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True New Yorker
About two years ago, when rats came down from a lowquat tree and began scratching around and scuttling around in the crawl space beneath our Venice home, I made my wife laugh (and wince) by reading to her from Joseph Mitchell's classic 1944 New Yorker...Tags: Hurricanes, England, Archimedes, Meteorological Disasters, Disasters
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Artist mixed paint, sculpture, cast-offs
Times Art CriticRobert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and the early 1970s, died Monday night, according to New...Tags: Thomas Gainsborough, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Periodicals, Culture
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Informant's Past Shadows His Testimony From '85 Murder Trial
Times Staff WritersRobert Hughes was a Vietnam veteran with a long criminal record and a history of heroin addiction. He was also the prosecution's star witness at the trial of Bruce Lisker, a San Fernando Valley teenager accused of beating and stabbing his mother to...Tags: Theft, Recreational Substance Use, Local Government, Trials, Criminals
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Judge Recommends Lisker's Claim Proceed
Concluding that Bruce Lisker's conviction for the 1983 slaying of his mother has been "effectively dismantled," a federal magistrate recommended Thursday that Lisker be allowed to proceed with his claim of innocence in federal court. In a 57-page report,...Tags: Lawyers, Death, Steve Cooley, Los Angeles Police Department, Justice System
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Haunted By a Distant Verdict
Times Staff WritersOn a drizzly day in March, Phillip Rabichow, a retired Los Angeles prosecutor, stood outside a beige ranch house in Sherman Oaks with a tape measure in his hand and an anxious look on his face. Twenty-two years earlier, almost to the day, a woman named...Tags: Theft, Drug Trafficking, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Career and Workplace, Basketball
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalists Announced
LOS ANGELES, March 9, 2004 – The Los Angeles Times has announced the finalists for the 24th annual Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which will be presented April 24 at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. The 45 Book Prize finalists were announced...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Fiction, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health and Safety at School, Biography (genre)
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New Light on a Distant Verdict
Times Staff WritersOn a drizzly day in March, Phillip Rabichow stood outside a beige ranch house in Sherman Oaks with a tape measure in his hand and an anxious look on his face. Twenty-two years earlier, almost to the day, a woman named Dorka Lisker had been killed in that...Tags: Theft, Drug Trafficking, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Career and Workplace, Basketball
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Southern Section
SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFS Saturday, Feb. 21 DIVISION I-A First Round Hart 64, Righetti 53 Adam Rich had 20 points and 11 rebounds, Brian Elledge added 13 points and Brandon McQueen scored 12 for Hart (24-3) in a Southern Section Division I-A victory...Tags: Forestry and Timber, Teaching and Learning, Baptist, Mountains, Students
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Latest Confirmed Casualties and Missing Persons in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
The following is a list of confirmed dead as of Monday. List compiled from sources including Pentagon websites, New York Coroner's Office, and Times wire services, by Times researchers Cary Schneider and Kent Coloma and Times staff writer Myrna Oliver....Tags: Leon Smith, Bobby Wallace, Syosset, John Lennon, Naperville
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1,941 vie for $25K at Coconut Creek slot tourney
Frances Vorolieff and her family often visit Seminole Casino Coconut Creek to play the slot machines. Just not at 5:45 a.m. Once again proving that the magic word in South Florida is spelled F-R-E-E, 1,941 slot players lined up at the casino Monday...
Tags: Fort Lauderdale, Coconut Creek, Boca Raton
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The serious charms of 'Hope Springs'
Liz Smith"ALWAYS A godfather; never a god!" said the late Gore Vidal, delivered in his usual pithy manner. More on this anon. BUT FIRST, let's give a thumbs up verdict to "Hope Springs" -- a rare little movie that is really about something, starring Meryl...Tags: Tommy Lee, Julia Child, Gore Vidal, Ben Gazzara, Celebrities
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Notre Dame football recruiting: Chicago DL Smith surprised by offer
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterEnoch Smith Jr. had low expectations when he was asked to take his parents to meet with Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly in his office last Friday after performing in a one-day camp. He already held seven Division-I offers and thought he was just...Tags: Sports, Brian Kelly, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Health, Symptoms
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