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Less than 48 hours later, Jones became another sad twist in the sorry history of Lake Providence. On the evening after his speech, Jones got together with Charles Reed, 19, a young man who was everything that Jones was not: a heavy boozer and drug user filled with sullen rage. Reed had never liked his do-gooder schoolmate Jones. "I wanted to hurt that dude the first time I seen him," Reed recalls. "It's just something about people I have when I first see them. I just don't like them." Yet on that night enmity dissolved...
...Monroe, the Watts riots and the Mansion murders, not to mention the kosher enchilada? Los Angeles is a metropolis of 85 cities with no "center of gravity", as Peter Theroux writes in one of the witty, observant little essays that make up Translating LA (Norton; 271 pages; $21). Its user- unfriendly downtown center resembles Gertrude Stein's famous description of Oakland. (Where is the there?) Born as a city of immigrants, Tinseltown, the Rainbow City, Iowa-by-the-Sea -- the sobriquets are legion -- remains one: children in its public schools come from families that variously speak 93 languages. Some...
...Hewlett-Packards do not work well as multi-user machines," Burner said. "They're something you're supposed to sit down...
...They're more user friendly," he adds. "Somepeople seem to be intimidated by officers in carswith flashing lights...
...Swim in the CharlesThis is the aquatic equivalent of unprotected sex with an IV drug user. But it's fun, and you only live once right...