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City Council votes to sue to stop Cal's stadium plan
By CAROLYN JONES
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
With the University of California football team poised for its first Rose Bowl berth since the Eisenhower administration, the city of Berkeley is planning a lawsuit to derail an extensive stadium complex promised to coach Jeff Tedford.
DNA links suspect in Esperanza fire to earlier blazes
By RICHARD K. DE ATLEY and LISA O'NEILL HILL
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
A matchstick-and-cigarette ignition device found at the flashpoint of the deadly Esperanza fire is similar to those recovered from two June arson blazes that are linked by DNA to Raymond Lee Oyler, court papers say.
Ballot measures can't pass with serious opposition
By DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
California's political battlefield is littered with the corpses of dead ballot measures, motherhood-and-apple pie ideas that faced supposedly evil opposition, wilted down the stretch and failed on Election Day.
But still, they keep coming.
Comparisons of phrases
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
Comparisons of some passages in William Marvel's "Andersonville: The Last Depot," University of North Carolina Press, 1994, with those in R. Fred Ruhlman's "Captain Henry Wirz and Andersonville Prison: A Reappraisal." The University of Tennessee Press suspended sales of Ruhlman's book pending investigation of complaints of plagiarism and review of the book.
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College suspends sales of book amid plagiarism allegations
By DARREN DUNLAP
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The University of Tennessee Press suspended sales of a book by a Chattanooga adjunct history professor after allegations of plagiarism by a New Hampshire writer.
New Hampshire author William Marvel complained to the UT Press that R.
California's voting gap widens again
By DAN WALTERS
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The single most powerful factor in California's politics _ one that underlies its chronically dysfunctional government _ is the ever-widening division between Californians as a whole and those who vote.
California's population is growing strongly, and with virtually all of that growth stemming from immigration and the state's economy continuing to mutate, it has become the globe's most complex society.
Ironically, however, little of that complexity is reflected in the body politic, as last week's election confirmed anew.
Sex offender statute hits its first bump
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Less than 24 hours after voters overwhelmingly approved an initiative that would impose ill-considered restrictions on paroled sex offenders, a federal judge stayed those parts of the new law that would have covered existing parolees.
How Schwarzenegger transformed himself and won
By DANIEL WEINTRAUB
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The transformation of Arnold Schwarzenegger from an object of widespread derision to a landslide winner in 12 short months was remarkably simple.
Job prospects good for new college graduates
By CAROLYN SAID
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
When 2007 graduates start pounding the pavement for their first jobs post-college, they're likely to be greeted with open arms by employers.
Graduating seniors are entering a job market significantly more robust than in recent years.
Deficit still plagues governor
By DAN WALTERS
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
The straw that broke Gray Davis' political back was his declaration, just after winning a very narrow re-election as governor in 2002, that California faced an immense budget deficit, one far larger than any previous projection.
Ironically, Davis had inflated the deficit projection to make his combination of spending cuts and new taxes sound palatable, but it backfired.
