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...Once the laughter was done, those who were famous, important or otherwise worked for someone famous or important, scurried outside into a light drizzle for the three-block walk to the Bloomberg after party. The financial wire service had transformed the Costa Rican Embassy into a rough approximation of a hip, Los Angeles nightclub, with neon lights, lots of vodka and nubile ladies who silently walked around dressed in form-fitting airline stewardess costumes. One wall of the main room had a series of stairs that led to the ceiling, at the top of which Rick Davis, the campaign manager...
...Docx evokes the city’s ominous milieu: “The crane outside the window had begun to sink into the mud below, or rather had begun to subside, so that the long skeleton finger no longer reached true to heaven but listed dangerously toward their tower block as if enacting some strange and terrible slow-motion death strike.”For Docx and his characters, St. Petersburg comes to represent all the foreign, mysterious brutality of Russian culture. And as the plotline dips between Paris, London, New York, and St. Petersburg, it seems...
...bachelor party in the early morning hours of Nov. 25, 2006 with his friends at the Club Kalua strip club in South Jamaica, Queens, and that he and his friends Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman were not armed when they tried to drive away from the scene, about a block from the bar, after the undercover officers approached them and opened fire, killing Bell in a barrage of 50 bullets...
...coming days, McCain says he plans to deliver an address discussing some of the policy lessons of his trip through struggling parts of the country. He said he was impressed with the importance of Community Development Block Grants, which provide federal funds for infrastructure work. He also said he had seen the importance of allowing local communities to play a major role in deciding how to spend federal aid. He has also promised to return to many of the communities he visited...
...block the music, you’ll have other things [that are promoting this message],” she says. “You can turn off the radio, but you can’t turn off the culture...