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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 bourbon: from a very early age, Penner felt that his male genitalia had been misassigned--and that he was, in the most meaningful ways, a woman. In 2007, after 23 years in the business--a career that included covering the Olympics along with professional baseball and football--Penner shocked...
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 electorate is disgusted with both of them. (Their approval ratings are 18% and 28%, respectively.) This state of affairs is alternately described as the end of civilization or America's bright future, depending on whom you ask. Driving around the state, you'd never know that California...
Poizner, founder of a company that produced the technology to put GPS in cell phones, which he sold for a reported $1 billion, is a confrontational spark plug who seems obsessed with Whitman. "Voters should choose her if they want someone to rebrand the state, and me if they want someone to rebuild it," he likes to say. He is offering his own plan to cut taxes and is presenting himself as the true conservative in the race (although he, like Whitman and Campbell, is socially moderate). If Whitman prevails in the June primary, she will probably face former Democratic...
...escape the chaos and cruelty of his era. His son killed himself in 1979 after being sent to work in a factory while his parents were jailed. Yang later denounced the Tiananmen crackdown of 1989. The authorities, perhaps more worried about student activists than septuagenarian scholars, declined to put him back behind bars...
...need to shell out a minimum of $1,529 for a seven-night cruise, which breaks down to $218 a day. Not terrible for food, lodging and a Broadway show, not to mention the jazz revues, pools and aqua theater at your disposal. A luxury suite can put you out $7,609 a week, or $1,087 per day. Capacity across the industry has increased--15 ships have launched this year, including Carnival's Dream, and 12 set sail next year--so there are deals of less than $60 per day out there. "Hotels are shaking in their boots," says...