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...mottled with burn marks from the time he put a match to an aerosol can in a street fight. Adolpho has seen five friends die in drug wars. Each time a child is killed, his epitaph is added to the graffiti murals adorning the walls of north Camden's vacant lots. "It can happen at any time to anybody," Adolpho says. "It can happen to me, it can happen to you and it can happen right...
...find a house with look-the-other-way parents, there's always an illegal club. In Los Angeles a smart young promoter type will locate a vacant building that can be broken into for a one-night stand, hire a pal with a good sound system to put together dance tracks and serve as deejay, and then hand out flyers urging kids to call a certain number if they want to party at a "major rager." An hour before show time, the organizer tapes an answering-machine message telling customers the location. Of course the club promoters play it safe...
...petition also asked Carnesale to give special consideration to minority candidates for a vacant junior faculty position in the field of race and politics and to make sure the number of minority profesosrs does not drop beneath its current level...
Ajami was being sought to fill the post left vacant when Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies Nadav Safran retired last year...
...official American concern with Rutskoi and Yeltsin's foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev -- in effect, an appeal to make the speech less provocative. In the version Yeltsin finally delivered, he announced a new round of radical economic reforms, virtually dissolved most of the Soviet ministries and nominated himself to the vacant post of Russian prime minister. But he stopped just short of proclaiming Russia the successor state to the U.S.S.R., effective immediately...