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Photos by Slobodan DimitrovLike a warped Willy Wonka movie, the kids divide up into four tables. You have the Charlie girls (the Miss Goodie Two Shoes). The Verucas, with their Louis Vuitton–knockoff purses. The shrinking-Violet wallflower girls, the tough boys, and then the runts (the 8-year-olds). They are told sans......

What makes a house a home?“A family,” says Habitat for Humanity’s Joedy Isert. “Before that it’s just bricks and sticks, mortar and nails.”Of course, there are too many American families — thousands more since Hurricane Katrina — in need of bricks and mortar, shelter. Since 1976, Habitat for Humanity has......

Photos by Anne Fishbein A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. —R. Buckminster Fuller It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He......

The blame game, Katrina disaster edition, has begun. It’s like a tragic version of Clue with everybody trying to figure out “whodunit.” Was it the president with his war in Iraq? Local government with incompetence? FEMA with its lack of funds? Was it Condoleezza in New York, laughing at a......

Pat Robertson just set off another verbal M80 with his call for the assassination of democratically elected Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. Robertson is no stranger to oral detonation; his Christian Broadcast Network show, The 700 Club, is a minefield of political incorrectness. The classic example is his view of feminism,......

Never trust a Republican to pull out or abort. Last month, U.S. military officials told us we could expect a withdrawal of 20,000 to 30,000 of the 138,000 American troops by next spring if Iraq managed to draft its new constitution on time and hold elections. We are pinning our......

Illlustration by Mr. Fish “Discovery” seems a bit of a misnomer. The main discoveries NASA is making these days are problems with its spacecraft. The shuttle Discovery had been plagued by troubles from the start: Several launch dates in June were rescheduled; a two-day flight review was followed by another......

The California Register of Historical Resources Committee will consider Friday whether or not to stop the demolition of Lincoln Place, a low-income housing development built after World War II in Venice. If the state committee does not designate the 55-year-old project a historical resource, Lincoln Place’s 170 seniors and disabled......

Illlustration by Mr. Fish Recess and bullies always seem to go together. George Bush flipped off the entire Senate and, with the principal out of view, appointed known bully and Senate-opposed John Bolton to the job of U.N. ambassador. For five months the president tried to win Senate approval of......