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...until the Crimson’s top two receivers—senior Rodney Byrnes and junior Corey Mazza—went down with injuries in the first two games of the season. Tyler missed two games with a shoulder injury as well, thrusting the 6’3 Californian from Phillips Exeter Academy into a starting role...
...telling that to Andy Ross. The 59-year-old Californian has placed a $3.7 million bet--his house, his entire life savings and hefty loans from the bank and his brother--on conventional wisdom's being wrong. The owner since 1977 of Cody's Books, a Berkeley, Calif., institution that was tear-gassed in the '60s and bombed in 1989 in response to its commitment to sell Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses, Ross has spent the past three years in the red. Rather than follow the Meg Ryan route (in the 1998 movie You've Got Mail, Ryan's character...
...When the cars pull up to me, the Porsches and the Bentleys and all that, I just sort of say, 'Well, that's nice, but for what this costs I could buy 10 of those.'" JON SPALLINO, Californian construction executive and the driver of a Honda FCX, an electric car powered by hydrogen-fuel cells. He is leasing the experimental vehicle, worth $1 million, from Honda for $500 a month...
...chest, but this antiquated metaphor of military praise hardly seems adequate for Anthony Swofford’s breakout autobiography “Jarhead.” The novel, written by a Californian and a New York Times bestseller in 2003, should have garnered a little more respect from its native hive, The Sacramento Bee. Enter Sam Mendes, famed director of “American Beauty” and “Road to Perdition.” Mendes and screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. have produced a vivid, accurate representation of Swofford’s book, which opens this Friday?...
...seems that the one thing that Californians can’t seem to get enough of these days is not sun or waves, but ballot initiatives. Since the infamous Proposition 13 was passed in 1978, California went all the way through to Proposition 227, started back at a “new” Proposition 1 in 1998, and is now again up to Proposition 80 on the Nov. 8 ballot, with 33 more initiatives circulating or pending at the Attorney General’s Office. The blazing pace of initiatives is a clear indicator that something is gravely wrong...