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CINEMA Tom Cruise in a hell-for-leather frontier epic...
...from high big-city taxes also joined the rush, feeding the growth of hybrid suburb-cities like Virginia's Tysons Corner, Perimeter Center outside Atlanta, and the spanking new localities of the Route 128 corridor in Massachusetts. According to Joel Garreau, author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional cities as Tampa...
...nobles picked up the habit, and merchants spread it to the rest of Europe. By some accounts, Spain took more wealth out of the New World in tobacco than in gold and silver. In the American colonies, the cigar became a symbol of winner-take-all capitalism and flinty frontier grit...
...This is not only a celebration of tolerance," said Professor of Law Philip B. Heymann. "It's also a celebration of courage--the courage to be different, and of what is certainly going to be the next legal frontier in America--the frontier of equality...
...should be on the frontier here at Harvardin letting people know that we're in the struggletogether," said Sullivan, a member of the BlackLaw Students Association...