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...Southern California that was a logical step for the young Cambodians to take. "You land in a gang neighborhood, it might seem natural to form a militia to defend yourself," explains Steve Valdivia, director of Los Angeles County's Community Youth Gang Services Project. Nearly all the state's street gangs started out copying Hispanic "cholo" (lowlife) styles. Scholars trace Hispanic gangs back to the 1920s, when Roman Catholic parishes organized social clubs for children who felt unwelcome at white high school dances. Despite drive-by shootings and drug trafficking, the gangs were tolerated as a "community" issue for half...
...virus has already claimed the young, the old, the famous: symbols of Hollywood like Rock Hudson, symbols of youth such as 18-year-old Ryan White, even symbols of athletic prowess like the All-Pro former Washington Redskin Jerry Smith. Yet Magic is perhaps the first celebrity to come out instantly to admit to his condition, and unprompted. And he is certainly the most famous: even people with no interest in basketball recognize his name and smile. In addition, because he would not discuss how he might have contracted the disease but only implied it was from heterosexual contact...
...gets me away from the phone," the law professor says. "I play because it is fun. It reminds me of my youth. Basketball was my life when I was growing up in Brooklyn...
...Would Kennedy, our first president born in the 20th century, a figure who represented youth and vitality, have been elected if this had been known?" Bradlee asked...
Throughout his youth, Scorsese thought he had a calling too. The future director of The Last Temptation of Christ yearned to be a priest. But another vocation beckoned. Charles and Catherine Scorsese, who today make occasional endearing cameo appearances in their son's films, took young Marty to the movies, and it was ossessione at first sight. He talks of old movies as a caliph might of all his beautiful women. So many films, so much informed love. "Watching Land of the Pharaohs as a kid, I felt I was in ancient Egypt," he recalls. "And I've been obsessed...