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Thinking of doing your patriotic duty by voting Democratic in the 2004 presidential election? Visit the home of presidential hopeful John Kerry (D-Mass.) on this quiet cobblestone cul-de-sac. The multimillion dollar brownstones of Louisburg Square surround a small private park maintained by America’s oldest homeowners association and are counted among the most exclusive addresses in Beacon Hill. Think Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, Boston Brahmin style...
...informed, and her controlled legal arguments are punctuated by piquant asides, dark humor and bursts of deep feeling. As her name rolled off the tongues of every politician and talking head in Washington last Friday, she remained on the job in Minneapolis and at home in a tree-shrouded cul-de-sac in Apple Valley, where she lives with her husband, four kids and 14-year-old Newfoundland. On Friday evening she made a brief appearance at the door of her home. "The situation is, I can't make any comment at all. It'll just be counterproductive," she told...
...address in the hills above Pasadena. I take five freeways, three major thoroughfares and a spiderweb of smaller and smaller streets to get there. But I never do, because the turnoff listed on my map as Country Lane--two turns from my destination in a cul-de-sac--is plastered with signs reading PRIVATE DRIVE DO NOT ENTER NO TRESPASSING ARMED RESPONSE. I seem to be about half a mile from my goal, well beyond the range of a wireless-access point, and--communitarian spirit notwithstanding--I am not feeling encouraged to go the rest of the way. This seems...
...black students have surged the most: 85% in the past five years. As test scores rose, families who had fled to private and parochial schools started returning. Then real estate agents began to drop mentions of Hand's achievements into their pitches about heated pools and tree-lined cul-de-sacs. Mary Lu Dalton, Hand's curriculum coordinator, switched her son from a Catholic school to Hand three years ago. "At St. Joseph's there was one black student in my child's whole school," says Dalton. "Here he's getting an education in different faiths and cultures...
...believes it can pummel the Palestinian Authority into halting violence, and refuses to talk about anything else until it ends; the Palestinians believe they have no incentive for stopping attacks on Israelis in the absence of a peace process. And so Israelis and Palestinians remain trapped in a strategic cul-de-sac, and no amount of violence is likely to blow a hole through to the other side...