7 game against the Mets, Game 3 of the National League Division Series.His partner dropped off four tickets at Turteltaub's Beverly Hills home, and Turteltaub planned to attend the game with his wife, Shirley.He offered the cheaper seats to friends but found no takers."And then started the chain of events that has left me inconsolable," Turteltaub wrote in a lengthy e-mail to The Times.At the stadium, he decided, he would sell the extra tickets for face value, which he believed was $40 for each. Barring complications, Niedermayer could return in mid-March and miss only a handful of games because of the two-week NHL break for the Games.In his first season with the Ducks after signing a four-year, $27-million contract last August, Niedermayer is the team's third-leading scorer with 42 points and averages a team-leading 25 minutes and 31 seconds of ice time.*Rookie center Zenon Konopka continues to struggle with a high ankle sprain that has made him unavailable for the last 13 games Konopka injured his right ankle Jan. Even in this flashy town, Bucky Buchanan stands out.Perhaps it was inevitable that he would one day have his own reality show On Jan. He also described the naivete of an American contracting officer who seemed unaware of Basra's byzantine politics and payment schemes."Contracting is big business. 9 screening and gala hosted by Forest Whitaker at the Directors Guild of America.A Golden Globe nominee for best foreign film and South Africa's Oscar submission, "Tsotsi" observes the evolution of the mercilessly violent title character, whose name means "thug," who has to confront the consequences of his actions after he kills a woman during a carjacking.The festival runs through Feb. She pulled from our collective consciousness very well.""About four years ago, I had this seminal idea that the first night I took Ecstasy with my friend -- she changed my life. George Medinilla knew he wanted to celebrate his heritage with a food festival.

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Dollar General jumped $4.29, or 25.6%, to $21.07 -- well past the stock's 52-week high of $18.32.Schering-Plough rose 10 cents to $23.95 after agreeing to purchase the Organon BioSciences pharmaceuticals business of Akzo Nobel, the Dutch maker of chemicals and coatings, for $14.5 billion. 4 on the steps of a trailer in the working-class neighborhood of Gentilly. Green, head of mergers and acquisitions at law firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. The West Coast premiere of Donald Byrd's "Motown Suite," Laura Dean's "Sometimes It Snows in April" and a revival of Twyla Tharp's "Deuce Coupe," set to Beach Boys songs, will be danced March 23 and 24.Back at the Ahmanson, Nacho Duato's Compania Nacional de Danza 2 will dance May 18 to 20.