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Most sportswriters are male, Gruff, overworked and--as bartenders sometimes put it--overserved. Michael Penner changed the category. As a Los Angeles Times sportswriter, Penner, who died Nov. 27 at 52, worked even harder than most of his colleagues. But he also harbored a secret deeper than a love of...
One afternoon in late October, Whitman, 53, was pulling all the jingles out, like clubs from a golf bag. It was the sort of performance that the former CEO of eBay - and newcomer to the whirlpool known as electoral politics - has become almost slick at delivering. She was standing on...
That's particularly true in California, a state in almost perpetual crisis - it's "effectively bankrupt," as Whitman likes to put it - with a budget deficit befitting Argentina and crises with water, highways, prisons, schools, immigration and unemployment. The legislature and the governor are openly hostile to each other, and...
The self-described “dynamic centrist” said he hopes that his moderate stances and ability to work across party lines will give him an edge in the race toward the top political spot in the “red state.”
• Managed her husband's successful 1994 congressional run (originally from the family's basement) and 2002 race for the South Carolina statehouse. Co-managed his 2006 re-election. Described by a legislative staffer as "the real brains behind the operation."