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- Baseball: Valaika commits to UCLA
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- UCLA football to wear throwbacks for homecoming game with Washington
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- Opinion: Shepard Fairey has 'doubts' about intelligence of Obama Joker artist
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- New mortgage aid idea: debt forgiveness, but with strings
- A new syndication model: Shya Scanlon's Forecast 42 Project
- Maguire results show bad times for commercial real estate
- UCLA football media day
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- JC Penney's Dorm Life task lamps: Too cool for back to school
- Urban CSA project ending in September
- Opinion: Monkeys and bears come out as California-Nevada feud gets weirder
- 401(k) plans for everyone?
- 'G.I. Joe' comes up $1.5 million short
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- Trial opens in federal bribery case against producers
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- Judd Apatow: Hollywood's newest conservative?
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- Opinion: In today's pages: Fast food, finances and fundamentalism
- Your morning adorable: Baby squirrel monkey hitches a ride in Tokyo zoo
- Those old cassette tapes are still good for something
- UCLA's Allmond awaits NCAA eligibility approval
- Come Sale Away: Gap Outlet and Banana Republic factory stores
- Tamiflu and Relenza have limited benefits for kids with flu
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- Column One: 'How many times have you been shot?'
- A mint sauce tops off the dish.
- James Cameron on 'Avatar': Like 'Matrix,' 'This movie is a doorway'
- Opinion: Spending $550 million on new jets for Congress? Priceless
- The power of the Gulf Stream
- What we're reading: Fresh Home, Reader's Digest's DIY design magazine
- Video games: 'Recession resistant' or doomed?
- The Morning Fix: Porn biz losing ground; 'G.I. Joe' opens big; Imus talking to Fox Business; Tina Fey will miss Ben Silverman
- Difficult times out there for those in the porn industry
- Monster Mash: Top museum earners; Landesman confirmed for NEA, Leach for NEH; 'Spider-Man' musical kaput for now
- 'America's Best Dance Crew': Season 4 dodging the West Coast?
- Opinion: Town hall attacks on health care -- mob rule or democracy in action?
- Radio host Don Imus in talks with Fox Business Network
- IRAN: Russia urged to hedge bet on Ahmadinejad
- Cyber attack is meant to bury blogger; instead, it makes him a star
- EGYPT: Bahais issued new identity cards
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- Harold W. Arberg Sr. dies at 90; he adapted 'Caisson' into Army's official song
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- Chris Dufresne's preseason top 25
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- A grain of salt
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- Obama's ground-level supporters put to the test
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- Competition for UCLA's offensive line is wide open
- A lift for back, thigh muscles
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- Does a doctor's weight matter?
- From the barnyard to the battlefield
- Zola Budd still runs, but not from the past
- Sleep aids risky for seniors
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- Zenyatta is simply amazing
- Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers win Hermosa Beach Open
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- Jennifer Song wins U.S. Women's Amateur final
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- Put your trust in doubt
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- U.S., Mexico, Canada to tackle thorny issues
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- Iran, Israel and nuclear arms
- Do we need more lawmakers?
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- Nearly 1 million flee typhoon in China
- Miscues derail Angels
- Text messages from press row...
- Familiar faces show up in new places this season
- A carnival of self-expression for the young
- Rethinking consumer protection
- Can Alaska afford its frontier?
- Up next for Sparks: Monday vs. Indiana
- Penalty-kick goal by Shannon Boxx is a winner
- Sorting out claims about healthcare legislation
- The governor cut clean
- Forehead lift may also ease migraine
- Influential D.C. activist, lobbyist
- More litigants becoming their own lawyers
- Dorm burns down in prison riot
- L.A. convocation honors the world's great religions
- Iran's president purges intelligence ministry
- Seattle tramples Tampa Bay, 11-2
- Counting calories
- Yankees finish four-game home sweep of Red Sox
- Death: He sees it, but will never understand
- Ethiopian Israeli filmmaker pulls no punches
- Marlins sweep the Phillies
- He is healthy and happy
- Collinsworth helps fill the void left by Madden
- Signs for accident victims opposed
- Retail data may signal economy's direction
- Lawsuits latest budget hurdle Lawsuits derail state's budget
- Roddick loses final in three sets to Del Potro
- Tourist trap
- It's all about the fans for Beckham
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- Body ID'd as foster child
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- PUTTING THEIR HEADS TOGETHER
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- Scribd gets social with new interface
- What parents think teens are doing on social networks, and what the teens are actually doing
- AFTRA's Roberta Reardon, unopposed, elected to second term
- Architecture review: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood
- Leterrier's dream: An 'Avengers' epic told in four films over one summer
- Flavia Pennetta wins L.A. Women's Tennis Championship
- Live Chat: 'True Blood' Season 2, Episode 8
- Animal lovers' calendar: Week of Aug. 9 to 15
- Sparks' Betty Lennox cleared to play Monday against Indiana Fever
- For L.A. Women's Tennis Championships, tune to ESPN Classic
- UCLA football preview: special teams
- JetBlue Airways offers discounted fare for pets traveling in September
- Women mimic their own mothers' parenting practices. But men?
- Art-world figures join the Obamas on Vanity Fair's Best-Dressed List
- 'G.I. Joe' opens to $100 million worldwide, but will it hold?
- First look: 'G.I. Joe' starts solidly, but it's no 'Star Trek'
- Mike Johnson makes it 2 for 2 in NASCAR late models at Irwindale
- Power-packed Powerhouse '09 concert
- Return engagement: Are musicals better the second time?
- Tennis isn't only thing smelling up Home Depot Center
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for August 9, 2009
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- Letters: Copenhagen on two wheels
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- 'Oxford Revisited' by Justin Cartwright
- Los Angeles Times bestsellers for August 9, 2009
- 'The Informers' by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean
- First-time home buyer tax credit faces increased IRS scrutiny
- Astral Weeks: Welcome to weird America
- Siren's Call: A talk with Michael Moorcock
- 'Brecht at Night'
- Florence Foster dies at 68; whistle-blower shed light on falsified tests of cruise missiles
- Jack Cole made Marilyn Monroe move
- 'The Battle for America 2008: The Story of an Extraordinary Election' by Dan Balz and Haynes Johnson
- Listing details
- Programs on photography and India
- Restoring Sharon Tate
- You'll smile, maybe cry
- The guys are flawed but funny
- Obama picks 4 new judges
- Up next for Sol: Sunday at Boston
- Carl Pavano sharp in debut for Twins
- Yankees' Sabathia is hardly challenged
- All seems well after another Galaxy win
- 'Brokeback Mountain' shirts star at Autry National Center museum's Imagination Gallery
- Congress' to-do list when it's back from August recess
- Ortiz folds under pressure
- A mystery in Juarez
- UCLA, USC fans can't miss these shuttles
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- Chavez's envoy will go back to Colombia
- Ajax, Bayern have hope
- FC Barcelona finishes U.S. trip undefeated
- This sport may not be able to get biggest acts together
- Consequences of betrayal
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- DRUGSTORE BEAUTY CHALLENGE
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- Disinterred remains won't be identified
- Technician spoke up on falsified missile tests
- Album jackets make a classic fit for cool jazz
- A road trip through canyon country
- Bratton: New LAPD chief will battle budgets, gangs
- NBC likely to air the dirty laundry
- Joe Saunders checks out shoulder problem
- It's time to address sports doping in a different way
- 'We're forged in steel for life'
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- Pujols reaches 100 RBIs again
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