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...rail yard in Alexandria, Virginia. No matter that Washington doesn't want the 'Skins to leave and Alexandria doesn't want them to come. In a secret deal whose conspiratorial bravado would have set Boss Tweed and Mark Hanna drooling, Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder offered $130 million to construct roads and rail links to a stadium Cooke would build and own. And Cooke gets to keep all proceeds from food and parking...
That evacuation prompted a local group called Project Freedom to construct a network dubbed the underground railroad to funnel gang members and their families to safety in cases where all else fails. Six former gang members and two families have been shuttled to safety through a patchwork of churches both in and out of the state. The relocations are coordinated with the Wichita police, who check for outstanding warrants. Project Freedom pays for the initial move, while local congregations agree to assume housing costs and arrange for jobs and education for as long as two years. "It's a stopgap...
...allies to retaliation. He is not likely to hand Bush the kind of flagrant breach that would spur a unanimous vote for war among U.S. allies. Washington is prepared to go it alone, says a senior Bush adviser, but "we've gone to a lot of effort to construct a world where we could get the civilized community to agree on moves to deal with outlaws. To the extent we do things unilaterally, we destroy that which we're trying to build...
...strong start into a durable effort. When he fled the field last week, Perot explained his retreat the way he had justified his invasion in February -- just doing his public duty. Then, in the face of charges that he was deserting the volunteers he had mobilized, he offered to construct a third force that would exert leverage on the major parties...
...Freeport, Maine, McDonald's designed a fast food restaurant that doesn't look like one. The chain could similarly be made to construct a restaurant sensitive to Harvard Square's architectural and visual traditions. Such respect for the environment is more than can be said for, say, Holyoke Center or William James Hall...