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...birth relatives--were piecing together the puzzle of their life at whiplash speed. This is where you were born. This is the woman who held you. This was the city, the food, the smells. For them, it was two parts home ("It's so nice," Rae said amid a throng of Koreans on a street. "For once, people are staring at Kel and Jake instead of me") and three parts I'm-never-coming-here-again (a teenage boy ate dinner at his foster parents' home only to discover in mid-bite that they raise dogs for meat...
...While many will argue the LAPD was only using necessary force to disperse an angry throng Monday night, the scale and locale of the disruption may cause serious harm to the force's already tattered reputation. And the city's police commissioner will have to endure the inevitable second-guessing: Was there a gentler way to approach the protesters? Could the police have done their job without firing rubber bullets? Ask an officer with the LAPD, and you won't get much of an answer. Ask anyone else, and you'll get an earful...
...together down the City Hall steps, across the lawn, and up along an unusually wide stage. The President, accused of hogging the limelight in L.A., spoke for only six minutes, but made his point. Calling Gore "my partner and friend for the past eight years," Clinton told the cheering throng, "He is the right person to be the first president of the 21st century...
...Poverty has got to go!"); a 13-wheelchair convoy of accessible housing advocates; and a giant elephant head with a cleverly hinged trunk. One protesting canine had "LOVE" shaved into his flank (missed, it seems, by the PETA contingent in giant pig costumes who cruised through the throng in a red Mustang convertible). Tuesday's demonstrators primarily targeted homelessness and poverty, with the occasional chant against HMOs and for the abolition of private property. Protesters were by and large young and white, with an odd passel here and there of mostly white demonstrators pushing strollers and carrying mostly black poor...
...closest thing this throng had to a leader, the council met nightly to plan, debate and cheer the week's events. Each cluster chose a "spoke," or representative. The council met in a warehouse truck bay (targeted by the police on Saturday) with room for hundreds of affinity groups to squeeze in. The spokes stood in the center, wearing party hats to distinguish themselves. The clusters branched out from them, forming a giant wheel (that's why they're spokes...