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...Villaraigosa as he goes about running the nation's second biggest city, however. He inherits an education system that graduates only 45% of its students from high school, festering gang violence and the worst traffic in the nation. Critics say the mayor-elect is short on substance--"an empty suit," in the words of Joel Kotkin of the nonpartisan New America Foundation, a public-policy think tank. A liberal at heart, Villaraigosa was a union organizer and then president of the Southern California branch of the A.C.L.U. before getting elected to the California state assembly in 1994. He served...
...Courts believe that the suit could have been brought in the 1980s, and we believe it could not have been brought until after the evidence was first fully discovered,” he wrote, referring to a 2001 report by an Oklahoma commission that investigated the riots...
Lanvin's silk-covered pearls and ethnic-inspired beads, left, are the hot accessory for summer. (Even actress Lindsay Lohan is sporting them.) Designer Alber Elbaz introduced the oversize necklaces last fall, and everyone is following suit--from Yves Saint Laurent to Marni and Prada. Get the less expensive version from Erwin Pearl erwinpearl.com or Kenneth Jay Lane qvc.com).--By Kate Betts
...rush is on to copy California. A group called Cures for Florida hopes to get a $1 billion initiative, modeled on Proposition 71, on the statewide ballot next year. Washington Governor Christine Gregoire last week signed a bill allotting $350 million from the state's tobacco-suit settlement to life-science research, which could include stem-cell work. But lawmakers who defeated a bill to protect stem-cell research have promised a fight over how the money is spent when it starts to flow in 2008. New Jersey is mulling a plan to devote $380 million to a research facility...
More than a week has gone by since the appearance of this finally conclusive proof that our two governments ginned-up the war—or as Dearlove puts it, that they fixed facts to suit policy. In addition to the above, this memo contains such gems as “there was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action,” and “the most likely timing in US minds for military action to begin was January, with the timeline beginning 30 days before the US Congressional elections...