Word: downtown
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...leaps directly from page to ear and a richly textured narrative about the lost world of the '40s and '50s, Roth never lets up on his Jersey Job. When, after five years, Swede tracks down his daughter, she is living as Mary Stoltz in a squalid room in crumbling downtown Newark. She is worse than dead: an unwashed, half-starved, self-styled member of the Jain religion who prattles about the murderous effect soap and water have on germs at the same time that she confesses having blown up three more people in Oregon...
...force of elite Revolutionary Guards. The N.L.A.'s officers claim they have launched more than 100 cross-border operations against Iran in the past several years. The Iranians have responded with terrorist strikes, Scud missiles and, in January, a mortar assault on the N.L.A.'s fortified compound in downtown Baghdad, causing minor damage...
...Sault Ste. Marie Chippewas, a Michigan tribe rich from casino revenues, know something about spreading their bets around the table. After G.O.P. Governor John Engler trumped their plans to build a casino in downtown Detroit, they gave $100,000 to the national Democratic Party in early '96. That helped win the attention of then deputy White House chief of staff Harold Ickes, whom they pressed to get the Interior Department to back their casino proposal. Actually, the tribe gave the President's party almost four times that much. But to avoid further angering Engler, who was already furious about their...
...vanity plate to be custom-made. In the privileged town of Santa Barbara, California, where I sit, the hills are alive with the sound of mantra--from John-Roger, the Texan guru of Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, down the road; from the New Age preacher Marianne Williamson, closer to downtown; and even from the radio station on which I heard last week a minister speak rabidly of the Second Coming and Foxe's Book of Martyrs...
...Seattle Assistant Police Chief Harvey Ferguson, yesterday, referring to Tony Allison, a former mental patient who disrupted Seattle traffic for nearly half a day by wielding a samurai-style sword. It took police 11 hours to knock him down with fire hoses and subdue him on a busy downtown street Thursday night...