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- U.S. Rower Completes Trip Across the Atlantic
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- However You Stack It, This One Didn't Add Up
- Their Fans Really Should Enjoy It While It Lasts
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- Cooking Up a Storm
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- Two Laker Letters With No Free-Throw References
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- Slashing and Murders: Must Be the NFL Section
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- Detailing Death of Triathlete
- Hurricane-Force Winds Topple Trees, Power Lines
- County Again Denied Police Power at El Toro Base
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- Chair Styles Reflect Changes in Society
- Forbes Renews Attacks on Bush's Character
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- 2 Shot Dead by LAPD in Similar Incidents
- KTLA Wins a Round in 10 O'Clock News Fight
- Candidates Urge Change in Prop. 172 Distribution
- A Career on the Whisky A Go Go Side of Town
- Look Who's Talking
- County Cuts Ties With Brokerage
- Ford Sales Rise 4.4% in November
- Pacific Sunwear Exec Resigns; No Explanation
- Mexico Suspends Fee on Vehicles From U.S.
- Drill Sergeant Imprisoned for Groping Women
- Bride Bridges Belgium's Linguistic Divide
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- For Democracy--With Benefits
- Tobacco Fund Compromise Seen
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- Riordan Will Oppose Fee for Brush Inspections
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- Turnovers Pop Up in Clipper Defeat
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- A Show as Fresh as Christmas Present
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- Wagner, Others Leaving Western Bancorp
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- View Tech OKs Merger
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- A Judicial Tilt for Tobacco
- Brush Fire Frightens Residents
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- Esperanza Beats Anaheim in Final Minute
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- Film-Industry Satire 'Action' Canceled
- Cancellations, Slow Sales for Events on New Year's Push SFX Down 19%
- Greenhill to Advise Justice Dept. on Microsoft Case
- Value of Euro Sinks Below $1 for 1st Time
- Scoping the Espionage Boutique
- Jumping to the Edge of Death, Teen Now Tries to Find Out Why
- Hubble Repair Mission Launch Delayed 2 Days
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- Activist Asks Spain to Pursue Guatemala Case
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- A No-Go on West Hills Traffic Light
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- 'Thoughts' That Are Innocent, or Not So
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- Rematch Ignites O'Neal's Spirit
- Four-OT Win Puts Pomona in Title Game
- Brea Olinda (11-0-1) vs. Western (7-4-1)
- Mater Dei's Esmero Advances to Semifinals
- Warren Miller Film 'Fifty' Is Anything but a Golden Oldie
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