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...sheer atmosphere of Watts takes a toll. Says Family Counselor Mary Taylor: "Children lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...
...speeches to the party faithful, Hu has said Western democracy is a "blind alley" for China, and he has excoriated the path to reform, with all its attendant chaos, taken in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Gorbachev. Hu's key policy initiative so far has been to strengthen, not weaken, the role of the Communist Party in Chinese life. "They believe the party is the only way that China can maintain political stability," says a China watcher in the U.S. government. "Political institutions outside the party are not to be trusted." In essence, the thinking goes, party discipline guarantees stability...
...Instead of a tired alley, [Palmer Street] will become a really terrific corridor,” said John DiGiovanni, a Square real estate maven whose company owns the Garage, and an investor in the Palmer Street project...
...another matter. That is why Beijing declares victory when street sales of pirated DVDs move into licensed stores that present the same product in better packaging with money-back guarantees and, of course, taxes duly paid. That is why a decades-long campaign to clean up Beijing's "Silk Alley," a national showcase of pirated foreign sportswear and wristwatches, ends with fanfare when the new "Silk Street" shopping center opens, selling the same products under city regulation. And that is why China's leaders can promote a national campaign to protect intellectual property and at the same time declare that...
...great way to become successful--at baring all on TV. But it won't necessarily sell any CDs. For every Jessica Simpson, who this summer stars in the Dukes of Hazzard movie, there's an Anna Nicole Smith, who's shilling for Trim Spa. Fat Actress put Alley on magazine covers, but then its ratings plummeted like her weight...