Rather than hand-to-hand combat between two individuals, it would now be a kind of gang exercise: a number of men selected by the Eastern governor would do battle with a number of men selected by the Western governor.
Four-fifths of the mainly black population live in dire poverty and paramilitary gangs exercise a reign of terror.
"The Bell coverage was a classic exercise in gang tackling executed by a newsroom that does this better than anybody," said Times Editor Russ Stanton after the awards were announced Monday.
The project workers--some of whom are ex-gang members--also organize outings to Dodger games and rope-climbing exercises in the Simi Valley for gang youths who have never been out of their neighborhood.
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Researchers studied the territorial control exercised by gangs in various cities, including neighbourhoods and areas where there are no police, places known as 'lawless zones'.
The girl, Kayla, joins a local girl gang for this purpose, undergoing a series of initiation exercises which include theft and violence to convince the gang leader, Danielle, of her genuine intent, but then finds it difficult to break free.
Gradually, as things settled down and the drug gang melted away, the occupation turned into an elaborate community-policing exercise.
A particularly nasty gang of nuns, Sister Polycarp, Sister Cyril and Sister Ignatius Loyola, she writes, "took no exercise, apart from beating small children with canes".
Mr. Chandrasekhar emphasized that the film, about a gang of anarchic, fun-loving Vermont state troopers, is not an improvisational exercise.
