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Gigante's ethnic flavor isn't welcomed by all. Last year the Anaheim planning commission tried to block a store proposed for the site of an abandoned shopping mall, in part because it would cater, as the head of the agency put it, "primarily to the Hispanic market." And what, you might wonder, is wrong with that? Non-Hispanic whites make up just 36% of the city's population, down from 56% in 1990, while the Latino share of residents has risen from 31% in 1990 to 47% today. But many of the Latinos can't or don't vote...
...informed fake bakers know that Sun City, just above Chili’s, is the best thing to happen to Harvard Square since Origins. Elvis, the good-natured proprietor, will even turn down the techno if you ask nicely. Experts say that Boston Beach Club in the Porter Exchange Mall is best avoided, but if you’re shopping on Newbury, Tan-o-Rama on the corner of Mass. Ave is a basement haven...
...also have easy access to the great outdoors that rural areas offer. It amazes me how many people assume that there are no highly populated cities in the Midwest. I’m from Topeka, which is no metropolis even by Midwest standards, but I live right near a mall and every chain restaurant imaginable. I am also a 20 minute drive from hay bails in one direction, and the ghetto in another direction. Our downtown area even has bums. That’s one of the three criteria for official status as a city: cross walks, tall buildings...
Barbara Dietz was well into midlife before she cast her first ballot for President. "I just wanted Bush to be President so much I had to vote," she says. But as she shopped last week in a Macomb County mall, the dental assistant, 48, was worried that the President she had so ardently supported had misplaced his priorities. "Everybody is afraid of the impact on the economy," she says. "Right now he's focused on the war to the exclusion of everything else...
...eyes and a courtly demeanor, his voice is not much louder than a whisper. He has too much old-world refinement to join a screaming mob and burn an American flag. Nor would he dream of strapping a bomb to his stomach and blowing himself up in a shopping mall. Still, he sees the U.S. as a force of great evil that, along with Israel, is hell-bent on destroying Islam. "The Americans and the Zionists have started this war," he says. "What can we do but fight back...