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...Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques - particularly around 21st and Main. Now branded a "fashion district" by local style mavens, South Main, or "SoMa," is just what the shopping doctor ordered. Bound...
...Then I had to make people believe that I am this character. It created a lot of nervous tension." Perhaps, but Benjamin happily allowed his agents to use his renown to get auditions, so he could hardly take offense at the parts he was reading for ("Andre 3000 knock-offs, basically") or the burden of being seen as just another rapper...
Then came His Honor's delayed pronouncement upon Darrow's motion to quash. Mr. Stewart had apologized to Mr. Hays and the courtroom tension had lowered, but when Defense-Counsel Malone heard the quasher denied he rightly forecast: "This is going to be a scrap from now on; a knock-down and drag...
...about 20,000 SEIU members who signed up and volunteered to make phone calls, knock on doors, drop literature. We had very few leave their homes [to campaign] in 2000. We just assigned some of our staff. This is the first time we asked rank-and-file members and paid them for the time away from their job to participate full time around electoral activity. That was a big change. We call them the SEIU heroes...
...that the yuan's rise will effectively boost consumer-spending power throughout the region, because imports will become cheaper and interest rates will tend to remain low. In this way, the reform of the yuan could usher in a major shift in the way the global economy works: the knock against Asia is that it saves too much and spends too little, while the U.S. spends too much and saves too little?leading to huge U.S. deficits that some economists fear could destabilize the world economy. If Asians begin to spend more, export-led economies everywhere will be less dependent...