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Santa Monica has long been on the front lines in the civil wars over rent control. That contest was decided last year in Sacramento, but reports from the beach city suggest that landlord-tenant relations have again deteriorated into street fighting.
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David Cogan
on February 12, 1998
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Mixing personal loyalty and political business is nothing new to Eastside City Councilman Richard Alatorre. That's how he built the city's smoothest-running political machine and how he became the most adept operator in City Hall.
But now, by his o...
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Peter Fischer, the pediatric endocrinologist who helped coach and mold tennis star Pete Sampras, will be sentenced next week to six years in state prison for molesting children. Under a plea bargain, Fischer has admitted guilt on two counts of unlawf...
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David Davis
on February 12, 1998
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When Thailand's baht collapsed last July, it seemed an event of no great significance, a pebble plopped into the sea of global finance. Today, the ripples are beginning to wash up on California shores, and nobody knows if they portend an economic tsu...
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Last June, Orange County Superior Court Judge Everett W. Dickey set Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt free, vacating the former Black Panther's 24-year-old murder conviction. After a seven-month review of the case, the tough-nosed, conservative jurist found tha...
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News Staff
on February 12, 1998
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It has only been a few hours, but the stain on the old couch that sits in the empty lot has already turned brown. Around it now are gathered about a dozen teenagers who stare at the dark flower spread out upon the grimy fabric. Although it's a schoo...
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DEAR EDITOR:
As the director of public relations for Cal State Dominguez Hills, I'm often contacted by reporters to comment or help with contacts for stories about the university, its programs and its employees. In dealing with these media represen...
on February 5, 1998
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On Saturday, 350 former employees of the Western Jean Co., a defunct garment shop, gathered in the lobby of a midtown branch of Hanmi Bank to collect checks from the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) for unpaid wages. The unusual event was the literal p...
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A quiet milestone was achieved last month when L.A. school board member Jeff Horton won election to the executive committee of the California School Boards Association, putting him in line to be the group's first openly gay president.
If past pract...
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The University of Southern California drop-kicked football coach John Robinson after a subpar season, but it's sticking with the longtime coach on the legal gridiron. The school is defending itself and Robinson against a lawsuit alleging that he sexu...
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David Cogan
on February 5, 1998
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It's a blustery day in December, and it feels good to enter the shadowy calm of Union Station, heralded by urban planners in 1939 as America's "last great train station," and later revamped as the hub of mass transit in Los Angeles.
But it's a matt...
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Mark Cromer
on February 5, 1998
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The federal civil rights challenge to oil giant UNOCAL, first hailed as a landmark case that could influence the conduct of business throughout the world, foundered in federal court this week.
U.S. District Judge Richard Paez declined on Monday to ...
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Alex Katz
on February 5, 1998
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Adam Werbach fidgets in his dressing room, swilling bottled water and waiting to tape a talk show called The Couch. A wardrobe guy pops in to eyeball Werbach's corduroy cargo pants and his wide-lapeled Naugahyde blazer, donned en route to the Bu...
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I spend the morning watching the clock. Literally watching the second hand move around the face. Clicking off second by second. Anticipating the second hand reaching 12, so I can see the minute hand actually move. It does. I see it move several times...
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Hell, it was as inevitable as Bill Clinton getting caught. The VIP smoking area, that is -- the velvet rope, the bouncer check ing for wrist bands. Of course, we were more concerned about hitting the hosted VIP bar at the Garden of Eden, where Playbo...
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Presume not that I am the thing I was;
For God doth know, so shall the world perceive,
That I have turn'd away my former self;
So will I those that kept me company.
And with these words, from the concluding scene of Henry IV, Part II, Shakespea...
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The McKinley Building doesn't jut over the horizon. It's not the city's tallest, oldest or most significant architectural landmark, but it once was a building that assured you -- after you walked into its soothing, European-style courtyard -- that th...
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As we were doing some late-night data base prowling, we came across this little tidbit from a Los Angeles Times May 30, 1991, article on a North Hollywood publicity appearance by Days of Our Lives star Matthew Ashford. "The Best Days of Their Lives,"...
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News Staff
on February 5, 1998
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"These are people who a few generations ago would have run off to join the circus," noted a participant observing the bare-breasted blonds jiggling down the lanes at Mission Hills Bowl. Their brightly painted nails too long and delicate to fit in t...
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Evan Wright
on December 11, 1997
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@ After Dark LA on December 31, 1969 @ 4:00 pm
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