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This is the fourth of four collections of clip samples for TJ Sullivan. Please navigate to the links below to review newspaper stories written by TJ Sullivan.

Television Airs A Political First

(Ventura County Star, 09/24/2000)

Sander Vanocur of Montecito is the only panelist still alive from the first televised presidential debate between Nixon and Kennedy in 1960.

Longtime HIV Victim's Life

(Ventura County Star, 12/2/2001)

Doug Halter was screaming north on the Grapevine in the eerily tall shadows of dawn with nothing but road and horizon ahead when he realized he was probably going to die of AIDS.

Wal-Mart is No. 1

(Ventura County Star, 2/17/2002)

It's another day at Wal-Mart, which means another semi-truck of merchandise — more than $70,000 worth of products — is about to be pulled from shelves. Standing like Alexander the Great over a domain of more than 4,300 stores and 1.2 million employees, Wal-Mart is in its own world.

Murdock's War

(Ventura County Star, 6/16/2002)

When the powerful and now legendary director of oil giant Occidental Petroleum, Armand Hammer, befriended David Murdock in the early 1980s, he probably hoped it would be the beginning of a mutually beneficial relationship. It wasn't.

The Bradbury Years

(Ventura County Star, 11/03/2002)

Feared for reasons that are part myth and part reality, Michael Bradbury helped inspire the unofficial, cautionary motto of Ventura County — "Come on vacation, leave on probation."

OxyContin on the Rise

(Ventura County Star, 12/15/2002)

Methamphetamine, marijuana, cocaine and heroin are drug names with which most parents are familiar. But in the past few years they've had to learn about one more — OxyContin, a time-release painkiller that hit the market in 1995 and has since become a focus of abuse and controversy.

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