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...first-year band "Invisible Downtown" has a song appropriate for Yard residents today--"Living in the Quad...
...whether members of Invisible Downtown get Quadded or not, the song is sure to touch a few nerves today...
...biggest business deals of 1999--and ran. Before the score that netted him $115 million, Jain, 32, operated a website known as IndiaWorld, which posted local news and sports scores, primarily for Indians living overseas. His 20 staff members were squeezed into a 970-sq-ft. warren in downtown Bombay. Profits were minimal. But last fall Jain hit a cosmic payday when he sold his portal company, IndiaWorld Communications, to Satyam Infoway, an Indian Internet service provider listed on NASDAQ. The $115 million deal--one of the biggest Internet transactions involving two Asian companies--gave Jain instant celebrity, a whopping...
...question D.A.s always throw back at criminals looking to save their own hides. O.K., then, what bigger fish are you going to help us fry? In this case the perp, Rafael Perez, was a Los Angeles cop accused of stealing 6 lbs. of cocaine from downtown headquarters to sell on the street. If Perez wanted to plea bargain that, he'd better offer something pretty good...
...Rampart police station, in the shadow of downtown Los Angeles, is set in the middle of one of the city's toughest neighborhoods. It's a densely populated mix of Latino immigrants, Korean shopkeepers, down-on-their-luck drug addicts and gangs--lots of gangs. The 8-sq.-mi. area has 30 different youth gangs, with thousands of members among them, squaring off for turf...