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Alice Harris of South Central Los Angeles fondly remembers the day when the good people from ABC volunteered to demolish her house. In 2003 a flood left the community activist and her family, who had no insurance, living in one bedroom. Worst of all, the waters ruined a stash of Christmas toys Harris had collected for poor kids. "I figured no one was going to come to Watts and help us," she says. "No one had ever done that...
...order to save it. After shipping Harris and kin off for a week's vacation in Carlsbad, Calif., 100 workers and neighbors tore her home down to the foundation and built a new, bigger one. They replaced the Christmas toys and donated appliances, mattresses and landscaping to her flood-stricken neighbors. They even threw in a basketball court for the neighborhood kids...
...Still, says the ACL's Wallace, "politicians are realizing there's a discerning constituency out there in marginal seats - that the church has woken up." Peter Costello knows what Wallace means. After his paean to the Ten Commandments, the Liberals' deputy leader said he'd never received such a flood of mail: "It tells me that there are a lot of people who are interested and want to hear this." For the Coalition at least, the language of Christian values makes a lot of sense...
...Force on Drug Importation must submit its report on safety by Dec. 8. When it does, Thompson could authorize reimportation, a move that would appease those who clamored for it during the campaign. Drugmakers, meanwhile, trying to block an end run around their U.S. business, have warned that a flood of Canadian drugs would stifle innovation by bringing in Canadian-style price controls. Experts say the U.S. can't import its way out of high drug prices, and they complain that the noise over reimportation is obscuring larger health- care problems, such as the 45 million uninsured...
...results. If we cannot agree on, for example, what counts as unjustifiable homicide (as we cannot in the case of abortion), then perhaps we constitute a polity in name only and should be free to secede from the Union. Or is that our democracy's only forbidden desire? ANTHONY FLOOD New York City...