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Some civic leaders think Watts' notoriety can be turned to advantage. "We don't hide the rebellion," says Watts Towers Art Center Director John Outterbridge. "We want to get tourists here to dispel the myths." If many of the myths still hold true, at least there are signs of hope and a heartening willingness in the community to face up to its problems. Says Charles Woods, operator of a mobile barbecue: "All the new construction, it's built pride. People are more together now." --By Frank Trippett. Reported by Richard Woodbury/Los Angeles
After ordering three jet fighters under his command to buzz the capital, Vargas flew to an air base in his home province of Manabí, some 150 miles to the southwest, and began a five-day rebellion. "Better to die like a man than live like a coward," he declared. The show of air power, however, suggested to some Ecuadorans that Vargas intended to launch a military coup in their country of 8.2 million people, which has been under civilian rule since...
...defined, leadership network, reliable funding sources and Sunni fighters far more adept than the nine-week wonders being produced for the new government by U.S. trainers. There is a growing fear that the myopia of the current Shi'ite leadership in Iraq will soon provoke a full-scale Sunni rebellion and civil war. Last week's announcement that armed Shi'ite and Kurdish militias would continue to be tolerated by the new government certainly didn't help. "There needs to be an immediate, aggressive U.S. diplomatic intervention," says Leslie H. Gelb, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...remarks are striking, given that the same government authorized hedge funds to operate in Germany only last year. The immediate pretext for Schröder's change of heart was last week's ouster of Werner G. Seifert, the long-serving chief executive of the German stock exchange. The rebellion that ejected Seifert was led by The Children's Investment Fund (TCI), a British hedge fund. Angered by Seifert's costly and unsuccessful bid to take over the London stock exchange earlier this year, TCI pushed for a reshuffle of Deutsche Börse's management and the replacement...
...Utah, one catalyst for the rebellion was the shaming of Amelia Earhart Elementary School in Provo. Last year the school failed to meet No Child benchmarks because of low scores by just three students with disabilities. Principal Rosemarie Smith remembers the day she got the news. "When principals get the results, they automatically look at the upper-righthand corner to see whether their school made adequate yearly progress. I looked at that space and about died." There were no significant financial consequences, but the failure cut deeply. "We're in an upper-middle-class area. We have 95% attendance...