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A Word, Please: A billboard a day makes grammar less gray
It's a billboard custom-tailored to grammar buffs. "Every day we help people get back to their everyday," proclaims the ad for Keck Medical Center of USC. In that single sentence, the copy writer does more to help people with grammar than I probably...Tags: Religion and Belief
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Flood risk: Bane of Balboa Island's existence
Craig Schusterick, his workman's hands powdery white with construction grit, led the way across Onyx Avenue on Balboa Island to show off his handiwork. His nearly complete three-story home — designed with solid wood paneling to echo the Cape Cod...
Tags: Bodies of Water, Water, Floods, Real Estate Buyers, Oceans
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It's A Gray Area: Government is not the road out of poverty
The road to success for communities struggling with poverty is generally not hard to find, or even to travel. All it requires is a firm reliance upon yourself instead of government. To drive that point home, candidly ask yourself what government has...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Peace Corps, Costa Rica, Ethics
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Steinberg: Being a sports agent today
Traditional agentry has too often been lampoonish, cartoonish, greedy and destructive to clients and sports itself. Some of the basic concepts, which are slavishly adhered to, are just wrong. The battle in sports ought not be labor versus management....Tags: Free Agency, National Football League, Amusement and Theme Parks, Media Industry, Sports
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Papa inspirational for CdM
Sam Bailey pulled the book from his office desk Tuesday afternoon, looking for a specific passage. The book? "The Team Captain's Leadership Manual," by Jeff Janssen. The player who the Corona del Mar High girls' water polo coach felt the passage so...
Tags: High School Sports, Ethics, Sports, Soccer, Water Polo
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On Theater: A nasty secret in this 'Garden'
As a novelist and playwright, Ira Levin refused to be categorized or pigeonholed. He could produce such rollicking comedies as "Critic's Choice" and "No Time for Sergeants" or delve into more chilling fare like "Rosemary's Baby" or "The Boys from Brazil."...
Tags: Education, Colleges and Universities, Ethics, Arts and Culture, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Panel calls for review of failed fairgrounds sale
A special committee charged with independently examining the proposed sale of the Orange County Fairgrounds called for an audit, additional review of the failed deal and greater overall transparency. Among the Fair Sale Review Committee's nine principal...Tags: Orange County Register, Dick Ackerman, Legal Services, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ethics
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God Squad: Non-violence, while noble, does have moral limits
Q: I believe in the non-violent teachings of Jainism (an Indian religion that predates both Hinduism and Buddhism). We teach this song to young Jain children. It expresses the belief in "ahimsa," which means the unconditional compassion for both animals...Tags: Jainism, Diets and Dieting, Ethics, Judaism, Belief and Faith
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Wu: The Taj, the dock fee and home values
Are you excited? I'm excited. Not Christmas excited. Excited because the Newport Beach City Council and the government employees who overflow the old City Hall will be moving into the largest, most egregious example of shiny government decadence and...Tags: Republican Party, Rentals, Politics, Dana Rohrabacher, Elections
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Matsuoka a freshman phenom for CdM
It has been nearly five years since Corona del Mar High freshman Amy Matsuoka traded the balance beam for a bucket of golf balls. Both gymnastics and golf can be sports where an inch makes a difference. Matsuoka was not seeing the results she wanted as...
Tags: Ball Gymnastics, Lifestyle and Leisure, Students, Gymnastics Clubs, Mountains
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Brooks: Meeting of unassuming leaders
Last week I sat in a room full of unlikely leaders. I say unlikely because you might not recognize them as leaders if you passed them on the street. They are fairly ordinary people. They get up every morning, care for their children, go to work, play...Tags: Ethics, Sports, Soccer, Religion and Belief
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Steinberg: Several lessons to be learned from Penn State scandal
Former FBI director Louis Freeh concluded one of the most horrifying investigations in the history of collegiate sports this week. In the wake of years of sexual abuse of young men by assistant coach Jerry Sandusky of Penn State, often in the shower room...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Pennsylvania Statue University Sexual Abuse Scandal (2012), College Sports, Judges
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