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SENTENCED. RANDY (DUKE) CUNNINGHAM, 64, California Republican who resigned from Congress and pleaded guilty last fall to taking $2.4 million in bribes; to eight years and four months in prison, the longest term ever given a Congressman; by a federal judge in San Diego. At his sentencing, Cunningham, a decorated Vietnam vet, tearfully said, "After years of service to my country, I made a wrong turn...
...Erlandson, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon, whose work in Daisy Cave on San Miguel Island in California's Channel Island chain uncovered stone cutting tools that date to about 10,500 years B.P., proving that people were traveling across the water at least that early. More recently, researchers at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History redated the skeletal remains of an individual dubbed Arlington Springs Woman, found on another of the Channel Islands, pushing her age back to about 11,000 years B.P. Farther south, on Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, U.C. at Riverside...
...Hockney’s oeuvre, they are vibrant and personal. They conclude, without being didactic, the transparent trajectory by which visitors understand how this fantastic artist’s growth is based on talent and fueled by a need for experimentation.Downstairs, a far smaller exhibit brings together posters advertising San Francisco rock concerts in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their deep oranges, pinks, turquoises, and greens rotate in spirals, grace the arabesques of illegible typography, and decorate faces, flowers, and animals.The psychedelic style is as ingrained in our culture now as the Grateful Dead’s sound, which...
...said one applicant, Jeff N. Fox, a senior at Randolph High School in New Jersey.“The professors are still the professors, the classes still the classes,” he added.An already-admitted member of the Class of 2010, Elena D. Butler, now a senior at San Francisco University High School, said in a phone interview that she and her friends “seemed to be way more focused on the academic reputation of Harvard than the media.”In a letter published in The New York Times on Tuesday, Butler wrote...
...successful at. But a focus on individual ambition and financial success is not healthy. If we ignore civility and empathy, we only exacerbate social decay. Our role models should be those whose ambition and success brought about the betterment of the whole society, not just themselves. Robert Pitts, Jr. San Ramon, California...