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...right, many others could go down. Police chief Bernard Parks has already relieved a dozen cops of duty, with pay. They all worked in the Rampart division, which handles a part of town heavily populated by immigrants. Durden was fired recently on charges (separate from the Ovando case) that he planted evidence and made a false arrest. Other cops are suspected of selling drugs, using excessive force or simply keeping the whole mess at Rampart quiet...
BORN: Feb. 22, 1943, Rampart EDUCATION: Lathrop High School, Fairbanks, 1960 FAMILY: Separated; two children RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Commercial fisher POLITICAL CAREER: Alaska House, 1991-93; Alaska Senate, 1993- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 240927, Anchorage...
Representing the largest state Senate District in America--49% of the state, about 285,000 sq. mi.--is not enough for Lincoln, who wants to represent all of Alaska in the U.S. House. This Athapascan Indian points to her childhood in the small village of Rampart and her success in the state legislature as examples of her experience with Alaska's varied cultures. A moderate, she's careful to balance development with environmental protection in a state where the Exxon Valdez disaster is all too memorable...
...movies in motion. He climbed trees, rain spouts, a snake charmer's rope, a church facade. (Take the stairs? What's the fun in that?) And then he would leap: from roofs or high windows; from a rock onto a distant tree; from a rampart onto a sheer castle wall 15 ft. away. Doug was a whiz with a rapier, a whip, a bola. He could somersault off a horse, trampoline from one speeding car to another. He was a fellow you literally could not keep down--a movie vision of young America on the ascendance in the decade after...
...Ivan-Gorod. They used to make the trip easily, before the break-up of the Soviet Union turned the Narva River into the official boundary between two independent countries. Above the huge medieval fortress that guards the west bank flies the Estonian flag. On the eastern shore, a rugged rampart displays the Russian tricolor. On the bridge below, lines of pedestrians and cars move slowly between customs posts set up at both ends. "We built this city," says Ivan, pointing back to Narva as he and his wife make their way to the Russian side, where bread and milk...