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...Sitting cross-legged on pillows that they had brought from their hotel rooms, the crowd of 700 neatly dressed middle-aged and middle-class couples were mesmerized by the tall, slender, blond woman in front of them. Dressed in a starched white Oriental tunic over gray sweat pants and sneakers, J.Z. Knight, 40, sat on a makeshift stage in a sturdy armchair surrounded by a veritable garden of lavender flowers. Her voice, almost preternaturally husky, seemed to take on a gamut of accents from European to Indian as she spouted a relentless stream of imperatives about self-reliance...
...vigil has been pierced by a bullet, and there is another bullet hole in the wall, which she covered with a cabinet and a neat display of picture postcards showing Chicago's tourist attractions. Diana and her sons and the other families of Cabrini-Green live in a cross fire between rival gangs, who have turned the project into an American version of Belfast or Beirut. Constant warfare between gangs like the Disciples, Vice-Lords or King Cobras across such notorious between-building battlefields as "the Blacktop" or "Wild End" have made Cabrini-Green one of the most dangerous places...
...supersalesman whose order books bulged so quickly that IBM put a cap on his commissions. In 1962, after five years, he founded EDS with $1,000 in capital as a company to process computerized data for other businesses. EDS quickly found a niche processing medical-insurance forms for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. In 1968, when Perot took his firm public, its revenues were $7.7 million. He managed to persuade underwriters to float less than 10% of the company's stock for a price that was 118 times earnings. He kept most of the rest of the shares...
Hindus are protesting Germany's move to forbid the swastika in the European Union--a ban that already exists in some countries because of the symbol's link to Nazism, right. But the hooked cross has also been a Hindu sign of peace, above, for 5,000 years. Symbols often have multiple sides...
...Crystal On Jan. 14, the Red Cross adopted its third emblem after years of criticism that the organization's other symbols--the cross and the crescent--were too religious...