When I was a little girl I never really gave much thought to what kind of mother I would be or how I would parent. All I knew was that I would be a mother and that I was going to have a daughter.
There are three landmark-related development projects are up for public hearings this week. The appeal of landmark designation for a 47-unit, 1950s era apartment building at 301 Ocean Ave.
From its inception, America has stood for the principle that everyone is under the law. There are no kings or power elite that stand outside the law. Yet this has been overlooked in the midst of the escalating debate over the Bush administration’s alleged authorization of torture.
If I heard that someone had actually bought a Hummer in this day and age, I’d consider that big news. So when I heard that someone actually bought the entire company, the Hummer brand, I considered it enormous news.
It’s a bright, warm Southern California afternoon and I’m driving north on the I-405 from Irvine to Torrance, in the carpool lane at 80-plus miles per hour, in an electric car which makes its own electricity.
Because my deadline is Thursday at 4 p.m., by the time you read this, the Lakers will either be up one game or down one game in the NBA Finals. (I’m biting my tongue at the thought of the latter, which hurts if you think about it.
Four years ago, the Democratic minority on the Rules Committee of the U.S. House — the body that oversees legislative process for that side of the Capitol — issued a lengthy report excoriating the Republican majority for abandoning “procedural fairness” and “democratic accountability.
While I generally don’t see the glass as half full only because mine is perpetually half empty, I still try to remain cheerful by having a “Why not me?” outlook on life.
Azerbaijan. The mere name connotes the foreign and uncharted terrain. It appears that not too many people have been to, let alone heard of, this small Caucasus republic alongside the Caspian Sea.
Surely a child abandoned in the forest and raised by wolves would not grow up to be as wild and uncontrollable as the young Helen Keller. Trapped inside a body that could neither see nor hear the world around her, and over-indulged by her helpless and bewildered parents, Helen vented her anger and f
An abortion is a surgical procedure that is sometimes necessary in order to save a pregnant woman’s life, so it must remain safe and legal. No matter what we think of the procedure, we can agree that in the most scientifically advanced society in the history of the world no woman should die in child
Part 3 in a series about torture “The guard [was] throwing me into the wall while screaming questions. Then [he] starts throwing me into the railroad tie that the sheet metal is attached to … my head snaps back and connects with the wooden railroad tie.
