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...cigars may present a health problem, but Houghton has already had a brush with death...
Almost 2,000 firefighters worked the fire, and helicopters dumped water on homes and brush along a ridge to keep the flames from descending into the 1,000-resident town. A spot fire started by a wind-borne spark burned within five acres of Inverness early yesterday...
Faust is fueled by soaring ballads (Feels Like Home), Newman's characteristic brand of lopsided New Orleans blues (I Gotta Be Your Man), some certifiable rock-'n'-roll earthshakers (The Man), a little gospel, a brush of soul, and an overall acid bath of Newman's corrosive wit. It's music of an ambition and quality not often heard outside the work of Stephen Sondheim (whom Newman reveres), and it is performed on the album with tremendous brio by James Taylor, who sports a no-sweat self-mocking cool as God; Linda Ronstadt as the tremulous, winsome Margaret; Bonnie Raitt...
Naturally, officers around the country last week expressed frustration that they were all being unfairly tarred by the Fuhr man brush. That, doubtless, is mostly true. But when people are afraid to report their complaints, when officers work alongside acknowledged racists or miscreants in silence, when news of the latest police scandal is met with a "So what?" by jaded citizens, the system has gone awry. "It can be hard to keep your compassion," says L.A.P.D. sergeant Mike Albanese. "But we need to find a way to help people who have a problem get out of this system...
...York state senator and then as a newspaper and free-lance journalist, she started with Time as a Los Angeles stringer in 1988. Pre-O.J., she contributed to eight cover stories and helped report on such events as the 1994 Los Angeles earthquake and the devastating brush fires of two years...