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Ekow Eshun's new job comes with a really cool office. He was recently appointed artistic director of London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and his office walls are still blank. The space boasts high ceilings and a window you can step through onto a breezy balcony overlooking St. James' Park. "The view is amazing," enthuses Eshun, dressed in a black jacket, black trousers and a light blue T shirt. "I love the fact that you have the institution of Buckingham Palace over there, but then you have the London Eye too. I love the playfulness of it." Eshun...
When your life is briefly a front-page story, the window for profit can be narrow. These three newsmakers struck quickly...
...Sunday afternoon in July, 13-year-old Elizabeth Tomas was sitting at her bedroom window in the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. She was putting on her makeup when a bullet came through the window and hit her just above the left eye. Tomas, who had just started high school, was the innocent victim of a random gang shooting. After visiting her in the hospital, L.A.'s new mayor, James Hahn, put up a $25,000 reward for information on the crime. "If a young girl can't stay in her bedroom safely," he says, "we are in terrible...
...Rampart district, but he quickly reappeared at his old haunts anyway. He set about goading some of the younger homeboys to "put some work in" for the gang. That usually meant getting stoned, then driving a car through a rival gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found a gun. In May, Chino was back in jail--but not before he had communicated the "rush" of shooting to other gang members...
...spike in murders in Los Angeles shows, the gang nightmare is back. Gangs, it turns out, can take more beatings and lock-down time than any humane society is prepared to deal out. And it is the 13-year-old girl putting on makeup by her bedroom window who has to pay the price...