Word: francisco
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...paying for our prosperity in ways difficult to quantify. Inner cities have actually learned better how to prevent violence at schools, if only out of fear. The Los Angeles school district hasn't had to deal with a serious shooting incident since 1984. In the entire city of San Francisco, which has half a dozen programs designed to identify students early who may be prone to violence, only two kids brought guns to school last year. But those lessons were learned hard. Joy Turner, whose 19-year-old son was gunned down in inner-city Los Angeles, now spends free...
Small wonder, then, that companies coast to coast are clamoring for Wheeldon's crowd-pleasing yet intelligently crafted ballets. This summer he'll be making his first dance for the San Francisco Ballet and his second, a new version of Stravinsky's Firebird, for the Boston Ballet, as well as working on a dance-themed film by Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection). "If a company calls and I have the time," he says cheerily, "I'll do it." There's just one catch: if they want somebody trendy, they'll have to call somebody else. "Ballet...
...that Rushdie had dismissed Seth's epic 1993 best seller, A Suitable Boy, as nothing but a "soap opera." Seth denied that Rushdie had been snide, but it is a measure of Seth's extraordinary skill and versatility--his first novel, The Golden Gate, was a tale of San Francisco written entirely in elegant verse; A Suitable Boy was the opposite, a marvelous, sprawling, and gripping tale of Indian family life--that one wonders if his latest book, An Equal Music (Broadway Books; 381 pages; $25), is simply his little joke. Perhaps he is saying to the Rushdies...
Move over Boston Celtics, New York Yankees and San Francisco 49ers...
...debate over guns, two developments on Tuesday underscored the point. First, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives came out publicly in support of the recent gun control measures passed by the Senate last week; and, second, a group of California cities, led by Los Angeles and San Francisco, filed a major set of lawsuits against gun manufacturers, charging that sloppy business practices have irresponsibly given criminals easy access to guns...