• He was cranky man who smoked a pipe and kept slapping an L-shaped pica ruler into his palm.

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  • Now we can see what so many other filmmakers have seen (and discussed reverentially) in this poetic story of a young barge captain on the Seine -- "L'Atalante" is the name of his boat -- and the lovely young woman he marries and almost loses.

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  • "The idea is to teach people how to live healthy, " he says, bounding out of his L.A. office to get a copy of his 500-page tome, Encyclopedia of Foods, which he published in 2002.

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  • Pistorius, who runs on L-shaped carbon blades, finished second in his heat with a time of 45.44 seconds.

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  • Armed with a master's in social work, Morris Shechtman specializes in "human capital development, " a term the L.A.-based counselor uses to describe his brand of therapy.

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  • He does however rely on microscopes to study samples and has been known to carry an L-shaped divining rod, which he holds over his head until it points him toward water.

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  • His first move was to acquire an L-39 Albatross, a high-performance Czechoslovakian trainer, and get it overhauled.

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  • Emory L. Cozee was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand as he was leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, state police said.

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  • With Samuel L. Jackson as a canny rare-instrument specialist who has his own plans for the fiddle.

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  • Querrey, who beat unseeded Russian Igor Kunitsyn 6-3 6-4, is hoping to build on his L.A. Open title last weekend.

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  • Enter tree lover Peter L. Malkin, a real-estate heavyweight perhaps best known for his lengthy battle with Leona Helmsley over control of the Empire State Building.

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  • Like L-3's Frank Lanza, Newman has been doing some shopping of his own.

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  • "I feel deep sympathy and admiration for the Cedillo family, " Special Master George L. Hastings Jr. wrote in his ruling in the case involving 14-year-old Michelle Cedillo, who cannot speak, wears a diaper and requires round-the-clock monitoring in case she has a seizure.

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  • "I love his rage, " extolled Paris Saint-Germain striker Mevlut Erding in L'Equipe.

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  • By his reckoning, the stock goes for only 15 times his estimate for fiscal 2007 earnings per share, right in line with L-3's valuation.

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  • "What was important was his private conversations -- you know ... everybody say the l'avvocato told me, l'avvocato suggested me, I met the l'avvocato, I had a call in the early morning from the l'avvocato... to be in touch with him ... to be related to him ... was a state symbol for everybody, " journalist Carlo Rossella told CNN.

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  • Collina-Girard has published his work in a prestigious French journal, Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences.

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  • According to the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, the Pope took the decision to resign after his trip to Mexico and Cuba in 2012.

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  • Steven L'Heureux, a California broadcast-technology executive, says Mr. Werner contacted 962 concerns on his behalf without naming him.

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  • Veteran whodunit writer Robert Parker has created a new detective hero, a booze-loving, small-town police chief who had been dumped by the L.A. Police Department because of his fondness for John Barleycorn.

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  • Rep. Thomas Reynolds (R-NY), the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee who was among those party leaders who knew some details of l'affaire Foley as far back as last November, has an unexpected challenge for his Buffalo-area seat from Jack Davis, a well-financed businessman, who is thought to be within striking distance of victory.

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  • Don Cheadle, as a withdrawn, melancholy police detective, is the star, and the other players include Terrence Howard and Thandie Newton as an upper-class African-American couple, Brendan Fraser and Sandra Bullock as an L.A. district attorney and his bitchy wife, Chris (Ludacris) Bridges and Larenz Tate as carjackers, Matt Dillon and Ryan Phillippe as cops, and Shaun Toub as an Iranian shopkeeper who thinks everyone is out to cheat him.

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  • Just three days later, L. Lynette Fuller-Andrews, the acting general counsel for Hanesbrands, informed Mendenhall that Hanesbrands was terminating his endorsement contract.

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  • The brains behind Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law will bring his latest legal drama, Raising the Bar, which stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gloria Reuben and Kaczmarek, to the cable outlet this fall.

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  • After Parise feathered a dump-in toward the L.A. goal, Quick tried to fire the puck around the boards behind his net.

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