What happened on December 20, 2009

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For the record
Q & A: The Abortion Compromise Noam N. Levey, Tribune Washington Bureau
Alive and well By Mark Swed music critic >>>

What happened on December 20, 2009

CALIFORNIA | LOCAL

Antonio Pineda dies at 90; Mexican modernist silversmith By Dennis McLellan

Bar set low for lifetime job in L.A. schools By Jason Felch, Jessica Garrison and Jason Song

Farsi phone service helps bind a community By Robert Faturechi

Life as performance art for a family not bound by typical assumptions Steve Lopez

Malibu rock kept threatening to roll By Steve Harvey

Sale benefits unemployed illegal immigrants By Patrick J. McDonnell

Court overturns California ban on violent felons owning body armor By Robert Faturechi

Army Sgt. Eduviges Wolf, 24, Hawthorne; killed by rocket-propelled grenade By Victoria Kim

Toxic flame retardant to be phased out By Bettina Boxall

A power struggle in Carson By Jeff Gottlieb

Money doesn't always buy the office By Cathleen Decker

LAX flight schedule back to normal By Ann M. Simmons

Holiday handouts spread cheer in Los Angeles By Esmeralda Bermudez

Detective work yields a suspect in LAX bomb threats By Scott Glover

L.A. police investigate death of Brittany Murphy By Andrew Blankstein and Ching-Ching Ni

LAPD to keep its policy on immigration checks By Teresa Watanabe

Neo-Nazis protest at Riverside synagogue By Robert Faturechi

WORLD

In Iran, a blind musician leads the way for a women's orchestra By Borzou Daragahi

Rail passengers spend a cold, dark night stranded in Chunnel By Janet Stobart

Tijuana's security chief needs all of it he can get By Richard Marosi

Taliban attack California Guard soldiers By Tony Perry

Iran's Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dies at 87; prime defender of the protest movement By Ramin Mostaghim

Montazeri, a senior cleric and defender of Iranian opposition, dies at 87 By Ramin Mostaghim, Special to The Times

France's Chirac faces another inquiry By Gaelle Faure

Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China By Brendan Brady

California Guard troops attacked in Afghanistan By Tony Perry, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Karzai's Cabinet list balances conflicting demands By Laura King

Climate summit hopes less is more By Jim Tankersley

Sweden makes U-turn on nuclear power By Henry Chu

ENTERTAINMENT

Pico Iyer on the tyranny of the moment By Pico Iyer >>>

Dance: The 21st century awaits its next cue By Lewis Segal >>>

After a decade of fear, we're connected to writing in new ways By David L. Ulin >>>

The Vampirization of America By Michael Tolkin >>>

Living detached from the larger world By Mona Simpson >>>

The Dickensian state of film By Kenneth Turan film critic >>>

Architecture: Star architects emerge, but even they find limits By Christopher Hawthorne architecture critic >>>

The long and the short of TV series By Robert Lloyd television critic >>>

Alive and well By Mark Swed music critic >>>, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

Horoscope: Dec. 20 By Holiday Mathis

L.A.'s growing pains, status By Christopher Knight art critic >>>

Race on the big screen By Betsy Sharkey film critic >>>

'District 9' landing on a disc near you By Noel Murray

Boris Gelfand breaks through to win World Cup By Jack Peters

TV in real time isn't so bad By Jon Caramanica

B.B. King gives Vegas a voice with his blues By Richard Abowitz

Books provide solace and companionship By Judith Freeman >>>

Hole aces aren't always winners By Steve Rosenbloom

'Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas' By Anonymous

Theater: Amid the many bloated musicals, originality sneaks in By Charles McNulty theater critic >>>

Discoveries: 'The Theory of Light and Matter' by Andrew Porter By Susan Salter Reynolds

Reality? Hardly By Mary McNamara television critic >>>

Cutting through the din of the dotcom age By Susan Salter Reynolds >>>

Word Play: The Secret Life of Santa By Sonja Bolle

SPORTS

Owner of car USC's Joe McKnight drove denies wrongdoing By Gary Klein and Lance Pugmire

Crenshaw hangs for a half, but De La Salle wins title Eric Sondheimer

Kobe Bryant rises above any rivalry Mark Heisler

Readers weigh in on girl's plan to sail around the world T.J. Simers

Robert Woods leads Gardena Serra to Division III state football title Eric Sondheimer

Mike Gerrity leads USC in upset of Tennessee By Baxter Holmes

Ducks get crucial scoring from unexpected sources By Jim Peltz

These matchups could relight some old fires By Grahame L. Jones, On Soccer

Bruins' struggling running game faces a challenge against Temple By Chris Foster

A preview of the 2010 NBA draft Mark Heisler

Trojans are playing with fire Bill Plaschke

Bruins' D is low-grade again in 84-73 loss to Notre Dame By David Wharton

Kelly Pavlik defeats Miguel Espino to retain his middleweight titles Wire Reports

This time, the buzz is good for the Clippers By Lisa Dillman, On The Clippers

New Jersey can't catch Lakers when they drift By Mike Bresnahan, On The Lakers

Saints no longer perfect Sam Farmer

Nicholas Echeverry kicks Servite to state title By Ben Bolch

Phil Jackson no help in determining future with team By Broderick Turner

Bob Baffert wins pick four at Hollywood Park By John Cherwa

Like Marshall Faulk before him, Titans' Chris Johnson finds true purpose Sam Farmer

BUSINESS

One debit-card overdraft can trigger an avalanche Kathy M. Kristof, Personal Finance