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...ever shopped at Wordsworth in the Square or Barney's downtown (Barnes & Noble, that is), you've probably seen small packs of high schoolers weaving their bookbags through the aisles, reading bookjackets and mispronouncing "Neitzsche." That was me, seven or eight years ago, trying to become au courant.Those girls walking around the North End with bangs towering over their spiroperms? I went to their proms. I literally can't turn around without bumping into one memory or another. And while I'm still imploring friends to move into town, I think I might be ready to move...
...capital's leading families -- the Acras, who come from Syria, and the Bigios, who are of Jewish descent -- have joined forces to buy the local branch of the National Bank of Paris. "Six months from now, when all the small businessmen are dead," says an angry downtown entrepreneur, "they will be the ones controlling Haiti...
...group of bloody-minded white rightists had tried -- and failed -- to disrupt the process of change. They had launched a campaign of small bombings against railways, power lines and A.N.C. offices in the conservative farm region west of Johannesburg. Then last week they detonated powerful car bombs in downtown Johannesburg, in neighboring Germiston and at the international airport, killing a total of 21 people and injuring more than 150. By the end of the week the police had rounded up 34 suspects, all members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement...
...Lots of people laughed. Lots of people smiled," said Eddie Ludwig, who carried the sign among a small band of demonstrators in downtown Portland. "I haven't had one negative response. I was expecting to get run off the curb...
...York some of the newer designers seemed to be talking only to one another. Sui, a smart stylist who is capable of authentic downtown chic, concentrated instead on jarring outfits that needed translation, either to fit the body or to decipher where they might possibly be worn. Britain's Tonya Sarne, who designs Ghost and was a big hit last year, seemed intent on damning British society rather than selling beautiful or interesting clothes. Bizarrely, several outfits were named for Prime Minister John Major. They consisted of clashing hodgepodges of colors, stripes, prints and waiflike little dresses that exposed...