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THE YIS' DEATH ON MARCH 3 was the first of many violent acts to plague the Korean-American community in the last five weeks.
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THE 58-YEAR-OLD KOREAN-AMERICAN storeowner was talking to his sister on the telephone when his wife frantically interrupted him. Two teenagers had just stolen five cans of spray paint from their discount store in a Filipinotown mini-mall. In-Taek Kw...
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THE CANDLELIGHT CAST from the thousands who flooded La Placita Monday night illuminated a remarkable new American political reality: a national immigrant civil rights movement of truly tidal proportions.
And, most inspiring, one that has mightily o...
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NOTHING MAKES A POLITICAL OPERATIVE ?in Los Angeles wince quite like U2, the arena rock band whose music is used shamelessly for Election Night parties and campaign rallies. With Randy Newman's "I Love L.A." finally exhausted as a campaign soundtrac...
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- From Lafayette Park, in front of the White House, you could see them approaching from afar, trooping down 16th Street toward the Mall, a vast throng of immigrants, dressed chiefly in white, waving and draped in more American flag...
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FOR A GUY WHO WANTS TO BE California's attorney general, Rocky Delgadillo has a strange way of showing respect for the law. Last week's verdict against the City Attorney's Office, in which Orange County jurors voted 11-1 to award former city prosecu...
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One of the talents OF GREAT ARTISTS is knowing when to stop, recognizing the moment when a work has reached its maximum potential and having the self-control to put down tools and leave well enough alone. Termites would have brilliant careers, and g...
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Not-So-Free Trade
Marc Cooper argues that "the flow of poor people into the world's most successful economy is going to continue no matter what we do." ["Deport Congress," April 7-13]. Yet only a few paragraphs earlier, he concedes that the impleme...
on April 13, 2006
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Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is weighing whether to pursue a dramatic devolution of power at L.A. Unified, giving local schools a much greater say over classroom spending but also carving up the district into dozens of smaller sub-districts -- a conce...
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Mr. Fish
on April 13, 2006
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The favorable trine between the sun in Pisces and protective
Jupiter, even though it's retrograde in Scorpio, informs the mood of the
weekend. So you're liable to have a false sense of security and do something
crazy, and fairly dangerous, during ...
on April 13, 2006
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LAST TUESDAY MARKED A YEAR since an independent film-production company began shooting a documentary of Erik Cheeseburger. Up until then, Erik had been and would have remained a fictional character, but after the production company was unable to rai...
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A wave of excitement ripples across the field. Someone nearby whispers, "Leinart and Bush." Necks crane, grown men quiver and Petros Papadakis says, "the fucking Beatles."
Last Sunday, the NFL held its Pro Day workouts at USC, and Papadakis, host o...
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From my vantage inside the train, I looked down onto the platform of the Rialto station -- that's one stop west of San Bernardino on your way to L.A. -- and saw a guy strutting around like a bowlegged rooster. Parked between his serious-looking cowb...
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Doug Aitken's celebration of his new book, Broken Screen, at the Schindler House/MAK Center this past Saturday -- described as a '60s-style happening in announcements for the party -- was a very elegant, civilized affair .?.?. that is, until special...
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The helicopter alone usually does the trick. Swoop down, raise some dust, empty a clip, break some windows, shoot a dog or a mule to make your point known. That should do it. Land, swords unsheathed, safeties off, be ready. A few shots in the air ne...
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AS T.S. ELIOT SAID, APRIL IS THE CRUELEST MONTH, and it's already torturous for Hollywood now that the first A-lister has been charged in the Pellicano case and the scandal has broken up one major entertainment-law firm and threatens to dissolve ano...
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