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...Sacramento have received thousands of calls from distraught victims reporting impromptu acts of discrimination that recalled the vigilante spirit of the old Wild West. Many of the callers were citizens or legal residents, wrongly suspected of being illegal. "No one has the word undocumented tattooed on their forehead," said Juanita Ontiveros of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation. "So people are being harassed because of looks, language and mannerisms...
...buildings." Around Easter they went off at an especially horrifying rate: after a truce between the Black Disciples and Gangster Disciples gangs apparently broke down, police recorded more than 300 shooting incidents in the Robert Taylor Homes and Stateway Gardens in only four days. In Stateway Gardens, Juanita Bishop counts five other tenants she knew who were killed by guns and says, "I'm for the whole sweep. Then we could let our kids outside...
...Maureen Kelly, Robyn Mathews, Peter Mitchel (Managers); Martin Barbieri, Jean Brown, Lisa Caplan, Chris Caratzas, Jackie Daniels, Khadija Drayton, Andrew Dyer, Joe Eugenio, Elena Falaro, Sherry Gamlin, Jill Gerlin, Wil Gipp, Mark Glatzhofer, Patrick Hickey, Tracy Kelliher, Angie Licausi, Pam Perry, Eve Rabinovits, Terry Skrapits, Patty Stevens, Diamond Vertsonis, Juanita Weems...
...mixed. Teachers at Moton and Lockett find that the extra-long year at a minimum gives them a head start on the traditional weeks of review work at the beginning of the new school term. "Come September, I'm ready to get into the meat of reading," says Juanita Smith, a second-grade teacher at Lockett. "Normally, I can't do that until the end of October." But students at both schools test far below the state average in reading, and their scores since the 220-day year began have improved only marginally. "My kids can't read...
...classic male approach. Sally Helgesen, author of The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership, calls it a feminine style of management. It is characterized, she says, by talking more frankly with employees, sharing information rather than withholding it and keeping the office door almost always open. Observes Juanita Kreps, a former Secretary of Commerce and a board member of several FORTUNE 500 companies: "Women bring a problem-solving attitude that embraces coordination more than the masculine drive to have power...