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...garages and cathedral ceilings. Buyers, unfazed by the city's mean reputation, grabbed 70 of the 86 available houses, for prices that were typically 25% less than comparable homes in the suburbs. Among the first new owners: a Desert Storm nurse, a church minister and an IRS agent. Cheered Detroit's crusty mayor Coleman Young: "We are building a new town in town, one neighborhood at a time...
...challenge facing Clinton is both simple and serious: How does he reintroduce himself to voters enraptured with the mystique of Ross Perot? For years, Clinton had been carefully prepping for a race where he would be the agent of change, the only alternative to the do-nothing status quo of George Bush. Now it is Perot who embodies this anti-Establishment anger, while the Democratic challenger is suddenly relegated to an uncomfortable me-too role as the candidate offering change for the timid voters still loyal to the orthodoxies of two-party politics. As a longtime friend of Clinton puts...
...organized-crime elements of gang activity. "Many of these gangs are very heavily involved in drug distribution, and we have a lot of experience in the drug business and a lot of expertise in organized crime that will transfer very well into this effort," says Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI's L.A. regional office. "The FBI is not going to solve the drug problem, and the FBI is not going to solve the gang problem, but I think we can contribute...
Unquestionably, he is an agent of change. Andagents of change are often unpopular. "De Gennarois not universally loved, but that's inevitable,isn't it?" Carpenter says...
...young Bok came in as the Agent of Change,promising--as Rudenstine is doing now--structuresand superstructures that would bring theUniversity closer together...