| Residents react to devastating sinkhole
While others seemed to have been sure it was coming, many residents on Mt. Soledad had no idea that there was any geological problems on Mt. Soledad road. Residents sound off on whether the city did enough to prevent the sinkhole and is doing enough in the aftermath.
"I think everyone has this feeling that La Jollans are oober wealthy and something like this doesn't affect them; but we own a small business here in La Jolla, La Jolla's our home, this is community, and it's greatly affecting us. We're not able to work. Our girls are trying to go to school and still do soccer, and it's really affecting our life, and our livelihood. And we don't know when that's going to change. We're given 15 minutes with the police escort to get our things.
We aren't being told face to face 'this is what's going on.' Even if they say to us, 'we don't know, and we aren't going to know for a month,' that tells me 'okay breathe, you've got a month' but I'm getting more sad, and angry and frustrated.
The theater district gets its own Twelfth Night, complete with kings ...
January 6 was a chilly night, but as on every Twelfth Night, King Stanislavsky, King Ziegfeld, and King Comrade Brecht had braved the cold winds of midtown Manhattan to honor the infant theatrical year. They huddled in the dank motel garage on Eleventh Avenue where the unformed babe lay, contentedly sleeping, wrapped in swaddling clothes hastily assembled from old rehearsal skirts. "Innocent child," said Stanislavsky, "what realities you will embody." "Innocent child," said Ziegfeld, "what lavishness you will display." "Innocent child," said Brecht, "what a statement you will make to the world." Then all three men, inexplicably, began to weep. No one weeps more readily than theater people. And the Three Kings, eternal seekers after greatness, loved the infant year as only old theater hands can love a novice making a first appearance.
Hank Steinbrenner promises patience
George Steinbrenner, now 77, does show up at the office most days, hungry for World Series title No. 27. His health appeared to deteriorate after he collapsed in December 2003 during a memorial service for football great Otto Graham in Sarasota, Fla., and again in October 2006 while watching his granddaughter perform in a play at Chapel Hill, N.C.He hardly spoke in public the last two seasons, preferring to issue grandiose statements through his spokesman."I got to spend a lot more time with him than the other kids. It's been tough for all of us, though," Hank Steinbrenner said. "As a father he was great, as a boss he was ..."He paused and started to chuckle."Everybody knows how he was as a boss."The standard for hyperactive, hyperventilating, hyper just about everything. No detail was too small to get involved in.
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