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- Robert Daly: 'Fundamental Decency and Common Sense'
- 'Ever After' Credit
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- Dispute Over Burbank Airport Expansion
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- The Artist Behind the Credit
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- What's Up With Teenagers Today?
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- Orange Trustees Must Face the Music
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- Tom Fuentes' Cosmic Anarchy in O.C. Politics
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- They're Talking Tax in Irvine
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- If Chief Goes, So Should Board
- Conal Poster
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