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Audience member Kim T. Knight expressed some disappointment with the gender breakdown of the audience...
...threatening than the challenge directed at Berlusconi personally, the tycoon who had been swept into power earlier this year on a tide of anticorruption sentiment. Even as he was host to a U.N. conference in Naples on combatting organized crime, the Prime Minister, once dubbed Il Cavaliere, or the knight, found himself among the knaves as he was formally placed under investigation by magistrates engaged in a bribery probe of Fininvest, his business empire...
Temporary shelter is harder to find. Stephen Knight of the Los Angeles Free Clinic estimates that there are fewer than 200 shelter beds for youths in all of Hollywood. For every kid accommodated, another is turned away. The alternatives are grim: squats, park benches, alleys, an adult theater that allows youths to sleep in seats for a few dollars if they can bear the noise...
...loneliness that hurts most for the kids. Holidays are especially cruel. Haunted by advertisements celebrating family life, many youths venture home in December, hoping perhaps Dad isn't such a beast after all. "They end up fighting over the holidays, and by January they're off again," says Knight. "I know three kids who got on the bus on New Year...
...help me God, if I ever have to hear Dean Smith "lobbying" for a national championship or Bobby Knight complaining about which bowl his team got shipped to. I'll know Jupiter has collided with Mars and Moscow is the capital of our 51st state...