WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2006
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Volume 5, Issue 255
Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues
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BY KEVIN HERRERA Daily Press Staff Writer
NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY
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SM COURTHOUSE — The family of Ron Goldman on Tuesday filed a motion here to gain control of O.J. Simpson’s “right of publicity,” so that the former football star can no longer profit from the use of his likeness or name until he pays the family more than $38 million. Standing with his daughter Kim and his team of attorneys, Fred Goldman, Ron’s father, said he wanted to take away the one thing that Simpson cares about most, “himself.” “Probably the most important piece of property to him, is him,” Goldman said during a press conference on the steps of the Santa Monica Courthouse, where in 1997 a jury in a civil trial ordered Simpson to pay the Goldman family more than $19 million in damages, money which the family said they have never received. “If we can take (his name and fame) away from him so be it,” Fred Goldman said. “If this renders him some pain, that’s just great.” On June 12, 1994 Simpson’s
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SERIOUSLY BI-CULTURAL: Tariq Khan, 12, of New York City, bubbled with enthusiasm to a New York Times reporter in August about his love of the Grand Theft Auto video game and the hip-hop music of Fat Joe, T.I. and 50 Cent — a month after becoming a prestigious hafiz by having memorized the entire Koran in Arabic, which he doesn’t understand all that well. He finished the regimen in less than two years of 40-hour workweeks, and if he retains his knowledge, he and 10 people of his choosing eventually get express passage to paradise.
TODAY IN HISTORY Today is the 249th day of 2006. There are 116 days left in the year. President William McKinley was shot by anarchist Leon 1901 Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, N.Y. McKinley died eight days later; he was succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press (Top and above) A recent sunset lights up the sky over the Pacific Ocean. (Below) Later, the waxing gibbous moon can be seen through the clouds. The full harvest moon will be shining on Thursday.
“You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.”
ROBERT HUGH BENSON
ENGLISH AUTHOR AND CLERGYMAN (1871-1914)
INDEX Horoscopes Accept an invite, Virgo
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Surf Report Water temperature: 69°
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Opinion Off-shore? What about on-shore?
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State Intel slashes at the top
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STATE
It’s for the kids: Disney goes on health kick BY JACOB ADELMAN
Local lawmaker’s bill shot down DENIED: Universal health care bill vetoed by governor BY JESSICA ROBERTS Special to the Daily Press
Associated Press Writer
National Economy on a down tick
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Real Estate Organize your empire
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MOVIETIMES Catch a flick!
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Comics Yak it up, yakmeister
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Classifieds Ad space odyssey
LOS ANGELES — Mickey Mouse, SpongeBob and the Tasmanian Devil are coming to a produce aisle near you. The cartoon characters are popping up on fruit and vegetable packaging across the country as growers strike licensing deals with entertainSee HEALTHY PACKAGING, page 7
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SACRAMENTO — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tuesday he would veto the universal health care bill authored by Santa Monica State Senator Sheila Kuehl. Bill SB 840, known as the California Health Insurance Reliability Act, was introduced in February of 2005, and passed the house and senate this year. It was signed off by the state legislature last
week. If approved, the bill would have provided health care coverage for all Californians. The bill’s supporters had hoped to create a system that would have provided all of the state’s residents with a single standard of coverage. Between 6 and 7 million people in California do not have health insurance — almost 20 percent of the state’s estimated 36 million residents. Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) said the bill would have ensured every Californian complete coverage,
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guaranteed the rights of patients to choose doctors, allowed the state to negotiate bulk rates for prescription medication, and controlled healthcare costs. Schwarzenegger characterized the bill as “socialized medicine” and said it “is not the solution to our state’s health care problems.” He added that a single-payer system would create a “vast new bureaucracy” to take over See VETO, page 8
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