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- Story: Letters 8-17-2006 (Thursday, August 17, 2006)
... echo Nick Welsh’s sentiments and carefully chosen words regarding former N ... asons. Most notably, in court, there are inevitably winners and losers, and a ... sonnel, plaintiffs, and defendants—are all extremely focused on their conce ... o Nick Welsh’s sentiments and carefully chosen words regarding former ...
- Story: Humanitarian Greg Mortenson and Economist Jeffrey Sachs Chat with Howard Schiffer (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... I think you’ll agree. What follows are the extended interviews that Schiffe ... governments, and religious extremism are denied the right to learn.” That e ... ch the top, and were taken in by the people of a remote village called Korphe [i ... has had a profound impact on who you are today. What prompted that conviction ...
- Story: Eating (Thursday, October 15, 2009)
... e Street in the mid 1980s), but most people just think of McConnell’s as the p ... f being a place where working-class parents could afford to take the whole fa ... udent-dominated world of I.V., there are precious few businesses with much lo ... t.) The fish is fresh and the prices are well below what a touristy site migh ...
- Story: Letters 11/2/2006 (Wednesday, November 1, 2006)
... as slow. Good management hires good people, plays fair, and enjoys mutual respe ... California Constitution to require parental consent for teens to have an abo ... a bad idea then, and it still is. Parents rightfully want to be involved in ... ; lives. But even girls with caring parents may be too scared to talk to the ...
- Story: Our 2008 Endorsements (Thursday, October 9, 2008)
... better consider their decisions, we are offering the following endorsements. ... s top job. His executive abilities are clear: just consider his breathtakin ... s rushing around threatening to fire people and otherwise behaving hysterically, ... opportunities, and to secure health care for the most vulnerable. When her fe ...
- Story: Dancing Days Are Here Again (Thursday, April 20, 2006)
... lays them all — Taj Mahal’s career spans from his Springfield, Massac ... ra, and Indian classical. I had the rare chance to chat with Taj — who ... 201;— Taj Mahal’s career spans from his Springfield, Massac ... ra, and Indian classical. I had the rare chance to chat with Taj — ...
- Story: Letters 10-26-06 (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... aries, and child abuse, all of which are on the rise. I support Measure P b ... is that many medical marijuana users are poor. As a result of the intimidati ... Medical Board of California and a spare $150-$250 to make a visit to get th ... ired physician approval. Should ill people who can’t afford to see a doct ...
- Story: Bishop Tutu Calls for a Return to Human Rights (Thursday, November 3, 2005)
... dvocacy for repressed and subjected peoples everywhere. He is currently in the ... t of 70,000 children. Tutu and Havel are calling for the UN to restore democ ... lease of all political prisoners who are incarcerated because of their views ... nta. And basically it's really been people who dance to the tune of the militar ...
- Story: Paul Farmer and Thomas Tighe Discuss the Practical Ways to Cure the World (Thursday, October 11, 2007)
... r in raising the standards of healthcare for patients in need from Africa to ... training a new generation of healthcare providers to consider infectious dis ... on Theatre to discuss the book and share some of his views on the interplay b ... right? Well, I don’t think there are any inaccuracies in the book. What T ...
- Story: Letters 5-25-2006 (Thursday, May 25, 2006)
... n The Independent, offends the very people with whom she’ll have to negot ... ave to work with some of these very people she has insulted. I don’t thi ... ke his values and he works well with people. — Rusty Fairly ... can be accomplished. Moreover, they are both good listeners who are respons ...
- Story: SBIFF 2008 Slate (Monday, December 31, 2007)
... the Lobero Theater. Christie will share a dialogue with Leonard Maltin about ... e. Over the length of Christie’s career it has been said that she is “th ... chel Weisz. Reynolds stars as Will Hayes, a 30-something Manhattan dad in the ... absolutely everything about how her parents met and fell in love. Will hopele ...
- Story: KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... and why she loves the West Coast. Are you in Britain? I am. We’re jus ... t. With all the touring, when are you going to find time to make anoth ... g there and I thought “Oh, here we are again.” It was obviously seeping i ... The pop tunes on Drastic Fantastic are such a contrast to the slower songs. ...
- Story: Arnold Revs Up The People's Machine (Thursday, September 21, 2006)
... s away, Mathews’s book — The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger a ... #8217;s book — The People’s Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegg ... California elementary schools knows, are supposed to be the people’s t ... hools knows, are supposed to be the people’s tools to counter the power o ...
- Story: Letters 8-3-2006 (Thursday, August 3, 2006)
... and rightly so. “… [B]eginnings are important,” she wrote, adding that ... htly so. “… [B]eginnings are important,” she wrote, adding ... n the aftermath of the Six Day War, yes, but this event in no way marks the b ... West Bank. The truth is that there are many important “beginningsR ...
- Story: The Independent’s 2006 Endorsements (Thursday, October 12, 2006)
... ecent years, and since those ballots are beginning to arrive in mailboxes thi ... ecent years, and since those ballots are beginning to arrive in mailboxes th ... he paper and on our Web site. There are many important items to consider on ... ressional members from both parties are now scrambling to explain why they v ...
- Story: Talking Life and Music with ALO’s Zach Gill (Thursday, December 21, 2006)
... iday party. I know the feeling is shared when Zach Gill, who sat in with th ... uff we’re finishing in the Bay Area. And we’re mixing down in L. ... feel the excitement building. There are new songs on the album that our fan ... Yea, pretty much. A handful of them are older ALO songs that we’ve be ...
- Story: Full Text of SiCKO Q&A (Tuesday, July 10, 2007)
... are bigwigs Ron Werft and Kurt Ransohoff ... n Werft, president of Cottage Healthcare Systems, and Kurt Ransohoff, M.D., o ... ake a provocative move to try to get people talking about it.’ It’s an edito ... f the worst aspects of the US healthcare system. Walker: So what wasn’t ...
- Story: The Next Great Awakening? (Thursday, February 28, 2008)
... ng some really big things again that are huge. They’re like mountains. They ... don’t know what to do with. There are 2 billion people living on less than ... what to do with. There are 2 billion people living on less than $2 a day. That ... 2 a day. That’s half the world’s people. And as Gordon Brown, the Prime Mini ...
- Story: Burgers to Bistro, BOSB'06 (Thursday, October 19, 2006)
... 7;t know what our secret is. I know people dig our honey mustard. They like our ... owner and husband, Mark Brouillard, are perhaps even happier with the cuisin ... even happier with the cuisine they are creating there with Jason Banks, che ... , chef at Fresco at the Beach. They are grateful for their customers; all ar ...
- Story: Live Releases It’s First Concert DVD (Thursday, April 9, 2009)
... due out at the end of this year. Are you at your house in Ojai? I am. ... so. So yeah, it was pretty long. Are you home for a while? For the mos ... d getting back together. You guys are scattered all over the country? T ... d all over the country? Two of us are here in California and two are in Pe ...
- Story: Q Is for Quartet (Saturday, November 22, 2008)
... otential of the string quartet? What are the challenges it provides? Its stre ... ts, the Carter quartets—works that are just astonishing. The kinds of so ... truments, the kinds of subtlety that are possible, make me want to write for ... ving different colors just by having people trade off lines within the same rang ...
- Story: Letters 11-9-2006 (Thursday, November 9, 2006)
... n crime and terrorists. The results are costly and ineffective. Enter the P ... -solving modalities with skills that are effective at treating root causes o ... study of violence, Williamson said, are turning to an epidemiological model. ... d please write and call our Congress people to sign on to H.R. 3760 and S. 1756 ...
- Story: Letters 12-14-2006 (Thursday, December 14, 2006)
... worldwide, killing about 5 million people a year, 430,000 of them Americans. ... 8217; relentless campaign to addict people to tobacco, by 2020 that figure will ... 8221; article matches a study of 54 people in rural Cuba who reached 100 years ... ears of age. The majority also had parents who had reached that age (visit ...
- Story: California's Prop. 8 Defeat: A Bungled Campaign (Thursday, December 4, 2008)
... a double-digit lead to predictable scare tactics. Independent polls from both ... ducted by Equality California (ECQA) are said to have provided a different pi ... of the proposition. Worse, there appeared to be no effective Black or Latino ... on hurts. Self esteem and acceptance are vital to the success of kids like me ...
- Story: Tragedy of Errors (Thursday, October 4, 2007)
... ther to form a new government. These people lived in exile for 30 to 40 years, a ... east let’s have loyalists there so people won’t go home and write kiss-and-t ... ions. I think a vast majority of the people who went there had good intentions. ... s what we wanted. I think all the people went out there wanting to make Iraq ...
- Story: Bean Counting (Thursday, April 5, 2007)
... it costs maybe 25 cents more a cup, are you?” asked Kevin Bourke, owner of ... ara roasting house. “Of course you are.” Hair Raiser, along with Red Star ... Coffee, sell fair-trade roasts, and area coffee shops Coffee Cat, Vices & ... hat doesn’t serve a broad range of people,” said Matt Warning, a development ...
- Story: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity (Monday, October 19, 2009)
... y infinite number of ways that women are brutalized around the world with ins ... it, and to the strength that so many people have. People often ask me if it’s ... e strength that so many people have. People often ask me if it’s depressing to ... s, you encounter these extraordinary people. Their uplifting accounts tend to re ...
- Story: Thumbs Up for Santa Barbara News Room (Wednesday, April 4, 2007)
... e daily news to our readers. And, yes, the Independent will continue to cov ... even if some of the parties involved are once again active competition. Don ... ote that current News-Press staffers aren’t, in fact, blocked off from even ... om/2007/04/04 P.S. Craig and Sara are both hot -- in different web divisio ...
- Story: Lou Cannon Tears Up Wendy McCaw (Friday, July 6, 2007)
... f NewsPress.com, where subscriptions are needed to view even breaking news st ... s-Press saga, where almost all of us are living in reality, yet a couple peop ... are living in reality, yet a couple people who buy ink by the barrel refuse to ... barrel refuse to recognize that they are a laughing stock, that they are in t ...
- Story: Turkish Writer Orhan Pamuk Discusses His Love of Literature (Thursday, October 18, 2007)
... ok, My Name Is Red, and Snow — are haunting, multilayered explorations ... ok, My Name Is Red, and Snow — are haunting, multilayered explorations ... book, Other Colors, signify? These are fragments: slices of life that I fin ... title of this book to mean, “these are the other fragments, the other color ...
- Story: Living Well (Thursday, October 15, 2009)
... ore, the volumes you might encounter are not confined to what’s on some pub ... the New York Times for those remnant people who still love to turn a page rather ... an shake a Kindle. The possibilities are endless, and, since the staff is mad ... p of bibliophiles, chance encounters are narrowed down to the range between c ...
- Story: Last Calls (Thursday, July 27, 2006)
... and this weekend’s final days are sure to be the most frenzied. So rai ... time employees, and bid a heartfelt farewell to the place we’ve all co ... e of the restaurant and its founder are certainly worthy of review. In 1862 ... treet. Following the earthquake the area was “revitalized” and c ...
- Story: Police Chief Cam Sanchez Explains the Law’s View on Gangs (Thursday, August 2, 2007)
... nues to be a tragic thing. Now, they are getting younger and younger, as you ... e of violence among these very young people has escalated, but not the amount. ... ot the amount. To what degree are these teenage gangs tied to prison g ... sue here in Santa Barbara County. Are the gangs here organized around fina ...
- Story: The Outsiders (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)
... listically, their chances of victory are, at most, remote. These are the outs ... victory are, at most, remote. These are the outsiders. But they bring to the ... of the body politic. This year there are far more outsiders than usual. But t ... more outsiders than usual. But there are more candidates — 18 in all — th ...
- Story: Discovered—Carolina Beltran Interviews Soprano Célia Zambon Wollenberg (Thursday, August 6, 2009)
... m, on stage in front of at least 250 people, and all their eyes and ears are fix ... people, and all their eyes and ears are fixed on you. Palms sweating? Check. ... ity of us who feel, as I do, that we are fundamentally musically impaired, th ... ng in front of an audience, but they are also comfortable (or comfortable eno ...
- Story: Battle of the Blogs in Santa Barbara (Thursday, April 12, 2007)
... atter shined some light on how blogs are fast becoming a facet of Santa Barba ... y, March 29, a mischievous reader apparently posted in the guise of KEYT repo ... tinue offering itself as a forum for people to debate the day’s news back and ... he dust has yet to settle. Of all people, the News-Press’s own Dr. Laura Sc ...
- Story: Dear Doonesbury (Thursday, October 5, 2006)
... to grow up in the Washington, D.C., area where the Washington Post dedicate ... tried to tell political truths where people lived, and if this made people squi ... here people lived, and if this made people squirm, then so much the better. As ... erently more difficult to pull off. Are there other political strips out the ...
- Story: Kirk Douglas at 89 (Thursday, July 27, 2006)
... ts inaugural Kirk Douglas Award for Career Achievement to the man himself on ... ts inaugural Kirk Douglas Award for Career Achievement to the man himself on ... questions, let me find out what you are working on. I am just polishing up m ... title is Let’s Face It. There are so many things in life that we must ...
- Story: First King of the Festival (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
... a mad dictator who killed all these people, but I really had no idea. As I get ... check my opinions on individuals who are presented to me that way from other ... y from other countries, particularly people of color. I don’t know what is ... with. And certainly, I met a million people, too. I met with Amin’s brothe ...
- Story: Catching Up with NorCal’s the morning benders (Thursday, October 23, 2008)
... t. How is that going so far? It’s good. It’s been interesting. We haven’ ... ince, post-album, it’s been pretty good. [The album’s been] good luck. [Lau ... eeing them. They’re amazing. Those are the two that are sticking out right ... re amazing. Those are the two that are sticking out right now. How did y ...
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