Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would it be accepted by anyone outside the presidential palace? To many of the students who celebrated Suharto's departure by dancing for joy in the fountain at the Parliament complex they had occupied for four days, Habibie was a perpetuation of the problem that brought Indonesia to its knees--the authoritarian system of crony capitalism known by its Indonesian acronym of KKN, for corruption, collusion and nepotism. Had all the riots and deaths--more than 500--given Indonesians nothing but a clone of the kleptocrat they had so painfully deposed...
...People have been worn down by violence," says Mayor Martin Bradley. "They now realize that there is no need for it, and see the economic benefit for living together." The look of the city reflects the relative tranquillity. Gone are the bleak tenements in the Catholic Bogside and Protestant Fountain areas, which were free-fire zones in the '70s and '80s. In their place is substantial, even charming, public housing. The center of Londonderry is filled with boutiques and restored Georgian buildings...
...Tracy is like a goddess," explains an agent friend of mine. "She's this little golden fountain of Nike." She's been the toast of the town for more than a decade. She is greeted at film festivals, air-kissed in restaurants, waved onto studio lots. The secret of her appeal? Free stuff. If you make Tracy's A-list, you have a standing invitation to visit her L.A. emporium, where you'll be treated with all the respect due a busy insider--including the assistance of a personal shopper. While the exterior of the building is unmarked, inside...
Just how Drew Golden and Mitch Johnson became partners is still a mystery. The Goldens live 2 1/2 miles away at 210 Royale Drive, an address that asserts its respectability with a sunflower-painted mailbox and a stone squirrel poised next to a tiny fountain on the front lawn. "The families didn't know each other, and they don't know how the boys know each other," says William Howard, Mitchell's court-appointed attorney. Says Alisha Golden, who used to sit next to Drew (no relation) in English class, "Mitch and Drew were not friends. They didn't hang...
...less wealthy drunk sits down on a bench by the fountain. He yells "Hey!" at each female passerby and then looks away quickly, pretending not to have said anything. He and a guy on the bench with him, a sober 30-year-old with a thick cast on his arm, are both getting quite a kick out of this routine...