- Sizing up enemies
- Voice of choice
- Unfair criticism of Mel Gibson, movie
- Cadet Hand Jr., 86; scholar at UC Berkeley was expert on West Coast ocean life, ran lab
- Two views of T.J.
- Funding for rural wildfire protection
- U.S. should get rid of its nuclear arms
- Check your egos
- Quotebook
- Sorry, Clippers, wrong answer
- Movie violence
- EPA fails mission
- Falling off ladder to homeownership
- Boeing must be held responsible
- Whistle blowing
- Think positive
- Israel's admission
- Love these Bruins
- Shopping for Person X
- Opinion: I knew him back when he was a fresh-faced terrorist-turned-politician
- Opinion: Left-rail roundup: Dubai-do; Stalled in Beirut; Mark of the Beast
- Opinion: OpEd: More visas for LES
- Opinion: Random sentences from reader mail
- Opinion: OpEd: A civics lesson for L.A.'s mayor
- For schools and the Constitution
- Port protectionism doesn't work
- Dow hits a high as stocks rally
- Army is stretched too thin
- Democrats plan new intelligence oversight
- Saving women from a life of vice
- Holiday lights to burn again in O.C. park
- 'Listening' rekindles Big Brother fears
- HP's board dismisses Sonsini as counsel
- Briefly
- N. Korea ready to talk again, probably slowly
- Costco posts 10% jump in earnings
- New general takes the U.S. reins in Iraq
- SKID ROW SCAMS COST TAXPAYERS MILLIONS
- New owner of hotel to reinstate 12 fired workers
- Favors for sex at the LAPD alleged
- Word on the streets
- 'Oblivion' rubs raw racial hurts
- Bristol could seek FDA's OK on 3 cancer drugs
- Intuit in deal for payment processing firm
- Defense criticizes Duke photo lineup
- Ratings boost gives NFL even more flex appeal
- Rookies are key in Kings' victory
- Hanmi Bank parent to buy insurance agencies
- Rates on 15-, 30-year mortgages rise slightly
- Senate looks out for its own
- Executions in U.S. drop to a 10-year low
- Buried on draft day, now treasured
- Seduced by the glitter, suffering at celebrity's shrine
- AMD expects shipments, gross margin to climb
- Deere employees suing Fidelity over 401(k) fees
- Novartis to sell nutrition unit to Nestle
- Pair of American climbers missing
- His Atlantic Records shaped pop music
- Some noteworthy gifts
- UCLA ousted in semifinals by Nebraska
- Catherine Pollard, 88; U.S.' first female scoutmaster waged a long legal battle
- Some surprises at those left off nomination list
- A hunger to see the holy
- 16 Saudis return from Guantanamo
- As Baghdad goes, so goes Al Anbar
- A civics lesson for L.A.'s mayor
- Big storm could fizzle into drizzle
- Battle on the 'Home' front
- Also
- Take your wife's name? That'll cost you -- so ACLU steps in
- Storm pounds the Pacific Northwest
- Sid Raymond, 97; actor for more than 60 years, was voice of 'Baby Huey'
- Hamas leader delayed at border
- Panel OKs nuclear plant repairs
- NFL to pay benefits to Webster's estate
- Italy recovers stolen art items
- Ford names product chief in reorganization
- U.S. lawmakers visit officials in Baghdad
- Police question Blair in corruption investigation
- One streak will end in Division I
- Paintings that will make motors run
- FBI issues warning on ailing sheik
- In the barn, there's nothing new
- Freshman TV shows have drawn notice
- Journeyman Thornton has impressive return
- 57 white supremacists arrested in sweep
- The holidays sing at this 1940s club
- Claims for jobless benefits slide as import prices rise
- Lionel wins reversal of trade secrets verdict
- Report says TV losing its religion
- Obama passes the test
- Lessons in Lebanon
- Farmar's time is coming
- Prepackaging is damaged in transit
- Stones tour is highest grossing
- Guess who's not coming to dinner?
- 7-Eleven plans to add stores in North America
- White House decries senators' visits to Syria
- FRIDAY BRIEFING
- Picks in film, TV from foreign press
- Riding the dragon off its true course
- 'Edward' is in good hands
- Movie executive holds reins with steady hands
- GOP misses chance to reshape environmental laws
- Firm fined $5 million in immigration case
- Mixed martial arts groups to fight for fighters
- Score of 'Dreamgirls' captures an era's sound
- Double the honors
- Getty hangs 'for sale' signs on 39 paintings
- Fred Marsden, the drummer for Merseybeat band...
- Head of badge inquiry a 'racist,' Dymally says
- Leon Hollerman, 90; Claremont McKenna economist was Japan expert
- Davis goes long to beat Rockets
- U.S. ends tariffs, duties on some steel imports
- Israeli justices uphold military assassinations
- Ruth Webb, 88; talent agent took on the once-famous and the infamous
- LaBarbera makes the best of it
- 'Desperate,' 'Lost,' 'Ugly' and thrilled
- 'Sunshine,' but still a dark cloud
- OPEC plans to cut output again to keep oil prices up
- Egypt arrests leading Islamist
- Appeal in subway shooting falls short
- Fire indicator light sends United jet back to LAX
- Ban on renting to illegal immigrants is reversed
- Play it again, Steve
- Engineer charged with stealing software secrets
- Safeguarding our allies
- Diana crash inquiry rules out plot
- They saw the uniforms and knew to run
- Judge says film can be released
- Robert T. Bronzan, 87; coached Bill Walsh, Dick Vermeil at San Jose State
- Teen takes plea deal in bomb plot
- Sword-wielding intruder is arrested in O.C.
- Vivendi holds on to its 20% stake in NBC
- The season to rejoice -- or recoil
- FINALLY
- Pianist gets to play for fun
- CBS plans to restart namesake music label
- A quiet force in the world of music
- Polygamist leader pleads not guilty
- Dust-up over coca spraying
- Yankees go home ... without a lot of Globe prospects
- FDA's credibility is questioned in antibiotic review
- Port holes
- Judge bars evidence in Long Beach hate crime trial
- Showbiz tale is supremely alive
- Down the rabbit hole and into a maze
- Electrical service upgraded in space
- Ban sworn in as U.N. secretary
- Iraq coalition plan gains urgency
- Ex-union chief gets jail for aiding councilman
- Flanker Smith is named MVP
- Animators tickled over film form's recognition
- First lady passes out at start of trial
- Quiksilver's quarterly profit nearly doubles
- Also
- Surgery is called a success
- State is too big for true champ, but bowls need to be tweaked
- Union reaches agreement on U.S., Canada film jobs
- New software helps lift Adobe's revenue, profit
- Breast cancer rates fall
- Orange County calendar of events
- Iverson popular in voting
- Porter fined for his remarks to Winslow
- Home affordability drops in Inland Empire
- NASA's Stardust uncovers new twists to comet theory
- Robert Rosenblum, 79; teacher, curator, backer of 'high' and 'low' art
- Predators' Sullivan gets three in one
- 'Big Love' has voters, not viewers
- Social insecurity
- Blizzard stalls rescue effort on Mt. Hood
- Defect causes vessels to crack under pressure
- Riverside County makes big freeway plans
- State orders more time for Boeing runoff efforts
- Trojans' win is a walkover
- Bakersfield puts away Pepperdine
- Daly still married to the game
- 49ers crash Seahawks' party
- Bail set in Ono extortion case
- Never more global
- A special Oscar to go to Lansing
- Meditations on making the world a better place
- A polished but flawed 'Breaking'
- Utility users to foot bill for cleaner air
- Hate crimes up, study says
- Road rage suspect comes in
- Gentle giants put on their show of might
- A Lakers voice is lost in the wilderness
- This choice is a sign of the times
- A marathon runner on life's obstacle course
- LAPD and trust in South-Central
- Justices' reversal of 9th Circuit ruling
- Medical readiness
- Treating debates as a performance
- Efforts to stop genocide in Sudan
- President and the will of the people
- Put a tighter leash on domestic spying
- New Jersey is 3rd state to allow gay civil unions
- Opinion: Fence company hired illegal immigrants
- Opinion: OpEd: The looming Tower
- Opinion: Random sentences from reader mail
- Opinion: Morrison: Hall of the Dead
- Opinion: Left-rail roundup: Paulson in Beijing; mosquitoes in the net; jobs refined
- Opinion: OpEd: One war, too many fixes
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- In Iraq, the fix is in
- 39%
- Lessons from Tower's leftovers
- Democratic Sen. Johnson undergoes surgery
- She loves to hang out at her new Valley home away from 'House'
- You are here: Deal with it
- Leahy threatens to subpoena Bush officials
- U.S.-China talks to look at trade tensions
- Shop till she drops ... you
- Site of fatal fire had received 9 code violations
- EU pulls plans that could end copyright taxes
- Man killed by Metrolink train
- Now You Know
- Focused
- Where Paris tops 'People'
- FEC fines Swift Boat, MoveOn
- L.A. teachers union backs Lauritzen for school board, sets up clash with mayor
- U.S. spy agency answers Iraq Study Group report
- SEC moves to make rules 'easy to apply' for firms
- Holiday cheer at the beach
- An answer is out there for L.A.
- Guitarist Mike Stern, one cool cat
- Bushmen win right to live in Kalahari
- Priest sentenced in Rwandan genocide
- A series that will be in the pink
- Santa, er, Lasorda, brings cheer to kids in hospital
- Iraq report selling slowly
- Yangtze dolphin extinct, experts say
- Bound for Beijing
- Let there be lights -- again
- Jack Kevorkian to be paroled
- Inquiry into tapes of gov. continues
- Retailers get an early gift
- Maker of 'Girls Gone Wild' is sentenced
- Weather still hinders search
- Downtown finds
- Eulogy costs Pinochet kin his army job
- Politicians consider a reshuffling
- Boomboxes aloft for an Unsilent Night
- Bush warns he won't be rushed on plans for Iraq
- Cleanup plan floated for Puget Sound
- Cheney visit ruling appealed
- Delhomme's status remains questionable
- The big dish on the bowls
- A. F. Shugart, 76, co-founded key disk-drive company
- Tverdovsky, Sopel might play tonight
- A flawed Hall of Fame
- One war, too many 'fixes'
- 'High Fidelity' doesn't resonate
- Friends of elephants get serious
- Mayor directing school funds
- BUZZ CLUBS
- Louisiana governor a cheap date? Don't bid on it
- Inside each other's heads
- Thursday Briefing
- Europe passes tough chemical law
- U.N. approves treaty to protect rights of disabled
- Large die-off of ducks has Idaho officials baffled
- Motor raceway wins approval of supervisors
- Padilla has brain operation
- Schering-Plough licenses Valeant, Metabasis drug
- No terrorism case against Briton
- Crosby ignites Penguins, 8-4
- Money market assets hit record $2.333 trillion
- Teen saves mom, sister in Santa Ana home fire
- A floral tweak on tradition
- Davenport will start a new life
- For firefighter, sense of brotherhood shattered
- Woman recalls attack by jail guard
- Their fields of vision
- Stocks end with small gains
- Palestinian premier ends tour after judge is slain
- Peter Boyle, 71; father on 'Raymond'
- Memorial service is set for helicopter crew
- Injuries will begin to test new depth
- Former school board member is arrested
- Two Darden chains to use trans fat-free oil
- Iraqis flee war, run into hostility
- Thomas' Welsh childhood set to music
- New motive suggested in double slaying
- Parents of autistic boy settle claim
- Sanchez beats Riggs with early knockout
- Fish plant caught up in changes
- Also
- He brings the back street to the forefront
- MGM in talks to build hotels, resorts in China
- Qantas reportedly agrees to buyout offer
- Baquet could be eyeing spot at New York Times
- It's not just for work
- One job at a time
- 400 in tribe leave jungle, surrender
- Carrying a hefty amount of risk
- Marine's death transcends tragedy
- Police officer is accused of workers' comp fraud
- Use of deadly force was justified, authorities say