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labroadsheet 08-03-2010 a 1 a1 west 1_c k y m tset 08-02-2010 19:44 75¢ designated areas higher 54 pages © 2010 wst tuesday august 3 2010 latimes.com four wal lsanda be d high hopes hit hard realities the man considered most likely to die on the streets of l.a seemed the one least concerned by the possibility ethics report sets stage for waters trial a congressional panel will weigh the defiant democrat s case `i have not violated any house rules she says richard simon reporting from washington chip somodevilla getty images genaro molina los angeles times resistant project 50 aimed at the most vulnerable of the hard-core homeless on los angeles skid obby livingston couldn t sleep the indoor quiet was unnerving the softness of his mattress all wrong for weeks after moving into room 216 at the senator hotel he found comfort only on a hard tile floor that felt reassuringly like the pavement horses and dogs flitted across the ceiling of his room but he described the visions as familiar and untroubling like the voices in his head sometimes the dead visited him full-bodied long-gone family from the red clay roads of south carolina and he asked jesus why he wasn t yet among them to rescue the 50 people deemed most likely to die on the streets in skid row los angeles county had a pragmatic plan give them apartments and all the help they d accept requiring little in return not sobriety not meetings not psychiatric treatment livingston and a handful of others posed the most extreme test of project 50 s premise merely living among others with a modicum of structure and social rules was proving a steep demand considering what accompanied the hardest cases indoors untreated mental illness and ferociously solitary habits formed by decades in the city s dope dens if we can succeed with him oh my goodness the program s director carrie bach said of livingston if we can do him we can do anybody [see project 50 a10 b row gave bobby livingston an apartment but he clung to old habits and refused his schizophrenia pills christopher goffard second of four parts a congressional panel set the stage monday for an ethics trial for rep maxine waters one of los angeles most enduring liberal politicians over her actions involving a bank with ties to her husband that received federal bailout funds without detailing the accusations the house ethics committee released an investigative report that found substantial reason to believe that waters may have violated ethics rules the case centers on a meeting waters set up in september 2008 during the financial crisis between treasury department officials and representatives of minorityowned banks but discussion at the meeting centered on a single bank oneunited according to the report by the office of congressional ethics waters husband sidney williams served on the oneunited board from 2004 to 2008 and at the time of the september meeting was a stockholder in the bank the report said three months after waters a senior member of the house committee that oversees banking called thentreasury secretary henry m paulson to set up the meeting oneunited received $12 million in bailout funds a defiant waters a south los angeles political fixture who won election to the state assembly in 1976 and to congress in 1990 vowed monday to fight the charges maxine waters she s under scrutiny for acting on behalf of a bank with ties to her husband i have not violated any house rules therefore i simply will not be forced to admit to something i did not do she said the record will clearly show that in advocating on behalf of minority banks neither my office nor i benefited in any way engaged in improper action or influenced anyone unless a settlement is [see waters a13 obama says iraq exit on track casting the issue as a success he reaffirms that the number of u.s troops will fall to 50,000 by aug 31 kathleen hennessey reporting from atlanta liz sly reporting from baghdad property tax rates higher in poor cities catherine saillant and sam allen struggling to balance their budgets with meager tax bases some of los angeles county s poorest cities charge their residents the highest property tax rates working-class cities such as compton san fernando maywood huntington park and inglewood have among the highest property tax rates while several upperclass cities on the palos verdes peninsula and south bay have among the lowest rates records from the l.a county auditor-controller show the times reported last week that while bell was paying its city manager nearly $800,000 it was also charging its residents the second-highest tax rate in the county surpassed only by a few residential parcels [see property tax a9 new data show scope of bp spill the leaking well released more than 200 million gallons of oil in total most of which went unrecovered latextra mi tc h mi lle r 1911 2010 he put pop in pop music the host of 1960s tv singalongs boosted many singers careers with a flair for novelty numbers dennis mclellan toyota faces new allegations filings in two suits say company technicians verified sudden acceleration cases as early as 2003 business b1 little league to use more replay the organization will allow expanded use of video to review disputed calls in its world series sports c1 world a3 nation a6 california aa3 obituaries aa7 weather aa8 printed with soy inks on partially recycled paper 7 85944 00075 9 itch miller who helped shape musical tastes in the 1950s and early 60s as the head of the popular music division at columbia records and hosted the hit sing along with mitch tv show in the early 1960s while becoming one of the era s most commercially successful recording artists has died he was 99 miller died saturday after a short illness at lenox hill hospital in new york city said his daughter margaret miller reuther a top oboist and english horn player who joined the cbs symphony orchestra in the 1930s and later record m richard drew associated press conductor rosemary clooney left argued with mitch miller over recording the 1951 novelty song come on-a my house which sold a million copies ed with conductor leopold stokowski miller wound up his more than seven-decade musical career guest-conducting symphony orchestras around the world a show business icon with his trademark goatee and baton miller is considered one of the most influential producers in the history of recording he made a career switch from playing to producing in the late 1940s by becoming a&r artists and repertoire director at mercury [see miller a8 president obama affirmed monday that u.s combat troops would leave iraq by the end of august as promised and on schedule in a speech aimed at highlighting a foreign policy bright spot and rebuilding support for the struggling mission in afghanistan make no mistake our commitment in iraq is changing from a military effort led by our troops to a civilian effort led by our diplomats obama told a group of disabled veterans in atlanta there are currently 65,000 troops in iraq the president gave assurances that the u.s force would drop to 50,000 by the end of the month a reduction of 94,000 since he took office 181/2 months ago the remaining troops will form a transitional force until a final u.s withdrawal from the country at the end of 201 he 1 said during his campaign obama pledged to bring a swift and orderly end to a war he said he would not have waged but the departure has not been as quick as he had initially promised shortly after taking office the president revised a 16month withdrawal timeframe and set the aug 31 deadline u.s officials say the with[see iraq a8 ©2010 united air lines inc all rights reserved miles with the clout to book any open united seat guaranteed with standard awards if there s a united seat for sale it s yours for miles learn more at the all-new mileageplus.com the mileage program that wants you to use your miles.

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2r la stampa quotidiano fondato nel 1867 martedÌ 3 agosto 2010 · anno 144 n 211 · 1,20 in italia prezzi promozionali ed estero in ultima spedizione abb postale d.l 353/03 conv in l 27/02/04 art 1 comma 1 dcb to www.lastampa.it ricostruzione post-terremoto venerdì il concerto tendenze d agosto appalti a l aquila quattro arresti in cella per corruzione imprenditori e politici vicini al centrodestra si dimette anche l assessore regionale novella di paolo a pagina 17 e i vigili multano le prove degli u2 bono si attarda sul palco dell olimpico qualcuno si lamenta in comune e arriva l ammenda per il disturbo della quiete italiano minucci rosso vespa pag 47-53 estate eco-chic trionfa la paglia abiti e accessori studiati e intrecciati con il materiale più in scelto anche da star come kate moss e julia roberts antonella amapane a pag 21 domani la mozione di sfiducia su caliendo futuro e libertà e udc verso l astensione che salverebbe il sottosegretario a bronte nel catanese il premier un incidente e si vota i lo sfogo di berlusconi alla cena con i senatori fini da solo vale l 1,5 attacco a giudici e napolitano sono di sinistra palazzo chigi smentisce marcello sorgi delitto d onore tra adolescenti muore a 13 anni il killer ne ha 16 due adolescenti una ragazza contesa e la lite finisce in tragedia il sedicenne accoltella il rivale nella piazza del paese davanti al bar frequentato da entrambi i due ragazzi di bronte erano studenti e incensurati ora uno è morto e l altro è in cella sotto choc albanese alle pag 8 e 9 il ricorso alla mossa del cavallo silvio berlusconi si riprende la scena «al primo incidente si vota le urne non convengono a nessuno perché fini è all 1,5%» ma il prossimo voto sarà in aula domani con la sfiducia al sottosegretario caliendo un occasione in cui potrebbe debuttare l alleanza finiani-udc bertini festuccia la mattina magri masci rampino da pag 2 a pag 5 giustizia risposta all intervista dell avvocato csm vietti vicepresidente il quirinale basta contrapposizioni francesco grignetti a pagina 7 veronica ghedini con silvio coppia ideale «sono stanca di sentire sciocchezze sul mio privato» luca ubaldeschi a pagina 5 s e davvero verrà confermata stasera alla vigilia della votazione sulla mozione di sfiducia al sottosegretario caliendo coinvolto nell inchiesta sulla p3 la decisione dei deputati finiani di astenersi domani nella votazione che mette a rischio il governo a meno di una settimana dalla rottura tra berlusconi e fini darà subito il segno del cambiamento di passo del nuovo gruppo interno al centrodestra ma distinto adesso dal pdl continua a pagina 31 laura anello bronte due navi da guerra di pechino in porto È la prima esercitazione con la marina italiana gelosia rosso sangue cinesi a taranto la pacifica invasione s i è trascinato qui su questi sette gradini con i suoi tredici anni l addome squarciato gli occhi sbigottiti continua a pagina 9 il caso roberto beccantini michele b rambilla bologna e i conti ancora aperti baggio e rivera il ritorno dei numeri 10 p erché non c era nessuno del governo ieri a bologna nel trentesimo anniversario della strage la prima risposta è molto semplice erano stufi di farsi fischiare cosa che si ripeteva immancabilmente ogni anno ma a questo punto scatta una seconda domanda perché i bolognesi li hanno sempre fischiati e qui la risposta è un po più complessa continua a pagina 31 s bandiere in porto a taranto per il colonnello della flotta di pechino ad applaudire anche la numerosa comunità cinese ulle macerie del mondiale è fiorito improvvisamente un giardino roberto baggio e gianni rivera lavoreranno in federazione domani la ratifica del gran consiglio continua a pagina 31 sisci alle pag 10 e 11 buongiorno massimo gramellini enrichetto ha 55 anni e un cuore di bambino gira in bicicletta estate e inverno nascosto sotto un cappello con la coda che i bambini veri si divertono a tirare un giorno in cui pedala troppo a zig-zag viene fermato per guida in stato di ebbrezza due mesi agli arresti domiciliari come uno della cricca enrichetto a lui sta persino bene basta non gli tolgano il suo cane e il suo cappello una mattina si alza con la voglia di un salame ricorda di averlo visto nella vetrina del macellaio prima del suo arresto chissà se c è ancora esce per andare a controllare una vicina che si è autoassegnata l incarico di fare la guardia lo intercetta attraverso lo spioncino e avverte i carabinieri allarme il prigioniero è evaso enrichetto torna a casa col salame tutto contento ma sulla il caso enrichetto porta trova le guardie adesso giace nell infermeria del carcere astigiano di quarto rifiuta il cibo come chi si sta lasciando morire la sua non è una protesta e che gli è venuta la malinconia sa che a settembre lo condanneranno per evasione e a lui non sembra giusto ecco tutto perché una volta è salito in bici un po brillo e un altra volta è uscito di casa per comprare un salame per favore enrichetto ricomincia a mangiare ti prometto che un giorno instaureremo la repubblica del buonsenso dove le leggi non saranno più il trastullo dei potenti e la trappola dei semplici e se nel frattempo qualche magistrato chiudesse un occhio sui tuoi efferati delitti a casa ci sono un cane un cappello e un salame che ti aspettano per festeggiare macchine imbottigliatrici www.gai-it.com

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