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...acres of central Coney Island, wants to restore the splendor. His plan includes an indoor water park, two hotels and a roller coaster that wraps in and out of buildings. That a large investor has come to the neighborhood is a vindication of the city's strategy to spark private interest by plowing municipal money into improvements such as a minor-league baseball stadium. Coney Island fixture Dick Zigun, who has brought back old traditions like the circus sideshow and invented new ones like the Mermaid Parade, reflects the population's pragmatism: "We went far on spirit alone, but there...
...potential that I have to play well in big tournaments, but I obviously I need to improve.” On the next weekend, Shuman took second place at the Northeast Invitational and could have won had he birdied the finishing hole. With the spark from the newcomers, the Crimson stands a greater chance to win on any given weekend. “Now we have three or four guys who can come in under par. That’s a good feeling,” Hegge said. “If our No. 1 guy doesn?...
Although Henson’s pioneering promotion did not spark great interest on campus, national media outlets covered the transitions extensively, the former Lampoon president says...
...Arafat and his colleagues, exiled in distant lands, were losing touch with the Palestinian reality. By 1987 Omar and thousands of youths like him had grown impatient waiting for their saviors and launched their own uprising against the Israelis. The spark for the intifadeh, as it became known, was a Gaza traffic accident in which an Israeli driver killed several Palestinian laborers. Revolt spread all over the Palestinian territories, including Jalazon. "We burned tires in the road and threw stones," recalls Omar's friend Ismaeen, who wears a muscle shirt and has the dark, heavy-lidded eyes of an Egyptian...
Fears that Sunday's Presidential election victory by law-and-order tough guy Nicolas Sarkozy would spark riots among the nation's disaffected have been realized - hundreds of hooded youths in cities across France have battled police nightly since the poll, smashing windows and torching cars as leaders from across the political spectrum vigorously denounce the violence and plead for calm. But this is hardly a reprise of the 2005 riots that swept France's blighted suburban housing projects: The current bedlam is taking place at the center of some of France's largest cities, and the participants are mostly...