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...reduce gang-related violence in America's inner cities, goes the conventional wisdom, is to persuade teenagers to quit their gangs. But that prescription seemed a little too simplistic to Chicago bureau chief Jon Hull, who had reported extensively on such groups during a stint in TIME's Los Angeles bureau. Says Jon: "When you join a gang, you make a very serious commitment. I had the sense that it wasn't so easy to leave one." So he took to the streets for three weeks, trying to find out what it takes to graduate from a gang. His frightening...
...hard finding people who were willing to be interviewed. He got the names of potential contacts from probation and anti-gang officers but, says Hull, "these guys aren't exactly looking for publicity." He showed up more than once for a street-corner meeting, then waited in vain for a source to show up -- wondering all the while whether he was about to become the target of a beating or a drive-by shooting himself. Even when he made contact, he says, "it took a long time to get them to trust me." But in the end, Jon found...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Margaret Carlson, Ann Blackman, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: David S. Jackson...
...counterpart to the deeply incised ivory caskets and pyxes favored by the courts of al-Andalus. One of the most impressive bowls in this show, a deep conical form bearing on its inside surface a design of a Portuguese nao, or trading ship, so powerful in its rhythms of hull and sail that the concavity of the dish seems almost to reverse itself under the visual pressure of the form, displays a Christian cross on the boat's mainsail...
Washington: Stanley W. Cloud, Margaret Carlson, Ann Blackman, Michael Duffy, Dan Goodgame, Ted Gup, S.C. Gwynne, Julie Johnson, J.F.O. McAllister, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver Boston: Sam Allis Chicago: Jon D. Hull, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William McWhirter Atlanta: Michael Riley Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cathy Booth Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jeanne McDowell, Sylvester Monroe, James Willwerth, Sally B. Donnelly San Francisco: David S. Jackson...