Word: mecca
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Enough has been written about the phenomena that Seattle bands have popularized this past year. Now that the flannel has stopped flying and the hooplah died down, most of the bands that capitalized on hailing from that grunge mecca have now crawled back into the second-rate clubs from whence they came...
...flew to the Middle East to escape. Abouhalima, for his part, says that during the bombing he was at home with his family in Woodbridge, New Jersey, observing the rituals of the Muslim holy season of Ramadan. His flight to the Middle East, he claims, was a pilgrimage to Mecca followed by a reunion with parents and siblings in Egypt...
...Rodriguez and Evelyn Rivera moved in May from Bend, Oregon, to the lesbian mecca of Northampton, Massachusetts, so they could stop posing as sisters to placate landlords, employers (both are waitresses) and neighbors while bringing up Rivera's son Mark, 13, by a prior marriage, and her nephew Salvatore, 11. "The sister act is over," says Rodriguez. "You have to be honest with kids to produce honest citizens...
...standardized test scores the Mecca of objectivity that people like Stonecypher seek. The value of these tests has long been disputed, and studies have suggested that the tests carry a cultural bias and measure not intelligence or aptitude, but very specific knowledge...
Tanglewood, the summer music mecca in western Massachusetts, is an enigma of identity. It is associated with some of the most promising young talent on the eastern seaboard, but its clientele is composed of the wealthy elderly who populate the Berkshires and eastern New York. With their champagne and Heinekens in hand (one wonders how vigilant Tanglewood is regarding alcohol regulations), these folks can be seen leaving an orchestra's final piece prematurely to beat the traffic, or heard to say, "Where's the music coming from?" In the summer, college students in this sparsely populated area...