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...goes, however, a once horrified supervisor begins to be intrigued by her willful residence in a world of myth and melodrama and soon joins in exotic games -- such as acting out the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, except for the fatal bits. Lettice and her friend strive for what all history- minded tourists seek, the moment when one senses this is what it must have felt like...
...said they were responding to a summons for aid and asked a guard to let them in, McAuliffe said. When the guard went to check with his supervisor, the men left...
With each supervisor representing approximately 1.5 million people -- more than the combined size of three congressional districts -- the Los Angeles County board is the most powerful local-government body in the country, wielding broad executive and legislative powers. The suit asserts that in order to preserve their political bases the five white supervisors, in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act, drafted a redistricting plan in 1981 that deliberately diluted Latino voting strength by splitting the county's then 2 million Hispanics among three districts. The board, charges A.C.L.U. attorney Mark Rosenbaum, is "the most powerful and enduring all- whites...
...supervisors have adamantly denied any racial jiggering of district boundaries. They refuse to consider expanding the board to seven members, as their critics have suggested. And they resist the idea of creating a new, predominantly Latino district, which is what the plaintiffs are asking U.S. District Judge David V. Kenyon to do. Such a plan, says Supervisor Peter Schabarum, would be "fundamentally un-American" and "racist." He adds, "I have real trouble with a Voting Rights Act that says ethnic groups ought to have a district fashioned just so they can have one of theirs representing them...
...more and more faxes are placed around the world, more fax machines are being used," said Linda Gillis, supervisor of the Message Center at OIT. "The fact is, more and more people are faxing...