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AT&T wields enormous power in Sacramento
SACRAMENTO — As the sun set behind Monterey Bay on a cool night last year, dozens of the state's top lawmakers and lobbyists ambled onto the 17th fairway at Pebble Beach for a round of glow-in-the-dark golf.
With luminescent balls soaring into...Tags: Republican Party, Companies and Corporations, John A. Perez, Parties and Movements, Charity
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L.A. schools chief pushes to change system's culture
It's 7:30 a.m. and the chief of the Los Angeles Unified School District briskly launches a powwow on the sensitive topic of how to place the strongest math teachers with the weakest students.
Supt. John Deasy leads two dozen administrators through...Tags: John A. Perez, Teachers, Los Angeles Unified School District, Science and Technology, Examinations
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Amazon.com: Is Internet giant sleeping in Seattle?
SEATTLE -- For the city of Seattle, Amazon.com has long been the 500-pound gorilla. But it isn't on fine display at the zoo, where the city can preen and show off the $48-billion-a-year company to visitors. Rather, the company is more like King Kong in...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, E-Commerce Industry, Charity, Nordstrom, Amazon Kindle
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Jean Smith dies at 93; Junior League president and Nancy Reagan confidant
Jean Webb Vaughan Smith, a member of the Reagans' inner circle who championed volunteerism as national president of the Assn. of Junior Leagues, died Wednesday in Los Angeles of natural causes, her family said. She was 93.
Smith joined the Junior...Tags: Justice System, Charity, Justice System, Lawyers, World War II (1939-1945)
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Horse trainer is on a ride for their lives
When Karin Hauenstein led her three horses down Vine Street, the girls in short skirts stilled their stiletto-heeled sashays, the incense hawkers stopped calling out to passersby, and Trader Joe's shoppers gaped through the glass at the convoy clip-...Tags: Anglicanism, Scientology, SpongeBob SquarePants (tv program), Building Material, Hydrocortisone
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Book Review: Sarah Palin via Joe McGinniss: cocaine, infidelity and anonymity
![There's a not-so-subtle agenda underpinning Joe McGinniss' "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," although it's never made explicit until late in the book. "The time has come to strike the tent," McGinniss begins the closing chapter. "[N]o matter how much my book sales might benefit from a Palin presidential campaign in 2012, I sincerely hope that the whole extravaganza, which has been unblushingly underwritten by a mainstream media willing to gamble the nation's future in exchange for the cheap thrill of watching a clown in high heels on a flying trapeze, is nearing the end of its run."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64779641-15090130.jpg)
There's a not-so-subtle agenda underpinning Joe McGinniss' "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin," although it's never made explicit until late in the book. "The time has come to strike the tent," McGinniss begins the closing chapter. "[N]o...Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, College Basketball, History, Adultery
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Occupy movement rallies at L.A. school district headquarters
L.A. NOWOccupy L.A. movement heads to L.A. Unified school board meeting.... -
L.A.-based KarmaGoat lets consumers sell their goods for charity
TechnologyKarmaGoat aims to be Craigslist for charities, enables consumers to sell their goods to one another, with money going toward charity of seller's choice... -
William Aramony dies at 84; United Way chief executive
William Aramony, who built the United Way of America into a philanthropic powerhouse before leaving in disgrace and serving six years in prison for fraud, has died. He was 84.
Aramony was the United Way's chief executive from 1970 to 1992. He resigned...Tags: Prisons, Crimes, Corporate Crime, National Football League, Charity
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NBA lockout: The sides aren't talking, but the pundits are
Lakers BlogThe Times' T.J. Simers says he believes the NBA season will start in time for Christmas Day games. True Hoop's Henry Abbott looks at a deal both sides in the NBA labor dispute could have accepted.... -
Rich Americans' philanthropy dropped in 2009, but not for the arts, study finds
Culture Monster“Let me tell you about the very rich,” F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in 1926. “They are different from you and me.” The facts support him still, judging by a study of rich folks’ charitable habits released Tuesday. One of the...... -
Board of Education officially cancels community elections over school-reform plans
L.A. NOWIn a largely symbolic but intensely debated move, the Board of Education narrowly voted Tuesday to end elections that allowed parents, high school students, school employees and community members to choose among different reform plans for schools. These...
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