Jacobs

Paul A. Jacobs, former Culver City mayor, was elected president of the Board of Directors of the West Los Angeles College Foundation. Jacobs is a candidate for the Culver City Municipal Court bench. Established in 1973, the foundation provides the school's students with support and scholarships.

He left no angry manifesto. The last night he was alive, Jacob Tyler Roberts stayed up late drinking and shooting pool with a buddy. Roberts told his friend Sean Cates that he needed a gun, but he didn't say why. The pair, hanging out in Portland, Ore., smoked pot, got drinks from a 7-Eleven and ended up at a Denny's at 3 a.m. The two crashed at Cates' apartment, and when Cates woke up, Roberts was gone - along with Cates' AR-15 rifle....

The founder of a volunteer program at the Temple City Sheriff's Station has been named the city's 1989 citizen of the year by the Chamber of Commerce. Matthew (Matt) Jacobs, 72, was a 28-year employee of the county Facilities Management Department and a 12-year reserve officer with the Sheriff's Department. Jacobs, who has degrees from UCLA and USC, has been active as a member of Camellia Masonic Lodge 612 in Temple City and with the Boy Scouts of America as an assistant scoutmaster.

When James Watson and Francis Crick deciphered the structure of DNA in 1953, their discovery answered a crucial question in biology: How is genetic information passed down from parent to child? Their work also created conundrums, however. They and others showed that every cell of an organism contains all of its genetic material. How, then, does an individual cell know which genes to use and when? And how does information from DNA get to the cell's protein-making machinery? The seminal insight into those questions came from three biologists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris - Dr. Francois Jacob, Jacques Monod and Andre Lwoff.

Marc Jacobs embraced his role as fashion's dream maker, the Wizard of Oz at New York Fashion Week, showing a fall collection Monday with just about everything a woman would ever want to wear, be it a fairy-tale glitter-flecked clear vinyl raincoat or a glorious draped gown in a daisy-patterned taffeta, a superbly cut double-breasted pantsuit or a knife-pleated maxi skirt, all in soothing pales. There were references to every decade from the 1920s though the 1970s. "I had this feeling, as I think we all do, that I wanted to see something that wasn't trying so hard to be new," Jacobs said.

She watched "The Silence of the Lambs" as a girl and so related to Jodie Foster's character that she wanted to become an FBI agent and go after psychopaths. Instead, Ally Jacobs became a police officer at UC Berkeley, handling mostly garden-variety cases until one day in August when she helped crack the case that ended the 18-year kidnapping nightmare of Jaycee Lee Dugard. On Monday, the 1994 Santa Margarita Catholic High School graduate returned for alumni career day and told students that her brush with fame stemmed from trusting that voice in her head that told her that something wasn't right about the man later arrested and charged with Dugard's kidnap and rape.

Don't you just love Ross Perot? Billionaires can look as stupid as they want. They can afford it. ROSE JACOBS Oceanside

Now is the time for all good parties to come to the aid of campaign finance reform. ROSE S. JACOBS Oceanside

Sleeping pills: An article on insomnia in Monday's Health section stated that Gregg D. Jacobs, an insomnia specialist at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, has a company that markets a drug-free insomnia treatment program. Although Jacobs has a website on which a treatment program is sold, he doesn't own a company, nor does he market or advertise the program. Also, the article shouldn't have referred to Jacobs as "Dr." He has a PhD, not a medical degree.

The divestiture plan was announced by AMF director and Minstar Chairman Irwin L. Jacobs, who gained control of the company in a takeover battle earlier this year. The spinoffs are part of Jacobs' plan to concentrate the firm's resources on bowling, marine and a limited number of industrial businesses. He said he hopes to complete the restructuring by early next year.

Marc Jacobs isn't one to shy away from fashion risks. The often iconoclastic superstar designer - who has become synonymous with a certain young, casually cool New York state of mind - helped usher in the controversial "heroin chic" look in the '90s and favors a combo of kilts and combat boots for his daily work uniform. But for Jacobs' debut film role in the indie drama "Disconnect," which arrived in theaters in limited release last Friday, the style maven was forced to step outside his comfort zone - in terms of both fashion and raw physicality.

WASHINGTON -- As the new U.S. Treasury secretary, Jacob J. Lew is taking up a familiar and so-far thankless task: trying to persuade top European officials to shift from austerity to more growth-oriented economic policies. That was a major focus of Lew's first swing through Europe last week as Treasury head, and on Wednesday in Washington, he again pushed the message, albeit gingerly. In a speech, Lew contrasted the divergent post-recession fortunes of the U.S. and Europe, noting that the American economy had grown for 14 straight quarters and added millions of jobs, while the Eurozone's output had fallen over the last five quarters and some of its member countries are battling extremely high unemployment.

After winning eight games in 10 days and capturing tournament championships in North Carolina and Orange County, it can be concluded that the streaking Santa Ana Mater Dei High baseball team is the No. 1 team in Southern California, if not the nation. The Monarchs (14-1) won their latest championship on Friday night, winning the Boras Classic Southern California championship with a 6-0 victory over Westlake Village Oaks Christian at JSerra High. It earns the Monarchs a trip next Saturday to the University of Pacific to play Northern California champion Pleasant Grove in a noon championship game.

Designers used bold, bright strokes on the runways this season with clean, geometric lines, stripes, grids, color-blocking and cutouts, creating visions that were at times modern and at times nostalgic. At Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs staged a moving spectacle of models dressed in checkerboard grids inspired by the 1960s and the house's famed Damier pattern, while Narciso Rodriguez's collection of sexy slip dresses with slashes of bold color created a mood more romantic than regimented.

In "Jacob's Folly," Rebecca Miller has landed on a narrative voice that's antique, droll, racy and occasionally cutting - imagine an 18th century French rake being played by David Niven. But instead of putting an elegant, handsome man behind that voice, Miller has given it to a fly. A common housefly, yes, but more importantly, it's the proverbial fly on the wall. Embodying that metaphor so literally is silly but also brilliant; in a sense this is what writers do, spy on their invented worlds, eavesdrop on their characters.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Jacob J. Lew as Treasury secretary, allowing the longtime budget expert to take office as President Obama deals with looming automatic federal spending cuts. Lew, 57, was approved by a 71-26 vote. He succeeds Timothy F. Geithner, who stepped down in January after four years in the job. Lew brings different expertise to the job than Geithner, who had a deep background dealing with financial markets and Wall Street. For his second Treasury secretary, Obama chose a person with a long history of crafting budgets and helping negotiate spending deals with Republicans in Congress.

Qualcomm Inc., the world's No. 2 maker of chips that run mobile phones, paid Chief Executive Paul Jacobs $15.1 million last fiscal year as profit and sales surged. Jacobs received a salary of $1.06 million and got options valued at $10.8 million, the San Diego-based company said in a regulatory filing. Jacobs, who took over from his father as CEO in 2005, was paid a salary and bonus of $2.66 million last year, excluding options awards. Qualcomm boosted profit 34% and increased sales 18% last year on demand for chips used in phones with high-speed Internet access.

WASHINGTON -- A Senate committee is expected to vote to confirm Jacob J. Lew's nomination to be Treasury secretary on Tuesday, setting the stage for his confirmation by the full Senate in the coming days. Lew, the former White House chief of staff, would succeed Timothy F. Geithner and would be a key player in budget negotiations between President Obama and congressional Republicans as automatic federal spending cuts are set to begin on Friday. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.)