When corporate grinches dress up as Santa: A holiday peeve
'Tis the season when consumer companies fall all over each other trying to show their charitable sides. No one should have anything against that. What's irksome, however, is when they try to enlist us, the customers, in their marketing efforts, as...
Leading the way to justice in South Africa
Nelson Mandela and George Deukmejian never met. They never even communicated. But Mandela's freedom and the demise of South African apartheid resulted in no small part because of California's governor.
Many in the United States and worldwide had a...
NBC's next live musical? How about 'The Voice' does 'Wizard of Oz'?
The rousing success of NBC's live "The Sound of Music" presentation and reports that network honchos are seriously considering staging another live musical got us thinking here at Showtracker.
What musical would be a great follow-up to "The Sound of...
NASA audit says Google execs saved millions with jet fuel discount
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google executives got a steep discount on jet fuel from the federal government for their fleet of private aircraft over a six-year period, a new audit from the NASA inspector general says.
A company owned by tech billionaires Larry...
Bad timing for struggling Lakers with busy trip ahead
Working Kobe Bryant back into the lineup has been an adjustment for the Lakers, losers of two games in a row.
Playing without backup point guard Jordan Farmar (hamstring) and Steve Nash (back) hasn't made games any easier for the Lakers.
Now they're...
Measure allows VA to exhume capital criminals
WASHINGTON — Congress sent President Obama legislation on Wednesday that its chief sponsor said he wished weren't necessary.
The Alicia Dawn Koehl Respect for National Cemeteries Act authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs to disinter from...
Prosecutors rest case in trial of Fullerton officers
After just five and a half days of testimony, Orange County prosecutors on Wednesday rested their case in the trial of two former Fullerton police officers accused of beating and killing a mentally ill homeless man.
The centerpiece of the prosecution'...
Bad timing for struggling Lakers with busy trip ahead
Working Kobe Bryant back into the lineup has been an adjustment for the Lakers, losers of two games in a row.
Playing without backup point guard Jordan Farmar (hamstring) and Steve Nash (back) hasn't made games any easier for the Lakers.
Now they're...
Eleanor Parker dies at 91; played baroness in 'The Sound of Music'
Eleanor Parker, a versatile leading lady of the 1940s, '50s and '60s who earned three Oscar nominations — none of which were for her best-known role as the baroness in "The Sound of Music" — died Monday in Palm Springs of complications of...
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