Frisco, Frisco, Frisco. In May 2003, 62 Spanish soldiers died when their transport plane crashed in Turkey, en route to Afghanistan.In June, 16 U.S. Back in 2003 when a major grocery strike loomed in Southern California, the biggest unionized supermarkets insisted that they had to hold the line on workers’ pay and benefits.Their rationale: Wal-Mart was about to storm California with low prices and low wages, and supermarkets said they needed to stay competitive.But the storm never came.Now, with the prospect of another grocery strike at hand, some workers are accusing the big chains of crying wolf.”They can’t use Wal-Mart as an excuse,” said Sharlette Villacorta, 35, a veteran clerk who manages the deli at an Albertsons in Los Feliz. If I were to post a placard today, it would be, “Keep Your Opinions To Yourself.” If the roads weren’t so dangerous, I’d make the statement personally — except to the guy whose pickup truck says, “Protected By Smith & Wesson,” or his cousin, whose bumper reads, “Keep Honking. “You should read the Megan’s Law website.” He continued: “You know how to solve the traffic problem around this school? Get rid of all the predators.

Last month, Barako launched a website through Obama’s online campaign to build a local committee of active supporters. Ultimately, the board approved the bond campaign and voters vindicated Romer by approving it by a wide margin.Romer also is overseeing the rebuilding of Belmont High School, which had become a symbol of bureaucratic bungling and mismanagement. 1, will include six days touring Tokyo and the surrounding area, two in Hiroshima and two in Kyoto.”It’s a small tour,” said leader Steve Adelsman “I do not use a motor coach We ride the subways [and the trains]. Finally, I could rest in Peace.”Peace,” it turned out, was the name of the room where I stayed during a recent retreat at the Abbey of New Clairvaux.

The board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System approved low-double-digit increases in health insurance premiums for its more than 1 million members.The hikes averaged 11.6% for health maintenance organization participants and 12.6% for users of preferred provider networks.The board also endorsed a recommendation from its health committee to not raise members’ co-payments during the 2007 benefit year. Joseph’s NIT game on Wednesday.His right arm was bandaged, but he showed no ill effects of the injury.”I was thrilled to see him back in the game,” Bradshaw said.Bryant was grateful to get another chance. Poly High is the Parrots (returning the column to the subject of irritating birds).*Steve Harvey can be reached at (800) LATIMES, Ext 77083, by fax at (213) 237-4712, by mail at Metro, L.A Times, 202 W 1st St., L.A 90012, and by e-mail at steve.harvey.. Florida, 1996The Rehnquist court has broadly used the 11th Amendment to expand the powers of the states by immunizing them against lawsuits filed under federal law. At least 39 car bombs exploded, 120 mortar rounds struck the city and 166 roadside bombs exploded.Gunmen swarmed a hospital in the city of Baqubah, killing four police officers and freeing 14 injured suspected insurgents. When a friend told her about Berman’s comments, the endocrinologist wrote letters to the Washington Evening Star and the Washington Post criticizing the Democratic advisor. As one physician says, “This is a true public health conundrum.” Page F1*Lowering the boiling pointIn recent weeks, Californians have become unpleasantly familiar with the physiological toll heat takes.

The other is a rail-thin wonk with a perfect LSAT score who is far more comfortable jousting over budgets than making small talk.One threw a $2.4-million party to celebrate his most recent electoral victory, an event televised nationally and paid for by big business. He redirected the ship, and he seems to be doing stupendously now. Of the 47 weekends so far in 2005, only 14 have done more business than the comparable weekends in 2004.Taylor Schneider thinks she knows the reason “Movies aren’t as good. The former president doesn’t remember.”My Life” has sold just under 2.2 million copies in its 957-page hardcover edition.The trade paperback, which has the same dimensions as the hardcover version, will have a first printing of 300,000 — 50,000 copies more than originally announced.The mass-market paperback, a cheaper, pocket-sized edition, will have two volumes, the first with a printing of 600,000, the second in late June at 575,000.Much of the new material — a 12-page afterword and a brief preface — summarizes Clinton’s recent activities, from the building of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., to raising money for tsunami victims. Come for a draft of Pyramid hefeweizen and some fried Ipswich clams resting on a bed of shoestring fries. As for those black residents who remain, by choice or by circumstance, he adds: “Those left behind feel that they’ve been wronged by the system.”"But,” I say, “it is part of the history of the neighborhood.

“Look at ‘Lost.’ Look at all the shows about aliens and different dimensions People are interested in these things for a reason. Bloomsbury critic Clive Bell called him “that old vulgarian.” And as recently as the 1960s, the influential Clement Greenberg dismissed him as tangential to the evolution of major painting and “more important to subsequent bad painting.”Still, Hall predicts that this Venetian oil will be “the most expensive British painting ever sold,” bringing in more than $20 million.UCLA’s Boime thinks Hall might not be far off. Sri Lanka’s navy sank 12 Tamil Tiger craft in a fierce sea battle off the island’s northern tip, the military said today.A spokesman said the military believed that it had killed dozens of rebel fighters, but there was no independent confirmation.The clash, which occurred near the Jaffna peninsula, comes as the army is seeking to wrest control of rebel territory near a strategic port in the island’s northeast.The military spokesman said two sailors were injured and two navy boats were slightly damaged by gunfire.. That wouldn’t represent a demotion because he spent the first two months of the season at double-A Jacksonville in Florida.Kemp also will be given every chance to win a starting job next spring. “He went in as this goofy kid who wore band T-shirts, and he came out a man.”On Feb. Extreme activists have resorted to such tactics as painting the word “murderer” on the car of a former animal services department head and setting off a smoke bomb in the lobby of the apartment building where outgoing general manager Guerdon H.