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Management described the cuts as streamlining, staffers at the Valley paper say. They had feared larger reductions. The company that publishes the Los Angeles Daily News laid off Publisher Tracy Rafter and 20 other employees Monday. Although the Los Angeles Newspaper Group did not publicly announce the changes at the San Fernando Valley-based paper, employees said the cuts were described as a streamlining move. Rafter was replaced by John C. McKeon, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group, which owns the Daily News, the Pasadena Star-News and six other Southern California newspapers. It is the local arm...

While researching articles on our country's fallen heroes, I came across one article, originally published in the New York Times by one of their own reporters. But I then found that same article, picked up and published in other media outlets carried a slightly different title. Here is the NYT link Doubt and Death on the Drive to Baghdad, (archived, now), and first paragraph of the article. Doubt and Death on the Drive to Baghdad By STEVEN LEE MYERS (NYT)Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 1 , Column 1 The sandstorm lasted two days, sapping morale and...