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With respect for and appreciation of the many wonderful recreation areas that Orange County supervisors and the Parks and Harbor Commission have created, any further plans to put a bicycle-pedestrian path along Aliso Creek Golf Course must be stopped. Such a plan is not feasible. The course would be unplayable. Ben Brown's Aliso Creek Golf is the only course in Laguna. The plan should stop at the southeast perimeter of the golf course. Bicyclists and pedestrians can backtrack.

She doesn't want to be known as that "chick from that girl group." Or the actress who played Lil' Kim. Naturi Naughton wants you to remember her name. And to help ensure the name recognition sticks, she's starring in the revamped production of "Fame," which hits theaters Sept. 25. She plays Denise, a singer-pianist whose parents disapprove of her attending the New York City High School of Performing Arts. Sure, the 1980 Oscar-winning hit musical about gifted students with ambitions of being famous came out before Naughton was born.

Robert Aitken, an influential American Zen master and writer who emphasized a path to enlightenment through social action, died of pneumonia Thursday in a Honolulu hospital. He was 93. His death was confirmed by Roland Sugimoto, administrator of Honolulu Diamond Sangha, a Zen Buddhist network with more than 20 affiliated groups around the world that Aitken founded more than 50 years ago with his late wife, Anne Hopkins Aitken. Aitken was one of the first Americans to be fully sanctioned as a master of Zen Buddhism and trained several generations of Zen Buddhist teachers.

A watered-down resolution calling for Congress to "repair" the nation's "historically broken" immigration laws won bipartisan support by the state Senate on Monday. The Senate voted 32 to 0 to support Senate Joint Resolution 8 by Sen. Lou Correa (D-Santa Ana). The measure originally called for illegal immigrants to have access to "a logical and streamlined path to citizenship," but it was changed to provide that path for "individuals after they gain legal status. " The resolution also originally said: "This reform should also include a way to help families remain together throughout the lengthy bureaucratic process," but that provision was removed.

Imagine if Clarence Thomas had chosen the same path as Zoe Baird. PENELOPE CARIFFE Pasadena

The GOP mastermind who "williehortoned" President Bush into the White House now objects strongly to another's use of racism to win an election. Moral: When you prove the low road to be the path to success you can't be fussy about the character of your fellow-travelers. MACY BAUM Los Angeles

Penn, whose face would stop a clock, is hailed as "the leading actor of his generation." Where was I when he became a "blazing talent"? All I remember is his punching out everybody in his path. M. CAMERON Lake Elsinore