Tuna
A Love Story
Richard Ellis
Alfred
A. Knopf: 336 pp., $26.95
IN THIS age of abundant information, Richard Ellis proves that there is still more of it, boatloads more, to be harvested from our troubled oceans.
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Leo
T. McCarthy, former lieutenant governor of California and a
durable figure in the state’s rough-and-tumble Democratic Party
politics for more than a generation, died Monday at his home in San
Francisco after a long illness, family members said.
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It scares her to ride her bicycle to work.
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IN the autumn of 1943, World War
II raged.
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SHE starred on Broadway and in the opera.
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California | Local |
By John Balzar |
September 8, 2006
A fortuneteller’s toy sits on the desk in the public defender’s office.
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California | Local |
By John Balzar |
September 7, 2006
“There are three classes of criminal defendants.”
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California | Local |
By John Balzar |
September 6, 2006
The public defenders at the Norwalk courthouse begin the day with
pancakes and strawberries.
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California | Local |
By John Balzar |
September 4, 2006
At 8 o’clock in the morning the single-file line grows to 52 people
waiting to shuffle past the sheriff’s security checkpoint and into
the monolithic stone courthouse.
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