Archive for Sunday, January 01, 2006

If These Are Signs of the Times, We’re All in Trouble

• Winners on the Field, They Found Life Harder to Tackle By Peter Y. Hong

• Storm Is Just a Prelude for L.A. By Lee Romney and Charles Piller

• Rail Riders Stay on Track Despite Drop in Gas Prices By Caitlin Liu

• New Homes Help Old in Changing Santa Ana Enclave By Jennifer Delson

• Some New Laws for the New Year By Nancy Vogel

• James Pulliam, 80; Architect, Teacher Noted for Modernism By Valerie J. Nelson

• A specator’s guide to the 117th Rose Parade

• Bands Play On Despite the Rainfall By Jason Felch

• She Has It in Her Head to Clarify Sayings By J. Michael Kennedy

• New Year’s Revelers Left Without a Cause By Stuart Pfeifer and Daniel Hernandez

• Law Gets Tougher on New Teenage Drivers By Jia-Rui Chong

• 8 Hurt After Car Crashes Into an El Pollo Loco

• Harry Clarke, 89; Halfback Played for Bears and L.A. Dons

• Three Killed When Small Plane Crashes

• Woman Is Accused of Stabbing Newborn Baby

• If a Bank Says Don’t Worry, Worry By Steve Lopez

• Military Deaths

• Holiday closures

• Holiday closures

• This Reward Wasn’t in the Script By Dana Parsons

• Teen Killed, 3 Hurt in Head-On Crash

• Holiday closures

• Man Shot, Killed Early Saturday

• The Deadliest Day in Rose Parade History

A monumental Mediterranean

• Town embraces the 3 Rs: rural, rural and rural By Ann Brenoff

• Longest yard? He doesn’t need it By Ruth Ryon

• Using the family silver By Ann Perry

• News of bad check still bouncing around By H. May Spitz

• Refunds may await consumers willing to do a little digging By Tom Kelly

• Red tape can complicate the use of rent subsidies By Robert J. Bruss

• Furnace, not car, has cozy spot in garage By Barry Stone

• Appraisers supply a dose of reality By Kenneth R. Harney

• Sellers can reveal what makes their house a home By Lew Sichelman

• Average mortgage rates and indexes

• FHA hikes loan limit to more L.A.-friendly level By Lew Sichelman

Stiff-Arm Competition

• The Nickel Package

• That 70s Coaching Show By Robyn Norwood

• Still the One By Melvin Durslag

• A Complex Superiority By Randy Harvey

• Nothing Stops Her By Helene Elliott

• A Look at the NFL’s Top 20 Running Backs By Bob Oates

• UCLA Buys It in Bulk By Steve Springer

• USC Gets It Back in Time for Victory By Ben Bolch

• Some Issues Can’t Be Resolved By Mark Heisler

• Burress Helps Giants Clinch NFC East Title

• Need a Bully? Leave It to Bevo By Bill Plaschke

• Pussycat Doll Doesn’t Let Soggy Track Dampen Run By Bob Mieszerski

• The No. 1 Steed By David Wharton

• Clippers Have a Host of Issues By Jason Reid

• Defense Gets Two-Timed By Oscar Lua

• Hedrick Sets Up for Heiden’s Zone By Diane Pucin

• Numb on Numbers By Chris Dufresne

• Tulsa Shows Bulldog Qualities

• Pistons Fall to Cavaliers

• It Has to Happen in That Dome By Sam Farmer

• Sylvester Is Spot On for Ohio State

• Stopping Buckeyes Was Key By Michael Huff

• They’re All Wet for This Practice By Gary Klein and Peter Yoon

• Odom Sprains Ankle; Cook Ill By Mike Bresnahan

• Kings Star in Dallas Again, 3-2 By Chris Foster

• A Little Bit of Everything in Duck Win By Eric Stephens

• Weis Wants to Finish Strong

• There is Definitely a ‘D’ in Dallas

• Rain Could Affect Picks By Bob Mieszerski

• Oregon’s Brooks Is Key to Win

• Broncos Add Dose to Chargers’ Pain

• Vermeil to Retire After the Season

• It’s an Unexpected Great Start for N’diaye By Ben Bolch

• Crosby Has the Touch Again for Pittsburgh

• Arrington’s Fall From Grace Complete in Washington By Mike Wise

• A Summer Triumph Inspires Barte’s Title Path By Lauren Peterson

• Injuries Take Toll on Defense, Too By Jason Reid

• Olympic Coach Put on Leave

• Fish Report

• Big Year Opens Door to 2006 World Cup By Grahame L. Jones

• Bengals on Foreign Turf in Playoffs

• TODAY By Mike Terry

• Frolov Will Take a Fluke By Chris Foster

• Love of Skating Led to Slutskaya’s Return

• Mark Heisler’s NBA Rankings

• Field Is Stacked by Two Trainers

• THE MATCHUPS By Sam Farmer

• Tennessee Grinds Past Notre Dame

• 27-24 Win Redeems TCU Kicker

• USC Starts Recruit Inquiry By Gary Klein

• Loyola’s Loss Is Its Fifth Consecutive

• Barte Chosen Times’ Tennis Player of Year

• Ex-Bruin Wilkes Roots for Cal Now By Steve Springer

• North Carolina State Ends Strong

• Grizzlies Hang Loss on Seattle

• Or Perhaps They Could Call It the Punch Bowl By Lisa Dillman

• Redskins Are in Must-Win Mode Against Eagles

• The Times’ All-Star Teams, Selected by Lauren Peterson

ONE YEAR LATER

• A beautiful and bruising trip to Salta By Barbara Hansen

• Kimberley’s dramatic nature By Tony Wheeler

• Photo equipment to actually see those holiday pictures you took By Judi Dash

• Serving up a Bay Area gastronomic blitz By Vani Rangachar

• Nepal on list of dangerous destinations

• Germ-zapping toothbrushes and other on-the-go gadgetry By Kathleen Doheny

• From here to the future, in maps By Susan Spano

• Tucson desert hot spot gets spiffed up By Rosemary Mcclure

• Pleasure or a pain? Cruise ports vary By Jane Engle

• Mime time in Italy

• Right bag, wrong person By Laurie Berger

• Planes, cruises and trips to Europe: the outlook for 2006 By Jane Engle

• Mexico: Local crafts benefit a feline cause

• Whale-watching season on the California coast By Patricia Connell

In Disaster’s Wake, Tsunami Warning Centers Gain Strength

• Some Disillusioned GIs Choose Not to Fight By Martha Mendoza

• Venezuelans on the Cutting Edge of Beauty By Natalie Obiko Pearson

• Tsunami Orphans Find a Benefactor in Native Son By John Moreno Gonzales

• Tsunami Worsened Nations’ Environmental Woes By Michael Casey

• Future Space Travelers Won’t Escape Bureaucracy By Darlene Superville

• U.S. Teen Who Slipped Away to Iraq on His Way Home By Jason Straziuso

• California Is Among Flu Hot Spots By Jacques Billeaud

• Vacation Homes’ Popularity Tempting Fate By Greg Burns

• ‘Distance Learning’ for Schoolkids Goes Global By Martha Irvine and Nirmala George

Football Gets Arbitraged

• Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google By Sallie Hofmeister

• Agencies Can’t Go After You for Debts of Your Late Father By Liz Pulliam Weston

• This Year Could Be a Lot Like Last Year By Tom Petruno

The Tao of Peter Brook

• A look at the bright side By Gordon Marino

• A vision beyond the private eye By Tom Nolan

• Fractured fairy tales By Paula L. Woods

• Torah and hora By Ruth Andrew Ellenson

• Teens adrift in rough seas By Marc Weingarten

• A voice worthy of a larger stage By Benjamin Lytal

• Ashes, ashes, all fall down By Susan Jacoby

• Bloomsbury delivered By Richard Eder

• BESTSELLERS

• BESTSELLERS / PAPERBACKS

• DISCOVERIES By Susan Salter Reynolds

The ancients cast in new light

• Comfort can wait, but the dream can’t By Susan Salter Reynolds

• Malick’s messy, beautiful frontiers By Peter Rainer

• Reel life, unretouched By Susan King

• This show requires a special ticket

• He’s a car-culture artist at a crossroad By Justin Fenton

• Listen. Learn. Then lead. By Jan Breslauer

• TV-free, an episode at a time By Christine Ziemba

• Reluctant rock redeemers By Steve Hochman

• Trip preparation By Victoria Looseleaf

• Making a new case for Puccini By Chris Pasles

• Raising funds, honoring a legend

• When Pinter should have paused for effect By James C. Taylor

• Sci-fi’s savior By Susan King

• Two fun-to-read stories can help teach lessons too

• A ‘Sin City’ full of temptations By Susan King

• Her love affair with food yields fare to remember By Susan King

• ‘Happy New Year, Rachel!’ By Sue Alexander

• A veritable gallery of progress By Suzanne Muchnic

• Rediscovering Mozart in 2006 By Chris Pasles

• At home on a whole new range By Richard Cromelin

After Flight Back From Iraq, Teen to Be Grounded

• The Low Roller’s Guide to Las Vegas By Sam Howe Verhovek

• Give and Take in New Rules for New Year By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Johanna Neuman

• The Price of Katrina Hospitality By Stephanie Simon

• Train Arrives From Florida Over a Day Late

• Immigration Plan Troubles President’s Texas Neighbors By Warren Vieth

• Crews From Other States to Help Battle Wildfires

• Rapper Obie Trice Wounded in Shooting

• (‘Laughter’) in the Court

• Raise U.S. Judges’ Pay, Cut Rent, Roberts Urges By David G. Savage

• FEMA Dumps Water Donated After Storms

• Bush Sides With the Longhorns By Edwin Chen

• FDA to Probe Report of Higher-Mercury Tuna

Drawn-out endings

• The old Arnold’s returned, and now we can move again By Kevin Starr

• And do you have to use black ink?

• Self-help’s big lie By Steve Salerno

• Psychiatry’s sick compulsion: turning weaknesses into diseases By Irwin Savodnik

• Bring back the 40-hour workweek – and let us take a long vacation By Joe Robinson

• Innovate or perish By Lewis M. Branscomb

• Justice must be done By Judea Pearl

• The false god of ideology By Gregory Rodriguez

• Boola boola, not moola moola By Jonathan Chait

• Dream on

• Schools that graduate thieves By Dennis Prager

• Information Age? More like the New Middle Ages By Eric Jager

• 2006: Make it interesting

Iraqi Civil War? Some Experts Say It’s Arrived

• Government Detains Human Rights Activist

• Russia Starts Cutting Off Ukraine Gas By Kim Murphy

• Child-Theft Racket Growing in China By Mark Magnier

• Israeli Settlers See the Writing on the Wall By Ken Ellingwood

• Britain Discloses WWII Notes

• Former Vice President to Be Tried for Treason

• Toll Said to Rise in Egypt Crackdown

• Power Cuts Leave Iraq in Dark on New Year’s Eve By Doug Smith

• Avalanches Kill 7 Czech Tourists

• Israeli Air Raid in Gaza Kills Two Palestinians

• 5 Sudanese Hostages in Iraq Freed

• New Year’s Eve Strike Fails to Shut London Tube

• Briton Offers Documents on Torture

• Scientist Says Stem Cell Work Can Be Replicated

• Kidnapped Germans Released Unharmed

• Zapatistas Begin Tour to Build Nationalist Movement

• Chen Vows to Seek New Constitution for Taiwan

• Despite Government Efforts, Cubans Hold Tight to the U.S. Dollar By Carol J. Williams