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Almost Factual News Entries for August, 2011

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Fin-tastic?

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Pictured: A swimmer (lower left) thoughtfully considers Raku's quiet witness. Local Man's Campaign Against Assembly Bill 376 Goes Largely Unseen; Underwater Protester Says Measure to Ban Finning Would Decimate Chinese-Americans' Lucrative and Traditional Shark-Fin Soup Industry "Why is everybody running …

Two Tigers Enter, One Tiger Leaves

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San Diego Wild Animal Park, Responding to Harsh Realities of Reality Television Culture, Initiates 'Animal Battle' Program in Effort to Lure Public "People seem to like the Death Pool - the way the blood billows in the water." Related.

Americans At Last

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Chaldeans Rejoice in Wake of Operation Shadowbox; Federal Raid on Drug Ring Operated Out of El Cajon Social Club Cements Iraqi Community’s Status as Next Great Catholic Immigant Gangster Ethnicity Italy, Ireland, the Isthmus...Iraq? CHALDEAN SOCIAL CLUB “TEA ROOM,” El …

Strong Mayor: Stadium Tour 2011

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SD ON THE QT EXCLUSIVE - Strong Mayor has just returned from his "Bread and/or Circuses" fact-finding tour of U.S. cities that have recently built sports and entertainment complexes. Of course, he talked to mayors and developers in each city, …

Who Plays Who: SDPD Back in the News Edition

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On 24, Kiefer Sutherland played Jack Bauer, a lawman who made America feel better about its horrific absues of power in Iraq and elsewhere. Slain San Diego Officer Jeremy Henwood was a lawman who made San Diego feel better about …

UCSD Health System Installs Terrifying Billboard Along I-8

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Health System Chair Walter Ni: "We felt it was important to bring some of our more outdated terminology up-to-date with current standards and practices."

One Dead, Thirteen Injured in Convention Center Riot During OCD Convention

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Bedlam Breaks Out Following Mysterious Depletion of Restroom Soap Dispensers Cleanliness Isn't Just Next to Godliness SOUTH SUPPLY CLOSET, SAN DIEGO CONVENTION CENTER - "I can't understand it," said Convention Center Site Maintenance Chief Alphonso Gomez, shaking his head. "I …

Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp" - Day 3

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[Concluding the Chargers'coach's ruminations on training camp 2011 in light of Susan Sontag's essay, "Notes on Camp."] All good things must come to an end. As must all bad things, and all middling things. I will let the reader make …

Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp" - Day 2

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Back again, ruminating on Chargers Training Camp 2011 as illuminated by Sontag's immortal essay... Yesterday, I promised that I would reveal my plan for resolving the stadium situation, now that Uncle Sam has closed the Velcro tab on his tacky …

Guest Column: Norv Turner's "Notes on Camp"

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At left: Volek and Rivers; above: Turner; below: Sontag Note 1: First, I want to acknowledge that some of the readers of this feature may still think of me primarily as a football coach and not as an artist-provocateur whose …

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