So the congregation started meeting in MacArthur Park, with police helicopters buzzing overhead, drug dealers loitering nearby, fire engines screaming past.

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He also runs a janitorial service and a thrift store that employ 38 people in the blighted MacArthur Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.

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When the rector at All Saints' asked Lance to explore starting a mission in a poor neighborhood, Lance went door-to-door in MacArthur Park, talking to Latino residents.

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She was ambitious, releasing concept albums such as "A Love Trilogy" and "Four Seasons of Love" and an epic disco-fied version of "Macarthur Park, " by 1960s songwriter Jimmy Webb.

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Summer followed the song with such hits as "I Feel Love, " "Last Dance" and a disco version of the Richard Harris hit "MacArthur Park, " which outdid Harris' version by hitting No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 singles chart.

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He won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, has two honorary degrees, inspired a character in "Jurassic Park" and is curator of paleontology for the largest Tyrannosaurus rex collection in the world.

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