As an open territory, L.A. is the beneficiary of an NFL doubleheader every week, with the league free to feature its most appealing match ups.

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The situation is looking more and more like an open-ended L. Or worse.

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But any potential wine project would have to wait until he was finished with his memoir, "Open Mike" ("I stole the title from an L.A. columnist, " he admitted).

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Sixteen executives, including Europe's richest woman, the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, offered in an open letter to pay a "special contribution" in a spirit of "solidarity".

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But to remain efficient and to increase ease of living, it would be excellent to see how open data platforms, new hardware, software, and big data could aid in making L.A. an even better place.

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