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...power of Los Angeles' growing Hispanic population will be tested today as voters go to the polls in a tight mayoral runoff election. The candidates are similar - James K. Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa are both liberal Democrats with strong roots in the city. They are also familiar with its politics: Hahn, 50, is the current City Attorney and Villaraigosa, 48, is a former speaker of the state Assembly...
...cities, imposing a limit on gifts and even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was?gasp!?in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...
...cities, imposing a limit on gifts and even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was-gasp!-in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...
...essence comes across most viscerally on the great Antonio Carlos Jobim song Waters of March, which she sang in her own translation from the Portuguese (one of her five or six languages). Her version, so intimate with the song's poetry that it even became a hit in Jobim's Brazil, contains at the core of its large-hearted refrain a line that reads, "It's the promise of spring, it's the end of despair, it's the joy in your heart." How I wish she had been singing it last weekend...
...college. Senior Precious Wright, 18, was forced to move to Kansas after her grandmother, with whom she had been living, died last year. Wright was afraid that without the help of AVID, she wouldn't get into college. So she bought a bus ticket back to San Antonio and lives on her own, working eight hours a day after school to support herself. Last month she was accepted by Texas Woman's University...