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It doesn't take much to make these Lakers happy
Gush City. Everyone loves everybody now. There were Lakers hugs all around, with fans at Staples Center on Sunday joining the party, getting rally towels and the feel of a playoff game. Happy 79th birthday, Jerry Buss, as Gush City flattens Oklahoma...
Tags: Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix (music group), Oklahoma City Thunder, Jerry Buss, National Basketball Association
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Steve Lopez: It's too late for Cardinal Roger Mahony's apologies
L.A. NOWCardinal Roger M. Mahony doesn't appear to have changed much in retirement. He and his legal protectors have continued to fight the release of damning documents every step of the way. When that fails, and his role in the cover-up...... -
The 'fiscal cliff' con game
Whatever the ultimate shape of the "fiscal cliff" solution that has preoccupied all Washington, and a fair swath of the rest of country, in the final days of 2012 and into the new year, Americans of all walks of life should be asking themselves this...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Labor Markets, Credit and Debt, Business, Tax Credits
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Feel the passion, Lakers fans, as the moral victories pile up
I came to Staples Center on Friday night pretty darn excited, the Lakers coming off two incredible moral victories and Magic Johnson and Jim Buss full of good cheer. Happy days are here again. Or, as Buss put it in a radio interview, "How can you not...
Tags: Mychal Thompson, Los Angeles Clippers, Phil Jackson, Entertainment, Mike Brown (basketball)
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For Democrats, unity and its pitfalls
It's hard to recognize the Democratic Party these days. In recent decades, it's been a divided, brawling tribe. But this year, Democrats are one big, happy family. Sure, there was grumbling from the left over President Barack Obama's agreement to keep...
Tags: Gun Control, Fiscal Cliff, Government Health Care, Personal Weapon Control, Doyle McManus
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USC's dreadful performance is perfect way to conclude imperfect season
EL PASO — A football season that once swaggered through the warmth of a No. 1 ranking has curled up and expired in a cold, remote desert, buffeted by a chilled and foreboding wind. The kid coach is bundled in a black hoodie and wearing sunglasses....
Tags: Bill Plaschke, College Football, Georgia Institute of Technology, Matt Barkley, New Year's Day
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Newton: Dennis Zine and the race for city controller
City Councilman Dennis Zine has never struck me as a controller type. He's garrulous, outgoing, street-smart — the remnants of his first career as a Los Angeles police officer and union representative. He was a forceful personality at the Police...
Tags: Jim Newton, Elections, AEG, Local Elections, Dennis P. Zine
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Corporations and execs need penalties that hurt
If you're concerned about corporate crime, 2012 looked like a pretty successful year for the good guys. The Thousand Oaks biotech giant Amgen paid $762 million in fines and penalties and pleaded guilty to a federal charge related to illegal marketing of...
Tags: Government Health Care, Phil Angelides , Prosecution, Securities, Abbott Laboratories
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Bruins' flat showing in Holiday Bowl takes fizz out of UCLA's season
SAN DIEGO — There have been rumors down here that the Chargers might be interested in UCLA's Jim Mora as a replacement for Coach Norv Turner. If the Holiday Bowl was an audition, Mora could not have done more to prove himself the ideal choice to...
Tags: Chicago Bears, Periodicals, UCLA Bruins, Big Ten Conference, College Sports
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Fort Larned withstands a siege in Breeders' Cup Classic
Game On Dude didn't quite have enough game. Mucho Macho Man had insufficient macho. And so Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic, a Hollywood show taking place before 55,123 well-dressed and well-entertained people at a horse track long established in star-...
Tags: Churchill Downs, Rafael Bejarano, Jerry Brown, Sports, Horse and Harness Racing
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Your guide to the fiscal cliff
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It's looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds. Here are three things you need to know about the impending crisis over the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Government Health Care, Democratic Party, Medicaid, Paul Ryan
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PUC plan would put trust funds at risk
Even the most inattentive 401(k) owner surely understands today that the markets can bite you where it hurts, that promises of long-term investment gains can evaporate in the blink of a short-term crash and that the less understandable an investment...
Tags: Mutual Funds, Realty, Southern California Edison Company, Entertainment, Movies
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