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...company on the map. Taking a page in long-term planning from her homeland, Nan says the volunteers will be doing research and creating educational materials over the next couple of years. She projects that FAST won't be fully operational until around the turn of the century. Still, Bostonian Robert Tynes, co-founder of INA (Increase Your Natural Ability), a not-for-profit company that helps teens like Nan start and run their own businesses, is impressed with the speed at which FAST, the fifth such company INA has launched, is taking shape...
...problem. Newcomers and old-timers are seeing their visions of small-town life clash, with cultural battles erupting in school-board and city-council meetings. "I moved here because I wanted the cohesiveness and convenience of a town where you could walk to everything," says Marcy Hawley, 49, a Bostonian who came to Wilmington in 1978 and runs a boutique publishing house on Main Street. "But that town is almost gone now. Sometimes it feels as if life here is spinning out of control...
...joined Wilmington's Design Review Board, Chamberlain discovered that the town's "good-ole-buddy network" of businessmen and politicians isn't always grateful for fresh perspectives. Teaming up with a preservationist group led by two other outsiders--John Baskin, 56, a ruminative writer from South Carolina, and former Bostonian Hawley, whose Orange Frazer Press specializes in books about Ohio--Chamberlain became involved in a crusade to create a downtown shopping-and-entertainment zone. Mayor Eveland and the city council liked the idea, but never came up with a way to finance it. The activists also tried to persuade Eveland...
Free reads already familiar to students and locals range from a nameless sheet promoting communist manifestos in Spanish to The Improper Bostonian, a glossy, highbrow magazine which, in its last issue, included a profile of Arthur M. Schlesinger...
...Selma; and falsely blaming Black Muslims for the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four young girls. Frankenheimer is particularly adept at capturing the mayhem Wallace causes on the presidential campaign trail. An inspired bit of casting has fat, hirsute porn star Ron Jeremy playing a working-class Bostonian, yelling his support for Wallace when the Governor is attacked by students at Harvard...