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...life cycle of entertainment districts is predictable. A low-rent part of town today becomes tomorrow's buzzy dining and drinking destination. Serious investors show up, as do smarter restaurants, and before long the area is overrun with bistros and martini bars. Scenemakers then latch on to another low-rent part of town-and the cycle begins again...
...Haven were just the sum of its galleries and martini bars, it would be just a low-rent Soho with a suspiciously large quantity of parking. What defines the place—what makes you really root for this city—are the overwhelming challenges it’s managed to vault...
...that should help BBC America become profitable within the next 18 months. The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) launched BBCA five years ago to liven up the Beeb's image in the U.S., export more British culture and, since it runs ads, turn a profit. BBCA is the Beeb's low-rent cousin...
...return, the singer befriended the clown. When Rlickman was looking for a new place to stay, Hamill even found him a low-rent basement room through a landlord he knew in Allston...
...Netanyahu aren't promising that their hard line will end the conflict. They believe they can contain the violence and, gradually, set up a Palestinian regime that will have learned a lesson from the violent collapse of Arafat's Palestinian Authority. At Labor Party headquarters in Tel Aviv's low-rent Ha-Tikva quarter, the moments after the election results came through were dismal. Outside the hall, the wind carried the discordant sounds of a few dozen disappointed activists gamely singing along with Labor leader Amram Mitzna, as he crooned old Zionist tunes from the 1950s. A clutch of young...