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...around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about shootings. These days the cops barely engage. The night before, Rowdy had spray-painted a two-story design of PBS, the Playboys logo, on the front of a building on Pico. It took him nearly three hours--from...
...Sharon is a tactician who knows how to survive politically but has no realistic long-term strategy for bringing peace to his people and the Middle East. The plan to pull Israeli settlements out of Gaza is all about tactics and is not a genuine peace initiative. The people of Israel would have been better off without Sharon as their leader. Aya Ben-Sedef Kochav Yair, Israel...
...Though the school and the parents want their kids to be successful in America, the ambivalence of many Islamic parents sends mixed signals. The pull of their home country is a constant distraction from fitting into this one. "They are obsessed with foreign politics," says Steve Landek, who has been mayor of Bridgeview since 1999. "I come to talk to them about better sidewalks. They want to know how to run for Congress so they can change America's Israeli policy." Clearly respectful, however, of the economic and cultural contributions of Muslims to the community, he regrets to say 9/11...
...friends” script has a detailed listing of what Harvard IP addresses correspond to what buildings, allowing users to pull up with a few keystrokes where any user they have listed is logged into telnet on campus. Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 says that HASCS would not comment on the subject...