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...have downloaded such programs as America Online's Instant Messenger (AIM) or the rival Yahoo Messenger, both of which are available free on the Internet. Workers aren't even waiting for information-technology departments to install a corporate system. "This is all spreading by word of mouth," says Neil MacDonald, a vice president of the Gartner Group research firm. "Companies weren't planning on instant messaging, but it's become a critical part of business today." Gartner predicts that by 2003 at least some employees at fully 90% of big U.S. companies will be swapping instant messages. Although given...
...There is no substance to what was alleged," said Hebert's attorney Lloyd Macdonald...
...tackles an ambitious interpretation, capturing the audience with her expressive visualization and her innocent longing for a life away from the streets of Chicago. Her scenes with Banner are particularly touching and bring out the sensitive qualities of the actors. Unfortunately, the interaction between Lang and lawyers Gross (Will MacDonald) and Oberman (Ken Flott), while growing in intensity, never quite reaches the feverish pitch that would stir and shock the audience. The anger, the despair, the message - they all hit. But not quite hard enough...
From the outside, very little has changed in Southie since MacDonald's childhood in the late 1970s. The corner stores, bars on Broadway and Catholic schools he mentions still occupy the same spots, do the same business. But the neighborhood infamous for its racist tendencies, ethnic uniformity and hatred of outsiders that MacDonald so vividly describes is no more. Our most helpful neighbor is a young Puerto Rican father. He lives next door to an elderly Irish-American man. In the concrete courtyard, black and white children giggle together over games of tag. I feel secure walking through the tunnels...
Michael Patrick MacDonald writes about the violence, drugs and poverty but also about the unity, sense of community and tenacity of Southie. He captured its allure in All Souls--the feeling of a small town within a big city, an intact remainder of a bygone era. For better or for worse, Southie is changing. And as a biased observer, I hope that it will shed the few remaining vestiges of its close-mindedness while still retaining its small-town flavor. Only then will Southie be able to leave behind its reputation for intolerance and crime. Only then will Southie...