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Beyond sicko

Because this was happening a short taxi ride from the White House, I half expected someone from Dick Cheney\’s office to burst in at any moment, grab the
microphone and proclaim the conference kaput, dissolved like an inconvenient parliament.

My December visit with ‘lady’

When I first started writing, I sat with Khanum for hours at a time, asking questions. I was 21 and on leave of absence from law school. I had no idea what I was going to do with my life, but I knew some stories from Iran, and had begun to write them. They were scattered pieces of people\’s lives, bits of conversations I had overheard through the years, rumors that had been whispered too many times and taken on a reality that may or may not have been deserved.

The fab fundraising fifth-grader

Many people took it upon themselves to raise vast sums of money for Israel during the conflict with Lebanon this summer, but how many were still in elementary school?

Today’s Task: Be an Angel

\”God has a to-do list for you,\” the book opens. \”You are God\’s partner. God needs you to continue the ongoing creation of the world.\”

Laura’s Smile

Laura has never spoken a word, but she can coo, laugh, sigh and cry. At her best, she has taken steps with the help of a walker. She has a thin body with a smallish, sweet face framed by dark-brown hair. She gets 24-hour home care, with three rotating nurses monitoring her breathing and other vital signs.\n\nOh yeah, and she loves to smile.

Mayor implores people of faith to fight homelessness

\”Homelessness is curable and we must cure it,\” Leo Baeck Senior Rabbi Kenneth Chasen said in his welcoming remarks. \”Jews know too well the experience of being strangers and outsiders. We have lived in countless places where there were no homes for us.\”

Measure ‘R’ contains curious ‘reform’

On November\’s ballot, tucked among the local measures affecting only Los Angeles, is curious Measure R, a plan by the Los Angeles City Council to provide each of the 15 council members an extra $570,000 in pay.

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