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...long-suffering Singing Cowboy--whose team has never yet played in a World Series--spring in the desert behind Mt. San Jacinto was a tonic which he used to soothe the pain of the previous October's perpetual disappointment...
Peter Gabriel became one of rock's great storytellers. Almost all of Gabriel's songs were about someone, or something. "San Jacinto" was his song about Native Americans. "Biko" was his song about a murdered South African activist. "Intruder" was his song about burglars. An issue became a song, and each song told a tale...
...bonds and other assets. Some of the bonds were used to artificially shore up ailing thrifts or were sold in multimillion-dollar lots to cooperating S&Ls. Federal investigators are giving particular scrutiny to Silverado, Charles Keating's Lincoln S&L in California, CenTrust Bank in Miami, and San Jacinto Savings in Texas. Each had extensive business dealings with Drexel and with one another...
Like a river with multiple tributaries, the San Andreas is associated with numerous lesser faults, among them the Hayward fault, which undercuts Berkeley and Oakland, and the San Jacinto fault, near San Bernardino. Some parts of the San Andreas are more dangerous than others. One segment that lies to the south of the Santa Cruz mountains does not appear prone to large jolts at all. "It just creeps along," says geophysicist Ross Stein of the USGS. "Probably & there's some remarkable material down there that, like talcum powder, acts as a lubricant...
...Jacinto is the same place where former St. John's great Walter Berry fined-tuned his grades as well as his inside game. The same Walter Berry who is now playing for the Portland Trail Blazers...