On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: “The White Nile” by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history, and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K. Chesterton. He was that kind of reader.
On his nightstand the day I asked to see it: "The White Nile" by Alan Moorehead, a book about educational policies, another on great speeches of history, and an amusing bonne bouche by G.K. Chesterton. He was that kind of reader.
Richard Riordan, a wealthy Republican businessman who served two terms as Los Angeles mayor and steered the city through the Northridge earthquake and the recovery from the deadly 1992 riots, has died. He was 92.
Richard Riordan, the moderate Republican multimillionaire who won two terms as mayor in Democrat-friendly Los Angeles following the city's 1992 riots, has died. He was 92.