"I didn't understand for a long time that having something of quality takes getting in the right line, " says Jerry L. Coben, a Los Angeles attorney who collects works on paper.

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So bringing Mr. Howard in now, getting him acclimated to the region, whetting his appetite for the glitz and glamor that is L.A., will help the team sell Dwight on remaining in Los Angeles for the long-term.

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Located about an hour and a half outside of Los Angeles, Ojai offers a quieter, less frenzied pace than L.A. and undoubtedly is less prone to paparazzi stake-outs.

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We handed him our L.A. Times reject, which was picked up by both the (now defunct) Los Angeles Herald Examiner and the Orange County Register.

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The Daily News, up for sale by Jack Kent Cookes estate, reaches 200, 000 daily subscribers in Los Angeles San Fernando Valley -- like Long Beach, part of the territory the L.A. Times regards as home.

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Thomas Jordan, an Earth scientist at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, who chaired an international review of earthquake forecasting in Italy in the wake of L'Aquila's quake, says that these calculations must be put into context.

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When he met with the Los Angeles Lakers before that, he noted that while coach Phil Jackson won his fifth title in L.A., it was still one fewer than he won in Chicago.

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Having lived in Cleveland, New York and Los Angeles, Nathaniel tells me, it's reassuring to be able to look up at the L.A. Times Building and know where he is.

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