Shafer, who died last week, had so many amusing stories that I thought I’d tell one more from his book “Howls of Justice” (coauthored by Angie Papadakis).During a custody hearing, a father of two children told Shafer that his ex-wife smoked pot.”Have you smoked pot?” Shafer asked the father.”Yes,” the man admitted. Gibson, “an uninsurable risk on its hands.”Since then, homeowners have paid more money for less protection to the state-created California Earthquake Authority, or have gone without such insurance.The industry is still on the hook for some money in a future quake. He said he learned from Eisner a few weeks ago that terms of the donation had been ironed out.”It was time to get it to the right place,” said Eisner, whose last official workday as Walt Disney Corp. He should have had a prominent seat on an NBA bench.That’s why Colson amended his earlier description: “It’s a Cinderella story that ends sad.”—J.A Adande can be reached at j.a.adande To read more by Adande, go to latimes.com/adandeblog..

In her first novel, “The New Girls,” five teenagers experience the tumultuous ’60s as students at Miss Pratt’s, “where good manners mattered more than good ideas.” For “Leeway Cottage,” Gutcheon returns to the setting of her 2000 novel, “More Than You Know” — Dundee, a summer colony where Sydney’s grandmother, Annabelle Brant, established the family home “The Elms was built in 1889 by Mrs. Outside, while there are many signs of life, abandoned cars still pepper the streets of the business district Streetlights are still out at many major intersections. It listed, in the immaculate arched flow of a fountain pen, 1,283 names of inmates who died at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria between 1939 and the beginning of 1944.It wasn’t a complete list of those who died in the camp; it was only the names of “lazy people.” Other books held other names.. I’m so glad I experienced it one last time.”In addition to his wife, Hicks is survived by five children, 19 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.Funeral arrangements are pending, Jo Hicks said.*yvonne.villarreal. As in a 33-team World Cup field.Serbia and Montenegro plays Argentina, the Ivory Coast and the Netherlands in the first round of the June 9-July 9 World Cup. That proposal would have recapitalized the company, paid a $27 dividend and made the magnates co-chairmen. (This is set, after all, in Victorian England.)Anyway, Nanny McPhee, warts and all, manages the unlikely trick of winning the Brown children to her side, especially after she temporarily gets Adelaide off their backs by making the farm animals dance and passing off their simpatico housekeeper (Kelly Macdonald) as a Brown daughter in need of “proper” schooling.

The next year, forced to auction his hotel there over building code violations, he spat — twice — on Miami Herald reporter Bonnie Weston, who had exposed the deficiencies. Many experts believe that Iran will eventually restart its nuclear program, but delaying that day and putting in place strong verification measures to ensure the country is not making a bomb would be a reasonable outcome.In an interview this week in Tehran, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said that the question was not whether the Iranians would resume nuclear work, but when. She organized the conference, which drew a few dozen people, from as far as South Dakota and Maine.The contrasting events signal the issues that surround a new and largely invisible kind of pseudo-veteran: the thousands of contractors who have been injured, some fatally, working in Iraq for the U.S. Last summer, Riley, 9, and Casey, 3, couldn’t get enough of the beach. Recently released in paperback, “Danger on Peaks” is Snyder’s first book of new poems in 20 years, and it’s good to know that he’s still the same poet, except now more personal and self-revealing. Carne seca is available at Latimex Market in Chino and El Gaucho Meat Market in Redondo Beach You may substitute smoked ham, bacon or pork. In music, especially with music, you want it to sound good.”Listening to Wolfmother, it seems that making music is an act of liberation as much as a means of expression.