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What happened on April 06, 2008
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Kindergarten: You In? By Audrey Davidow, Special to The Times
Psychedelic beginnings By Erin Weinger
Just add your own label By Erin Weinger, Times Staff Writer
In A New Light By Adam Tschorn, Times Staff Writer
One green Banana By Emili Vesilind, Times Staff Writer
Funk and flash By Steffie Nelson, Special to The Times
How To Make A Tie-dye Shirtdress
You call this 'help'? By Monica Corcoran, Times Staff Writer
56,000 guests. Dress code: blue. By Erin Weinger, Times Staff Writer
Coliseum Chic By Melissa Magsaysay, Times Staff Writer
Real Trouper By Emili Vesilind, Times Staff Writer
Hat -- check By Melissa Magsaysay, Times Staff Writer
MAGAZINE
Stunning Hike, Cool Oasis By Debora Vrana and Staff Writers
The Big Dipper By Charles Perry, Times staff writer Charles Perry can be reached at charles.perry@latimes.com
Soaring Soprano By Laurie Winer
The Green Giant By Christopher Hawthorne, Christopher Hawthorne is the architecture critic of The Times. Contact him at christopher.hawthorne@latimes.com
Beyond the Giant Sequoias By Joe Robinson
A Quirky Beach Town, Lost in Time By Chris Erskine
CHIC on a dime By Elizabeth Khuri
For the Record
How to Catch a Foul Ball By Michael Shaw
Master of Crowd Control By Chris Lee, Chris Lee is a Times staff writer. Contact him at chris.lee@latimes.com
Rafting, as Wild as You Want It By Hugo Martin
The Force Is With Him
The Road to Greatness
Hats Off
Earn That Grandeur, or Just Soak It Up By Colleen Dunn Bates
Instinct, Unscripted By Jodie Foster, Producer, director and Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster costars in "Nim's Island," opening this month.
Suddenly Spring By Donna Wares
A Vintage Find, an Hour Away By Susan Carpenter
Flagsploitation By Dan Neil, Times staff writer Dan Neil can be reached at dan.neil@latimes.com
When the Kids Are Grown-Ups By Laurie Winer
Schindler Shelters By Laurie Winer
Puttin' On the Spritz By Laurie Winer, Laurie Winer is a contributing editor at the magazine. Contact her at magagzine@latimes.com
As Joe Torre takes on the unruly Dodgers, there's a new hope for glory and . . . A Legend on the Line By David L. Ulin, David L. Ulin is book editor of The Times. Contact him at david.ulin@latimes.com
If Gatsby Had a Dude Ranch By Chris Erskine
Hi-Def in the House By Martin Miller
OPINION
Dress code By Michael Mcgough, Michael McGough is senior editorial writer for The Times.
Sacred semantics By Rabih Alameddine, Rabih Alameddine is the author of the novel "The Hakawati," due out this month.
Tainted medicine By Jerome P. Kassirer, Jerome P. Kassirer is a physician and distinguished professor at the Tufts University School of Medicine.
Keep your enemies closer By Melvyn P. Leffler, Melvyn P. Leffler is the co-chairman of the Governing America in a Global Era program at the University of Virginia and the author of "For the Soul of Mankind: the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War."
Who's a dropout?
Still wary of Islamic extremism
Financial woes create more pain
A false choice by waiving laws
Drawn to Obama? By Joel Pett, Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
Muir High is on the right track
Super-source for scandal By Marvin Kitman, Marvin Kitman, a former media/TV critic at Newsday, is the "media pathologist" at HuffingtonPost.com.
The undeveloper By Marc B. Haefele, Marc B. Haefele is a commentator for KPCC-FM (89.3) and writes for Citybeat, Citywatch and Nomada magazine of Buenos Aires.
And Arnold could open for Hannah Montana By Roy Rivenburg, Roy Rivenburg is a freelance writer.
ENTERTAINMENT
Beyond Rebellion By Agustin Gurza, Times Staff Writer
The Ellroy Enigma By Scott Timberg, Times Staff Writer
Wading in as leading man, his still Walter runs deep By Paul Brownfield, Times Staff Writer
That paper mill job is behind him now By Choire Sicha, Special to The Times
A chemical reaction By Lewis Segal, Special to The Times
British series puts an accent on Texas By Lynn Smith, Times Staff Writer
Wong Kar Wai makes his American statement By Mark Olsen, Special to The Times
Mexico was his Monument Valley By Reed Johnson, Times Staff Writer
Chief of new label is no naysayer By August Brown, Times Staff Writer
You bet there's an agenda By Hugh Hart
Look around -- art is everywhere By Jessica Gelt
A pursuit of real emotion By Sheri Linden, Special to The Times
Doyenne of the dance By Choire Sicha, Special to The Times
Cinema race card
Too-broad strokes
Bravo Bingham
Others' truths
Relying heavily on the medium By Jon Caramanica, Special to The Times
That's 10 years of putting in a good word By Liesl Bradner
Keeping Clyde on a two-way street
Master of big fantasy By Sam Adams, Special to The Times
'30 Rock' rolls; 'Young @ Heart' can rock it too By Deborah Netburn
And now, courtship gone wild
Mare Winningham explores Tennessee By Anne Marie Welsh, Special to The Times
Creativity Corner
Finding a queenly clue
Jokes & Riddles
Greed, fear, insanity and lots of heartbreak By Noel Murray
Keeping period pieces on track By Cristy Lytal, Special to The Times
The happy couple By Richard Cromelin, Times Staff Writer
'Undeniably Izzy' By Alexander Marestaing, Special to The Times
NATIONAL
Obama's law days effective but brief By Dan Morain, Times Staff Writer
Getaways without going away By P.j. Huffstutter, Times Staff Writer
Texas removes 183 at sect site By Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writer
Microsoft threatens to turn Yahoo bid hostile By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer
Keeping a green eye on drivers By Deedee Correll, Times Staff Writer
Ex-GOP Rep. Barr weighs run for president From the Associated Press
Biden assails troop buildup By Paul Richter, Times Staff Writer
Mormons install 16th president From Times Wire Reports
3 students die in fire near campus From Times Wire Reports
Purdue wins with 156-step recipe From Times Wire Reports
Clinton aide's firm is fired by Colombia From the Associated Press
To get ahead, she looks back By Noam N. Levey, Times Staff Writer
An about-face on Mitt Romney By Don Frederick and Andrew Malcolm
Petraeus' testimony runs into campaign By Peter Spiegel and Julian E. Barnes, Times Staff Writers
Mining plan near canyon blocked From Times Wire Reports
BOOKS
Blood connections By Ron Carlson, Ron Carlson is the author of nine books of fiction, most recently the novel "Five Skies." He directs the graduate writing program in fiction at UC Irvine.
Secrets unshared By Nicholas Delbanco, Nicholas Delbanco is the Robert Frost distinguished university professor at the University of Michigan. His most recent novels include "Spring and Fall" and the forthcoming "The Count of Concord."
Superfreaky memories By Peter Terzian, Peter Terzian is editing an anthology of essays about beloved record albums.
Sonic delights By Laurel Maury, Laurel Maury is a New York-based writer and critic.
Bestsellers
Discoveries By Susan Salter Reynolds
Oh, deviants! By Nick Owchar
Face to face By Susan Salter Reynolds, Times Staff Writer.
Auto-rewind By Ella Taylor, Ella Taylor is a film critic at LA Weekly.
This Week in Calendar
War and peace By David L. Ulin, David L. Ulin is book editor of The Times.
Talking the talk By David J. Garrow, David J. Garrow, a senior fellow at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, is the author of "Bearing the Cross," a Pulitzer prize-winning biography of King.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
An outsize figure on the big screen By Robert W. Welkos and Susan King, Special to The Times
DNA tests could force a rewrite of city's history book By Cecilia Rasmussen, Times Staff Writer
Cop car cameras: Is there a negative? By Steve Lopez
'Dude' has L.A. on a string By Diane Haithman, Times Staff Writer
Soldier is killed by roadside bomb By Hector Becerra, Times Staff Writer
Bratton walks a fine line on race By Jill Leovy, Doug Smith and Joel Rubin, Times Staff Writers
2 are killed during moratorium By Richard Winton
USC political scientist was a pioneer in the field of campaign finance studies By Elaine Woo, Times Staff Writer
Journalists press on for a slain colleague By Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer
Two men arrested en route to China From the Associated Press
Three rules of engagement By Joseph Fink, Camarillo
Can you spare a buck, I mean pancake? By Steve Harvey
A sorrowful ritual in war By Jia-rui Chong and Ann M. Simmons, Times Staff Writers
Military deaths
Honoring their Chinese forebears By Jean-paul Renaud, Times Staff Writer
O.C. Transit Authority isn't moved by traditional modes By David Reyes, Times Staff Writer
'Lunatic' call led to murder charges By Victoria Kim, Times Staff Writer
An elephantine change By Tony Perry, Times Staff Writer
WORLD
Absolutely outraged over a vodka ad in Mexico From a Times Staff Writer
Fighting fire with fire By Jeffrey Fleishman, Times Staff Writer
Abortion battle is back By Tracy Wilkinson, Times Staff Writer
Unrest may force new tactics from China By Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer
Coalition Cabinet delayed From Times Wire Reports
Global leaders urge IMF reform From Times Wire Reports
Floods displace about 50,000 From Times Wire Reports
Bush and Putin find limits to personal diplomacy By James Gerstenzang, Times Staff Writer
'Hit list' triggers Zimbabwe angst By Robyn Dixon, Times Staff Writer
BUSINESS
For Drucker dean, small is beautiful By Tiffany Hsu, Times Staff Writer
Finding the right mix in a tumultuous market By Tom Petruno, Times Staff Writer
Unlisted phone fee senseless
Family bank sets a good example
Who can afford Big Spender?
Free number to report on drugs urged From Times Wire Services
In-home cell 'towers' pursued From Times Wire Services
Wal-Mart makes assurance on milk From Times Wire Services
Rocker toy poses threat From Times Wire Services
Guide to mutual fund categories
Insurers slow to zap the ZIP Code By David Lazarus
Some college grants on chopping block By Kathy M. Kristof, Times Staff Writer
Scam Watch By David Colker
Bonds battered by worry By Walter Hamilton, Times Staff Writer
Few places to hide from downturn By Martin Zimmerman, Times Staff Writer
Oil dependency isn't an addiction
Origin of drugs shouldn't matter
TRAVEL
Oahu By The Beach By Rosemary Mcclure, Times Staff Writer
Tours & Cruises By Amy Hubbard
For the record
For the record
Live like a prince at Kauai villas By Rosemary Mcclure, Times Staff Writer
Cell calls in flight mostly up in the air By James Gilden, Special to The Times
A few tricks to flying overseas
Making it count in Las Vegas
Big meals, small wallet By Rosemary Mcclure, Times Staff Writer
NEED TO KNOW news . style . tips . trends By Jane Engle;vani Rangachar;chris Erskine
What's new with the old favorites? By Catharine Hamm;rosemary Mcclure;vani Rangachar
A Churchill home
Join the club
Your Scene
Dog-day ID By Catharine Hamm
Where to go for your workout By Vani Rangachar
Outta the park By Robyn Norwood, Times Staff Writer
Lanai: luxe but laid-back By Beverly Beyette, Times Staff Writer
REAL ESTATE
Fraud traps await unwary associations By Frank Nelson, Special to The Times
It's her Westside sequel By Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer
Leave appraisers alone
Average mortgage rates and indexes
Older duplexes rent controlled in L.A. By Kevin Postema, Special to The Times
History's got style in San Diego By Irene Lechowitzky, Special to The Times
A DeMille classic, restored By Ruth Ryon, Times Staff Writer
Buy it, furnish it and they will come By Dianna Sinovic, Special to The Times
Far from retiring By Diane Wedner, Times Staff Writer
SPORTS
Olympic torchbearers proud to participate From the Associated Press
Brooklyn's side of the O'Malley saga By Roger Kahn, Special to The Times
Results From the Associated Press
Willis shaky in his debut with Tigers From the Associated Press
Weaver finds a way to win By Kevin Baxter, Times Staff Writer
Moreno picks up shopping tab for fans By Kevin Baxter, Times Staff Writer
Down The Line By Bill Shaikin
Arizona guard Bayless declares for the draft From the Associated Press
Morning briefing By Peter Yoon, Times Staff Writer
Chivas USA plays through it By Jaime Cardenas, Times Staff Writer
Brand gets a feel for the good, bad By Jonathan Abrams, Times Staff Writer
The kids are doing all the heavy lifting for Yankees By Johnette Howard, Newsday
Dodgers' loss over before it starts By Dylan Hernandez, Times Staff Writer
Playoff-bound Ducks have fun By Eric Stephens, Times Staff Writer
Kanu lifts Portsmouth into the final, 1-0 From the Associated Press
Wagner leads by one From the Associated Press
Now, there are two beasts in East By Mark Heisler
Colonel John charges his way to Kentucky By Larry Stewart, Times Staff Writer
Wood and Illinois derbies disappoint By Bob Mieszerski, Times Staff Writer
Kings close with a loss and rebuilding begins again By Lisa Dillman, Times Staff Writer
Odom showing the right stuff By Mike Bresnahan, Times Staff Writer
Memphis will learn about life as a 'dog By Lonnie White, Times Staff Writer
Ochoa's not that sharp in her final four By Thomas Bonk, Times Staff Writer
Resilient LSU women back for more By Dan Arritt, Times Staff Writer
Tigers know they belong By Mike Hiserman, Times Staff Writer
Results, Schedule From the Associated Press
Coast To Coast By Mark Heisler
Turnabout is fair play for Celtics From the Associated Press
The Times' Rankings
Kansas rocks the Tar Heels By Chris Dufresne, Times Staff Writer
Kansas' Rush saw Memphis coming By Chris Dufresne and Robyn Norwood, Times Staff Writers
Williams wins her fifth title at Key Biscayne From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Results From the Associated Press
Results From the Associated Press
Fukudome is a very big hit in Chicago From the Associated Press
If this is goodbye, it's tough way to go out By Robyn Norwood
After going three and out, Howland needs a new offense By Bill Plaschke
Reds' Keppinger off to fast start From the Associated Press
Goal is same on both coasts By Bill Shaikin
Howland shouldn't be fall guy for UCLA's loss By T.j. Simers
Mata-Real's dream doesn't come true By Diane Pucin, Times Staff Writer
Amen to that By Thomas Bonk, Times Staff Writer
Martin's advice doesn't get lost in translation By Dylan Hernandez, Times Staff Writer
For family, it's worth the wait By Chris Dufresne, Times Staff Writer
Four-flushed again By Diane Pucin, Times Staff Writer
NEWS
Kilauea's neighbors bask in living at the whim of nature By Mark Niesse, Associated Press
For the Record
For the Record
Russia in the midst of a baby boom By Douglas Birch, Associated Press
India's kidney transplant crisis By Laurie Goering, Chicago Tribune
Young artisan keeps Italy's richness alive By Christine Spolar, Chicago Tribune
The pharmacist will see you now By Maria Cheng, Associated Press
Alcohol still a constant companion By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune
Analyzing ancient ice in the tropics before it melts By Charles J. Hanley, Associated Press
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