The Week

■ We’re getting a little tired of: wake-up call, 12 years of neglect, unresponsive system, frustration and despair, root causes, widening gap, need for new programs, legacy of racism, plight of the inner city, war on the poor, long hot summer, and healing process. As a great Angeleno, Sam Goldwyn, once put it, we need some new clichés.

■ We listened carefully for days, but we didn’t hear a single commentator refer to violent attacks on Koreans, whites, or Mexicans as “hate crimes.”