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...classics fill the bookshelves. A computer with Internet access lights up the corner. The room is a cocoon, protected from the rest of the student body, from which they feel alienated. "Here I have ready access to all of my friends," says Gene. "And it's not the Crestwood Mall, where I have to deal with people who don't like me without even knowing...
...popular, streetwise boy whose curly, shoulder-length blond hair and swaggering gait sent girls' hearts racing, Mann was just another middle-class Atlanta teenager crossing the rocky terrain of adolescence. Once, twice at most, she toked a joint. Then, she says, one night in 1986, outside Crestwood High School in Roswell, Ga., with Patrick sitting beside her in her new silver Volkswagen Golf, she took her first hit of LSD. "My parents were divorcing, and I guess I was rebelling," says Mann, who was 16 at the time. "Besides, I thought Patrick was all of the things I wanted...
...easy have become even harder: Sue Medrano, an information-systems analyst for a large brokerage firm in San Francisco, is thrilled to be making $70,000 a year but can't figure out when to take a vacation, let alone have a baby. Lynn Andel, an advertising writer in Crestwood, Mo., isn't sure whether to buy life insurance to protect her kids or invest in stocks for her retirement. In this climate, it is easy to find people like the Jorjorians in affluent Wilmette, Ill., who are raising two children and finding it tough to get by on their...
Nancy W. Heitz Crestwood...
...just one or two banks would jeopardize the entire loan package. Thus the company's tactic was to besiege the holdout bankers with telephone calls from Congressmen and big-city bankers. Chrysler workers also threatened to withdraw all their savings accounts from some of the banks. The tiny Crestwood Metro Bank in St. Louis, which was owed less than $500,000, received telephone calls or visits from Steven Miller, Chrysler's assistant treasurer, John McGillicuddy, chairman of Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Treasury Secretary Miller. It quickly capitulated. Rockford's American National Bank and Trust, which...