Word: whittier
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...Iraq with that in Kuwait -- and not conclude that Iraq fared much better," says Marlowe. The gulf war is not the first conflict that Marlowe has covered for TIME. Since 1989 she has lived in Beirut, where she reported the last throes of the Lebanese civil war. Born in Whittier, Calif., and educated at UCLA, the Sorbonne and Oxford, Lara previously worked in the Middle East for American and European newspapers and as an associate producer in Paris for CBS's 60 Minutes...
...soul searching, first into the past for La Pistola y El Corazon, a 1988 album of Mexican folk music that won a Grammy, then, for The Neighborhood, into the world outside their door. Or, more accurately, outside their doughnut shop, a Winchell's just south of Los Angeles in Whittier, where Perez and Hidalgo meet to talk business, do interviews and check out the street action. Their old neighborhood in East Los Angeles is impassable. "We had a strong sense of community," says Perez. "But with all the drugs and gangs, the neighborhood is turning into a battlefield." The Neighborhood...