Word: localizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they always have been. Consider this picture: a kid sits alone in front of his computer, cruising the Internet. In the background a CD player blares misogynistic obscenities. In another room, the television features a teenage heroine contemplating violence against her classmates. The local sixplex is playing a film that spills more blood than a slaughterhouse hoses down in a month. And in most states, if you can't buy a gun with a few phone calls and a couple of hundred bucks, you haven't really tried...
That was in Philadelphia, where Goodman grew up, and still defended clients. And on that Tuesday--just as he had promised--nine reputed members of a local crime family, including a Goodman client nicknamed Crazy Phil, beat a murder rap. Goodman had vowed to mark the moment by jumping nude into the fountain of the Four Seasons Hotel, but was stopped by hotel security. He put his clothes on and joined a party of hundreds of the defendants' friends feasting on champagne and hoagies...
...what might have been the dumbest move in the history of journalism, I crashed the party--and was recognized as the local newspaper hack who had been hammering the Mob. When I was threatened--something about sleeping with the fishes--I turned to Goodman for help. He shrugged. I ran for my life. And 11 years later he makes no apologies. That's why he might be perfect for Las Vegas, a town that apologizes for nothing...
...than her looks. "I wanted to be a lawyer," she says. "I was on the debating team; we'd re-create Parliament, and I won computers for our school." But a life as Marcia Clark was not to be. During her middle-school years, Friel became involved with a local theater group, performing in student-written plays. At 15, she landed her first TV role, as Michael Palin's daughter in the British series GBH. Film parts started to come soon after she was killed off in Brookside, and so too did a starring part in an impressive BBC production...
...even astonished my roommate by firing off an e-mail reminder to clean up for the cleaning lady. But then I had trouble. For two days, the website wouldn't come up on my Mac at work. One day my horoscope didn't show up, and another day the local weather report (usually in the screen's upper right corner) was missing. The novelty was wearing thin, and I was back to Post-it notes for writing down appointments...