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Samantha's mother Erin, an analyst with British Petroleum in Long Beach, Calif., had moved to the Smoketree complex of $200,000 condominiums because it seemed safe. Even after the abduction, her neighbors wanted the world to know just how convivial a place it can be. "The garage doors open, and people socialize," says Mike Pace, who lives two doors down from the Runnions in Stanton. "We use that as the patio." But when cops arrested 6-ft., 200-lb. Alejandro Avila, 27, for Samantha's rape and murder, residents had to reckon not only with the casual intrusion...
...NOTE: TIME.comix will be taking another summer breather next week in order to sip iced tea on the beach. It will return August...
...greatest fear is being the biggest dork at the Janet Reno Dance Party. I have never been anywhere in South Beach where I was not the least cool person in the room, and Level, where Reno is throwing a Friday-night fund raiser, is one of the hottest clubs in Miami. Being the No. 1 loser at a party for Janet Reno - the former U.S. Attorney General, current Florida gubernatorial candidate and perennial icon of dork style - could set my self-confidence back to junior high levels...
...five women in half shirts and low-slung jeans and buy them Absolut and Red Bulls. I ask Nicole Gaviria, 32, of the shortest half shirt and lowest jeans, why she came. "We thought it was Janet Jackson," she explains. "Basically, we were talking about doing something in South Beach besides getting drunk...
...CHARGED. IVAN LEXA, 41, former Slovak secret police chief, with armed robbery, fraud, kidnapping and corruption; in Bratislava. Lexa, who fled Slovakia in 2000, was detained at a South African beach resort near the port city of Durban as an illegal alien. He was deported to Bratislava where he was arrested...