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 [...]

He declared an era of “post-partisanship.”But Republicans needn’t worry too much. The center previously reported that the industry spent more than $500 million at the federal level.The telecom firms’ spending habits helped them curtail telephone competition, shelve consumer protection bills — especially the nation’s first one in California — and keep regulators off their backs, [...]

These are the hours no one can take away from you — unless they’re also prepared to peel themselves out of a warm bed, fall asleep at work and ruin their night lives. when I took the festival on the road,” says Bash, who now stages his showcases in cities such as New York, Chicago, [...]

And some, like Miers, will choose not to have a family at all.”One thing I know for sure is we need to get used to the fact that women’s career paths are going to be nonlinear,” said Stacy Morrison, editor in chief of Redbook magazine. The Congressional Budget Office projected this year’s shortfall at $331 [...]