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...enclaves. Its center cannot hold because the city doesn't have one. The land without limits keeps running into dead ends: not enough money for schools, housing for newcomers, jobs for the working class, room to move. The laboratory of change produces the latest in urban ills: crack cocaine, gang culture, police brutality, civic indifference, a spectacular gap between rich and poor. Increasingly, the rest of America hopes the latest in L.A. trends will stay right where they started...
...Prison is the only place where these people are somebody. Their gang makes them somebody. Their violence makes them somebody," Silbert said...
...skilled in election fraud can louse it up. Never mind that Adam Sandler cost Trinity students only five dollars, even though their school is half the size of ours. Never mind that the U.C. transformed the popular De La Soul into a financial fiasco. Because not even the gang that couldn't vote straight can mess up a Grateful Dead concert...
...girl told the sheriff's department that a Spur had removed her clothes in a park during a sexual encounter, then refused to give them back until she had sex with other Spurs. She said her clothing was returned only after she screamed. She believes the commotion prevented a gang rape...
...explosion at a Calcutta train station killed four. Police, however, discounted a link with Bombay's synchronized explosions of 13 high-tech bombs, saying the first Calcutta tragedy was caused by the accidental detonation of a stockpile of explosives being hoarded for some future attack by a local gang running the city's "Satta" betting rackets...