A contented screenwriter: Now there's an oxymoron for you. Jimmy Gleason, a school bus driver who also maintained the fleet, is absent. Dessens has a 2.79 ERA, more than a run better than any other active Dodger."We think Elmer has done a great job in filling multiple roles on our staff," DePodesta said.*Minor league pitching coordinator Rick Honeycutt is spending two weeks with the major league team to gain information he can impart to young players in the farm system."I can see firsthand how Jim Tracy and Jim Colborn run a game," he said. In the first -- and probably last -- all-mail election in Orange County that ended Tuesday, Seal Beach drew an unusually high turnout, with 35% of registered voters participating, an 8% increase over the previous election, when voters went to the polls.The mail-in vote in the seaside town, which has 19,296 eligible voters, was an effort to save the city money. Add any assorted herb stems and trimmings and then reduce the heat to maintain a lazy simmer.2. sodium.*Purple RainTotal time: 5 minutesServings: 8Note: From Dennis Lynn, bartender at Wilshire restaurant in Santa Monica16 ounces (2 cups) vodka1 cup pomegranate juice1 cup pineapple juice1 lime, sliced1 orange, sliced1. CNN pulled an average of 897,000 viewers in the 25-to-54 demographic throughout Tuesday while Fox averaged 847,000.-- Matea Gold.

The newspapers' operating agreement, established in 1983, has a clause that allows either one to end the relationship if one party posts losses for three consecutive years.In its ruling, the court agreed that the Times lost money in 2000 and 2001 because of the strike, and that could lead to severing the agreement. But I have never, in nearly 25 years in this field, heard anyone argue that it is the right thing to do. You can sustain close-ups better than on a huge screen, but some images may need to be exaggerated to compensate for the small size of the screen," Saria said.Saria's initial reaction was that the contest "could be gimmicky.... Thomson's Nicole has far too much integrity to have participated in a sham.Indeed, in discussions of Kidman's romantic encounters, both in real life and on screen, there is an odd, discomfited tone, as if Thomson feels no man is quite up to par with or deserving of his lady fair. It totally changed the landscape."But he didn't have to wait long for help.

But in the '80s, a beloved Milanese maestro, Carlo Maria Giulini, fit in too, with his elegant manners, as had his predecessor from India, Zubin Mehta, in a far flashier way.Yet Andre Previn, so much admired and himself a flashy Hollywood figure, had, in Giulini's wake, a rough ride No one could be more L.A. They say the new congressional boundaries were drawn to dilute the voting power of blacks and Latinos.The justices said they would take up the legal challenge from Democrats and minority voters in the spring and rule by June.The court's move to hear the Texas case could spell trouble for the Republicans, who have controlled the U.S House for a decade. He played nine seasons between 1974 and 1982 for Pittsburgh, Seattle and Texas, bouncing up and down across the .200 mark and winding up with a career average of .215.Suffice it that anybody hitting below the Mendoza line isn't batting in many runs and probably is striking out a lot. "The investigator told me to write an explanation of how I'd gotten Russian citizenship."Bagrov was born in Tbilisi, which became the capital of independent Georgia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But in the face of televised images of horrifying anarchy, some senior Republicans warned the White House that it needed to change its tone.Massachusetts Gov. Whether it's his casting sensibilities (Waters regulars include Patty Hearst and ex-teen porn queen Traci Lords) or his production experiments (1981's "Polyester" was released in Odorama, complete with scratch-and-sniff cards for the audience), Waters always seems to choose the path not only less traveled but off the map altogether.Waters' latest film, "A Dirty Shame," was released this month in a deluxe DVD edition, and a new gift-set collection of seven of his most popular films has been bundled with a bonus disc, "John Waters' DVD Scrapbook." And there's more: On July 12, the director's cut of 1990's "Cry-Baby," starring Johnny Depp, will be released.Waters, who still resides in his beloved Baltimore, was in Los Angeles recently to tend to business, but he always makes time for some of his regular haunts.The place to stayI've been coming to Los Angeles for work and to see friends for years now.

But the galloping cavalry is nowhere in sight.In a nation that forgives vilified presidents, grants childish and churlish celebrities second chances and even romanticizes the exploits of killers such as Billy the Kid, Al Capone and Jesse James, Joseph McCarthy burns in a marketing hell, nearly 50 years after his death.To say that Appleton, a city of 71,000, has an awkward relationship with its most notorious son is like saying Florida has issues with hurricanes."There's not a lot of lingering romance about blacklisting," said Lynn Peters, executive director of the Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, where rows of glossy tourism pamphlets ignore McCarthy. It's a natural part of the ebb and flow of all neighborhoods; turnover, like death and taxes, is certain. Fox changed her biography in "Who's Who of America" to include mention of Carroll. One of them, Joe Hogan, who worked for CBS for 12 years, found out about the exhibit -- and discovered a new passion for photography and activism -- when his friend Gere asked him to get involved. diverted much of the money earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction to immediate security needs.

DEMOCRATS SHOULD be wary of jumping to conclusions in the wake of Democrat Timothy Kaine's Virginia gubernatorial victory. There were no services to speak of on the mountain, no amenities. And how long can you expect the person to be here? So I told them, 'Get me a Bedouin who is instinctively careful and I can teach him the computer part.' They live here, we have known all their relatives for generations, and there is no thought about how long they can stay here."When Hemeid applied for work at the monastery, he knew nothing about the library."I did not decide to work there," he says. At first Williams threw the cakes away; then it occurred to him that the bowab was going through his garbage, piece by piece.Most of all, there's the sense that family members are captive, that their every move is tracked and known.