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...zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have been no murders since November and that's a significant drop in violence." Nevertheless, he says, "there have been eight murders in this district in relation to youth gangs, and that's too many. Another one is probably likely-and entirely unnecessary and unwanted...
Still, I have to admit that when it's lunchtime, I usually head for Lucille's, a humble American-style greasy spoon in the Maadi district of Cairo that may serve the tastiest burger in the world. Don't let me distract you from your Fourth of July barbecue; but yes, a family restaurant in Egypt dishes up the best burger I've ever eaten, and I'm not the only one who thinks that way. One of owner Lucille Crooks's thrills came the day she witnessed a young American backpacker talking and smiling to his burger...
...experienced racism during their rise to glory, the depiction of Aggie fans as racist was historically inaccurate, critics said; Hudgins said the movie used poetic license in the scene to symbolize several real incidents. With Aggie sensibilities so offended, state senate finance committee chairman Steve Ogden, a Republican whose district includes Texas A&M University, plugged in the conditions clause and no amount of lobbying by a mobilized Texas film industry could dislodge...
...minimum wage. In Victoria Park, beneath a dour-faced statue of the British monarch, Falun Gong demonstrators jostled for space with activists urging an end to political pressure on RTHK, Hong Kong's public broadcaster. As the crowd moved steadily through the streets of Causeway Bay, a popular shopping district, union representatives brushed shoulders with nationalists bearing oversized posters of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen and bright Taiwan flags. Groups of demonstrators broke up to make way for an oversized wooden float piloted by an elderly driver hawking traditional Chinese medicine for crow's feet...
...More entrepreneurial districts have used aggressive marketing-glossy brochures, marketing classes for principals - to recruit students for certain schools. That approach seems to have worked to maintain diversity at Montgomery County, Md., Lee County, Fla. and Duval County, Fla. schools, says Maree Sneed, an attorney who helped represent the Seattle School District in the case decided today. Magnet schools engage in a form of marketing by attracting students through special, often high-level, programs and classes. Their record is mixed at best on creating racial diversity...