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...Cambridge city officials wanted to erect a structure on what Boothe described as "a beleaguered area" of "parking lots and vacant buildings...
Many have found success and prosperity in their new home. A decade ago, a 1 1/2-mile strip of Bolsa Avenue between Garden Grove and Westminster in Orange County, Calif., was a ragged quilt of vacant lots and small stores, bean fields and discount emporiums. Today the stretch is as alive as payday in a port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they...
...never got the benefit of a long count, so that his opponent could later complain, as Tyson did, "I knocked him out before he knocked me out." Rocky never had his championship belt stripped from him, as Douglas had, hours after the fight, when boxing authorities declared the title vacant pending a review of the Douglas knockdown...
...said the first theft was reported on Jan. 10, but campus police said the burglaries took place between Dec. 24--the first day the dorm was vacant...
...section of Panama City where many were left homeless. Residents of the down-at-the-heels area were quick to assert that the fires were not caused by U.S. military action but were deliberately set by Noriega's paramilitary Dignity Battalions. Eulalia Sanchez paused while burning garbage in a vacant lot in front of her damaged El Chorrillo home to declare, "We are very happy with the gringos. They freed us from the tyranny of Noriega...