Archive for Sunday, December 25, 2005

For O.C. Pair, 35 Is Not Enough

• Deer and Foxes Compete for an Island Kingdom By Tim Reiterman

• Maria Shriver Recasts ‘First Lady’ as a Powerful Role in California By Peter Nicholas and Robert Salladay

• An Inspiration for Making the Season Bright By Cecilia Rasmussen

• Rent Hike May Force Novel Dome Village to Find a New Home By Sam Quinones

• Christmas Wishes Are Granted By Tony Perry

• Displaced, but Not Disheartened By Carla Hall

• Two Faiths Celebrate in ‘Merry Mishmash’ By Lisa Richardson

• 400 Guns Swapped for Gifts By David Pierson

• Teenager Arrested Near Bank After Robbery

• Teen Is Believed Dead After Boat Capsizes

• Boy, 3, Reportedly Drowns in Bathtub

• Don’t Dismiss the Power of Belief By Dana Parsons

• Public Menorah Is Destroyed by Vandals By Jennifer Delson

• Program Opens the Door to Literacy for Preschoolers and Families By Mitchell Landsberg

• Patricia Van Tighem, 47; Wrote Book About Near-Fatal Grizzly Mauling By Valerie J. Nelson

• Holiday closures

• Holiday closures

• Military Deaths

Then the roof fell in

• A bright perspective from almost any room By Diane Wedner

• Activism, music intersect in Leimert Park By Gayle Pollard-Terry

• Barbs now flow from on high By Ruth Ryon

• Perplexed by those contracts? Read on By Robert J. Bruss

• Average mortgage rates and indexes

• Sellers need to be honest – and upfront – about defects By Dian Hymer

• Fees pile up, but who’s getting richer? By Stephen Glassman and Donie Vanitzian

• Snowbirds, make some room; the splitters have arrived By Lew Sichelman

• Help for borrowers in trouble By Kenneth R. Harney

• Next stop is the same as the last on U.S. interstates By Arrol Gellner

• Time to sit Mom down and fill her in on will’s problems By Robert J. Bruss

• November home sales for Orange, Ventura counties

• Notice about tenant’s kids may be discrimination

Seeing What’s Important

• The Girl Can’t Help It; She’s 15 By Helene Elliott

• A Career Filled With Twists and (Left) Turns By T J. Simers

• Miami Breach By Mark Heisler

• High school close-ups By Martin Henderson, Dan Arritt, and Lauren Peterson

• Race in the East Is ‘Skin Tight By Edward Lee

• Johnson’s Big Day Ends Chargers’ Playoff Hopes

• They Buy Into USC Success By Greg Johnson

• It’s a Long and Evolved Story By J A. Adande

• Saints Can Be Morale Builder By Bob Oates

• Reflective Colts No Match for Alexander, Seahawks

• Jaguars Back in Playoffs

• Bills Accept Gift from Bengals

• Buccaneers Move a Step Closer to Playoffs

• Saying So Long at Augusta By Thomas Bonk

• Rushing to Win, Chiefs Left Waiting By Mike Penner

• Arakawa Skates to Early Lead

• At This Rate, Texas Would Be a Longshot By Grahame L. Jones

• Coaches at Center of Matchup

• Void Is Felt in the Post By Ben Bolch

• Skating to His Own Tune

• Grossman Is Back, but Will Bears Still Run First?

• FISH REPORT

• Jackson Receives Praise By Mike Bresnahan

• Central Florida Misses the Point in Nevada Win

• Plot’s Promising, Dialogue Is Flat By Mike Bresnahan

• Browns, Fan Get Flattened

• Panthers Pay the Penalty in Loss

• NOW YOU KNOW

• Gore’s Run Gives 49ers the Edge Over Rams

• No. 11 Louisville Lethargic in Win

• Hornets Reach Out to Oklahoma City

• In Retrospect, It Was Right Move By Mark Heisler

• Colts Have the ‘Greatest Role Model’ in Dungy By Jim Litke

• Pistons Finishing What They Start By Mark Heisler

• It’s All About the Practice for Baylor

To the East, a classical crescendo

• Desert park superlatives By Spencer Weiner

• In Cape Town, a culinary sea change By Margo Pfeiff

• Shakespeare lovers, hark ye By Jane Engle

• Experiencing monastic life and culture By Maggie Barnett

• A to Z taste of San Diego By Patricia Connell

• Arizona, in a fresh light

• American to pull out of Long Beach By Compiled By Jane Engle

• Ice rinks are so last year By Mary Lu Abbott

• Savoring a vestige of old Norway

• Planning to see Europe by rail? Get rolling online first By James Gilden

• A king’s ransom for a night’s sleep By Arthur Frommer

• Deal of the week By R J. Mcclure

• Sometimes, those airline vouchers are like a lump of coal By Jane Engle

• Ignore the rain in Vancouver By John Lee

America’s Rivers: Spoken For to the Last Drop

• Injured Homeless Man Refuses to Leave His Cat By Ivette M. Yee

• Mystery Surrounds Girl’s Death – and Life By Rex W. Huppke

• Wall Dampens Christmas Spirit in Bethlehem By Joel Greenberg

• Town Is Looking for a Ray of Light By George Jahn

• Ex-Mobster Dreams of Home for Holidays By Larry Mcshane

• Corporate Looters Feel Sting of U.S. Crackdown By Greg Burns

• Tsunami Victim’s Family to Keep Gloom From Anniversary By Mike Colias

• Hand Recipient Offers Solace to Woman With a New Face By Angela Doland

• For Zimbabweans With HIV/AIDS, a Hard Road By Paul Salopek

• The Roof Is Falling In on a Cultural Legacy in Zanzibar By Alexandra Zavis

• Scientists Getting to the Roots of Hair-Loss Problems By Malcolm Ritter

• Long, Luxurious Cruises Make Waves in the Travel Industry By Allison Linn

• Footsteps of Time Bypassing Chile’s ‘Town of Stairs’ By Eva Vergara

• Brazil Keeps Strict Control on Amazon Research By Michael Astor

Niche Player on Web Weighs Its Next Move

• Web Services Can Grease Transfer of an Auto Lease By Kathy M. Kristof

• Moment of Truth for Media Chief By Joseph Menn

• Easy Ways to Share Home Video, Worthy or Not By David Colker

• Candle Suppliers Not Burning as Hot

• Be Realistic About Retirement By Liz Pulliam Weston

• Money, Mania, Memories of 2005 By Tom Petruno

God’s old neighborhood

• The recasting of Louis B. Mayer By Kevin Thomas

• Swinging hard By David French

• Too smart for their own good By Laurel Maury

• Escaping into the past By Thomas Mcgonigle

• Sibling castaways By Erika Schickel

• What they believed By Kristina Lindgren

• On the grail trail By Nick Owchar

• Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds

• BESTSELLERS

• Dante’s world By Merle Rubin

• BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

Spinning all that angst into pop gold

• Reborn in East L.A. By Agustin Gurza

• Still a step ahead By Lewis Segal

• Polish bloc prints By Susan King

• DANCE By Lewis Segal

• FASHION By Booth Moore

• CLASSICAL MUSIC By Mark Swed

• ART By Christopher Knight

• Drawing on anxiety By Mark Olsen

• The pain felt on both sides By Michael Z. Wise

• ARCHITECTURE By Christopher Hawthorne

• Let’s get ready to rumba By Henry Chu

• POP MUSIC By Chris Lee

• This songwriter blessed America By Lynne Heffley

• POP MUSIC By Robert Hilburn

• It’s hardly black and white By Stephan Michaels

• Bard, outside the box By Charles Mcnulty

• BOOKS By Nick Owchar

• MOVIES By John Horn

• MOVIES By Robert W. Welkos

• Faces to watch 2006 By Matea Gold

• Divining the Maya’s world By Virginia Fields

• THEATER By Charles Mcnulty

• Astonishing holidays

• THEATER By Don Shirley

• ‘White Christmas’ By Cheryl Rose

• POP MUSIC By Soren Baker

• THEATER

• MEDIA By Steven Barrie-Anthony

• Faces to watch 2006 By Steven Barrie-Anthony

• BOOKS By Anne-Marie O'Connor

• Faces to watch 2006 By Lynn Smith

• MEDIA By Steven Barrie-Anthony

• The right time to join the party By Richard Abowitz

• Remember the little disasters too By Steve Hochman

• MOVIES By Susan King

• MEDIA By Martin Miller

• BOOKS By David L. Ulin

Levees Weakened as New Orleans Board, Federal Engineers Feuded

• Mr. Bingle Helps Save Christmas in New Orleans By Scott Gold

• A Year of Record U.S. Giving, but Local Charities Fall Short By Tomas Alex Tizon

• Bush, GOP Downsize Ambitions for 2006 By Janet Hook

• Colorado Springs Has Eye Out for Dirty Bomb By Nicholas Riccardi

• Santa Comes Through Rain, Snow, Transit Strike By Maggie Farley

• Dog Rescued After Being Frozen Onto Train Track

• Rabies Survivor Is Happy to Be Home for the Holidays

• Implant Patients Informed of Possible Contamination

• U.S. Spying Is Much Wider, Some Suspect By Josh Meyer and Joseph Menn

• New Orleans Set to Raze Houses, but Faces Protest

• Couple Arrested in Las Vegas Slaying

• Man Charged in Teen’s Cocaine Death

• ‘Integrity’ Often Questioned in ‘05 By Wendy Solomon

• New Mexico Explosives Case Also Leads to Chop Shop

• Bush Calls Overseas Troops for Christmas

• Surfer Is Alert, Smiling After Shark Attack

• Add One Second to New Year’s Countdown

• N.Y. State Losing Residents, U.S. Says

St. Snickerous

• At last, a Santa whose cheeks aren’t rosy By Diedre Ann Ware

• Rebirth rising from a rain of fire By Gregory Rodriguez

• Can we get dazzling done? By Bob Sipchen

• Malling Christmas By Diane Winston

• Christmas classics

• EIGHT JOKES

• Beauty! Sharks! Silence! Noise! By Manuel Castells

• Wonder of wonders – that’s life By Jonathan Chait

• How about an Eid sale at Macy’s? By Sabiha Khan

• When a riot is a good thing By Martin Kaplan

• Our bug-eyed admirers By Eve Conant

Tourists Bring Holiday Cheer to Little Town of Bethlehem

• 14 High-Level Iraqi Inmates Freed

• Egyptian Opposition Figure Is Sent to Prison for Five Years By Megan K. Stack

• A Faded Pastime Flickers to Life Again in Rural China By Ching-Ching Ni

• System Failure Is Suspected in Azerbaijan Plane Crash

• Embassy Employee Held Hostage in Iraq

• Rumsfeld Works Mess Hall in Iraq for Holiday

• Amid Violence, Envoys Meet With Tamil Tigers

• U.S. Missteps Leave Iraqis in the Dark By T. Christian Miller

• Blues in the Green Zone on Christmas By Louise Roug

• Moscow Standing By on Uranium Plant in Iran

• Zimbabwe Short of AIDS Drugs By Robyn Dixon

• Spain Charges 6 Al Qaeda Suspects, Releases 12

• Pakistani Kills 4 Daughters After Eldest Marries, Police Say

• Explosives Found Near Uribe’s Ranch

• Oil Development Deal Struck With N. Korea

• State Struggles to Fire 800 Suspect Agents

• Most Voters Apparently Approve Constitution