"You go to any elite party here, and at least one of them will have managed to get themselves in."One industry executive, she adds, told her of a time he was on a yacht and a student swam out "with a script in a Ziploc bag." Says Sisk, "I don't know whether to believe that or not, but they are definitely creative about making contacts."The American Pavilion is part of the International Village, which is strung along half a mile or so of beach. The fissures in the Laker locker room continue to deepen amid an increase in irritated voices, the latest belonging to point guard Chucky Atkins.Hours before Staples Center was dominated by boos in the final seconds of the Lakers' eighth consecutive loss, 96-89 to the Philadelphia 76ers before 18,347 Sunday, Atkins critically referred to Bryant as the team's general manager.Two days after Coach Frank Hamblen said the Lakers quit in the second half of a loss to the Denver Nuggets, it was Atkins' turn to grouse.Atkins, sitting in front of his locker that used to belong to Shaquille O'Neal, was asked by a reporter before the game what moves he would make during the off-season to improve the Lakers."I ain't the GM of this team," he said "Kobe's the GM of this team Ask Kobe You've been watching this [stuff] all year. LAS VEGAS Ringside physician William Capanna looked into the eyes of Manny Pacquiao while time was out in the fifth round of Saturday night's main event in the MGM Grand Garden Arena and asked the Philippine fighter if he wanted to continue.Only one eye was able to look back.But Pacquiao, a deep cut over his right eye, blood washing down the right side of his face, faked it. Still others come from noncombatants who have a good eye and great ear for celebrities and, God bless them, get a thrill from planting something in the paper.Many more come from publicists paid to hawk their clients' restaurants, nightclubs, fashion labels, resorts, parties and products. Haldeman insisted that Nixon didn't make any such drawings -- but then, mulling the public relations implications of the matter, added: "Should the president doodle?" Nixon did leave behind a few scribbles, but he was too inhibited to indulge in the fashion of the great presidential doodlers.These scribbles from our chief executives intrigue us not just because of the august position that these particular artists held but also because these casually drawn sketches offer a rare glimpse of authenticity.

Well-appointed riverfront mansion with seven guest rooms, most with private baths, furnished in comfortable, not-too-kitschy Victorian style Heated outdoor pool. Rounding out the rhythm section is the newest member, a Chicano drummer named Dulce.Though still unabashedly bilingual, this is a far more rocking band than it was four years ago when it won a local competition sponsored by La Banda Elastica, a respected rock en espanol magazine. Saturday about a noisy party, said Los Angeles Police Officer Sandra Escalante. Lucinda Franks is a child, soaring down a hill, calling, "Look, Daddy, look!" Her father does look, but he can't stop his daughter from slamming her bike into his. However, at the mills, nubs were trimmed off fabric and carpet by running a bladed reel over the newly woven cloth. "If he was good, I'd go, 'Heck yeah, I would.' "Then, when Lee was traded -- to Milwaukee for Scott Podsednik and Luis Vizcaino -- he asked Williams' office for whom he'd been traded.Lee's response: "Who?"Said Williams: "Don't worry about it.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas fired several security chiefs for failing to halt lawlessness in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, two days after gunmen fired at his Ramallah, West Bank, compound.The head of Palestinian national security in the West Bank, Haj Ismail, also quit, but Abbas has not approved the resignation, a security official said.. Farrar says Harris' only weakness is that "he doesn't have an off switch."Farrar added, "At the next level, he's going to have to learn to control that, or he might find some guys taking advantage of his aggressiveness."Like Harris, Oatis (6-0, 215) was named to The Times' All-Star team. Spending on branded ads was essentially flat at $4.1 billion. 10.In Billings, a city of 100,000 where Ashcraft grew up in a tidy, white farmhouse set among sugar beet and grain fields, news of her arrest has gripped and shocked many. Yards TD Int Sacks Virginia Tech 29 19 272 3 0 2 Colorado State 31 20 231 2 0 0 Brigham Young 34 22 236 2 1 2 Stanford 30 23 284 1 1 2 California 24 15 164 2 1 4 Arizona State 24 13 224 4 0 1 Totals 172 112 1,411 14 3 11 2005 Opponent Att Comp Yards TD Int. I have a bilateral (double amputee) patient who is a rock climber, so I'm making legs with stubbies on the end so he can grip the rocks."Strong is using the so-called "C leg," with a microprocessor that controls the knee. Eduardo Perez will ride the 3-year-old War Chant filly in the $27,000 contest at about one mile.

Or maybe it's the astounding beauty on the micro level--imagine using safe viruses as guided-missile vectors to bring new drugs to hidden tumors, or arresting diabetes with protein synthesized from the saliva of the Gila monster, or switching off the "bad genes" for Tay-Sachs, Huntington's chorea and cystic fibrosis.Once a sleepy paradise, "Beverly Hills by the Bay," La Jolla and Torrey Pines Mesa are now at the center of the most concentrated cluster of biomed in the world: more than a dozen major research institutes, among them Salk, Burnham, Scripps and UC San Diego, and 300 companies such as Pfizer, Novartis, Amylin and the aptly named Isis Pharmaceuticals (Isis put the pieces of Osiris back together, long ago, in Egyptian times, when the brain was treated as the most discardable of organs), many within a few square miles of each other, some stretching in a weaving, blinking line, like the twisted strands of the double helix itself, up to Oceanside and down to Mission Bay. But some observers believe the many unresolved issues, and the recent bloodshed between Hamas and Fatah, will make the new government inherently fragile.A U.S. His comedy "Sailing" was selected for publication in "The Best Short Plays of 1979."Shurtleff taught acting classes around the world.Asked in 1980 if there was a difference between his New York and West Coast students, he told The Times that "the main difference is that here people are less interested in good acting than they are in making it.The basic quality is just as good in L.A., but the presumption is that the work is in television. Gong" Marley, the Roots, the Black Crowes, Fiona Apple and Jurassic 5.The festival is centered at Sam Boyd Stadium on Oct 28 and 29 but there are tie-in performances that begin Oct. As with two other recent ensemble works, "Crash" and "Nine Lives," the actors make this one shine. TEHRAN Iran has started enriching uranium in a second network of centrifuges, the Iranian Student News Agency reported Friday.Diplomats said this week that the centrifuges had been started but that Iran appeared only to be testing them, without enriching any uranium gas.But ISNA quoted an "informed source" as saying "the injection of gas was carried out" in the last week and that "we have obtained the product."Enrichment can yield fuel for power plants or, possibly, material for atomic bombs.Iran says its program aims to meet energy needs.

USF says it takes only cases that involve losses of less than $25,000. The government saw the movement as a threat to its authoritarian rule.He entered the U.S. Somehow, we got support, and not just from our friends in the [Silver Lake] scene," says Aubert, 31, mentioning club bookers Mitchell Frank and Jennifer Tefft, of Spaceland, and Scott Sterling, of the multi-venue promotions firm the Fold "They give bands chances Everything has happened organically Slowly we started to see it, to take it seriously.... The women call the art effort Katrina's Kids Project.Ashley Bryan said she was stunned by the stories of survival the children told and the graphic pictures they drew."Maybe their parents are still so stressed and grieving that maybe they haven't had time to listen to their kids," Bryan said "The kids are almost desperate to talk about what they did. Depending on the circumstances, street skaters also can be cited for trespassing, disturbing the peace and vandalism.Many cities have ordinances prohibiting skaters from riding in business districts or at schools, yet the latter two are often magnets for skaters. If the Democrats hold the line, Grassley cannot afford to lose a single Republican.