THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005 Volume 4, Issue 107 FREE Santa Monica Daily Press A newspaper with issues

NEWS OF THE WEIRD BY CHUCK SHEPARD Go fly one

■ The Las Vegas Sun reported in SMC students January that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has begun phasing in an underpublicized policy of ending all walk-in traffic. Eventually, all immigration offices, to improve efficien- cy, will do business only by appointments are feeling the made over the Internet (even though many immigration clients, most notably migrant workers, obviously do not have convenient Internet access). ■ Alan Johnson was arrested in Taunton, Mass., in November and parking pinch charged with burning his girlfriend’s 19- month-old boy with a cigarette lighter while baby-sitting. Johnson’s explana- campus at 1900 Pico Blvd., voiced tion: The boy went into a seizure, and City Hall to eliminate free Johnson, recalling his lifeguard training, concern last week in front of the thought the solution was to raise the parking zone near campus City Council over 150 parking boy’s body temperature to alleviate the meters that were installed earlier seizure. ■ Ms. Sandu Florenta, 18, a Romanian, BY RYAN HYATT this year on Pearl Street between was arrested for shoplifting at a Tesco Daily Press Staff Writer 16th and 17th streets. store in Wrexham, Wales, in December “If the city of Santa Monica with “four packs of frozen lamb, three fresh chickens, three packs of stock CITY HALL — Some of the last prides itself on being progressive, cubes, finger chillies, a packet of burg- free parking spaces available in you would think it would help ers, garlic, peppers, socks and under- wear, plus almost five pounds of oranges Santa Monica are about to disap- address student parking needs,” and apples” in a special sack under her pear, unless City Hall and Santa said Jeronimo Saldana, SMC’s robes. She told police that not many Monica College can agree to a Associated Students president. stores in Romania have carts, and thus, this is how people shop. compromise. “But the council seemed indiffer- Members of Santa Monica ent to our request.” TODAY IN HISTORY College’s Associated Students, an City transportation planner and Kim Calvert/Special to the Daily Press elected body that addresses stu- Warm weather and plenty of sunshine made it perfect kite-flying weather at In 1950, scientists at the University of dent concerns at SMC’s main See PARKING, page 6 the Santa Monica Pier on Wednesday. California at Berkeley announced they had created a new radioactive ele- ment, “californium.” In 1958, the U.S. Navy launched the Vanguard 1 satellite. City Hall wins battle In 1966, a U.S. midget submarine located a missing hydrogen bomb that had fallen from an American bomber into the Mediterranean off Spain. over $218K legal bill QUOTE OF THE DAY By Daily Press staff development projects. The Santa Monica Housing “History is not life. But since only life makes history, SM COURTHOUSE — A Superior Council and the California the union of the two is obvious.” Court judge has ruled against Santa Housing Council filed suit against LOUIS D. BRANDEIS Monica developers in a battle over City Hall in November 2002, say- U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE (1856-1941) nearly $220,000 in lawyer bills. ing it was failing to observe a state INDEX Santa Monica Superior Court law that requires government bod- Judge Linda Lefkowitz decided ies to provide detailed reasons as Horoscopes last month City Hall should not to why development projects are Hang with friends, Aquarius 2 have to pay the Santa Monica reduced or denied when they oth- Surf Report Kim Calvert/Special to the Daily Press Housing Council, which had erwise conform to code. City Hall recently put up parking meters outside of Santa Monica College, but accused city officials of illegally Water temperature: 62° 3 students don’t have to feed them yet. rejecting and downscaling some See LEGAL BILL, page 7 Opinion On the edge 4 The modern American family: always moving, never slowing State The gay marriage fight 10 (Editor’s note: The intimate moments that once were the glue of through the nation’s worst rush have you done?” American family life are disappearing amid job demands and nonstop hour traffic. The Zeiss family is late for National activities. Researchers examining the fragile family structure allowed Jake Zeiss is 9 years old. His hockey practice. After that, it’s Senate to vote on Arctic drilling 12 The Associated Press an exclusive look at video and data from four years paperwork is multiplication tables. fencing lessons for Madison, of observing 32 families. The AP also observed one family firsthand.) He gropes for a pencil that has Jake’s 10-year-old sister. Their Comics dropped down the dark, sticky father, Gary, will meet them at the Laugh-in 16 BY JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA After seven hours of back-to- crevasse of the back seat. And he’s gym — hopefully by 8 p.m. AP Science Writer back meetings, he volleys for an tempted by a new yo-yo. It’s the Kim Zeiss has transformed her Classifieds hour with his tennis pro. Still per- kind that beeps and lights up. SUV into a rolling Wal-Mart, with Ad space odyssey 17-19 LOS ANGELES — Jake Zeiss spiring, he slides back into his “Jakey, is that a good use of cases of snacks and drinks buried bolts from his west LA bungalow Mercedes, gobbles a nutrition bar your time?” hollers his mother, beneath backpacks and sports People in the News before 8 a.m., red hair damp and and does paperwork on a lap desk Kim, as she swerves past a loafing Denmark’s Dogg pound 20 shirttail flapping. while his chauffeur burrows Honda. “How many problems See FAMILY, page 8

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Cooper Shaw is this week’s mystery photo winner. Shaw accurately described that this photo was taken at the corner of Maple and Euclid streets. Shaw has The City Council recently passed a $11.50 So this week, Q-Line wants to know, “Do won a gift certificate to Izzy’s Deli. Check the minimum wage for city employees and employ- you support an increased minimum wage for Monday edition for the next mystery photo contest. ees of contractors doing at least $50,000 these employees? Why or why not?” worth of business with the city. Officials say Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 the wage will make it possible for employees to p.m. and we’ll print your responses in the live as well as work in Santa Monica. Others weekend edition. Please try to limit your com- say the measure will cost taxpayers a bundle ments to a minute or less. It might help to Donation location for one and provide no noticeable benefits to them. think first about the wording of your response. homicide victim changed By Daily Press staff that donations be sent to “PNA; 1705 Pico Blvd., No. 125; Santa Monica, Calif., The mother of one of the two young men 90404.” killed at a March 5 birthday party in Sunset Natalie Preciado, Hernandez’ mother, BACK /UNFILED Park asked Wednesday that donations for said she requested the change for dona- her son’s burial be sent to a new location. tions in her son’s name because it would People wishing to contribute in memo- make it easier to manage the contribu- TAXES? ry of Jonathan Hernandez were asked to tions. make checks out to “The Jonathan “It’s hard to keep track of the money Hernandez Trust Memorial Fund” and and how much is really coming in,” said send them to “Wells Fargo; Attention: Preciado, adding she had received more ALL FORMS • ALL TYPES • ALL STATES Service Manager; 2940 Ocean Park Blvd.; than $1,300 from the PNA as of Santa Monica, Calif., 90405.” Wednesday and another $1,000 from a car Donations previously were sent to the wash last weekend at Santa Monica High SAMUEL B. MOSES, CPA Pico Neighborhood Association, a non- School. profit neighborhood group. People wish- Relatives of Bonilla said Wednesday (310) 395-9922 ing to contribute in memory of Hector they likely would set up a bank account Bonilla, who also was killed on March 5, later this week to manage further contri- still were asked to make their checks out butions. Maria Loya of the PNA said the 100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1800 to “The Pico Neighborhood Association” neighborhood group likely would stop Santa Monica 90401 with “Victims Violence Support Fund” accepting donations for the two mens’ written in the memo. PNA leaders asked families by the end of this week. Page 4 ❑ Thursday, March 17, 2005 ❑ Santa Monica Daily Press OPINION LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bereft of opinion, SMDP Ready for new blood columnist goes on strike Editor: As to the resignation of the city planner, (SMDP, March 15, page 1), I can only she goes up against, or self-proclaimed say “good riddance.” I must admit, however, that I am sorry for the city of Long queer conservative Al Rantel, or self-pro- Beach. They are in for a long haul. NEWS ON claimed African American conservative Larry Elder, or devout Jewish conserva- Robin Steely THE EDGE tive Dennis Prager, or head-shrinking Santa Monica BY RON SCOTT SMITH conservative Dr. Laura Schlesinger, or spinned-out conservative Bill O’Reilly, or comic-impressionist conservative Phil Ignorance is our real enemy I’m on strike. I have declared an opin- Hendrie, or Republican boot-licking con- Editor: ion stoppage for no particular reason servative Sean Hannity, or local issues- Ron Smith in his column on the 10 Commandments (SMDP, March 10, page 4) other than I don’t have one today. oriented conservative John Kobylt, or any was wrong in his claim that Muslims believe in a different God than Jews and of the others up and down your dial with Christians. Jews, Christians and Muslims all worship the God that spoke to Moses, ______names like Medved, Savage, Hewitt, Jacob and Abraham in the Old Testament. Muslims believe in the same God as Zeigler, Handel. Who did I forget? Oh, Christians and Jews, and not the opposite as Mr. Smith states in his column. Arabic I will comment on no Al of any size, Art Bell, too, the conservative talk-host speaking Jews, Christians and Maltese Catholics all use the word “Allah” when talk- shape or form. Not Al Zarqawi, who now from outer space or beyond. In the midst ing about God since they speak Arabic and not English. In French it is “Dieu,” wants to terrorize America. Not Al of that non-stop maelstrom of Republican Spanish is “Dios,” German is “Gott,” Italian is “Dio,” Arabic is “Allah,” and in the Qaeda, who already did. Not Allawi, who talking points, the only thing identified by ancient Aramaic language of Jesus the word was “Elah.” They are all talking about got kicked out of the new government in any local station as a “liberal” voice has the God in the Old Testament. Iraq before it even started. Not Ali Sistani, been that of a guy with the idiotic moniker As Christians, we share with Muslims many of the same beliefs about Jesus. The who took over the new government in of “Mr. KABC,” who’s on for a couple virgin birth, the second coming, and judgment day. Jews, Christians and Muslims Iraq before it even started. Not Sharpton hours at night when everybody’s watch- all share the Old Testament as a holy book, but each have other sacred texts they fol- either. Out of sight, out of mind, any Al ing TV, but I have nothing to say about low as well. Muslims do not worship Mohammed since he is considered a Prophet. anywhere. that. Jews, Christians and Muslims do not worship Abraham either as he is also consid- ered a Prophet. ______The real war in the Middle East is the fight against ignorance on all sides and has little to do with religion. I have no opinion about Bush, nor one Mel Gibson bought an island in the about Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice or any per- Pacific with the money he made off Victoria Ciudadreal mutations of any of the above. Nothing to Jesus? No comment. Toby Keith’s fortune Santa Monica say about Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, rung up on the backs of 1,500 dead Lebanon, North Korea or the untidy mess American soldiers, by singing ass-kicking that’s been made of them and all their evil war anthems that probably only served to Clamp down on gun control ways. inflame the enemy? No comment. Maybe Editor: Toby in some way has inspired some of Gun control is practically non-existent and should be more strictly regulated to ______the troops artistically, as the LA Times ensure the safety of citizens. A study by the Violence Policy Center concluded that reports that many GIs are shooting raw the firearms industry is the least regulated of all consumer products despite the fact The latest Anthrax scare in post offices battle footage and editing it into heavy- that guns kill far more Americans every year than all household and recreational back east? Zilch. Or the terror-color-code- metal death and destruction videos, creat- products combined. According to the Brady Campaign, this lack of regulation has alert thing that we haven’t heard from ing one-of-a-kind war souvenirs. One sol- become a major contributing factor in the following telling statistic. Assaults with since oh, right around the first Tuesday of dier was quoted, “I have a lot of pictures handguns are 12 times more likely to result in death than are non-firearm attacks. last November? Nada. And I’ve got noth- of dead Iraqis — everybody does.” Solutions for this problem are as numerous as the heartbreaking stories which fill ing to say about cuts of any kind, not tax our media daily. cuts for the rich nor social-safety-net cuts ______Penalties for possession of the unlicensed “junk gun,” which has been outlawed for the poor. Read elsewhere about how by Congress should be made more severe. The Violence Policy Center has found minimum wage stays glued to $5.15 per You won’t find me talking about how that these far too easily attainable guns are the weapon of choice for juveniles hour for fear of the collapse of capitalism Halliburton just got busted — again — for involved in violent crime. Stricter laws and more stringent enforcement would that would ensue as every company in overcharging the U.S. government — reduce the amount of individuals who would risk owning such armaments. America would be hanging an “out of again — as in you and me that is — by Firearm purchases over the Internet, through gun shows and informal agreements business” sign on the door if they have to more than $100 million on a contract to between acquaintances, require neither background checks nor waiting periods and raise that wage. So goes the discourse, but deliver fuel to Iraq. Somebody is bound to fall through the crack of state-imposed restriction. Regulating these “secondary mar- not here. bring up the fact that Dick Cheney still ket” sales would prevent dangerous and unstable people and those lashing out in the owns hundreds of thousands of shares in heat of passion or drug-altered aggression from obtaining these life-altering I’m zipping it, too, about the attempted that company, but it won’t be me. Not machines. dismantlement of Social Security in today. WorldCom’s chief Bernard Ebbers Gun control must be stricter and more efficient so that the law-abiding citizens of Washington and how the neocons running just got sent up the river, but so what, this country can feel safe in knowing only responsible and qualified people will be the show seem to be attempting to dis- nobody’s getting their money back. Enron able to possess a firearm. In order to reduce unintentional deaths due to guns, a mantle anything with “social” attached to and one of the president’s best friends, firmer jurisdiction must be enforced on the laws requiring gun ownership. it. Tacking an “ism” onto that word is Kenny Lay? Out of sight, out of mind, out how their hordes of compassionate-con- of opinion. Savannah Gonzales servative radio talk-show hosts keep red- Santa Monica state types lined up in a row against social ______programs with any true compassion attached to them, but you’ll find no men- So, what do I put in here today, I’ve OPINIONS EXPRESSED are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of the Santa tion of them here. I’m attached to a work been asking myself, seeing how I’m on Monica Daily Press staff. Guest editorials from residents are encouraged, as are letters to the editor. stoppage. strike and all? Can’t just let a big, empty white space show up in here, can we? I Letters will be published on a space-available basis. It is our intention to publish all letters we receive, ______know what many out there might be except those that are libelous or are unsigned. Preference will be given to those that are e-mailed to thinking — and you know who you are — [email protected]. All letters must include the author’s name and telephone number for purposes of So I leave alone the master conserva- that the white space would be more verification. Letters also may be mailed to our offices located at 1427 Third Street Promenade, Suite tive Rush Limbaugh, who started it all, insightful than the usual fare. 202, Santa Monica, 90401, or faxed to (310) 576-9913. All letters and guest editorials are subject along with morning blonde bitch conserv- ative Laura Ingram, or snide new drive- (Ron Scott Smith can be reached at to editing for space and content. time conservative Doug McIntyre, who [email protected].) YOUR OPINION MATTERS! 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SANTA MONICA BUSINESS BRIEFS GUEST COMMENTARY BY ROB JUPILLE

Real estate firm brings on veteran Social Security private By Daily Press staff

Scott Farb, CPA, has joined Gumbiner Savett Inc., one of the largest full-service accounts are a bad idea accounting firms in Southern California, as the managing principal in charge of the firm’s national real estate practice. “After 50 years of providing diversified accounting You would think that as a Santa Trying to time the market based on services, expanding our real estate practice is a natural Monica-based financial planner and somebody’s best guess of its short-term progression for us,” said Lou Savett, chairman of money manager, I would whole-heart- direction is a fool’s game. Gumbiner Savett Inc. “As a well-regarded specialist in edly endorse President Bush’s Social Unfortunately, the typical individual the real estate and hospitality industries, Scott’s intense Security reform proposal. Despite the investor does this continually when they hands-on approach, coupled with his extensive real obvious benefit to fee-based planners hunt for the next hot stock fund. After estate knowledge give us the expertise needed to like me, President Bush’s current pro- reading numerous magazines with head- expand this area of our firm.” posal is a bad idea for one simple rea- lines such at “The 10 Best Funds to Buy Prior to joining Gumbiner Savett Inc., Farb served son: The average American stinks at Today,” and confident they’ve finally as the principal-in-charge of Rothstein Kass & managing their equity investments. found the next hot thing, they buy. The Company’s National Real Estate Practice. He also President Bush’s controversial pro- problem is that by the time they pull the served as a senior partner at Ernst & Young, LLP. posal provides workers with the oppor- trigger and place the order, their “hot” Prior to Ernst & Young merging with Kenneth tunity to invest a portion of their Social fund has already peaked. Once it starts Leventhal & Company in 1995, Farb was the partner- Security taxes into self-directed retire- to decline, they bail out. The pattern is in-charge of Kenneth Leventhal & Company’s ment accounts. The premise is simple repeated time and again with the same Entrepreneurial Services Group. SCOTT FARB and, quite frankly, valid. By allowing result: Buying high and selling low. This Over the years, Farb has served a wide variety of individuals to invest a portion of their is hardly a formula that will increase public, private and institutional real estate clients including real estate private equi- Social Security tax in the stock market, one’s Social Security benefits. ty and pension funds; residential, commercial, industrial and hotel resort develop- their returns over the long run should These same investors would be much ers, as well as commercial property owners and managers. exceed what they would have earned better served by developing an asset Farb continues to expand his involvement in the industry serving as a keynote had the money been invested in the allocation based on their individual time speaker on real estate accounting and strategic matters before numerous industry Social Security system itself. Over time, frame, retirement goals, and risk toler- groups. He has also authored a wide variety of articles on real estate related topics this should allow the system to maintain ance, only adjusting the mix as their per- that regularly appear in national publications. its solvency beyond its current projec- sonal circumstances change. This A New Yorker by birth, Farb graduated from Hofstra University, magna cum tion. approach is neither exciting nor terribly laude, and is a George F. Baker Scholar. His professional organizational affiliations So, younger clients would be allowed sexy, but the fact is that this buy-and- include the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California to have some control over their retire- hold, asset allocation strategy works. Society of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified ment assets, and this should extend the According to Dalbar, “Mutual fund Public Accountants, and the Urban Land Institute (ULI). In addition, he currently likelihood that they will have some form investors who practice a buy-and-hold serves as a board member of the Southern California chapter of the National of Social Security protection available strategy earn higher real investor returns Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP). to them at retirement. It also would pro- than those who attempt to time the mar- Gumbiner Savett Inc. is an established CPA firm that specializes in providing a vide me with an opportunity to assist ket.” full range of accounting, audit, tax and consulting services, based in Santa Monica. them in investing in privatized funds — Traditionally, politicians have avoid- at my regular fee, of course. ed the Social Security discussion like You’d think I’d love this plan, but the plague, and President Bush’s focus Santa Monica TOBACCO & GIFTS there’s one problem, the “shoulds” don’t on Social Security reform is a bold step pan out. 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BRIEFS, from page 3 leader in building Fifteen students in All State Orchestra One student in the All State Jazz Choir: Ben Bartelt Jessie Clemens Rebecca Bartelt new housing Aaron Chiu LEGAL BILL, from page 1 Samohi Orchestra: Gloria Lim Forty-nine students in California Orchestra Directors David Litwak At issue was the developers’ claim that many projects Association Honor Symphony and String Orchestra. David Martinez were tossed out by the City Council or Planning Peformance in December 2004, Visalia, Calif. April Paik Commission without good cause. Ben Bartelt Andres Pichardo-Rosenthal City Hall had begun to follow the state law, which Rebecca Bartelt Eileen Wong required it to detail a rejected or downscaled project’s Sarah Boyle Henry Samuels adverse effects to neighbors or its health and safety dan- Julianne Bruce Carl Schoellhammer gers. Still, it did so begrudgingly. Assistant City Joey Corral Jules Sulpico Attorney Joe Lawrence said City Hall included a dis- Calvin Dacosta Ilana Summers claimer with its findings in each case stating it shouldn’t Patrick Deasy Zach Van Pelt have to enforce the law because it is a charter city and Sarah Elbaum Eileen Wong therefore not subject to the state law. Kerri Epps When the case later was settled and the city began fol- David Farzam The following students from Lincoln Middle School lowing the state law without a disclaimer, City Hall was Jennifer Farzam were chosen for the 2005 SCSBOA All-Southern sued for attorney fees. Lauren Foust, principal second violin Honor Orchestra led by Peter Park, orchestra director: In denying the housing council and attorney Chris Jarrett Furst Harding’s request for fees, Judge Lefkowitz found the Lizzy Glennon Sonya Allahyar, violin lawsuit had resulted in no benefit either to the public or Mayura Jain Elliott Jordan, string bass to the property developers who warranted recovery of David Jang Josh Kalmar, string bass attorney fees. Joanna Kaplan Jeremy Lai, viola Judge Lefkowitz also found the evidence presented Anthony Lai Jonathan Li, cello showed the city “consistently applied the statute” in Vincent Lai Hannah McGinty, violin compliance with the law. Jonathan Lee Max Zakzook, cello Harding didn’t return calls seeking comment Gloria Lim Ryan Lin Wednesday. Nicole Liner-Jigamian Band students from Lincoln Middle School placed in In a press release issued after the ruling, city officials David Litwak the honor groups under Mark Hunt, band director: said Santa Monica is the Westside leader in housing pro- Michelle Matsunaga duction. For the period from 1998 to 2005, the city per- Alan Miller Southern California School Band & Orchestra mitted 2,547 housing units, according to city officials. Anna Nabel Association: Santa Monica also has issued more building permits Jesse Nabel Iain Gimzewski, french Horn, 8th grade for multi-family housing than any other Westside city, Nicole Negrete Jared Hammer, trombone, 7th grade officials said. Skylar O‚Connor Peter Bennion, tuba, 8th grade “It is unfortunate that private lawyers’ requests for Marika Page attorney’s fees continue to drive lawsuits in this city,” April Paik, concertmaster CBDA All-State Junior High Honor Bands: Deputy City Attorney Cara Silver said in a prepared Mai Anh Perches Garrett Cheung, clarinet, 7th grade statement. “By opposing SMHC’s fee demand, the City Andres Pichardo-Rosenthal Jared Hammer, trombone, 7th grade Council has sent a strong message that it will not waste Kevin Poindexter Peter Bennion, tuba, 8th grade taxpayers’ dollars by paying unwarranted fee demands to Devon Pratt lawyers.” Giancarlo Ranaudo Lincoln Choral program Henry Samuels, principal bass (SCVA) — Southern California Vocal Association Carl Schoellhammer Soprano, Hannah McGinty Jules Sulpico Soprano/alto, Tycho Horan Ilana Summers Amaro Taylor-Weiner Malibu High School representatives included: Zach Van Pelt Instrumental Matt Vincent Kyle Kaplan Bassoon Wyles Vance All Southern Honor Band Adrian Weishofer 1st Alternate All State Orch Ellery Weiss Pegah Yazdy Colburn Youth Orchestra Eric Chapman National Honor Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, NYC, Topanga Symphony January 2005 Pepperdine Symphony Joey Corral Raquel Ravaglioli Devon Pratt Coda Honor Symphony 1st Violin Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic National High School Honor Orchestra, ASTA with Topanga Symphony NSOA, Reno, NV., Feburary 2005 Joey Corral Choir David Litwak SCVA (Southern California Vocal Association) Peony Pak Tam Visher Henry Samuels Griffith Frank Zach Van Pelt Andres Pichardo-Rosenthal ACDA (American Choral Directors Association) Joni Yamashiro Griffith Frank Emma Sewhoy Page 8 ❑ Thursday, March 17, 2005 ❑ Santa Monica Daily Press STATE Scientists learn how Americans get it done FAMILY, from page 1 be devoted to analysis and, researchers hope, influencing gone before the children awoke. equipment piled so high she can’t use the rearview mirror. federal policy on family issues. When they are together, today’s families tend to stay “Fortunately, the kids don’t get carsick,” Kim quips. Already, trends are emerging from their observations, in motion with lessons, classes and games. Or, they go “If that happened, we’d be sunk.” and they appear to be related to the biggest change in shopping. The Zeiss family might be insanely busy. But they are family dynamics since Kim and Gary Zeiss were kids Researchers contend this chase appears to erode fam- not alone. themselves: ilies from within, like a rusting minivan dropping parts as Scientists at UCLA have spent the past four years Mothers working outside the home. it clatters down the highway. observing 32 Los Angeles families in a study of how It’s a poorly understood seismic shift in both the What’s falling by the wayside? working America somehow gets it done. Day after day. nation’s economy and daily life. For some families in the Playtime. Conversation. Courtesy. Intimacy. The UCLA Center on Everyday Lives of Families is study, it allows them to own a bigger house, drive better And guess who is driving the minivan now? one of six long-term projects sponsored by the Alfred P. cars and take nicer vacations. For many more families, Researchers say parents effectively have relinquished the Sloan Foundation examining the intersection between two paychecks are necessary to put food on the table. steering wheel to their children. That’s because most family life and work. It means parents and children live virtually apart at family decisions and purchases are geared toward the At UCLA, a team of 21 researchers has completed the least five days a week, reuniting for a few hours at night. kids’ activities. $3.6 million data-collection phase. A second phase will In this study, at least one parent was likely to be up and Whether these highly programmed kids will grow up to become competent and compassionate adults is an open question for many of scientists. “We’ve scheduled and outsourced a lot of our rela- tionships,” says the study’s director, Elinor Ochs, a lin- guistic anthropologist. “There isn’t much room for the flow of life, those little moments when things happen spontaneously. “And, we’re moving from a child-centered society to a child-dominated society. Parents don’t have a life after the children go to bed.” The study’s requirements were straightforward: Find households with two parents who work outside the home, pay a mortgage and have two or three school-aged chil- dren. The families also reflect LA’s ethnic stew and diverse neighborhoods. Each family was observed over a week’s time. Researchers would stick with the families from the morn- ing’s first pot of coffee to bedtime. They followed a sim- ple rule: Knock first. Other scientists who have conducted family studies are intensely interested in the results but doubt cameras can eliminate bias entirely. “I’m sure these families never forgot the camera was there, and would play to it,” said San Jose State University anthropologist Charles N. Darrah. “And,” Darrah said, “the researchers can’t help but look at the people and think, “What is my family like? It’s people studying people.” The UCLA study isn’t ranking families from best to worst. Instead, scientists are asking how families are cop- ing. For Ochs, the most worrisome trend is how indiffer- ently people treat each other, especially when they reunite at day’s end. In her view, the chilly exchanges repeated in so many of the study’s households suggests something has gone awry. “Returning home at the end of the day is one of the most delicate and vulnerable moments in life,” Ochs said. “Everywhere in the world, in all societies, there is some kind of greeting. “But here, the kids aren’t greeting the parents and the parents are allowing it to go on,” Ochs said. “They are tiptoeing around their children.” The Zeiss family, however, is positively tribal with hugs and shouts. Their packed schedule just means they reunite in the car or parking lots. After a 40-minute drive to the ice rink, Madison races to the snack bar while Jake drags his hockey equipment into a musky locker room. Elbow-to-elbow, Kim and 20 other mothers strip their sons down to their Spiderman undies and strap on pads the size of sofa cushions. “When they turn 10, they dress themselves and moms can’t come in,” she says. squatting on a duffel bag to catch her breath. “None of us want to see that day. What else am I going to do — sleep?” Kim’s remark raises a second trend emerging from the UCLA data — how few people have any unstructured time. In just one of the 32 families did the father — a free- lance film animator — make a habit of taking an evening stroll with his son and daughter. Hand-in-hand, they dodged vacant lots and broken glass in Culver City while chasing fireflies and making up stories. Kim and Gary Zeiss are keeping their children busy by design. They believe it’s a key to being a successful adult in a culture that rewards multi-taskers. “You know the old saying,” says Gary, a 47-year-old See FAMILY, page 9 Santa Monica Daily Press ❑ Thursday, March 17, 2005 ❑ Page 9 STATE Family tools: Cell phones and Blackberries FAMILY, from page 8 that she is “producing a family.” utes. Ochs says families gathered in the same room just 16 attorney. “If you want something done, give it to a busy With all the scheduling, family life begins to resemble percent of the time. In five homes, the entire family was person. They’re learning how to be that.” running a small business. That means requisitioning sup- never in the same room while scientists were observing. A typical Monday for the Zeiss family has four or five plies, which invariably leads to a third hallmark of the “People just don’t come together very frequently in after-school events. They are in constant touch by cell study: clutter. our society,” Ochs said. “They might say they want com- phone, Blackberry and pager. Archaeologist Jeanne E. Arnold planned to treat each munity, but they don’t seek it.” It’s very different from how they were raised in Miami house in the study like a dig site, cataloging and mapping The Zeiss family congregates for dinner, but not until in the 1970s. Gary wasn’t allowed to play football; his family belongings as artifacts. But there was too much stuff. Gary and Madison return from fencing practice at 10:20 parents feared for his safety, but he remembers feeling Instead, her staff took photographs. Thousands of them. p.m. Kim spoons chili from the crock pot and serves unchallenged. By her rough estimate, the typical American family salad and mashed sweet potato. Jake drops his spoon and Now he is reviving his interest in fencing, which he owns more than most Egyptian pharaohs. starts rubbing his eyes. Time for pajamas. It’s 10:56 p.m. shares with Madison. The world has never seen consumption on this scale, Gary and Kim smile across the table. It’s their first “The kids are doing well,” he says. “They are getting Arnold says. “And every week we see more stuff arriv- time alone since the alarm clock buzzed 17 hours ago. good grades. They’re not obese. At the end of the day, ing. People can’t stop.” Kim stares at a spoonful of cold sweet potatoes, then this is good for them.” Researchers say schedules and clutter butt heads to eats it with a shrug and stretches back in her chair. Now 43, she worked as a television producer at MTV create the fourth family trend: flux. “My feet are up,” she announces to the ceiling. “We’ll and ESPN until Jake was 2. Recently she became an Using computers, scientists mapped the location of do it all again tomorrow.” administrator at Madison’s school. She is fond of saying each family member throughout the home every 10 min- Seven hours from now.

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BY LISA LEFF ments and pledged to launch a citizens ini- “This is a very different time. With that’s exactly what I will stay with,” Associated Press Writer tiative drive if the Legislature fails to put Proposition 22, we were voting on some- Schwarzenegger said. them on the ballot. Under that likely sce- thing that didn’t exist and wasn’t real to Attorney General Bill Lockyer, whose SAN FRANCISCO — Five years ago this nario, the question probably wouldn’t get people,” Kors said. “Today, everyone has office defended the state’s existing mar- month, California voters passed a law that put to voters until next year, according to an opinion on the subject. It’s no longer, riage laws before the trial court, wouldn’t tried to preserve marriage as the exclusive Lopez. For an amendment to pass, it needs ‘Oh yeah, marriage is between a man and say on Tuesday whether he planned to province of heterosexual couples. But fol- only a majority of the voters to favor it. a woman’ or ‘This is something that may appeal Superior Court Judge’s Richard lowing a trial judge’s decision to strike Yet the organization is so confident of happen in the future.’ This is real.” Kramer’s ruling Monday that the laws down the statute, a burning question for its ultimate success that it is seeking not Mark Baldassare, research director of unconstitutionally discriminate against gay rights advocates and their opponents only to ban gay marriage, but to rescind the Public Policy Institute of California, same-sex couples. He noted, however, that Tuesday was whether the electorate the myriad spousal benefits the state predicted that if an anti-gay marriage an appellate court would have to weigh in would vote that way again if a constitu- already grants same-sex couples who reg- amendment were on the ballot now, the to make any changes in the law binding. tional amendment banning same-sex nup- ister as domestic partners, he said. results would be substantially closer than At the same time, Lockyer said that tials makes it to the ballot. “These are the same voters that five they were five years ago. A statewide poll even though he thinks gays should be While lawyers on both sides of the years ago passed a definition of marriage the institute conducted before the March allowed to get married, it would be better debate braced themselves for lengthy in the law. I’m sure they would pass a def- 2004 primary showed that 44 percent of if the voters, not the courts, make such a appeals that will most likely take the mat- inition of marriage in the state respondents favored allowing gays and sweeping social change. ter to the California Supreme Court, Constitution,” Lopez said. lesbians to marry, compared to 38 percent “The more appropriate way to enact a activists on both sides of the debate Supporters of same-sex marriage, how- four years earlier. change in policy that’s this basic is to go agreed that in the long-term it will be won ever, think the public’s understanding and “People see the different sides of the to the people,” Lockyer said, speaking to or lost in the court of public opinion. If the acceptance of gay couples has changed issue in a way they hadn’t before. Both reporters in Washington, D.C. “This issue state follows the 13 others that added gay significantly since Proposition 22 passed the pros and the cons have been more probably will wind up before the people marriage bans to their constitutions last with 61 percent of the vote in March often discussed,” Baldassare said. “Much in one way or another eventually.” year, the move would put the issue out of 2000. The initiative, which stated that would depend on how it was presented, Kramer’s ruling has been stayed auto- the control of judges and lawmakers. California would only recognize a mar- other states that had come out in support matically for 60 days to allow time for “The gay community constantly beats riage between a man and a woman as (of gay marriage) and how the governor appeals. In the meantime, the existing laws the drum of, ‘We will get gay marriage valid, came about in the wake of Vermont and other high-profile electeds weigh in will remain in effect. Lawyers for two through the Legislature or the courts.’ granting marriagelike status to gays who on the issue.” California groups opposed to same-sex They’re not going to the people because entered into civil unions. During an appearance on MSNBC’s marriage plan to appeal the ruling after they know they will never get it at the bal- Since then, though, the state “Hardball” Monday night, Gov. Arnold March 30, the day Kramer has scheduled a lot box,” said Benjamin Lopez, a lobbyist Legislature has extended nearly all the Schwarzenegger said that while he person- hearing for making his opinion final. for the Traditional Values Coalition, a rights and responsibilities of marriage to ally supports domestic partnerships and “I do think people see California as being church-based group that is spearheading domestic partners, while gay couples have opposes gay marriage, he would not be in a line in the sand,” Kors said. “If we can turn efforts to get such an amendment voted on been allowed to legally wed in favor of amending the state constitution if back this right-wing attempt to codify dis- in California. “The public is wholeheart- Massachusetts and Canada, noted the state Supreme Court ultimately agrees crimination in California, that will spread edly against this concept.” Geoffrey Kors, executive director of that withholding marriage licenses from across the country. And if we lose in The coalition has persuaded two legis- Equality California, the state’s largest gay same-sex couples is unconstitutional. California, it will be very hard for us to lators to sponsor anti-gay marriage amend- rights lobbying group. “Whatever the Supreme Court decides, recover on a national basis for some time.”

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BY BETH FOUHY running for re-election, even though his campaign com- announcement was forthcoming. And he said that while AP Political Writer mittee has raised $1 million so far and several more fund- he and Angelides share similar political views, they part- raising events are being planned. Republican operatives ed ways somewhat on the issue of taxes. SAN FRANCISCO — State Treasurer Phil Angelides are savoring a potential matchup between “I don’t think Democrats ought to be defining them- launched his campaign to unseat Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the cerebral, Harvard-educated selves as the tax party all the time, and Phil’s a little more Schwarzenegger this week, saying he would challenge Angelides, who even acknowledged his own pedantic inclined to do that,” Lockyer said. the popular governor because he could not “stand by and reputation in his speech. Lockyer, who surprised many Democrats by acknowl- watch the promise of California wither away.” “My daughters will tell you that sometimes, I can be edging he’d voted for Schwarzenegger in the 2003 recall Appearing on stage with his wife, parents and three too serious,” he said. “Maybe that’s because I take my election, told reporters he was disappointed by daughters, Angelides announced his candidacy before a obligation so seriously — to give back what this state has Schwarzenegger’s performance this year and said the cheering crowd at the San Francisco elementary school given me.” governor’s tendency to go directly to voters to campaign his father attended as a child. He later headed to A Field Poll taken last month found that for issues had “a little bit of the sort of odor of Austrian Sacramento and Los Angeles on the first day of a multi- Schwarzenegger was favored by 52 percent of voters said politics.” city statewide tour. they would favor Schwarzenegger if he ran for re-elec- Asked to elaborate, Lockyer said, “There’s a sort of As the first Democrat to declare his candidacy formal- tion. That compared to 37 percent for actor-director Rob arrogance of power that bothers me. You know, Arnold’s ly, Angelides acknowledged the steep odds he faced in Reiner, 35 percent for Angelides, 34 percent for Attorney still an Austrian citizen.” taking on the world famous and charismatic General Bill Lockyer and 33 percent for Controller Steve Schwarzenegger spokeswoman Margita Thompson Schwarzenegger. While the Republican governor’s once- Westly. had no comment on Angelides’ campaign announce- stratospheric ratings have dropped in recent months, he Of those, only Angelides and Lockyer so far have ment, but Lockyer’s comment provoked a reply. remains popular in the Democrat-leaning state. indicated they plan to run. In Washington, D.C., “Bill Lockyer is just used to being in empty rooms “I have no illusions about the difficulty of this race. ... Tuesday, Lockyer told reporters that a formal campaign when he goes out,” Thompson said. A relatively unknown public servant looking to take on a global action hero, an international celebrity,” Angelides said, suggesting Schwarzenegger’s fame and wealth had fueled an indifference to the needs of the state’s most vulnerable citizens. “We have a governor who thinks it’s fine to cut assis- tance to children and to the poor — that somehow if he just showers more fortune on the fortunate, the crumbs will reach the rest like the leftovers of a Hollywood din- ner party,” he said. The 51-year-old Angelides has made little secret of his intent to run for governor and has already raised about $12.5 million for the effort. But with the Democratic pri- mary still a year away, Angelides’ early campaign kick- off signaled his desire to quickly frame the race as a two- man contest between himself and Schwarzenegger. A Sacramento native and a member of the region’s prominent Greek-American community, Angelides worked in state government and made a fortune in real estate development before immersing himself in politics full-time. He chaired the state Democratic Party from 1991 to 1993 and was elected treasurer in 1998 where he has forged a reputation as a consumer advocate and crit- ic of corporate excess. As treasurer, Angelides has used his oversight of the state’s $300 billion public pension funds to push for socially responsible investments and greater financial market reform. That’s made him a hero to some stock- holder rights groups while earning the animus of Wall Street executives, who complain that his stewardship of the pension funds has been excessively political. Since Schwarzenegger took office 16 months ago, Angelides has positioned himself as one of the gover- nor’s loudest and most persistent Democratic critics. 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Members are Waco. amous Mormons is hurriedly building a new community not allowed newspapers, radio, TV or the Internet — and “That’s just the thing I thought of,” Donaldson said in sparsely populated West Texas. But the arrival of the are forbidden to speak with reporters. from his pickup truck, a rifle resting on the seat next to Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day The sect, which may have as many as 10,000 mem- him to take care of predators coveting his livestock. Saints — marked by a temple tower rising out of the bers, has a history of polygamy that’s long been an open The new complex just north of Eldorado, about 160 rocky terrain and prickly pear cactus — has been about secret in Utah. In civil suits filed recently by former miles northwest of San Antonio, includes roughly a as welcome among locals as a new species of rattlesnake. members there, Jeffs is accused of sexual misconduct and dozen concrete and log apartment buildings plus other “I think there’s reason to be apprehensive, but they’ve of assigning young girls as wives to older men. structures around the fortress-like temple, about 80 feet done nothing to warrant any kind of great fear,” says But authorities say the accusations aren’t sufficient to tall, that’s nearing completion. Schleicher County Judge Johnny Griffin. “But it’s the produce criminal charges because they can’t get anyone The main entry to the property is a dirt easement unknown. ... It’s the secrecy that bothers most people. I to talk about Jeffs. blocked by a locked metal gate. A quarter-mile down the just hope nothing happens.” “For three years now, he’s been doing everything he path there’s a small guard shack, and someone equipped The congregation, known as FLDS and led by reclu- can to keep people from cooperating with us and to take with binoculars has been spotted atop a construction sive prophet Warren Jeffs since his father’s death in steps to avoid our efforts,” according to Utah Attorney tower that has a bird’s-eye view of the 1,691-acre tract. 2002, is one of several groups that split from the Salt General Mark Shurtleff, who recently held a town hall The Rev. Joseph Vathalloor, whose small Roman Lake City-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day meeting on the church with Arizona Attorney General Catholic church is at the intersection of the road leading Saints in the decades after it renounced polygamy in Terry Goddard. to the FLDS site, said he and other clergy in town have talked about trying to say hello to Jeffs. “But what I’m told is he’s not seeing anyone,” Vathalloor said. The number of church members in Eldorado is unknown, and while they’ve been seen only sporadically, they’re easily spotted in the town of just under 2,000. Men and boys wear buttoned-up long-sleeve shirts. Long, loose-fitting pastel-colored dresses are worn by women and girls, who also have long braided hair. “They don’t say much,” said Tammy McGinnis, 28, who works at a Shell convenience store not far from the compound where some church men have purchased gasoline. “I said hello to one. He just looked down.” Randy Mankin, editor of the 1,100-circulation Eldorado Success — the town’s weekly — says his newspaper has been following the construction of the compound for about year. That’s when Mankin took a call from a woman named Flora Jessop inquiring about a local land purchase; she heard it was related to the FLDS. Five months earlier, a company called YFZ Land LLC spent nearly $700,000 for a former exotic game ranch, prompting chuckles from locals who figured some green- horn got snookered into paying about twice the value of the place. The buyer’s representative initially told real estate agents and police he planned to operate the prop- erty as a hunting retreat. Then pilots using an airstrip nearby reported buildings under construction that looked like something else entirely. “They told a great big lie,” says Jimmy Doyle, the county’s justice of the peace. Jessop, who said she escaped from the church nearly two decades ago and devotes her life to helping others to do so, showed up in Eldorado a week later. She claims she still has contacts within the church, and worries that the congregation’s fierce loyalty to Jeffs might one day result in violence. Yet George Arispe, the Schleicher County sheriff’s chief deputy, noted that none has been reported at the site, and that the people he’s seen are “hardworking folks” and “awesome contractors, great at what they do.” People who have watched from afar say much the same. Within two months, the temple foundation was in, steel and decking four floors high was up, the exterior was wrapped in plywood and circular towers like castle look- outs stood at each corner. Now, cream-colored limestone from an onsite quarry is being attached to the temple walls. Only a handful of nonbelievers have been allowed inside the compound. One woman died last July of breast cancer and her death had to be confirmed by Doyle. “It was not elaborate, but it was very nice,” Doyle said of his visit to the quarters of Barbara Barlow Jeffs, believed one of the 50 to 70 wives of the church leader. In Texas, where bigamy is a misdemeanor, church men get around the law by declaring only one legal wife. The others are known as “celestial” wives, Doyle said. Griffin, the county judge, is torn between what is viewed by many as a threat to his county and his respect for the rights of privacy and religious freedom. And Doyle said he can’t see any criminal charges “until one of the girls comes into my office and raises her hand and swears they’ve been molested by so and so, and that’s never going to happen.” Santa Monica Daily Press ❑ Thursday, March 17, 2005 ❑ Page 15 NATIONAL Iraq’s national assembly opens for first time

BY RAWYA RAGEH exact. We do not want to impose any name from our side the population but were the dominant group under Associated Press Writer regarding the post of the parliament speaker. We want Saddam’s regime, largely stayed away from the elections the Sunnis to nominate some people for this post, but — either to honor a boycott call or because they feared BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iraq’s first freely elected parliament until now they have not done this,” al-Dabagh said. being attacked at the polls by insurgents. in half a century began its opening session Wednesday Sunni Arab negotiators at Tuesday’s meeting included The U.S.-led coalition came under pressure as Italian after a series of explosions targeted the gathering. The interim President Ghazi al-Yawer — a possible choice Premier Silvio Berlusconi announced plans to withdraw opening marked a major milestone on the road to form- for parliament speaker — the Iraqi Islamic Party and the country’s 3,000 troops in September as the Iraqis ing a new government in a country still beset by violence. Iraqi nationalist leader Adnan Pachachi. slowly take control, a move that could complicate efforts The parliament’s 275 members, elected during Jan. 30 Sunni Arabs, who make up only about 20 percent of to keep the peace. elections, convened in an auditorium amid tight security in the heavily guarded Green Zone with U.S. helicopter gunships hovering overhead. Minutes before convening, at least a half dozen explo- sions detonated a few hundred yards away. The U.S. mil- itary said two mortar rounds landed inside the zone but caused no injuries. The lawmakers opened with a reading of verses from the Quran. Iraqi Chief Justice Medhat al Mahmoud then administered the oath to the assembled deputies. “It is a great day in Iraqi history that its elected repre- sentatives meet,” said Fuad Masoum, a Kurdish delegate. “This day coincides with a painful memory that has St. Patty’s many meanings. ... Today, on this occasion, we celebrate the inauguration of parliament after the fall of this regime.” Wednesday marked the anniversary of the Saddam Hussein-ordered chemical attack in 1988 on the northern Kurdish town of Halabja, an attack that killed 5,000 peo- ple. 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Armstrong also commented on the 2012 Olympic The artist, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, last Burnett said he came up with the concept for “The bid. visited Denmark in 1998. His latest release, 2004’s Apprentice” in December 2002 while shooting “As an American my heart has to be with New York “R&G — Rhythm and Gangster: The Masterpiece,” “Survivor” in the Brazilian rain forest. City, and I have to support the bid for New York City,” spawned the hit single “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” The federal lawsuit, which sought damages for copy- he said. “But you also have to be fair and say Paris has Other artists scheduled to play during the June 30- right infringement, breach of implied contract and a good bid. Are they deserving cities for the Olympic July 3 festival include Black Sabbath, The Go! Team unfair competition, estimated that Burnett, Trump and Games? Absolutely. They’re great cities, legendary and Junior Senior. the network had made more than $100 million from the cities, historical cities. Last year, 75,000 tickets were sold for the outdoor NBC reality show. “Perhaps I wasn’t strong enough when I said my vote event where more than 150 artists, including the Pixies, Bethea owns the copyright to “C.E.O.” and its idea was for New York City. Since it wasn’t strong enough Morrissey, Sahara Hotnights and Avril Lavigne, per- was registered with the Writers Guild of America in they said, ‘He’s a traitor. He’s a weasel.’” formed on Roskilde’s six stages. August 2000, according to the state lawsuit. Armstrong said he was upset by the media outcry and First held in 1971, the festival was inspired by the took a swipe at some of the publications that rose 1969 Woodstock Festival in upstate New York. PARIS — Lance Armstrong acknowledged that he’s a against him. The event, which in recent years has been shown on little behind schedule in his preparation for a seventh “Some of the tabloid papers, they let it rip. They took MTV, attracts visitors from throughout Europe and the straight Tour de France title and also reaffirmed his love the gloves off. But c’est la vie, as they say.” United States. for New York City — and his fondness for Paris. Armstrong, who received a Sports Academy Trophy MEXICO CITY — Paris Hilton arrived in Mexico to LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man who at the foreign ministry Tuesday in recognition of his promote her perfume, book and film projects, saying she sued NBC Universal, Donald Trump and the creator of sixth straight Tour win last summer, said he hopes to also wants to shop and visit the pyramids. “The Apprentice” in federal court last year on claims recover his form in time for July’s Tour. “I love Mexico,” Hilton, star of the TV reality series they stole his idea now is suing in state court. "I’m going to try and get in shape. I have to admit “The Simple Life,” told reporters in Mexico City In the Superior Court lawsuit filed Monday, Mark I’m a little bit behind, more than I would normally be,” Tuesday. “The people are so nice.” Bethea claims that he and the Velocity Entertainment he said. “Perhaps I shouldn’t have started with a race Hilton, who visited the Caribbean resort of Cancun Group came up with the idea for an unscripted series like Paris-Nice. 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