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Shav Glick, 87; veteran Times motor sports writer
Special to The TimesShav Glick, whose insightful coverage of motor sports for The Times made him nearly as famous as the racing stars he chronicled, died Saturday at his Pasadena home of complications from melanoma, said his companion, Doris Syme. He was 87. "He was the...Tags: Auto Racing, Colleges and Universities, Sports, Death, University of California, Berkeley
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Strike while the iron's hot!
As the Writers Guild of America strike shakes up the movie and television industry, some are wondering what they'll do without Jay Leno, others are asking why there's no more Heroes in this land, and still others want to know what the famously union-...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Wages and Pensions, Labor Markets, Music Theater, Death
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Where have you gone, Otis Chandler?
Your recent support of a bill to ban real estate transfer fees is just the latest example of the Times' editorial board siding with the business community and against the public's interest. Supporting the bill is the California Association of Realtors....Tags: Natural Resources, Contracts, Wages and Pensions, Transportation, Natural Resource Industry
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Ease up on the insecure boosterism, L.A.
Matt Welch is The Times' assistant editorial pages editor.MARK MY words: Southern California is about to suffer a major earthquake. Probably a catastrophic fire too. And certainly a real estate collapse. How do I know this? Because the gods (or Thetans) who look down upon our patch of paradise do not appreciate...Tags: Biography (genre), Barack Obama, Death, Jane's Addiction (music group), Joan Didion
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Edwin O. Guthman, 89; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEdwin O. Guthman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and editor whose aggressive pursuit of Watergate stories during the 1970s earned him the enmity of President Nixon and the No. 3 spot on Nixon's infamous enemies list, has died. He was...Tags: Career and Workplace, Tom Brokaw, Elections, Colleges and Universities, Ethics
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Timeline: Key Dates in Otis Chandler's Life
1917: Harry Chandler takes over as head of The Times after the death of his father-in-law, Harrison Gray Otis 1927: Otis Chandler is born to Harry Chandler's son Norman and his wife, Dorothy Buffum Chandler. 1937: Otis Chandler is nearly killed in a...Tags: Motorcycle Endurance, Automotive Equipment, Death, U.S. Air Force, Journalism
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A media match plagued by a clash of cultures
Times Staff WriterJohn S. Carroll was at the pinnacle of his career. The editor of the Los Angeles Times had just led the newspaper to two Pulitzer Prizes, the 12th and 13th of his five-year tenure. The coveted public-service award that spring of 2005 seemed...Tags: Television Industry, PBS (tv network), Colleges and Universities, Eli Broad, Marketing
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'Great Newspapers Must Constantly Evolve'
September 18, 2006 Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for your letter of September 12 regarding the Los Angeles Times. We appreciate your deep interest in the Times, and are in total agreement with your view of the vital role it plays in serving Southern...Tags: Investments, Corporate Officers, Marketing, Tribune Company, Journalism
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Chandlers divided over bid for Tribune
Times Staff WritersLackluster bidding for Tribune Co., parent of the Los Angeles Times, has sparked a debate within the newspaper's founding family about whether to launch its own bid for the company, a family member said Monday. If Tribune ultimately is going to be sold...Tags: Television Industry, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Eli Broad, The McClatchy Company, Food Network (tv network)
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Will Power
The woman who sheds her assigned domestic role to make things happen in the community in which she lives, who walks out of her house and wrenches or wills or cajoles one or another raw frontier boomtown into an approximation of a city, was once a familiar...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Gaming, Death, William Randolph Hearst, Bill Gates
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The Times' 128-year history
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"After Henry' by Joan Didion
I'd never thought of Joan Didion as dependable before. But after reading these 11 pieces of superior reporting and criticism, I now think of her as a writer who can be relied on to get the story straight. In her previous collections of essays, "The White...Tags: Joan Didion, Heads of State, Elections, Murder, Crimes
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