Word: local
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Unlike their first foray into vengeance killings, however, Connor and Murphy enjoy the luxury of local celebrity in “All Saints Day,” allowing them to pick off their targets with unusual ease. As a result, the plot manages to coast along with nary a conflict. En route to the states, they encounter Romeo (Clifton Collins, Jr.), a raucous co-worker with loose ties to the underworld, who risks life and limb to join the Saints crew, perhaps intuiting the sidekick position left vacant by Rocco’s death in the first film. Stateside...
...show’s enthusiastic fan base contributed to the excitement surrounding the sold-out event, which was sponsored by the African American Studies Department and two local charitable organizations, the Boston Foundation and the Ella J. Baker House...
...Goldman says the decentralized approach gives local organizers a sense of ownership over their mustache-based efforts that might be lost in the scope of something like Movember. That philosophy is also reflected in the charity most chapters work with, a website called Donors Choose. The site lets local teachers post classroom projects that would otherwise go unfunded - donors contribute to the most deserving requests. Goldman says this lets local chapters make a difference for kids directly in their community, rather than contributing to a more anonymous national organization. But Mustaches for Kids biggest advantage of all, Goldman claims, might...
...ways, it's one big small town. With a population of just over 650,000 - most of whom are white and working- or middle-class - the key issues in the rural district that sprawls across the northeast part of the state are typically things like the future of the local Army base, falling milk prices and whether anyone can ever lure enough jobs back to the area to replace those that were lost when the region's manufacturing sector dried up in the 1980s...
...campaign to represent the place where I grew up and worked as a beat newspaper reporter, however, is anything but typical - or local. For starters, there are three unorthodox candidates: a pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-union Republican; a registered independent running on the Democratic ticket; and a Conservative Party candidate who doesn't live in the district and may well win - or play the part of GOP spoiler and help elect a Democrat to a seat that has been occupied by Republicans since the 1800s - despite skipping most chances to appear publicly with his opponents. But even these...