey

• Parks Stillwell, 87; Judge

• Service Set for Ed Masry

• Maury Kraines, 84; Co-Owned Winning Team in ‘92 Indy 500

• Woes Mount for State Mental Hospital By Rong-Gong Lin II

• Collegians Get By Despite Illegal Status By Sam Quinones

• Suspected Car Burglar Shot, Killed by Police in Gardena By Stuart Pfeifer

• Miriam Kaywood, 82; First Anaheim City Councilwoman

• You’ve Got to Hide Your Hate Away By Dana Parsons

• Mentally Ill in the Jail? It’s a Crime By Steve Lopez

• Samuel Dinin, 103; Educator Was a Driving Force in L.A. Jewish Schools By Elaine Woo

• Homeowners, the Clock Is Ticking

• Charly Gaul, 72, a former Tour de France champion and two-time Giro d’Italia winner

• Military Deaths

For $50 million, bungalow heaven

• Home? Not yet By Ann Perry

• Less-costly housing is a professorial perk By Tony Dodero

• One less house, one addition By Ruth Ryon

• Law doesn’t require reserve-fund account By Stephen Glassman and Donie Vanitzian

• Why wait till spring to sell your home? By Dian Hymer

• Short-term tenant foots bill for cleanup By Kevin Postema

• In design, as in life, three-part harmony By Arrol Gellner

• Cheaper to keep ex, Mom on deed By Robert J. Bruss

• Those oh-so-low loans may have to go By Kenneth R. Harney

• Evacuee aid won’t harm rents

• Parent-proof home for the holidays By Tom Kelly

• Author should have gone for 1,002 By Robert J. Bruss

• Average mortgage rates and indexes

• Buyers may be due for a new tax break By Lew Sichelman

The Bird Is the Word

• The Ethical Outlaw By Michael Digregorio

• Sightseeing with Dear Leader By Barbara Demick

• Generation XXX By Peter Gilstrap

• Bird in a Gilded Cage By Dan Neil

• Meet the Truth Squad By Mark Ehrman

• True Love By R. Daniel Foster

He’s No Mere Poser

• The Nickel Package By Sam Farmer

• Pulling Off This Italian Job May Not Be Easy By Alan Abrahamson

• There’s No Need to Call a Priest By Sam Farmer

• Clippers Keep Party Going By Jason Reid

• Backcourt Bails Bruins Out of a Tight Game By Steve Springer

• No One Can Catch Bush By Gary Klein

• Spurs Go to a Class by Themselves By Mark Heisler

• It Comes Full Circle for Arena By Grahame L. Jones

• Loyola Wins on Late Pass By Martin Henderson

• Education of Morrison Continues

• Huskies Help Williams Sever Old-School Ties By Diane Pucin

• Jackson in Foul Mood By Mike Bresnahan

• Burtts Top Father-Son Scoring List

• Clarke a Surprised Leader By Thomas Bonk

• Demitra Puts In Time, Gets Kings Past Florida By Chris Foster

• The Art of Hockey Is Back

• This Is No Passing Fancy By Bob Oates

• USC Avoids Last-Second Letdown By Ben Bolch

• UCLA Kicker Medlock Arrested in Injury Crash By Stuart Pfeifer and Stuart Silverstein

• Redick Gets His Fill as Duke Wins By Jerry Crowe

• Wright Has to Fight for Victory By Mike Digiovanna and Tim Brown

• Phaneuf Joins Rookie Race

• NOW YOU KNOW

• Chilean Favorite a Stakes Winner By Bob Mieszerski

• Mark Heisler’s NBA Rankings By Mark Heisler

• Primary Concern Is Bear Secondary

• One Year Later, Soccer’s Fab Five Still Busy

• No. 14 Minnesota Rolls to 83-57 Win

• Hasay Wins National Cross-Country Title By Dan Arritt and Peter Yoon

• Blue Jays Are the Big Spenders at Meetings By Jim Litke

• Brown Back on Court By Mike Bresnahan

• Coaches Peek Into the Future By David Wharton

• ‘Runaway Runs Away With It All By Bob Mieszerski

• Livingston Might Travel By Jason Reid

• Win Would Make Baltimore’s Season

• Austrian Men Sweep Downhill

• Dominguez Has Easy Time With Notre Dame By Eric Sondheimer

• Lemieux Won’t Play for Canada at Turin Olympics

• Fish Report

• Mini Rock Goes for Another Win at 400 Yards By Bob Mieszerski

• Indiana Overcomes Kentucky – Finally

• World Cup ‘06

• Rienda Contreras Wins Giant Slalom By Chris Dufresne

• There’s a Lott Riding on This Selection By Larry Stewart

• Sykora Plays Through Uncertain Status By Eric Stephens

• Long Beach State Woes Continue in 69-56 Loss

• Bush and Leinart Push Each Other Into Greatness By Bill Plaschke

• THE MATCHUPS By Sam Farmer

• Hear This: Keep Starting Orton By Mike Downey

• Morrison’s Late Three-Pointer Is Difference for No. 9 Gonzaga

• On-Ice Clinic in Anaheim Could Ruffle Feathers By Chris Foster

• Hollywood Park Packs Them In for Grade II By Bob Mieszerski

• Title Is a Rush for Dominguez By Eric Sondheimer

• Beyond His Years and Beyond the Hype

• On Block, Sykora Lifts Ducks By Eric Stephens

• Maggette Throws a Lure in Win-Win Proposition By T J. Simers

• James Scores 52 in Cleveland’s Loss

Turin, beyond bronze

• Step and glide, dine and recline By Jane Engle

• Celestial solitude in the Tetons By Amanda Jones

• Basking in the Basque spirit By Michael Soller

• Still feeling blue after Wilma By Alan Solomon

• Geisha tours inspired by the new film

• Sri Lanka whistle stop

• Trey Ellis, amid sequoias

• TOURS & CRUISES By Maggie Barnett

• Punctuality: Some cultures are wound tighter than others By Jane Engle

• Club Med rolls on through love, war and trends galore By Susan Spano

• Over-the-hill is where they ski, not their state of mind By Grace Lichtenstein

• Deal of the week By R J. Mcclure

• Gauguin’s only U.S. stop: Texas By Patricia Connell

• Are Amtrak’s days numbered? By Arthur Frommer

• No room at the inn? Maybe, but keep banging on the door By James Gilden

• Scotland: Celtic charm and a chuckle

Poems Tell of Lives in Limbo

• Turning the Tide at Mont St. Michel By Angela Doland

• Santa’s Mail Finds Home in French Village By Claire Levenson

• Widow Finds Precious Past in Regained Letters By Carolyn Thompson

• Urban Children Learn to Fight With Words By Dahleen Glanton

• A ‘Tin Can’ Keeps Watch on N. Korea By Eric Talmadge

• Granite Slab in Chesapeake Bay Crater Surprises Scientists By Dennis O'Brien

• Irish Strike Over Cut-Rate Wages of Foreigners

• Breastfeeding May Protect Moms From Diabetes By Jonathan Bor

San Francisco Chronicle Struggles as Internet Siphons Readers, Ads

• Plain PCs Sitting Pretty By Marla Dickerson

• Alternative Tax May Hit More By Kathy M. Kristof

• Tuning In Satellite-Free Digital Radio By David Colker

• Cash Still Pouring In to American Funds By Tom Petruno

• Matching Kids’ Pay With IRA Deposits By Liz Pulliam Weston

• In the Dark on Medical Pricing By Debora Vrana

• SEC, Fund Firm May Face Off By Tom Petruno

Private lives

• Postcards from the edge By Diane Middlebrook

• Doubt, out from the shadows By Nick Owchar

• Hardly par for the course By Kristina Lindgren

• Impolite society By Patt Morrison

• Sex and the single scholars By Heller Mcalpin

• Children, seen and heard By David L. Ulin

• A subject whose time has come By Sara Lippincott

• Labor of love By Marjorie Gellhorn Sa'Adah

• BESTSELLERS

• Harvest

• BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

• Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds

O to a higher power

• A show of support

• It’s all about the wonder By Leah Ollman

• Men on the range By Reed Johnson

• Crime scenes revisited By Susan King

• Art and politics at the crossroads By Arden Reed

• Call it just a guy thing By Patrick Pacheco

• Into a higher realm By Diane Haithman

• ArthurBall to follow ArthurFest By Steve Hochman

• A silent night for film By Susan King

• And now, the plot thickens By Robert W. Welkos

• A thoroughly Rattle-d state By Mark Swed

• Stern moves for a bit of space By Martin Miller

• Haughty, yet bawdy By Susan King

• A shot of old Vegas, on the rocks By Richard Abowitz

• Reveling in the nuances of ‘Narnia’ By Christine N. Ziemba

• She has plenty to be outspoken about By Richard Cromelin

• For Blige, time to give back By Natalie Nichols

• ‘Tale of Two Tails’ By Nancy Robison

• A tree full of mittens

• Television, the class act By Merrill Balassone

• He also plays sponsor By Christopher Reynolds

• Two playwrights with one purpose By Patrick Pacheco

• He’s a man of 30,000 faces By Susan King

• Maybe too much of a good thing By Natalie Nichols

• Much to be said for experience By Soren Baker

• A new life for the old Vagabond By Don Shirley

Eugene McCarthy; Candidacy Inspired Antiwar Movement

• In Their Hour of Need, Prayer By Sonni Efron

• Atlanta Tune Skips a Beat in the ‘Burbs By Jenny Jarvie

• Cable Networks Are Tuning In to Social Issues By Johanna Neuman

• President Tests the Power of His Bully Pulpit By Tyler Marshall

• Select Officials Test U.S. Flu Outbreak Readiness

• Actor Suspected of Role in Police Officer’s Death

• Was Focus of Patriot Act Debate a Dodge? By Richard B. Schmitt

• Plan Includes More States in Early Voting

• Police Keep the Peace as Neo-Nazi Group Rallies

• Jet Crew Cites Thrusters in Chicago Accident

• UAW, Ford Reach Deal on Healthcare Coverage

• French Told CIA of Bogus Intelligence By Bob Drogin and Tom Hamburger, Peter Wallsten

Iconography

• With best friends like these By Samantha Bonar

• Is the world safer now? By E. Benjamin Skinner

• ACCOUNTABILITY CORNER

• Checking Osama bin Laden’s pulse By Swati Pandey

• Where, you overpaid fools, was Little Green Footballs? By Catherine Seipp

• Separation of sex and state By Carol Platt Liebau

• The air cargo security gap

• Damaged goods no more

• Is the world safer now? By Alan Isenberg

• Is the world safer now? By Steven L. Spiegel

• Dropout miscount By Gregory Rodriguez

• Labor’s movement By Julius Getman and Thomas Kohler

• Always right, never wrong By Jonathan Chait

• Patriot activism

• Welcome, comrades, to Moscow on the Pacific By Joel Kotkin

• When the West made a difference By David Devoss

• Religious zealots, arranged right to left By Dennis Prager

Sunni Factions Plot Their Return

• 2 Convicted of Slaying U.S. Nun in Amazon

• Nigerian Jetliner Crash Kills 103

• No Need for Nuclear Arms, Laureate Says

• Oil Depot Ablaze North of London

• Unlikely Candidate Leads in Chile By Patrick J. Mcdonnell

• Volcanic Fumes, Heat Sickening Children

• China Defends Police Shooting of Villagers By Mark Magnier

• 4 Troops Killed; Fate of Hostages Unknown By Ashraf Khalil

• On Air: Kremlin-Funded English TV Channel

• Pakistan Extends Ban on Kites

• Regime Hits Back at U.S. Envoy’s Criticism

• Nations Agree to New Talks on Greenhouse Gas Limits

• Poland to Investigate CIA Prison Allegations

• Hope Fuels Palestinian Stocks By Ken Ellingwood