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...early Monday and do not know where to go. They are from a small, ethnically mixed village in the Liakhvi gorge in South Ossetia. Their families left their homes earlier but the men stayed behind, thinking that at their age they would not be bothered. But on Monday morning, Levan Khaduri, 84, a tiny gray-haired man with a deep tan, was putting up a new fence around the home that he was born in when a neighbor, who is Ossetian, said, "Don't bother. That is not your home anymore. Just...
...They should either kill me or organize a second round of elections.' LEVAN GACHECHILADZE, Georgian opposition leader, after his resounding defeat by pro-Western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili in the country's Jan. 5 Presidential elections. Gachechiladze claimed the voting was rigged...
...love Sumo," says Levan Gorgadze, 18, a former judo champion from Tbilisi, Georgia. And he's good at it too. Gorgadze hit the amateur European sumo tour two years ago, and in this year's Junior World Sumo Championship in Tokyo he finished second in heavyweight competition. With a small-town boy's big-city dream, he hopes to move from amateur to professional in the sacred rings of sumo in the sport's motherland. "The only place to reach the top is in Japan," he says. For the past two months, the 6-ft. 3-in., 276-lb. teen...
When he visits the West Los Angeles neighborhood where he grew up, Charles Levan feels sadness and disdain. One by one, the charming two- and three-bedroom houses that decorated the streets of his childhood are being bulldozed and replaced with bloated mansions on tiny lots. "Half the houses on our block have been leveled," says Levan, 34. "The thought of that happening to my house tugs at my heartstrings...
...rehabbing crumbling neighborhoods, have gone mainstream. Today well-kept homes are being knocked down by the thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...