- PROUD TINA: Tina Turner's first album for...
- Villages Far From the Marrakech Express : Two Hikers and Their Berber Guides Trek High Into the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
- Steps Take Pair to Golden Mile
- Seed Catalogues Hold Promise of New Veggies
- THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF SAINTS by David...
- GIRLS' 3-A CHAMPIONSHIP : Jefferson Outlasts Narbonne, 60-53, for 1st City Title
- BACKGROUND
- 3 Suspects Arrested in School Bus Attack
- Administration Urged to Renew China Defense Ties : Diplomacy: U.S. needs military contacts to keep abreast of Beijing's arms sales, buildups, officials say.
- Pepperdine President Speaks Out
- Oliver Stone's 1986 Platoon (ABC Sunday at...
- City Sees Little Change in Main Income Sources : Finances: A budget review reveals a possible shortfall in income, but no reduction in services is expected.
- Security Fears, Political Ties Cloud U.S. View of Islam's Rise
- Armenia Gas Flows Anew
- PLAY TIMES
- Gerald Hogan has been named president of...
- William A. Frank has been named to...
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Meet the Press
- STYLE: STYLEMAKER : Building Bodies
- STYLE: DESIGN : Shifting Into Neutra
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING?
- ANIMAL CRACKERS : Trips to Vegas, Louis Vuitton Carrying Cases, Even Lingerie Are De Rigueuer for the Indulged Darlings of Pet Parents. How's a Simple Pet Owner to Compete?
- ON-RAMP : But Officer, I Do Have a Library Card . . .
- Show Me the Girl : WRITING DANGEROUSLY: Mary McCarthy and Her World By Carol Brightman ; (Clarkson Potter / Crown: $30; 636 pp.)
- KOREATOWN : Asian, Latino Groups Fight Graffiti
- East Valley Firms Escape Most of the Pain of Recession : Economy: Two-thirds of the companies responding to a survey say they are holding their own or growing.
- A summary of selected Los Angeles City...
- U.S. Pullout Leaves Philippine Forests in Peril : Environment: Home to monkeys, deer, snakes, bats and many species of birds, the virgin land contains some of the most expensive hardwoods to be found anywhere.
- Human 'Leftovers' an Embarrassment in Poland
- 4-A CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS : Crenshaw Captures Boys', Girls' Titles : Boys' basketball: Cougars roll over Dorsey, 92-71, for their 12th City Championship and heads to the Southern California Regionals on Tuesday.
- SOUTH-CENTRAL : Shuttle Bus Lines Begin New Service
- Gallery : Not Quite : Prime Time
- Diamond Bar : City Acts to Kill General Plan
- Dr. Suraiya Rasheed knows that the number...
- CAMPUS CORRESPONDENCE : A Maligned Generation Is Offered Its Salvation
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Garden City
- Oldies That Are Still Goodies
- Dispute Over Mansion Has Big Audience : Construction: Opponents of a proposed estate are alarmed as the national media focus on the controversy the massive project.
- KOREATOWN : Weekly Farmers' Market to Open
- U.N. Finds Many Injured Muslims in Bosnia Enclave
- DOWNTOWN : Seventh Marketplace Bullock's to Close
- DOWNTOWN : Garment Shops Cited During Inspections
- Sierra Madre : Wisteria Vine Viewing
- SINGING FOR A CAUSE
- Another Setback for Education in California : Schools: Whoever Honig's successor is, he or she will face a new power dynamic, with the office being used to further political ambition, not kids.
- STYLE: GARDENS : The Edible Landscape
- The Poet as WITNESS : Molding the Political, the Metaphysical and the Erotic, C.K. Williams Is the Voice of a New Era.
- THE WINE LIST
- THE SCIENCE OF VIRUSES: What They Are,...
- FICTION
- 1992 Worst Year for Builders in Decade : BUILDING LEADERS
- COMMUNITY SERVICE : Clinton Plan Has Familiar Ring at USC : University Launched Topping Fund After Watts Riots to Aid Cash-Strapped Scholars
- Company Tightens Security After Cesium-137 Scare : Industrial safety: A small vial of the radioactive substance was recovered, but a state investigation is continuing.
- The Vanishing (Cinemax Monday at 5:15 a.m.)...
- After 17 Years, the Stage Still Strikes Volunteer Actor's Fancy
- Men Organize to Fight Assaults on Women
- Cliff Hangar
- BALDWIN HILLS : Workers Pushing for All-Black Crews
- LOCAL ELECTIONS L.A. CITY COUNCIL : Bitter Rivalry Fuels 'Zev and Laura' Rematch
- Ralphs Grocery Co. recently announced the following...
- Step-By-Step Tax Guide : Tax Facts : Double Check
- SATURDAY'S CHILD : When You're All Grown Up, Weekends Just Aren't What They Used to Be
- FICTION
- Residents Ask D.A. to Investigate $1.5-Million Loan by City : Government: Officials gave money to nonprofit business training group. At least $220,000 is unaccounted for.
- BOYLE HEIGHTS : Open House Slated for White Memorial
- A Call to Duty: The King Trial : IRENE FERTIK
- Urban Growth : Huntington Park Studies Impact of Annexing Florence Area
- Teens and Driving : Sensible proposals to reduce the highway carnage
- Refinancing: Should You or Shouldn't You?
- Bottom Line: Sum of Debate Will Be New Kinds of Taxes
- Prescription for Weight Loss : Dieters Turning More to Doctors to Help Them Shed Extra Pounds
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING?
- 2 Northridge Students Awarded Scholarships
- Taking Steps to Define Ecotourism : Standards: A nonprofit group has begun a survey to establish benchmarks for environmentally friendly trips.
- Florida Panel Seeking Ways to Protect Tourists
- California Corner
- Sex Returns as Young, Old Put Disease Fears Aside, Study Says : Behavior: 'Janus Report' finds that 62% of men, 66% of women ages 18 to 26 are having more encounters now than 3 years ago.
- Dig in Sinai Uncovers Roman Amphitheater : Archeology: A canal project, which follows the path of an ancient route linking Africa and Asia, threatens more than 1,000 antiquity sites with obliteration.
- Christian Athletes Night Slated at Azusa Pacific
- SOUTH LOS ANGELES : Shaw Follows Hahn Into Retirement
- U.N. Finds Many Injured Muslims in Bosnia Enclave
- Italy Reform Package Seeks to Tame Crisis
- Italian Restaurateur a True Renaissance Man
- CALIFORNIA ALBUM : Coming Out of Their Shells : After nearly vanishing, the famed giant pismo clam has rebounded--only to be threatened again by mollusk lovers and voracious sea otters.
- On the Move : Traffic Engineers Have Given the Green Light to Technology, Letting Specialized Computers Control the Flow of Motorists on Orange County's Streets, but Coordination Among Cities--Including Synchronizing Lights--Still Has a Long Way to Go
- It was one of those days I...
- VIEW PARK : MTA Offers Look at Rail Proposals
- Investment Group Buys Griswold's Inn
- MID-WILSHIRE : Janitors Step Up Call for Health Benefits
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : DEATH IN THE SEASON OF LIFE : The Funerals Are Something to See in This Little-Known Corner of Indonesia, Where Spring Comes Three Times a Year
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Correspondents' Choice : HOW DO YOU KNOW IT'S SPRING?
- EAST LOS ANGELES : Azteca to Appeal Loss of $2 Million
- Voters Facing a Slate of 32 Candidates for 5 City Offices : Elections: A new mayor, two City Council members, a city treasurer, city clerk and city attorney are scheduled to be chosen April 20. If needed, runoffs will be held June 1.
- 4-A CITY CHAMPIONSHIPS : Crenshaw Captures Boys', Girls' Titles : Girls' basketball: Grice and Howse lead the 72-50 onslaught against North Hollywood for title.
- 44,300 Repatriated
- Eastwood Wins Directors' Prize for 'Unforgiven'
- You Can Join 'Em--Or at Least You Can Sound Like 'Em
- Tending the Garden : A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The American Environmental Movement By Philip Shabecoff ; (Farrar Straus & Giroux: $25; 352 pp.)
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Prime Time in Budapest : On Both Sides of the Danube, the Hungarian Capital Echoes With the Past--and Glows With the Season
- TRAVEL INSIDER : For Now, Hotel Rooms Are a Buyer's Market : Accommodations: Hoteliers seek to cut costs and keep rates down without eroding their images.
- To Our Readers:
- CRENSHAW : Homeless Advocacy Group Finds a Home
- Bill Would Increase Number of Supervisors in Populated Counties
- COLLEGE BASKETBALL : Trade Tech Advances, 85-83
- ONE SQUARE MILE: An Artist's Journal of...
- RESTAURANTS : SUCH A SWELL PARTY : Eat, Smoke and Be Merry--It's Tatou, Where the Beautiful People Never Leave
- Baldwin Park : Council to Thank Clinton
- Mortgages at 20-Year Low
- Honig Era Ends but Discord Remains : Education: Schools chief nominee faces a bruising confirmation fight as battle lines are drawn over powers of state board.
- Cookie Monster's Loot Doggone Good
- RALPH EMERY : The Talk of Nashville
- Q&A; : Judging Their Rank Along the PC Scale
- SOUTH GATE : Security Tightened After Cesium Scare
- Two Home Fairs Will Offer Realty Tax Information
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Side Trips : Nothing to Sneeze At
- Keep Tax Records Long Enough to Satisfy IRS
- Five Travel Accessories That Take to the Highway
- FICTION
- Notes From the Singing Executive
- GIRLS ROUNDUP
- A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : REWRITE CITY : A Real Cliffhanger: Will Stallone Get a Screenplay Credit?
- 'Grizly Cargo': A Band and Its Messages
- Art : Leave Them to Heaven : Komar and Melamid's angel-themed mural in the lobby of an L.A. skyscraper puts a new spin on a familiar metaphor
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEN'S BASKETBALL REGIONAL : Saddleback Falls Short in Loss To Trade Tech
- O.C. Ready for Verdict, Officials Say : Trial: Law enforcers expect calm to prevail after the King beating case decision but say they're prepared if violence flares.
- Fun, Feminism Draw Women to Workshops
- Monarch Beach Golf Resort Plans Stuck in the Sands of Time : Development: Economy, bureaucracy have put luxury complex on hold. Project had been speedily approved by Dana Point officials eager to see it built.
- Kamikaze Irish Mice Halt Town, Burn Out
- COLLEGE SWIMMING PAC-10 MEN'S FINALS : Stanford Wins 12th Title in Row
- Monarchs Rule Again, 71-60 : Girls' basketball: Morningside wins its fifth Southern Section title in sixth seasons by defeating Alemany, 71-60.
- DIVISION IV BOYS : Eagles Settle for a Share of First Title
- TENNIS ROUNDUP : Sanchez Vicario, Graf Make It Look Easy
- GIRLS ROUNDUP : Buena Gains I-A Title With Late Free Throws
- I-AA Title Is Won by Jordan : Boys' basketball: Ratleff fuels a 61-59 double-overtime victory over Simi Valley.
- AND ONE MORE THING: Billy Ray Cyrus...
- PREP BASEBALL 1993 / SEA VIEW LEAGUE : Woodbridge
- Poised for Takeoff? : Mideast: With new rules in place and a new wave of immigrants, some Israeli economists say the country is ready to soar. Others aren't so sure.
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : Northern California Is a Garden-Lover's Paradise, and the Gates Are Open to One and All : Bloom Country
- Leaving the Gang Behind : ALWAYS RUNNING: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L. A.--A Memoir By Luis J. Rodriguez ; (Curbstone Press: $19.95, 256 pp.)
- L.A. SPEAK
- Technical Help
- WEEKEND ESCAPE : A Quick Getaway on the Outskirts of Ensenada : Hotel by coastal highway beguiles guests with sun deck and food. Bugs prove a mite of a problem.
- SUPREME FOLLY edited by Rodney R. Jones...
- The Anomie Within : EMPATHY By Sarah Schulman ; (Dutton: $18; 182 pp.)
- Three members of the original 1967 feature...
- German Star Chef Tried Over Dope
- Tiny Glowworms Could Help Detect Water Pollution
- The Way They Were : THE LITTLE THINGS COUNT IN CREATING AN AUTHENTIC 'HOMEFRONT' ATMOSPHERE
- Clinton Says No Improprieties Intruded on Rep. Ford's Case
- A Walk Across the City
- O.C. Agency Helps Seniors Meet Needs
- Memos Raised Concern Over Lottery Bids
- RECRUITING NOTEBOOK / JEFF FELLENZER : Lineman Keeps 3 Schools on Hold
- ROUNDUP : 18-Hit Attack Lifts Canyons to 13-7 Win Over Ventura
- Healthy Noel Breaks CSUN Javelin Record
- GIRLS ROUNDUP
- The Tales of Three Chefs, With Apologies to Chaucer
- 'Kentucky' Grips Broadway Neophyte
- When to Stop? : AARP Offers Dozens of Classes to Help Older Drivers Improve Skills and Determine When It's Time to Quit
- Yelstin's Hold on Power Grows More Tenuous by Day : Russia: The president is increasingly vulnerable on two fronts: the economy and on "abandoning" Serbia. Was life better under Brezhnev?
- Taxes No Longer Signal Political Kiss of Death : Politics: Bill Clinton seems to have pulled off something that mortally wounded George Bush. But does this sell the American people short?
- Boxing
- WEST COAST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT : Pepperdine Rests While Routing Loyola
- A Cache of Trash : Illegal Dumping Plagues Remote Balcom Canyon
- Defendant Misplaced in Jail but Judge Won't Free Him
- Plan Panel Shift Reflects Political Change : Developers No Longer Wield the Clout They Once Enjoyed--nor Should They
- HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING STATE MEET : Stellar Seasons End in Disappointment for Alemany's Castaneda, Agoura's Burns
- COUNTYWIDE : Temperatures Rise Well Into the 80s
- Catalogue Dream Mates From Russia
- Robbery Victim Dies in Lancaster
- GIRLS' I-AA DIVISION : All's Well That Ends Well for Lynwood
- Unitas, 59, Has Bypass Surgery; Doctors Expect a Full Recovery
- HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ROUNDUP : Pond Stays Hot for Simi Valley
- Old, Gray Sir Beaufort Better Than Used to Be : Big 'Cap: Six-year-old beats 59-1 Star Recruit by a nose for his richest victory. Best Pal, other favorites finish out of money.
- Falling Boulder Flips Car; Couple Unhurt
- Calvary Chapel Takes Names, Wins State Meet
- PREP BASEBALL 1993 / SEA VIEW LEAGUE : Saddleback
- PREP BASEBALL 1993 / SEA VIEW LEAGUE : Tustin
- Win Gives Ventura Trip North
- PREP BASKETBALL SPOTLIGHT : FACTS, FIGURES AND COMMENTS FROM FRIDAY'S SECTIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES : MUTUAL ADMIRATION
- Lorenzo's Toil Sparks Trojans
- Ojai Accepts Golf Event Without Protest
- Poor Free-Throw Shooting Costs Cal Lutheran, 67-56
- SOCCER ROUNDUP : Late Goals Lift Arcadia Girls to Championship
- COMMUNITY COLLEGE BASEBALL PREVIEWS : Ready to Make a State(ment) : Harbor: The Seahawks haven't been to the state tournament since 1990, but Coach Tony Bloomfield is optimistic about his team's chances.
- Look Before You Leap Into Variable Annuities
- Roth Contemplates His Pipik : OPERATION SHYLOCK: A Confession By Philip Roth ; (Simon & Schuster: $23; 398 pp.)
- ABCs for New Board Officers, Members
- PRIDE OF FAMILY: Four Generations of American...
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : PROVENCE IN DARK AND LIGHT : The Air Is Sweet and Warm in the Alpilles Region of the South of France, but Watch Out for the Monsters
- FICTION
- Call It Slop
- THE KIKUCHI DIARY: Chronicle from an American...
- Fallen Japan Powerbroker Arrested on Tax Evasion Charges
- The Dynamic Duo of Wilkins-Fortson
- It's End of Chisholm Trail as Stockyards Go Out of the Auction Business : Cowtown: The final gavel comes down on the weekly cattle sales in Ft. Worth, marking the end of the city's historic link to cattle drives of yesteryear.
- Police Offer an Olive Branch : Law enforcement: Meeting with youths is one of several being organized to ward off problems that might result from a verdict in the Rodney G. King case.
- Prolific, Unknown Songwriter Keeps Nothing Bottled Up
- South Africa Negotiations to Resume : Talks: Black and white leaders agree to reconvene within four weeks to forge constitution. Flare-up of fatal violence underscores urgency of finding a political settlement.
- REGIONAL REPORT : Medical Waste Dumping Law Debated : Health: Officials see it as preventive medicine, but say more inspectors are needed. Critics say the risk of infection is slim and enforcement is too costly.
- ELECTIONS / L.A. CITY COUNCIL : Picus Opponents Say City Business Climate Is Ailing : Politics: Challengers for 3rd District seat say incumbent has an anti-business attitude. She says her relations with industry groups are friendly.
- 77 Feared Dead in Macedonia Jet Crash
- L.A. MARATHON : The Real Pain Is at Back of the Pack : L.A. Marathon: It's tougher for elite runners to run slower. The majority of 20,000 truly suffer.
- GOLF SENIORS AT OJAI : Archer Stumbles, Doesn't Fall
- GIRLS' BASKETBALL SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION I-A : Giordano, Buena Sink Thousand Oaks
- TENNIS / THOMAS BONK : For Chang, 18 Is the Age of Plastic
- CSUN Loses as Contreras Takes Walk on the Wild Side : College baseball: Home run follows two walks and Sacramento deals Matadors second consecutive one-run loss.
- CS Long Beach Loses to Pacific, Drops to Fourth
- With a Little Magic, Fullerton Upsets UNLV
- 311 Gets Its Energy From the Heartland
- 1992 Worst Year for Builders in Decade : New Housing: Last year's stagnant economy hurt home builders overall but some benefited from easier access to capital, while others found niche building for first-time buyers.
- TRAVELING IN STYLE : SPRING BREAK! : Sex, Beer, Sun, Stupid Pool Tricks--It's an All-American Tradition
- Monterey Park : Reservoir Study Rejected
- In Praise of Their Talents : Celebration: March is Women's History Month, and throughout the city the spotlight is on art, accomplishments and aspirations.
- SOUTHERN SECTION IV-A CHAMPIONSHIP : Verbum Dei Loses a Game of Catch-Up, 69-53
- Cult Leader Is Asked to Let Followers Be Free to Leave : Standoff: FBI issues public appeal, vowing they 'will be treated fairly and humanely.' No sign given of anyone's release or of end to 7-day siege.
- HUNTINGTON PARK : Swap Meet Plans Anger Merchants
- PLAY TIMES
- 26.2 Miles Plus
- Tough Battles Expected Over New Round of Military-Base Shutdowns : Defense: Process begins this week. Affected communities have already started lobbying the decision-making panel to save their facilities.
- Riding the Green Tortoise Bus--'Think Sardines'
- An Ugly Job, but New Mayor Will Have to Cut Services
- DIVISION II GIRLS : Indirect Approach Helps Arcadia Defeat Canyon
- WOMEN'S BASKETBALL : USC Rallies to Beat Washington State
- Motown slapped a cease and desist order...
- What Price Local Law Enforcement?
- Boy's Check
- Tee'd Off
- Don't Glorify Taggers, Gangs
- Good Samaritans
- Tollway Agency's Sucker Punches
- THE RAPE OF BOSNIA
- INTERVIEW : Elizabeth Taylor, the Movies : She started in Hollywood 50 years ago, but says all the scripts she's read in the past few years are dreck. That's OK because she spends her time raising millions for AIDS and selling her perfumes. But, let her tell you . . .
- Alameda Corridor
- THE RAPE OF BOSNIA
- Names
- Determined Principal Brings Order, Neatness and Hope to Inner-City School : Education: The neighborhood is blighted with crack houses, jobless people and trash-filled streets. Students are so poor that nearly 98% of them qualify for federal breakfast and lunch subsidies.
- Mexico Driving
- Education Priorities
- MUCH ADO
- A Dog's World
- Education a Cooperative Venture
- Rock in a Hard Place
- Police Patrols in the Pico Neighborhood
- THE RAPE OF BOSNIA
- No Safe Havens for Youth
- Two Compton Officers Slain
- COVER STORY : David Geffen...
- Privatization Offers Public Benefits
- LONE STAR ECHOES
- VIEWPOINT MIGHTY DUCK LETTERS : Will Team Be Mickey Mouse or More of a Magic Kingdom?
- Why the Battle Over Building Permits?
- Mountain High
- Valley Needs More Police
- LINDY HOP
- Myanmar's Plight Cannot Be Ignored
- Mountain High
- Dog Kennels Along Sepulveda Boulevard
- Checkpoint Is Miles From Problem
- 'Michael Jackson' Aftermath
- Violent Crime Swells in Mexico's Sinaloa...
- Beyond Disability
- Marshaling Justice : DREAM MAKERS, DREAM BREAKERS: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall; By Carl T. Rowan (Little, Brown: $24.95; 457 pp.) : THURGOOD MARSHALL: Warrior at the Bar, Rebel on the Bench By Michael D. Davis ; and Hunter R. Clark ; (Birch Lane Press: $31.95; 387 pp.)
- SWEET CHARIOT
- Don't Glorify Taggers, Gangs
- PREP BASEBALL 1993 / SEA VIEW LEAGUE : Irvine
- Spoof Goofs
- MUCH ADO
- THE REAL JIMMY CARTER
- Don't Speak for All Burbank
- I, TOO, SING AMERICA: The African-American Book of Days by Paula L. Woods and Felix H. Liddell (Workman Publishing: $22.95; 256 pp.)
- How the Tax Package Affects the Elderly
- Closing Mall Is Bad Business
- 'Hallmark' Production
- LONE STAR ECHOES
- Political-War Stories of a Truly Combative Supervisor
- A community of 12,000 goes to the polls to find a voice and an identity.
- Residents of Wyoming at Home on Range : Lifestyles: Those who live in the nation's least populous state exhibit a true frontier spirit--and a healthy respect for the weather.
- Deputies Seize $138 Million in Cocaine, Arrest 3
- Van Nuys Man Dies in Apartment Fire
- PERSPECTIVE ON SHEIK ABDUL RAHMAN : N.Y. Bomb a Skirmish in Holy War : Muslim fundamentalists are willing to sacrifice innocent lives in their unrelenting campaign to overcome the evil West.
- Notes about your surroundingsSpring Break Nature Classes--The...
- A New Lease on Life for Battered Women : More Shelters Like New One in Central County Needed
- Biathlon
- PREP ROUNDUP : Brea-Olinda Advances in the El Segundo Tournament
- NBA ROUNDUP : 76ers Reach Old Low, Lose Another by 56
- Clinton's Economic Proposals Are Taxing Patience of Players
- GIRLS' BASKETBALL SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION III-AA : Alemany Staggered by Early Onslaught
- Royals Look for Consistency From Cone
- PREP BASEBALL 1993 / SEA VIEW LEAGUE : Corona del Mar
- Pro Basketball
- BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : AROUND THE MAJORS : Wetteland Kicks Screen, Suffers a Broken Big Toe
- A look inside Hollywood and the movies. : HOPE AND 'GLORY' : Funny How a Groundhog Can Generate Buzz
- Intimate Treasures of Yesterday and Today
- U.S. Stuck in Rut in Downhill : Skiing: Kitt is in the lead by almost a second when race is canceled in Aspen. U.S. officials outraged.
- It Seems Like Everyone Is Talking About It. Some Like It. Many Hate It. But as Long as There Is Hockey in Anaheim, There Will Be Plenty of Duck Tales : Chill Out, This Is Supposed to Be Fun
- Head-On Crash Kills 2, Leaves 2 Critically Hurt
- NHL ROUNDUP : For North Stars, Home Ice Is Especially Cold
- Stage Set for Upset, but New Mexico State Sets Down UCI
- Players Say the Game's the Thing, Not the Name : Hockey: It's a rough sport, Kings contend, and being named the Mighty Ducks won't change that, quacks or no.