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...that paper's successful long-time rival, the Chronicle. Those plans were put on hold Thursday when a U.S. district court judge halted the move based on a petition by local political gadfly Clint Reilly, who argued that the subsidized transfer of ownership to Ted Fang, the proprietor of a group of local newspapers, was a ploy to doom the Examiner and leave the Bay Area with only one daily newspaper. The ruling, which many believe Hearst will appeal, has touched off a debate among media analysts about the Newspaper Preservation Act, a law passed in 1970 with...
When given a flier, the proprietor of a shoe repair store in Laconia, a man calling himself Armondi told the students, "I'm nobody's supporter - I'm my own supporter...
Cambridge police are searching for the man who assaulted and robbed popular Surrey Street proprietor Louie Chen Tuesday night...
...Petrus, who in the old days of apartheid would have been called boy even as a middle aged man and relegated to the ranks of simple farmhands, is the farms co-proprietor and a man of substance in the local black community. Lurie is unsure how to relate to Petrus: at first he seems determined to like him, the politically correct thing to do in the situation. But a shockingly violent incident involving Lucy changes everything. Suddenly Lurie is doubly disgracedfor his failure as a father to help his own daughter and for his abuse of the child-like student...
...When I think of some of the dumb stuff I wanted to do when I was 15, I'm glad someone stopped me." (But even wise Aaron clearly can't imagine any drawbacks to his future as a 40-year-old man with a Yoda tattoo.) Ron Stiehl, the proprietor of my local piercing and tattoo parlor, says that for kids who want to try out a tattoo, artists can apply henna designs, which last about three weeks...