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Finally, Pakistan's prime minister reveals where Osama bin Laden isn't
Top of the TicketYousaf Raja Gilani tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer he doesn't know where al Qaeda's leader is but he knows for sure he's not in Pakistan. Also, he could be dead or alive.... -
Teacher instills a love of words, but the lesson is about life
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPhil Holmes, one of the great English teachers of his generation, is standing before a class of high school seniors, trampling all over their self-esteem. It is a Thursday in October, not long into the school year. Holmes gazes out at his class, his...Tags: Minority Groups, Politics, Sports, Sandy Koufax, Death
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Great American ballparks: Diamonds are forever
Christopher Smith has seen more than 900 games at Angel Stadium and is planning to see 900 more. Contact him at magazine@latimes.com.Summer has finally arrived, and I don't know what your plans are, but mine are in full swing. In June, I went to Seattle for a first look at that city's snazzy ballpark. In a month, I'll be in New York to see one last game at Yankee Stadium. Fifteen...Tags: Sports, Building Material, Metal and Mineral, Fenway Park, Trips and Vacations
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Armageddon with a halftime show
Joe Queenan writes frequently for Barron's, the New York Times Book Review and the Guardian.TODAY'S SUPER BOWL offers Americans the increasingly rare opportunity to witness the triumph of absolute good over unadulterated evil. This is what pro sports used to be about, when teams were concentrated in the industrial colossi of the nation, when the...Tags: Indiana Hoosiers, National Football League, Mutual Funds, George Halas, Folklore and Mythology
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Chicago hopes Zell polishes civic icon
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFor more than 40 years, Martha Campbell has started her day by picking up a copy of the Chicago Tribune. As a youngster, she scoured the pages to make sure the country hadn't gone to war with the Soviet Union. As a parent, she got up hours before her...Tags: Bank of America Corp., Restaurants, Television, Heads of State, Evanston
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Times to cut jobs, reduce pages
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Los Angeles Times on Wednesday announced plans to cut 250 positions across the company, including 150 positions in editorial, in a new effort to bring expenses into line with declining revenue. In a further cost-cutting step, the newspaper will reduce...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Marketing, Newspapers, Arts and Culture, Advertising
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The Coliseum was no 'real baseball'
Special to The TimesThe crowds that welcomed the Dodgers to Los Angeles and continued to respond to their historic presence were enormous -- 78,652 for the first game in 1958, 93,103 for a 1959 exhibition with the New York Yankees saluting Roy Campanella, and more than 92,...Tags: New York Mets, Vin Scully, World Series, Dining and Drinking, All Stars
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Palm Springs, California
Los Angeles TimesPalm Springs The approach is stunning: Spectacular rock formations reveal themselves around every turn on the steep drive up, in brilliant relief against a dark blue sky. Then a thick stand of California fan palms, like nothing you've ever seen--their...Tags: Sandwiches, Hamburgers, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Family, Natural Resources
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James H. Warsaw dies at 61; entrepreneur helped advance sports as a business
James H. Warsaw, a Newport Beach entrepreneur who helped change the perception of sports from games with bats and balls to a business of dollars and cents, has died. He was 61. Warsaw died Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of...Tags: College Sports, Health, Marketing, Family, National Football League
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As for appeal, Louisville can be a slugger
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterThis definitely is no one-horse town. It's not even a one horse-race town. They run a full season of racing in Churchill Downs, although the one race everybody knows about is the Kentucky Derby, especially this time of year. But Louisville is much more...Tags: Louisville Slugger, Tour Operations Industry, Restaurants, Sports, Theater
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Chavez Ravine's blades of glory
There are some things you never forget. Your first kiss. Your first fish.
I'll never forget the February day, just two months ago, when I took a peek at what I expected to be the vivid greenscape of Dodger Stadium and discovered instead a giant sandbox,...Tags: Sports, Rose Bowl Game, High School Baseball, Minnesota Twins, Sports Illustrated
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Woman seen scattering ashes at Disneyland
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEveryone who rides Disneyland's popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction knows "dead men tell no tales," and its animatronic figures aren't talking either. But, oh, if they could. On Friday, workers at the Anaheim theme park spotted a guest on the...Tags: Sports, Television, Theme Park Vacations, Death, Trips and Vacations
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