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Some St. George residents following the case, while having no use for Jeffs, see a complicated principle hanging in the balance. "I'm not saying polygamists are right or wrong, but what they are doing is part of their culture, their religion," argues Randy Shaw, owner of the Little Professor bookstore in town. "I don't think a 14-year-old should be married to her cousin, but you have to look at their culture and the fact that we have allowed it to go on for hundreds of years. With this trial, we are mixing government with religion...
...Woody Allen classic Sleeper, Allen's character, a health food store owner, awakes in the future to discover that everything considered bad for you - namely smoking and eating deep-fried foods - was actually beneficial to your health. What with all our present-day scientific "revelations" about what's bad (or good) for us, I've always believed it was only a matter of time before the premise of Sleeper began to materialize in the real world...
...after a fire had wiped out a nearby Chinatown, 600 Chinese workers got permission from orchard owner George Locke to build and inhabit a new settlement. Some of these men were farm hands; others worked in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, building levees by hand for as little as a dollar...
While Bukowski, who died in 1994, is now a literary immortal, his bungalow's days may be numbered. The current owner recently evicted the tenants, erected a chain-link fence, and put the property on the market, advertising on Craigslist, "You can easily tear down the old building and do new construction...
...what happens to the owner then? There are tax breaks for historic properties, but Schave admits, "It could potentially cramp his style." The owner, meanwhile, is not talking. When contacted, he got flustered and said, in an Eastern European accent, "I am sorry. I'm not at liberty to discuss anything about De Longpre." Former publisher Martin, who called Bukowski "the most widely recognized and important author ever born and raised in Los Angeles," hopes the property can be saved. He explains, "I don't know if they're going to be able to save this property, but I think...