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...trial drew to a close, all these poster or T-shirt mottoes appeared outside the Santa Maria, Calif., courthouse except which...
...tragedy has divided the country's politicians. An all-party parliamentary commission has been investigating the attack for over a year but failed to agree on a conclusion. As a result, each of Spain's eight political groups will present its own findings next week. All the reports - except for the one prepared by the Popular Party (PP), which was in power at the time - comment on the government's negligence before the attack, citing a lack of coordination between the branches of the security forces. The PP "underestimated the risk," says Diego López Garrido, a Socialist Party...
...probate in California: it costs your heirs a bundle. But if you leave your partner your house and money in a will, probate is just what you'll get, say California attorneys. Michael Gilfix, a Palo Alto, Calif., estate-planning and elder-law attorney, recommends putting everything you own (except your 401(k), which goes directly to the beneficiary you name) into a revocable trust. You name your partner as your successor trustee. Then as long as you live, you manage the trust--buy, sell, whatever--just as you would anyway. If you become incapacitated, your partner manages the trust...
...father, and they couldn't understand how someone could make a living as an actor. You farmed for a living. You went to work on the railroad for a living. My family couldn't imagine going to college--and especially spending money to go to college--for anything except doctoring, lawyering or engineering. They made it very difficult for me to ever see my father, and they forbade me from ever talking about being an actor...
...moved with her husband and their kids into Mom and Dad's home to care for them. As Mom's dementia worsened, she often refused to take her pills. When Deborah insisted, Mom whined, "Deborah's being mean to me." No one in the family took it seriously except Deborah's elder sister. After years of staying in the background, she then began calling Mom every night, encouraging her to complain about Deborah. And like King Lear bouncing among his daughters in search of better treatment, Deborah's mom grew warmer toward her less favored child. "I'd always been...