Top Dollar Celebs Not Making Top Dollar Anymore
articles.latimes.com — In Hollywood, if you'd written, directed or starred in a big hit, or even enjoyed a couple of modest successes in a row, your quote went up, and your salary level was assured. Even after a few stinkers, a big star could still get their $15- or $20-million fee. Not anymore. (Submitted by DigSomeMore) More...
New Rules May Force Banks to Acknowledge Losses
articles.latimes.com — A controversial change in accounting rules this year has allowed banks to claim billions of dollars in additional earnings simply by tweaking their bookkeeping, greatly enhancing the appearance that the industry is returning to health. But accounting rule makers are considering further changes that could drain the blood right out of the industry. (Submitted by daxxer) More...
Weak Economy Means Ads On TV Will Suffer
articles.latimes.com — Buckling under the pressure of a weak advertising market, the broadcast networks have cut prices for commercial time, a rare setback for companies used to commanding ever-higher prices. It shows how the 1 1/2 -year-long recession is finally catching up with the networks. (Submitted by daxxer) More...
Why 'Made in Kenya' won't work in the USA
articles.latimes.com — The U.S. program was designed to help free-market African economies diversify their manufacturing bases and create jobs. But critics say it has instead largely subsidized the export of oil to the U.S. by waiving duties for firms in a handful of petroleum-producing nations who hardly needed increased incentives. (Submitted by louiebaur) More...
San Francisco May Lose Massive Art Collection
articles.latimes.com — The fate of the collection, which includes about a thousand works by such artists as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Alexander Calder and is conservatively valued in the tens of millions of dollars, has San Francisco's art community fearful that the city could lose an irreplaceable cultural treasure. (Submitted by TouchingWood) More...
A Year On, Russia-Georgia Feud Left Moscow In the Cold
articles.latimes.com — Most crushingly, the war has done serious damage to what is plainly Russia's top foreign policy priority: the reestablishment of what the Russian president has called a "privileged" sphere of influence in former Soviet states. Some analysts say Russia's postwar isolation is fueling instability. (Submitted by AmyVernon) More...
Mexico's top Soccer team fights to defend its Mexicanisimo
articles.latimes.com — The one tradition Chivas fans care most about is the one that has kept the team from using non-Mexican players -- although the definition of who is and isn't Mexican has gotten blurred in recent years. Protecting its reputation as a Mexican-only team is vital for Chivas, because many fans identify with its Mexicanisimo more than anything else. (Submitted by daxxer) More...
Sergio Aragonés: Marginally Mad
articles.latimes.com — He's a distinguished artist who has carted off many awards. No matter how outlandish the premise or bizarre the subject, he inspires his loyalists, some of whom have been following his work for 50 years, to believe in the well-ordered truthfulness of what they're seeing, and sense the elegant, disciplined mind behind it. (Submitted by daxxer) More...
Action Needed to Save National Parks from Climate Change
articles.latimes.com — The federal government must take decisive action to avoid "a potentially catastrophic loss of animal and plant life" in the national parks, according to a report that details the effect of global warming on the nation's most treasured public lands. (Submitted by MacBookForMe) More...
A Day In the life of an ATF Agent
articles.latimes.com — Though I've been writing about law enforcement for years, I knew far less about the agency than I did its better known cousins, the FBI and DEA. The Citizens Academy was created to "let people know what we're doing and what we're about." (Submitted by oboy) More...
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