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Criminologists point to two reasons for the city's upsurge in violence. First, veteran gang members jailed a decade ago during the crack epidemic are getting out of prison--and returning to reinfect their neighborhood with violent habits hardened and reinforced in prison. "The next generation of gang homicides is going to have a different construct [from the crack epidemic]," says Jack Riley, director of the criminal-justice program at Rand Corp. His research points to returning felons as a major reason for the spike in shootings across Los Angeles. "Locals in South Central and East L.A. think...
...bankrupt. You have the three-strikes law and jail and so on, but you can't terrify a kid into being hopeful about his future." Many cops agree. "We don't need new laws," says Sergeant Wes McBride, founder of the California Gang Investigators Association and a 28-year veteran of antigang policing. "We have a penal code a foot thick. You can't just work gangs with police suppression. You need prevention and intervention programs...
...able to persuade foreign leaders and regulators to do his bidding, he was at times a tyrant too. He demanded loyalty and was capable of terrorizing the people who worked for him. "I always prepared myself to the hilt when I was to see him," says Gerard Roche, veteran executive recruiter at Heidrick & Struggles, which has placed executives at AIG. Greenberg liked to keep his meetings short--say, 10 minutes--and quickly lost patience with anyone not prepared. Then would come the famous Greenberg tongue lashing. His former daughter-in-law Nikki Finke, who knew the family throughout the 1970s...
Besides Nadal's persistence and powerful swing--veteran commentator Barry MacKay says Nadal has the "most dangerous left-handed forehand I've ever seen"--his outfits have also held serve. "Well, I like his forehand," jokes Roddick when asked about Nadal's calf-length pants. Nike asked Nadal to wear them, and he insists they're comfortable. He has already learned how to kiss up to the sponsor: "Put that the pants make me play better," he says, smiling. "Nike will like that...
DIED. DANA ELCAR, 77, veteran actor on stage (Harold Pinter's The Caretaker), screen (The Sting) and TV (Robert Blake's boss in Baretta) who co-starred in TV's MacGyver for seven years, continuing with the role even as he was going blind from glaucoma; of complications from pneumonia; in Ventura, Calif...