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...theater. The basement of the palace he built off the Ramblas for his main patron, Eusebi Guell, could serve as a set for The Ring -- not surprisingly, since Catalans in the 1880s were crazy for Wagner, the newest of new composers. Gaudi's Casa Mila, on Passeig de Gracia, known to Barcelonans as La Pedrera -- the Stone Quarry -- was intended to suggest a seaworn cliff, and its iron balconies fringe it like kelp...
...Joseph Gracia, president of L'Alltanza, the Hispanic law students' association, questioned the role affirmative action played this year in choosing the new editors, noting that the special treatment is only one factor weighed in the selection process. "Since it's so subjective, there's really no way you can check on it," he said...
...talked about the new office space in May," Gracia said yesterday. He said Lucero began work there in August...
Rooftop Rifles. Frank Gracia, head of a drug-rehabilitation program in the Southeast Bronx, became aware of the gangs six months ago. He told TIME Correspondent Leonard Levitt: "We had this street fair, selling sausages for a dime, sodas for a nickel. Well, these kids got in an argument with one of our people, broke his arm and all his fingers. Then they sent their girls over to tell us they wanted to fight us. Now, hell, I've been around. I was in gangs in the '50s. I was a junkie for 15 years before I kicked...
...Gracia says that he eventually achieved an armistice with the gangs because he shared their abhorrence of drugs. "What you got to understand," he explains, "is that these kids now have like a holy war against the pushers. And the reason they hate cops is that the cops are always busting them, never the pushers." That frustration, he claims, caused the rape and murder of an alleged woman pusher three months ago. "The week before," says Gracia, "some of her junkies had stabbed some of the Immortals. The kids went to the 41st Precinct and told the cops...