EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past week Pandora's big-box In their attempt to ``mitigate'' the effects of big-box stores in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , city leaders risk driving much-needed jobs and tax revenues clear out of town. Sordid sor·did adj. 1. Filthy or dirty; foul. 2. Depressingly squalid; wretched: sordid shantytowns. 3. theater Amid all the speculation about the Kobe Bryant Kobe Bean Bryant (born July 23 1978) is an American All-Star shooting guard in the National Basketball Association (NBA) who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. case, as our society grows ever more fascinated with the private traumas of celebrities, it becomes all too easy to forget that the victims in this sordid tale are real people. Capitol bankruptcy Forget all the pious rhetoric coming down from Sacramento. As Democratic legislators, caught on tape, have admitted, the reason for the budget stalemate stale·mate n. 1. A situation in which further action is blocked; a deadlock. 2. A drawing position in chess in which the king, although not in check, can move only into check and no other piece can move. tr.v. is just petty politics. 74-day countdown In the short time between now and the vote to recall Gov. Gray Davis, Davis and his would-be successors must transcend petty politics and show that they have a real plan for restoring California. |
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