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...like that at all. Every morning, you opened the paper, there was "five dead in encounter" here and "so-and-so businessman shot by extortionists" there. In many ways, it started to come very close to home. Geographically, I was within earshot of one famous shootout in the early '90s, which happened in my neighborhood with automatic weapons. Also, my family is connected to the film industry, so I knew people--friends and acquaintances--who were getting shot at. I wanted to understand what was going...
...patronage chief, were convicted last summer on corruption charges, while a federal probe of the city's hiring practices continued. Around the same time, a court-ordered investigation detailed an elaborate torture ring operated - and later covered up - by high-ranking Chicago police officials from the 1970s until the '90s. What's more, in an unprecedented show of defiance, the city council broke ranks with the mayor, passing an ordinance to boost the wages that Big Box employers like Wal-Mart and Target would have to pay. In the end, Daley persuaded enough aldermen to reverse positions to ensure...
...Radiance is the word," Joe Ferrer, a Time editor of the 80s and 90s who is Mel's nephew, wrote to me in an email just after Hepburn's death. "As a person, too. Though I don't think I saw her more than once after the divorce, she maintained a warm and sturdy bond with my mother. She was an exceptional person, kind, caring, involved and strong. She was someone you wished you could be like - a person who, so far as I could see, was even better than she appeared...
...Every time after meeting him, I would think, ‘I hope I’m in as good a shape at 40 as he is at 80,’ ” Cutler said.“Even though Musgrave was in his 80s and 90s at the time, he kept very well up-to-date...not very many people will do that,” he said.He was still “very interested in the world of economics and how it could be used in policy areas,” he said.Poterba has fond memories...
...homeless built campfires at night. Whole stretches made you think of the Appian Way after the fall of the Roman Empire, the almost phosphorescent decrepitude of a vanished civilization made even stranger by the fact that an intact, modern city was churning away all around it. But in the '90s, as real estate values on the streets below started rising, developers began to clamor for the tracks to be demolished to make way for their perennial notion of utopia, which consists almost entirely of luxury apartments...