With the recent successes of the Broadway hit “Bombay Dreams” and the movies “The Village,” “Bend It Like Beckham” and “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” a new wave of entertainers of Indian ethnicity is cooking up a melange in the West spicier than any curry, cumin, coriander or chili powder. Read more...

In a UC Berkeley Finnish language class last fall, there were little more than a handful of students ““ only half of which attended Berkeley. The other half attended the class hundreds of miles away at their own school ““ UCLA. Read more...

PORTLAND, Ore. “”mdash; In simultaneous West Coast campaign swings President Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., made brief Southern California appearances last week before moving on to the battleground state of Oregon. Read more...

A former UCLA clinical instructor was awarded $2.95 million July 27 in a sexual discrimination and retaliation case that was filed against the university in 2003. Read more...

Power once again aproblem in California SACRAMENTO “”mdash; California’s power grid manager has issued a power watch, urging residents to cut back their electricity usage. There was little immediate danger of blackouts, spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle said Sunday. Read more...

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The Class of 2010 may live in a world of cheaper textbooks, higher tuition and forced volunteerism. That is, if Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger implements some of the 1,200-plus recommendations released by the California Performance Review. Read more...