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Detractors complain that the thick Calendar section, which chronicles L.A.'s giant entertainment industry, too often contains adoring, uncritical reporting of Tinseltown's stars and moguls. Some staffers charge that Coffey, who is friendly with Hollywood heavies like Disney's Michael Eisner, holds or softens stories that might damage his connections. A story about film executive Jerry Weintraub's financial troubles and alleged drug use, for instance, languished in the Times's computer and ran only after the Wall Street Journal published its own version...
CAPTION: GULF CALENDAR...
...whose side am I on," says Jake, 35. "I tell her instead that it's not what I'm for, it's what I'm against. I'm against the war." Jake recalls a man who entered the store wearing camouflage and presented his brother and him with a calendar bearing a photo of the tomb of the unknown soldier. All the dates but Jan. 15 had been crossed...
...King holiday. Backers are trying to organize another referendum; opponents vow they will start recall drives against legislators who vote pro-holiday. Meanwhile former Governor Evan Mecham, the man who rescinded the King holiday three years ago, has begun a boisterous fund-raising drive to keep the state calendar King-free...
...Observatory and Chinese Democracy," about this. You know, modern science was imported into China from the West. There were periods when we completely accepted modern science, and others when for decades we rejected it. Three centuries ago, we used modern astronomy for a short period to establish the Chinese calendar, but suddenly some emperor opposed it, and astronomers were even killed. Only at the beginning of this century did we completely accept modern science. It is the same with democracy. Sometimes we have been open and pro-democracy; sometimes for decades we have been completely closed and isolated and under...