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...several council members agree that theattendance policy doesn't effectively compel themto schedule other commitments around the meetings...
...break with the past." Fortunately, Paris survived Le Corbusier. But the idea might not be all that bad for other cities. Asks Fishman: Could it be that by tearing down so much the Northridge earthquake has dealt Los Angeles the shock therapy it needs? That somehow the blow will compel the city to develop in ways that take account of the seismic dangers lurking beneath...
...take a while. His bodyguards, for example, are pressing their own suit against him, and court cases await over the cancellation of his tour. And Los Angeles D.A. Gil Garcetti insisted that his office has not closed the Jackson file. But California law does not allow the state to compel testimony from juveniles in sex-crime cases. Without the boy's evidence, the authorities may have only hearsay testimony -- probably not enough to win or even bring a case against Jackson. So for now his freedom is assured, if not his reputation. Neither he nor the boy will be required...
...story that he battled tuberculosis a few years ago and may have contracted it from a homeless person, though he has spoken publicly of his TB in the past.) Calling for "tough-love" solutions, Hamill offers a startling proposal: quarantine male street people on military bases and compel them to accept medical treatment. "The men would be treated as menaces to the public health, not as criminals," he writes. Yet under his prescription those who resist such attentions "would be charged with crimes of violence and turned over to the criminal-justice system...
...dance and playfulness -- had a more challenging echo in their married life. After they wed in 1988, Ignacio, Yilva's then eight-year-old son by a previous marriage, moved from Venezuela to join the couple. Dan, 33, spoke no Spanish, the boy no English. The couple decided to compel Ignacio to speak English. He caught on so fast that his Spanish soon degenerated. Says Yilva: "We have literally forced him to learn Spanish again...