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...street is a shopping center with a supermarket, a savings and loan office and several apparel shops. There is no graffiti and little crime in the nine-month-old shopping center, and the reasons why tell a great deal about Watts: 17 security guards are on the payroll, and iron en trance gates, controlled from a rooftop command post, can be closed within seconds to keep prowlers out at night and robbers in during...
...Agnes is merely first among equals. All three stars do smart, honorable work: Tilly, her childlike faith traumatized by the rude stirrings of womanhood; Fonda, the reluctant exorcist fiercely questioning her old God and, no less, herself; and Bancroft, a strict but up-to-date nun, with reserves of iron and irony...
...Taiwan - makes for a great deal of bureaucratic and political work. Factor in the increasing intensity of engagement across the board (as well as the pace of globalization more generally) and it's clear that Canberra's China nannies are a busy bunch. A single incident or issue - hardball iron-ore price negotiations, the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement or the defection of a Chinese diplomat, such as Chen Yonglin, the senior consular official in Sydney who has sought political asylum in Australia - is not likely to bring about an irreversible deterioration in relations. The diplomatic game quickly...
...shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation's nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take aim at sentries atop guard towers ringing the site. The guards tend to doubt they would be safe in their bullet-resistant enclosures. They call such perches iron coffins, which is what they could become if the terrorists used deadly but easily obtainable .50-cal. sniper rifles...
...BRIAN BLAINE REYNOLDS, 89, brash sports photographer of the '40s and '50s, and one of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's first hires, known until 1964 as HY PESKIN; of kidney disease; in Herzliyya, Israel. Darting into seemingly unreachable spots, he captured such indelible images as Ben Hogan, left, wielding a 1-iron at the approach to the 18th hole at the 1950 U.S. Open and Joe DiMaggio finishing his grand swing at the 1949 All-Star game...