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1.	Republican pundits open fire on Sarah Palin
2.	Day One of the Sotomayor hearings: a legal perspective
3.	Clippers in 'very serious' talks with Allen Iverson
4.	Activists push ballot initiative to end state benefits for illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children
5.	Former Laker puts Playa del Rey house on market

Thursday: The day in photos

Running with the bulls in Pamplona

Remembering Michael Jackson

Military operation in Afghanistan's Helmand province

Fans mourn Michael Jackson

Child Stars: Blessed or Messed?

By Deborah Netburn, Times Staff writer

Fergie

Stacy Ferguson joined the cast of “Kids Incorporated” in 1984 when she was 9 and stuck around for six seasons. Fast-forward twenty years later and she has a successful solo career, a gig promoting Candies, and a spot in the inexplicably successful band Black Eyed Peas. But there was a meth addiction in the intervening years that she blamed on her time as a child actor.

Bottom line: She’s rich now, but she’s earned it.