ALL QUIET: A year ago today, 10,000...

ALL QUIET: A year ago today, 10,000 students flooded city streets to protest Proposition 187, the measure restricting services to illegal immigrants. . . . Now, life is calm again, and at Fulton Middle School in Van Nuys, fences have been mended--literally. Workers have fixed chain-link fences cut by youths who slipped out to join the rally, said Assistant Principal Roy Kawamoto.

CASH FLOW: Attorney Moises Vazquez took Rodolfo Acuna’s age-bias lawsuit against UC Santa Barbara on a pro bono basis. They won, so it’s back to the money--Vazquez is giving away key rings advertising his practice. . . . “My wife made me,” he said.

PROFOUND: Among the many twists of Jewish history, Hyam Maccoby was struck by the Barcelona Disputations of 1263, debates designed to convert Jews to Catholicism. So much so that Maccoby, above, turned them into a stage play that opens this month at the University of Judaism after a two-month West Hollywood run. . . . “It synthesized for me in one hour an entire world view that made tremendous sense,” said producer Richard Franklin. See Valley Calendar, Page F1B).

YOU AND THE YEN: What does the global currency market have to do with video games? Quite a lot, since most games are made in Japan. . . . In his video game review (F15), Aaron Curtiss notes that a stronger dollar means lower prices.

SURPRISE: Salvation Army volunteers Wednesday were emptying donation boxes at their Van Nuys office when an unusual gift plopped out--a live, grenade-like device. The LAPD bomb squad, and then military experts from San Diego, were called in. . . . Said David Stubblefield, a Salvation Army aide who once served in the 82nd Airborne and found the device: “It’s a day in the life for me when I was in the Army. But not this army.”