We want to tell the American children that Afghanistan feels your pain.
—official statement from Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, Afghanistan’s Taliban ambass
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Don’t even talk about closure. Forget liability suits, extradition warrants and all the other make-it-better palliatives that grow out of disaster, American-s
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Heat got you listless? Well, here’s a list — a list so cold it gives Björk the shivers. It’ll give you brain freeze faster than a Mountain Dew Sl
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The tiny city of Signal Hill is surrounded by Long Beach. It‘s little more than an incorporated oil field with a nice view. So you can’t blame people the
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Jay Levin wouldn’t dispute the biblical pronouncement that the poor will always be with us. What bothers him more is that we aren‘t ”with“ th
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Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter
The little gray man in the red tie came to the LAPD Rampart Station to bury Police Commission President Gerry Chaleff, but he didn̵
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All over America, in the months before this millennial election, campaign-spending records fell like grain under the harvester’s sc
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Illustration by Mike Lee
Nash and I went to a swap meet or a fair or a bake sale or something at the Orange County fairgrounds. It was the last summer before
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On 30 January 2000 at 8:38 p.m., I listed a 45 rpm record by a band called the Maids on eBay. I included photographs of the front and back of the paper sleeve and th
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The setting was the Athenian Room at downtown‘s grand Biltmore Hotel. It was time for the final question at the official introductory news conference of L.A. s
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The $1.5 million cleanup of toxic contamination at one of L.A.’s largest housing projects was dogged by criticism — even before it started.
It seemed o
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The plaintiffs opposing Playa Vista this time around are called the Grassroots Coalition, Earthways Foundation and Spirit of the Sage Council. The last is, according
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