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South Central Los Angeles looks a lot like the rest of the city -- smog- filtered sunlight, palm trees, pastel-colored stucco apartments. It doesn't look like a ghetto. The gang writing on cement walls, criminal samizdat that cops read for news of a planned attack with the expert alacrity of CIA cryptologists, is fastidiously printed; it bears little resemblance to the loopy graffiti of New York City...
...Trump Shuttle airline, but his timing is unlucky. Reason: the rival Pan Am shuttle is up for sale as well. Because the Trump Shuttle has failed to dominate the market as he had hoped, Trump is unlikely to sell it at a profit. And real-estate agents in Palm Beach say Trump has been offering Mar-a-Lago, his 118-room Palm Beach estate, for an asking price of $30 million...
Along the waterfront, where Christopher Columbus' statue points triumphantly out to sea, rusty railroad tracks were torn up to make way for two miles of sandy swimming beaches and palm-shaded cafes. About $2 billion worth of stadiums, hotels, restaurants and museums have been built or are under construction, a showcase for internationally known architects such as Richard Meier, Arata Isozaki and Jose Rafael Moneo. "It's an orgy of creativity," says Mayor Pasqual Maragall, grandson of Catalonia's most famous poet. A former lecturer in urban planning at Johns Hopkins University, Maragall invited such American artists as Claes Oldenburg...
...climax of the parade, the residents of Tikrit wheeled out a simple cabin, and people dressed in the robes of ancient Babylon and Assyria prostrated themselves before it. When the cabin split open to reveal a palm tree from which 53 white doves were released, Saddam appeared to a wave of applause...
...wouldn't be, as the team members of the 13th-ranked Crimson will be playing in their first NCAA tournament match when they open today with a first-round match against San Diego at 12 p.m. PDT. I mean, taking exams in Palm Springs can be tough...