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...just moved to town from L.A. When he becomes her boyfriend, his punkness and her cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn't be able to remain two minutes...
...Lynch can easily identify his supporters because they are more geographically compact, he can rely on a more tightly-knit voter base and especially unions that will dig out voters on Election Day,” Clark explains...
...When Solomon had his first breakdown six years ago, he was a successful novelist, from a close-knit family, with a wide circle of friends. But shortly before his 31st birthday, "hell came to pay me a surprise visit." What followed is the hard stuff of severe depression. "My whole system seemed to be caving in," he writes. On his way home from the grocery store, he loses control of his bowels and soils himself. Over the following weeks, he becomes near-catatonic, unable to move, talk, eat or sleep. Aware of the ridiculousness of his situation, he nonetheless cannot...
...rules in the months leading up to the crash. More than 90% of the city's brokers are descendants of Marwari traders who emigrated from Rajasthan in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contrary to the broker communities in Bombay and elsewhere, the Marwari are a tight-knit clan, often linked by marriage. They had few qualms about trading stocks among each other on the basis of a handshake. Finance for trades could be had from a number of Marwari lenders holding small fortunes, usually acquired from trading jute, but also from other Marwari-controlled businesses, such as real estate...
...crushing effect of China's responsibility system can be seen in the case of a 55-year-old doctor in a city near Beijing. With her gently permed hair and knit shawl, the GP is solidly middle-class and had been thinking about retirement. But she practiced Falun Gong and protested in Tiananmen Square. Upon being arrested, police escorted her by bus back to her hometown; there, colleagues were waiting at the station with the hospital's Volkswagen. She was handed over to her friends, and the car sped off?away from her home. "Where are we going?" she asked...