- Fitch Can't Win for Losing
- Park Puts It In Gear
- Cliches Mar Keshet Chaim's 'Jerusalem'
- Valencia Pinch Hits
- Japanese Media Covering More Than Nomo
- U.S. Dives Into a Sea of Major Rewards--and Risks
- In L.A. Unified, the Mayor Is Watching
- Sermons on the Campaign Trail
- Pepperdine Plays San Diego
- The Light Brigade
- Music, Memories Soar at Larson Tribute
- Doctors Give Brief Diagnosis : Jockey Undresses Los Angeles-Area Medical Professionals in Eye-Opening Magazine Ad
- The Top 10
- Japan Unfazed by West's Call to Stimulate Its Economy
- Punch Lines
- It's All About Teaching Kids to Protect and Honor Their Bodies
- Carol Erickson Neary; Hospital Social Worker
- Your Privacy for Sale
- A LOOK AHEAD * L.A. Unified police say they face the same dangers as other law enforcement agents and therefore need more than handguns at their side. But it's up to the Board of Education to answer . . . : A Request to Ride Shotgun
- School Plans to Expand Computer-Repair Class
- A Class Skater With Class Poise
- FROM THE WEATHER TO HACKL TO MAIER TO DAEHLIE TO PICABO TO SEIZINGER TO HASEK TO GRANATO TO LIPINSKI, IT WAS. . .17 DAYS OF STORY
- Music Registers Stronger Than Moves in 'Fault'
- Starr Handling Pension Fund Case for Hughes
- City Drafting Rules on Leaf-Blower Use
- Executive Deal at EMI Falls Through
- District Hires Tutors, Raising Questions
- New S.F. Stadium Mall Won't Cover City Costs, Report Says
- 'Moses' Is Only 1 of Hundreds
- 2nd Community Pool Might Open
- Nigeria's Time to Heal Itself
- Host City Doesn't Wilt to the Weather and Sets Standard That Salt Lake City Aims to Surpass
- Grown-Up Movies May Be Confusing to Some Sub-Teens
- THE WEEK AHEAD
- SEC Sues Canoga Park Investment Operation
- '90s-Style Changes Take the Fear Out of Seeing the Dentist
- Girl Among 8 Shot Dead in Pakistan
- Paramedics Rescue Abandoned Baby
- 2 Arrested in Separate Stabbing Incidents
- Hands-On Trend
- Defense Must Open the Commercial Door
- Pacers File Protest Over Violation in Loss
- Race Not the Pits for Gordon After All
- L.A. Philharmonic Electrifies Shostakovich's Eleventh
- A New Acceptance
- Pint-Sized Punch Lines
- Royal Taste Master
- Suspected Drunk Driver Held in Crash That Killed Three
- A Vision for L.A. Schools
- Czech Team Had Fewer Stars, but Far More Unity
- Celia Cruz Lights Up New Conga Room
- Turkish Islamists' Party Shut Down
- Driver Arrested in Pasadena Girl's Death
- Cullen M. Crain; Expert on Electronic Signals
- Public Meeting to Be Held to Discuss Charter Reform
- Crews Respond as Quickly as Possible to Flood of Calls
- NUTRITION
- Authorities Seek 3 on Felony Warrants
- A consumer's guide to the best and worst of sports media and merchandise. Ground rules: If it can be read, played, heard, observed, worn, viewed, dialed or downloaded, it's in play here.
- Building for the Future
- Roads Not Well-Traveled
- Knicks Get Last Word on Barkley, Rockets
- WORST 10 OF THE GAMES
- * The average heart beats 100,000 times...
- "Power Sleep: How to Prepare Your Mind for Peak Performance" James Maas; Villard Books $25, 248 pages
- Science Begins to Solve Mystery of Speech
- Mexico Highlights Its Anti-Drug Successes
- Thomas Chapin; Jazz Saxophonist, Composer
- Violence, Fall of Key State Government Mar India Vote
- Councilmen Ask MTA to Move Sound Wall
- AGENDA : ISSUES COMING UP
- League Still Investigating Incident at Village
- After Storm Today, Week of Clear Sailing
- Krzyzewski Says UCLA Chose to End Series
- Titans' Trentine Sidelined by Broken Foot
- A Partisan Tangle Over China-Linked Donors
- Gunmen in Georgia Free U.N. Hostage
- 3 Are Killed, 8 Injured in Palmdale Head-On Collision
- Cheating: Students' Fault, or Do Teachers Share Blame?
- Let the Valley Have the Facts on Cityhood
- Abandoned but Not Alone
- 'Leading the Nation'--Where?
- Kansas State Athletes Are Arrested in Separate Cases
- Mets End Trade Talks With Marlins About Sheffield
- Catching On to a New Pitch
- Clarity, Volume From Leon Bates
- Software, Web Sites Chipping Away at Language Barriers
- After Earlier Missteps, Sure-Footed Clinton Tries New Approach
- Air Strikes Can't Accomplish Much
- Magical History Tour
- 48-Point Loss Means Quiet Time for Knight
- Ice Dogs Extend Win Streak to Five
- A Golden Skater, a Golden Child
- At UC, Proving the Critics Wrong
- Addleman and Gorrie, Veteran Santa Ana Coaches, Retire
- Top 5 Medal Winners
- Injury Ends Sales' Career
- Low-Key Shaq Considered Tense
- StingRays Fall to Xplosion, 88-68
- A Time to Reflect on the 'Reagan' Revolution
- A Tested Tosca
- An 'SNL' Update
- It's Virtually Like Having a Personal Trainer
- Czech President Leaves Hospital
- A Measure of Comfort Amid Chaos
- Luncheon to Benefit Buena Park Agency
- Parents May Submit School Applications
- Cook's Creation May Be Recipe for Success
- Children Wild About Refuge
- Sincerity Was a Dream for Sleepless and Surly Scribes
- 'Titanic' Steams Past 'E.T.' as No. 2 Top-Grossing Film
- Paula Jones' Suit
- Video Game Makers Sell Blood, Gore
- Paparazzi
- Catalina Slaughter
- Israeli Affluence
- Choosing Adoption
- U.S. Policy Against Iraq
- MTA's Efforts on Crowding
- Truth
- Talc Mine
- France
- This weeks subject: Presidents
- Obituaries - Feb. 23, 1998
- U.N., Iraq Reach an 11th-Hour Deal; U.S. Takes Cautious Line
- Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87; Senator Known for Role at '68 Convention
- Town in Grief Over Tragic Twist
- Unstable Hillside Sends 10 Ventura Residents Packing
- A Simple Solution Fixed His Gas Problem
- Rescuers Find 2 Snowboarders Missing for Nearly 24 Hours
- Southland Braces for Another Strong but Short-Lived Storm
- GOP Delegates Defy Lungren, Pass Resolution on Late Abortion
- Rescuers Find 2 Snowboarders Missing for Nearly 24 Hours
- EMPIRE BY DEFAULT: The Spanish American War and the Dawn of the American Century. <i> By Ivan Musicant</i> .<i> Marion Wood/Henry Holt: 740 pp., $35</i>
- It Is Hard to Find an Original
- Garden of Glass
- Sobering Facts on Alcohol and Fullerton's TKE Fraternity
- All New: Season, Fields, Dreams
- Welfare Plan Would Add Staff, Shift Assignments
- Details of Motor Home Accident on I-15 Emerge
- Selanne Feels Sore but Happy
- Movie Spotlight
- READING L.A.
- To Adoptive Parents, the Government Gives Its Own Kind of Blessing
- Interstate Electronics Announces New President
- Do's and Definite Don'ts of Appliance Repair
- Commoners Get Part of Windsor Estate
- CBS plays the Grammys; Selleck returns to prime time; KCET recalls '40s; HBO fights 'Pentagon'
- Writers' Road Maps to Reach Nirvana
- The Subtle Use of Sexism to Bring Down Women Candidates
- Empowerment Zone Is Just a Start
- 'Jazz & Justice' a Tribute to Japanese-American Internees
- 3 Rules to Save Broadcast Journalism From Scoop Mania
- Airport Authority's Goal Might Be a Flight of Fancy
- Conventional Wisdom Says Monopoly Is Greed
- Anteaters Come Up Way Short
- SOUTHLAND ROUNDUP
- Justice Injures Shoulder; Berroa Might Start in Left
- Swillis Has Right Stuff
- DON'T WORRY, ATLANTA STILL HAS PLENTY OF IZZYS LEFT
- First Months Yield Some Good Soundtrack Hunting
- For Many Investors, Cut in Capital Gains a Nonevent
- WEEK IN PREVIEW
- Follow U.S. History Along Nez Perce Paths
- Yes, They Got Hipper. But is That Enough?
- $60,000/Mo. OK for 'Nutty Prof'
- State, National Parks Reopening Phones
- High-Rise Heart of Auckland Left in Dark
- Casino Antes Up for Ventura Trees
- In the Short Range
- The Sum of Our Carnal Knowledge
- AIDS Threatens African Development
- Snowboards in Snowbird Land
- The Case of the Plastic Surgeon vs. Spin Doctor
- The Resurrection of a Hollywood Life
- Alice McGrath: 50 Years on the Front Lines
- THERE SHOULD BE SOME CHA-CHA-CHA CHANGES MADE
- White Lifts Waves over Portland
- Quartz Hill Has Another Golden Performance, 2-1
- Titans Run Over Long Beach State
- Flair Is There, but So Are Fouls
- Unbeatable
- Need a Tax Make-Over?
- A Net Difference
- The Venus of Muscle Beach
- Festivals, Feasts & Fairs
- Charity Scorecard
- Bringing New Structure and More Color to a Rambling Seaside Property
- In the Iraqi Capital, Gloom and Fatalism Are Pervasive
- Environmentalists Cry, 'Miners, Spare That 400-Year-Old Forest!'
- Full Backing in O.C. for Strike on Iraq Is Hard to Come By
- Vote Set on Raise for Nonteaching Staff
- Together Forever : Friends Who Jointly Picked Burial Plots Will Mark 40 Years in Club
- San Antonio's Robinson Out Another Week
- Troxler Takes Another Title
- He Won't Be Pulling Punches
- Woman of the Cloth
- Using Tomorrow's Pensions to Create 'Surpluses' Today
- Not Your Basic Black
- Mind-Altering Art
- BLACK GLASS.<i> By Karen Joy Fowler</i> .<i> Henry Holt: 242 pp., $23</i>
- Scents & Sensibility : L.A.'s fragrant 'eucalyptus lanes'
- What to Do If There's No Hot Water
- KEATS.<i> By Andrew Motion</i> .<i> Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 636 pp., $35</i>
- Joke Scientist
- A Vision of the Future L.A.
- Smart Aleck
- Candidates Plan Open-Primary Strategies
- The Net War, Where Rumor Rules
- Weak Rivets May Have Been Titanic's Fatal Flaw
- Westlake Beats Ventura to End Playoff Drought
- Bears Deal a Blow to Huskies
- Pepperdine Stops Portland, Finishes Second in the WCC
- Top to Bottom
- R&B; SONG OF THE YEAR
- She's Salome, Queen of L.A.'s Smaller Stages
- No. 1 Tar Heels Upended by Wolfpack
- PICK OR PASS?
- Roths Challenge the Conventional Wisdom on What to Put in an IRA
- In Baghdad, U.N. Leader Presses for End of Crisis
- For Austin, It's Not Heat, It's Humility
- The Politics of Snow Removal
- Council Field Trips Foster Unity
- Is the Hoopla Contributing to Your IRA 'Conversion' Confusion?
- Oops--Iowa's Sex Crackdown Perils Governor
- Nest of Dinosaur Eggs Discovered in Russia
- Calvary Chapel Dominates Division I
- RECORD RACK
- Fresh U.S. Warning: Be Careful Abroad
- Teams' Narcotics Probe Leads to Seizure of Heroin, 3 Arrests
- Youth's Case Highlights How Exposure Leads to Infection
- CD Wholesaler Bought
- The Alternative Minimum Tax--It's Not Just for the Wealthy Anymore
- A Poet's St. Lucia
- Martha Gellhorn Remembered
- United to Add Heart Devices to Planes
- Russians Weigh Legal Prostitution
- 'Lost Highway'
- N. Hollywood Team Wins Science Bowl
- Mysteries
- U.S. Clerics in China Await Information on Inmates
- Big Island Endures El Nino Drought
- Board Expected to Name Chicago Pediatrician as Public Health Chief
- Police Arrest Suspect in Stabbing of Man
- Flood Control Crews Scramble as New Storms Approach
- Encore, Encore : Kwan Seems Game for Try at 2002 Games, but Lipinski Not Quick to Commit
- Readers Recommend
- Trading Places
- Punch Lines
- Clinton Offers Plan to Close Racial Health Gap
- The Sands of Winter
- Personal Historian Finds Her Deep Roots
- Family Colors
- Secret CIA Audit on Bay of Pigs Points Finger Inward
- In Black History Month, a Reminder Racism Still Persists
- Traffic Law
- Welcome Signs of Cooperation
- MEDAL COUNT
- Boller Growing Into Position
- Caray Loved Both Baseball and Partying
- Lil's Lad Steady Under Pressure at Gulfstream
- Golf Can Forsake Just for Sake of It
- The Boys Turn 26
- Four Seasons Hotel Going Bali High
- A Critical Test of Corporate Governance
- SEX IN THE WORKPLACE: A TV AFFAIR
- Aid Worker's Rube Goldberg Device Powers Up a Continent
- Wilson Plans to Expand 'Just Say No' Teen Sex Education
- CHESS
- Hunter's Hope : Jim Kelly's Son Has His First, and Possibly Last, Birthday; Ex-Quarterback Helping Fund Research on Rare Disease
- Firm Matches Gay Men, Surrogates
- Netherlands Goes to Work Early With U.S. Half Asleep
- There Is Less Fielder but Just as Much Talent
- Czech Mate
- COLLEGE ROUNDUP
- It's Good Time to Switch to Fixed Rate
- VICTOR HUGO.<i> By Graham Robb</i> .<i> W.W. Norton: 682 pp., $39.95</i>
- Stage Right
- Kebabs With a Kumquat Kick
- The Hype That Made New York
- Forced to Be Killers, Ugandan Youths Struggle for Normal Life
- Labor's New Power in Asia
- On Target
- Support for Iraq Strike Lukewarm in San Diego
- Emergency Response Training Offered
- NOW AND THEN: From Coney Island to Here.<i> By Joseph Heller</i> .<i> Alfred A. Knopf: 240 pp., $24</i>
- The Genius of Creative Flexibility
- Anthrax Seized in Las Vegas Was Harmless
- G-7 Allies Tell Japan to Step Up Reforms
- The Tracey Papers
- A Park Where Only the Game Mattered
- Aviation School Soars as Demand for Aviation Workers Mushrooms
- Keep Funding on Track
- Orange Campus Could Be Head of a New Class
- U.S. Veterans Finish Without Medals in Short-Track Events
- Inexperience Catches Up to Valencia
- Northridge Drops Hornets After Simmons Drops Out
- From Lincoln to Clinton
- Spieker Paying $89.3 Million for 2 Office Towers in Orange
- Panel to Interview 3 for Schools Chief Job