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Deputy Atty. Gen. David Ogden, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that he is stepping down after 10 months on the job to return to his private law practice. Sources at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill said they had not been given any indication that his departure was imminent, although Ogden had told some that he had always intended to spend only a year or two in the job. "It was a surprise to me," said one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

David W. Kenney, SeaWorld's first veterinarian, who played a key role in bringing the original Shamu to the San Diego amusement park as well as a gray whale believed to be the first raised by humans, died Feb. 14 in Montrose, Colo. He was 77. The cause was cancer, said his sister, Meredith Maler. Kenney was hired by the park a few weeks before its 1964 opening and over the next several years displayed an ingenuity and dedication that helped the fledgling tourist attraction build and maintain an impressive collection of marine animals.

"I've always seen my strength as being the behind-the-scenes person. I'm a technician, and I'm very good at it." AGE: 56 HOME: Ventura PROFESSION: Ventura County Superior Court Judge LATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Long was elevated to the Superior Court last month, continuing a rapid career climb. A former insurance claims adjuster, Long earned his law degree in 1983. He was appointed a court commissioner by local judges in 1993 and elevated by Gov. Pete Wilson to the Municipal Court in 1995.

Reality TV star and singer Heidi Montag has been hiding out by the beach this summer at a Malibu place she rented for $25,000 a month, according to the Multiple Listing Service. But she moved on in late August, and the gated contemporary is back on the market at $5.5 million. Yes, that's Heidi of "The Hills," as in Heidi and Spencer, as in soon-to-be divorced Heidi. Lost? Backing up, Montag began dating fellow cast member Spencer Pratt while working on "The Hills" (2006-10)

David W. Kenney, SeaWorld's first veterinarian, who played a key role in bringing the original Shamu to the San Diego amusement park as well as a gray whale believed to be the first raised by humans, died Feb. 14 in Montrose, Colo. He was 77. The cause was cancer, said his sister, Meredith Maler. Kenney was hired by the park a few weeks before its 1964 opening and over the next several years displayed an ingenuity and dedication that helped the fledgling tourist attraction build and maintain an impressive collection of marine animals.

David W. Lutz, an arts management consultant to government and a partner in a private consulting firm, has died of the complications of AIDS. His partner, Elizabeth Kennedy, said last week that he died Sept. 7 in a Sherman Oaks hospital. He was 35. Lutz spent most of his career in California, as executive director of the Santa Monica Arts Commission from 1983 to 1986 and as special assistant to the director of the California Arts Council from 1980 to 1983.

Water regulators have voted to require pollution permits for coastal fireworks displays in southern Orange County and San Diego County, in what they said was the first such regulation in the nation. Operators of seaside fireworks shows from Laguna Beach to the U.S.-Mexico border will have to pay a $1,500 annual fee, minimize the discharge of pollutants into the water and clean up shells, cardboard, fuses and other debris under the rules approved Wednesday by the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.

David W. Scott, an artist and art historian who served as founding director of the National Museum of American Art, played a key role in expanding the National Gallery of Art and shepherded the Corcoran Gallery of Art through a difficult time after a controversial exhibit, died of multiple organ failure March 30 at a hospice in Austin, Texas. He was 92.

David W. Fair, a retired U.S. Air Force navigator and longtime Woodland Hills resident, has died in Northridge. He was 60. Fair died Friday of a heart attack, said his wife, Joyce Fair. Fair was born and raised in Glendale and graduated from Glendale High School. He then served in the U.S. Air Force as a navigator, retiring in 1968 with the rank of major. Fair later worked in various fields, including insurance.

David W. Borst Sr., who co-founded the first student-run radio station at Brown University and later the Intercollegiate Broadcast System, has died. Borst died Dec. 1 of injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Palos Verdes. He was 82. The son of social workers, Borst was born in Florida but lived in New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Indianapolis as a child before finally settling in Yonkers and then Bronxville, N.Y.

David W. Higgins, the president of production at Sobini Films, has listed his Midcentury home in Sherman Oaks at $949,000. He bought the 1956 Edward Fickett-designed house nine years ago from the original owner, the late animator and director Brad Case. "It was in a state of complete disrepair but still made a strong impact — the wide-open spaces, the walls of glass, but most especially the color palette," Higgins said of the 1,919-square-foot residence. Case had worked with Fickett to pick out the bold colors.

Deputy Atty. Gen. David Ogden, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, announced Thursday that he is stepping down after 10 months on the job to return to his private law practice. Sources at the Justice Department and on Capitol Hill said they had not been given any indication that his departure was imminent, although Ogden had told some that he had always intended to spend only a year or two in the job. "It was a surprise to me," said one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

David W. Scott, an artist and art historian who served as founding director of the National Museum of American Art, played a key role in expanding the National Gallery of Art and shepherded the Corcoran Gallery of Art through a difficult time after a controversial exhibit, died of multiple organ failure March 30 at a hospice in Austin, Texas. He was 92.

THERE was a time when the zeitgeist used to get bashed about pretty thoroughly by classical music. New operas, ballets and symphonies would actually alter the cultural climate, chasing away old modes of thought and introducing new realities -- as in 1913, when Igor Stravinsky dropped his "Rite of Spring" on an ill-prepared Parisian public, or in 1952, when David Tudor sat down and closed his keyboard lid for the first live performance of John Cage's "4' 33"."

WHEN Adolph Ochs purchased the New York Times in 1896, he decided to swim against a tide that was then running at full flood through the country's hyper-competitive urban newspaper scene. American newspapers had printed occasional editorial cartoons for decades, but the bitter -- and well-financed -- presidential campaign between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryant had made exclusive political cartoons by a resident artist a must-have feature among the big city dailies.

David W. Tebet, a television talent executive who recruited Johnny Carson for NBC's "The Tonight Show" and went on to become vice president of Carson's production company, died Tuesday. He was 91. Tebet died at the Coronado, Calif., home of his nephew, Dr. Ralph Greenspan, of complications from a stroke. A former theater publicist in New York, Tebet in 1959 became NBC's vice president for talent -- or as comedian George Burns liked to call him, "the vice president in charge of caring."

David W. Tebet, a television talent executive who recruited Johnny Carson for NBC's "The Tonight Show" and went on to become vice president of Carson's production company, died Tuesday. He was 91. Tebet died at the Coronado, Calif., home of his nephew, Dr. Ralph Greenspan, of complications from a stroke. A former theater publicist in New York, Tebet in 1959 became NBC's vice president for talent -- or as comedian George Burns liked to call him, "the vice president in charge of caring."

This isn't Burger King. We don't do it your way here. --Judge Manuel L. Real's favorite saying. The courtroom confrontation took place more than 30 years ago, but the most controversial federal judge in Los Angeles remembers it today as an early lesson in judicial style. Chief U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real, then a young prosecutor, had decided that his only chance of winning a conviction before an unsympathetic judge was to demand a jury trial. But U.S. District Judge Pierson M.

David W. Delainey, who once ran Enron Corp.'s biggest unit, pleaded guilty to insider trading Thursday and became the highest-ranking former executive to cooperate with a criminal investigation of the company's collapse. Delainey, 37, also settled a related civil case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission and agreed to pay $3.74 million in fines and forfeit $4.26 million in ill-gotten gains.

Pomona College on Monday named David W. Oxtoby, a chemist and dean of physical sciences at the University of Chicago, to be its new president. The appointment, which takes effect July 1, will make Oxtoby the ninth president in the 116-year history of the prestigious liberal arts college in Claremont. He will replace historian Peter W. Stanley, who is retiring after 12 years as president.