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...better not." The assistant principal intervened and ordered the two conspirators to her office, where she confiscated the knife and called the police. Last Friday, Okiki and Marlena were charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder. Now parents, teachers and the 700 students at Irving Middle School in Lorain, Ohio, a racially mixed, economically strained town of 70,000, are looking for explanations. They are talking about the growing gang violence, the drug syndicates from New York City and Detroit that use Lorain as a drop point, the 11-year-old boy who held up a minimart at gunpoint last...
...surprise that Ferrato ended up combining camera and caring. She grew up in Lorain, Ohio, the daughter of a surgical-nurse mother and a doctor father, who was also a dedicated shutterbug obsessed with documenting the everyday life of Donna and her two brothers. Donna's early photographs reflected that peaceful, loving experience, as she concentrated on recording ) the gentle moments of private lives -- Parisians buying loaves of bread, Colorado cowboys and their dogs tooling around in pickup trucks. "I've always been attracted to the good things in people," says Ferrato, 43, "the funny, the quirky and most...
Scott, a native of Lorain, Ohio, came to TIME after graduating from Harvard in 1988 with a degree in English and American literature. Gross, from Long Island, N.Y., joined the staff later, after completing his major in Latin American studies at Brown University. Like some of his peers, Gross took a semester off before finishing college; he spent the time touring Central America. "My father used to complain that I had no long-term plans," says Gross. "When I told him last month about this story, he thought it was great. Now he knows that lots of other parents worried...
Philadelphia, Houston and Charlotte, N.C., operate similar programs. Houston's hotline corps includes a bilingual teacher to handle questions from Spanish-speaking youngsters. The math hotline in Lorain, Ohio, not only shepherds school-age callers but graciously fields inquiries from college students and, in season, adults wrestling with tax returns...
William "You cannot trust a Communist. Period." Parker, 18 years a city councilman and newly elected mayor of Lorain, does not agree. Parker tells his third visitor on Citizens Day that he "did not win" the election in Lorain but that the "other guy lost it." In Lorain, where "Pride Grows With Progress" at 572 feet above sea level, the Democratic mayor ran into a little trouble toward the end of his term. Some of his appointees, it seems, took a Department of Housing and Urban Development Federal Block Grant program and turned it into a "geared to the greedy...