The Century Plaza Hotel hosted President-elect Ronald Reagan’s victory celebration, a welcome home gala for the Apollo 11 astronauts and Bob Hope’s celebrity-studded Century Ball.

The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum brought together those who survived the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, family members of the victims and rescue workers for a program called “First Person: Stories of Hope.”

Like his 16 previous incarnations, this Karmapa Lama has spent his life immersed in the Tibetan Buddhist arts of meditation, study and prayer. Unlike them, he likes to relax playing war games on his PlayStation.

The street artist who created the famous red, white and blue “Hope” poster of President Barack Obama expects to face new vandalism charges in Boston relating to the image.

As top diplomats pledged billions of dollars for war-ravaged Gaza on Monday, ordinary people here _ from merchants to housewives _ said they’d rather have open borders than handouts.

When people walk into East Side Civics, a dilapidated bar and sports club just down South Avenue from the barren city center, they’re often seeking refuge from the everyday problems that almost everybody faces in the buckle of the Rust Belt.

Police in Boston say the artist famous for his “Hope” posters of President Obama has been arrested on outstanding warrants.

On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year’s presidential campaign: A pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.

Pat Perez won the Bob Hope Classic for his first PGA Tour title, taking advantage of Steve Stricker’s collapse and holding off John Merrick by three strokes Sunday in the wind-swept final round.

Steve Stricker shot a 10-under 62 Saturday to overtake Pat Perez and rewrite a couple of PGA Tour records as he went to 33 under through four rounds of the birdie-fest known as the Bob Hope Classic.