The reason people suddenly are willing to pay almost anything for a decent house has less to do with low interest rates than it does with their secret fear that, pretty soon, they won’t be able to get out their driveway.Public transit could cure all this, if only other people would use it.Actually, Los Angeles [...]

“I am confessing my sins in advance, before I have committed them.”So says the Scottish painter Henry MacAlpine, the protagonist of Iain Pears’ novel “The Portrait.” MacAlpine’s “confession” takes the form of a bantering monologue, and it quickly becomes clear that the disgruntled painter doesn’t want absolution — he wants revenge.As he has done in [...]

The current evaluation system assumes that a child must be competent in all areas and makes no allowance for great variations in skills and interest. Kent said the boat was completely submerged within a minute.On Tuesday morning, the Peace notified the Coast Guard, which took Kent by helicopter to St. The Hollywood Derby on Vine [...]