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...impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages came alive with Rajiv buttons, Rajiv banners, Rajiv posters and Rajiv hats. YOU LOOK AFTER THE COUNTRY, RAJIV, advised a sign on a mud- brick wall. WE'LL LOOK AFTER AMETHI...
Some say it should be plowed into good works, including a few improvements at the 80-year-old red brick church. Thriftier souls say the money should be placed in a trust. A flood of more than 500 supplicants, seeking everything from rent money to a new roof, has compounded the problem. Nor is the situation improving. A second well, adjacent to the first, started spouting oil, doubling the church's monthly income. So far, more than $100,000 has been banked locally, and the money could easily flow to the church for the next 20 to 30 years...
...Smith, a photo-supply manager, recalls how he once lived overlooking a brick alley near Chicago's downtown Loop. That was before the alley was stolen. "Every three nights or so, somebody would take about 50 bricks," says Smith. "It stopped only when the city paved it over." Each day bricks from abandoned buildings and old alleys in Midwestern cities are pilfered, sold and shipped out of town on boxcars. Ultimately they end up in Sunbelt states, where there is great demand for used brick. "They're advertising homes built with Chicago brick," says John Dean, of Chicago...
Chicago loses 20 to 30 vacant buildings a month to brick burglars, St. Louis perhaps 50 a year. "We don't use terms like brick stealing," says Philip Mumford, owner of Chicago-based Colonial Brick Co. Inc., which pays about $80 for 1,000 used bricks. "If a rabbit dies and a buzzard eats the carcass, that's scavenging. In the city, when a building dies, there's a process of claiming that carcass...
...stretches back for decades. The N.N.P. won 14 of the 15 seats in Grenada's new House of Representatives. A day later, Blaize, who sported a new gray fedora on the way to the ceremony, was sworn in as Prime Minister at York House, Grenada's yellow brick, Georgian-style government building. He then thanked voters for "showing in such a massive way that they are willing to take command of their own affairs...