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...struck, sending the poor into shantytowns which they dubbed "Hoovervilles" out of contempt for the president. With both sides hoping to avoid any ugliness, KWRU lawyers and police officials negotiated a minute-to-minute truce as the march moved slowly from Bushville's Northern Philadelphia ghetto toward the main downtown thoroughfares connecting Center City to the First Union Center, where the convention would begin that night...
...PoliticalFest" is running all week at the Philadelphia Convention Center (don't let this misnomer throw you - the brand-new downtown hall was deemed too cramped to host the GOP shindig, which was installed instead at the more capacious First Union Center in South Philly). I walked over to the hall Monday, took a deep breath, and headed inside...
...really exploding in ways I could not have imagined," Huffington says, riding through downtown Philadelphia a few weeks before the Republicans are scheduled to arrive. Today she has already held a press conference, visited two newspaper editorial boards, met with a dozen area activists and scouted the arena where the shadow revels are to be held. But the complications never let up. An aide's cell phone beeps, and he hands it over. "Bill Bradley," he says. Bradley has unofficially agreed to appear at one of the shadow conventions...
Walk through Fantasy's four floors of office space in downtown Honolulu--a city chosen for its almost equidistance between Hollywood and Tokyo--and you'll see sleep-deprived animators getting strands of our heroine Aki's hair to waft just so, or watching endless video loops of voice talents James Woods, Alec Baldwin, Ming-Na and Ving Rhames trying to make their characters' lips move in exactly the same...
...love affair with the Mississippi blossomed in 1967 when I moved to La Crosse, Wis., to teach fourth grade and feel the passion of those who lived with the rise and fall of the river. The downtown was still a river town, with colorful saloons. Buildings near the river showed the high-water mark from when the Mississippi rose up to remind everyone of its true boundaries. The early dwellers knew that this river was sacred. If only modern civilization were willing to treat the Mississippi as it deserves. PAUL BEYERL Kirkland, Wash...