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Rhoads attended UCLA, where he was a member of the golf squad during his junior and senior years. He competed professionally for three-and-a-half years, participating in tournaments on the Canadian PGA tour, the Golden Bear tour in Florida, the West Coast Tear Drop tour and the Buy.com Tour...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women’s Golf Names Rhoads To Replace Longtime Head Coach | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...according to Khaled Abou El Fadl, a professor of Western and Islamic law at UCLA, that reading was discounted long ago. He says the vast majority of classical jurists subscribed to a more intuitively obvious version, whereby God's words prompted Muhammad to free his captives. They saw the "off with their heads" reading as insupportable. "Al-Zarqawi," says El Fadl, "searches for the trash that everyone threw out centuries ago and declares the trash to be Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does the Koran Condone Killing? | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

...when Paris Hilton storms off the set, saying, "My boyfriend says this is stupid and we look stupid and the network wants us to look stupid and everyone who watches us is stupid." Headlines in the National Enquirer report that Ken and his posse were asked to leave the UCLA library after refusing to shush. Becomes butt of criticism when he starts trash talking rivals. "Who cares?," Ken comments. "Right now I'm bigger than Alex." Ratings plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'll Take Ken Jennings' World for $400 | 9/13/2004 | See Source »

Thanks to the training, Taylor posted a second-place finish at the U.S. Olympic trials—where she ran a personal best 53.36—and suddenly she was on the road to Greece. Sheena Johnson, who recently graduated from UCLA, came in first with 52.95, and South Carolina senior Lashinda Demus finished third...

Author: By Evan R. Johnson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taylor Set For Athens Glory | 8/20/2004 | See Source »

...routine of another conniving athlete preparing for Athens, but it's the way an 11-year-old boy in Menlo Park, Calif., is fighting muscular dystrophy. Starting in 2002, the youngster began taking low doses of albuterol, a popular asthma drug, as a participant in an experimental study at UCLA. The lead investigator of the trial got the idea for testing albuterol by searching the Internet for references to muscle-building drugs, which soon linked her to sites for body builders. The body builders had learned about the drug's effect from combing the journals of agricultural science, in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Doctors Help The Dopers | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

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