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- NATION, Page 57American NotesLOS ANGELESChic Charity
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- The special-delivery package bulged with sportswear bearing
- fancy logos like Giorgio, Gucci, Nike and Louis Vuitton. A chic
- boutique? No, the recipient was the Good Shepherd Center for
- Homeless Women in Los Angeles. And the merchandise was $1
- million worth of counterfeit name-brand T-shirts, sweat shirts
- and running suits seized by lawmen in a sting operation last
- December. Instead of destroying the phony duds, city attorney
- James K. Hahn launched an unusual salvage operation. With the
- O.K. of firms whose names were pirated, the city divided the
- 43,000 items among eight community-service organizations. "Come
- winter those things are going to be very, very handy," said
- Carmen Hills, one of Good Shepherd's volunteers. "Some women
- come in here with nothing but identification, if that."
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