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...Rebuild L.A. program will be able to prove itself in five years. That is an ambitious goal. But an even more ambitious ! task will be to ensure that the effort remains successful five years -- and 25 years -- after that. To achieve such lasting improvements will require more than a spurt of money and a flurry of energy; it will require engaging the people of South Central L.A. and giving them a stake in the outcome...
...these people had the intent, critically attentive gaze of opera buffs checking out a diva's pitch. "Was that spurt realistic enough?" they seemed to be mentally debating. Was that a clean whack that took off the arm of the papier mache fan? Periodically they moved their heads in a sort of approving nod: good spurt, good whack...
...conflict" is Falklander shorthand for the war between Britain and Argentina that ended 10 years ago this month after rocking the windy, 160- mile-wide archipelago of 778 islands for 74 days. The "changes" refer to the spurt of postwar economic development that has transformed this once depressed South Atlantic outpost into the wealthiest enclave in the hemisphere. Last week former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher received a hero's welcome as she touched down in the Falklands to celebrate the anniversary of the military victory. The warm welcome no doubt included a dollop of gratitude for the current economic...
...shot, outran Arazi the French wonder horse and the rest of a field of 16 in a dogged stretch run to take the classic at Churchill Downs. Arazi folded after a spurt coming out of the backstretch and finished eighth, ending the myth that he represented a quantum leap in horseflesh...
Enough to prove that outstanding defense and a clutch offensive spurt could beat a nationally-ranked team...