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...view of many legal experts in California, the outcome may have been decided as soon as the trial venue was moved to the dry hills of Simi Valley, an overwhelmingly white, middle-class community of 100,000, 35 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. In July a state appeals court accepted defense arguments that the barrage of publicity and political fallout surrounding the case would make it impossible for a fair trial to be held in Los Angeles County. The move was surprising, though not without precedent. In a typical year, about 10 felony trials are moved in California...
Students from the Los Angeles basin, where theWatts race riots of 1965 remain etched in thearea's consciousness, said they were most worriedabout the riots that have decimated downtown L.A.and forced the city government to shut down manyservices...
From their offices on the 26th floor of the Federal Reserve Building in downtown Boston, Scott Sperling and Mike Eisenson sit atop the financial nerve center of New England...
...country is that Wal-Mart will reach its own plateau. Despite the superb management team Walton left in place, his death will inevitably mean that the soul of his corporation will change. Community irritation at secretive and standoffish ways of Wal-Mart managers, the "us" (Wal-Mart) against "them" (downtown merchants) attitude, and the modest involvement in public affairs and charities by store officers are building resentment...
...Mart revolution makes downtown merchants...