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...innocent victim of a random gang shooting. After visiting her in the hospital, L.A.'s new mayor, James Hahn, put up a $25,000 reward for information on the crime. "If a young girl can't stay in her bedroom safely," he says, "we are in terrible shape...
...Angeles is in terrible shape--again. The city's street gangs, which had been relatively quiet since the crack-cocaine epidemic of the late '80s and early '90s burned itself out, are back with a vengeance. After falling steadily from 1996 to '99, gang murders in the city increased 143% last year; 331 people died because of gang violence, in contrast to 136 in 1999. The violence got worse during the first half of this year, with a 23% increase in murders. Even as gang-related property crimes decrease--robbery is down 8.8%, carjacking is down 28%--other violent crimes...
While the University’s plans to expand into Allston may not take shape for decades, the way Summers has managed the move has earned him criticism from faculty already...
While Summers’ influence on the shape of the review’s current recommendations has been disputed, most professors expressed satisfaction when it was revealed that the President decided earlier this semester to cease all formal involvement in the curricular review...
...Even back in freshman year I was talking about it, and Shannon would say ‘slow down!’” It wasn’t until Ms. Music’s senior year, however, that the plans would begin to take shape. “We were talking about what we were going to do after she graduated and so Shannon knew I was going to propose, she just didn’t know when,” he says...