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...There is a lot more to come. This isn't over by any means." - Unnamed federal official to the Los Angeles Times, Sept...
...feel threatened by it. To show how important the alliance with Japan used to be considered, the U.S. for many years appointed seasoned politicians to the U.S. embassy in Japan. That pattern has been broken recently, and this year Obama appointed John Roos, a Democratic fundraiser from Los Angeles, to Tokyo. Roos may turn out to be an excellent envoy. But he will have his work cut out. The Japanese election - it becomes clearer every day - represents a sea change in politics there. If the alliance is not now to drift into irrelevance, some high-level attention to its purposes...
...curious to see what she looks like, and it's easy to fantasize about alternative courses your life might have taken." It's the same feeling that compels people to attend high school reunions. In a way, these meet-ups are the same thing, especially for people like Los Angeles film developer Jillian Stein, 30, who traveled to her hometown of Tampa, Fla., and had three Facebook- and MySpace-inspired reunions within 72 hours...
...land, buildings, amusement parks, golf courses, whatever. Our sovereign wealth fund - the China Investment Corp. - is already looking at possible investments, as are some of our state-owned companies. A few years ago, one of our better-run companies, CNOOC, tried to buy a second-tier oil company in Los Angeles, UNOCAL, but backed off after your own xenophobic politicians created a ruckus. We hope that in the future your Administration will help explain to the American people - not to mention the members of Congress in both parties - that increased direct Chinese investment in the U.S. is in both...
...these older models are replaced by flat screen televisions that are "less efficient per inch and have much larger screens," says David Johnson, a Los Angeles attorney specializing in the electronics industry and digital media, "you could easily see a doubling of energy consumption. That is the impetus behind these regulations. Most industry people think they will be adopted." The state's Energy Commission reports that the voluntary Energy Star program would "only obtain 27% of the calculated $8.1 billion in potential energy savings for consumers" that would result from the proposed standards...