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...mound of coffee cups, pizza boxes from Listrani's and burn bags filled with discarded drafts, the team was trying to compress Clinton's huge vision for America into a size-10 Treasury. By dawn Wednesday, there was a crisp stack of pages on Clinton's desk to be torn apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: . . . And Then Came Carrot Cake | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

Georges Bizet's Carmen is an opera rapt with passion, where conflicts of love and loyalty, hope and despair play roles as large as the individual characters themselves. The story of Don Jose, a corporal in the Spanish army torn between his duty and his love for the seductive and dangerous Carmen, this work has virtually shaped the myth of romantic 19th-century Spain...

Author: By Lawrence M. Brown, | Title: Dunster House Opera's Carmen Charming at Best | 2/25/1993 | See Source »

...Angeles districts torn by last year's riots can provide an example to a nation which needs to take responsibility for its youth, Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) told a crowd of 70 gathered in Emerson Hall last night...

Author: By Margaret C. Boyer, | Title: Waters Speaks on Los Angeles | 2/23/1993 | See Source »

When Tommy's departed, our staff was torn. Most of us knew we would miss the atmosphere of this familiar late-night institution. But few of us would miss the grease that seemed to permeate all of Tommy's edible offerings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extra Cheese | 2/9/1993 | See Source »

...South Central and other L.A. neighborhoods, residents perceive that civic leaders have failed to deliver on publicized promises to restore riot-torn parts of Los Angeles. Few of the 1,100 buildings that were severely damaged or destroyed in the violence have been reconstructed. "There is a strong feeling that L.A. is not being rebuilt," says Norma Cook, assistant director of Project Rebound, a coalition of mental-health organizations. "People's real concerns center on jobs and housing. It's an economic issue. That's at the bottom of the feeling of hopelessness." Concurs Holly: "We are frustrated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A.'s Open Wounds | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

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