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...entry to the first weekly contest. The New Yorker's records show that I've submitted 38 times, but I think it's gotta be more than that. I would've guessed about every other week [out of 192]. The guy I'm tied with, Carl Gable, from Norcross, Ga., won the first annual contest and two of the weeklies; I've won three weeklies. In the annual contest, editors announced the one they liked best, rather than holding an online vote. I actually think that's even more impressive...
...week painting houses in the sprawling suburbs north of Atlanta. He lives paycheck to paycheck and often has nothing left over at the end of each week. So on Friday nights, when Alvarez-Rosales, 21, goes to cash his check, he pulls into the parking lot at the Norcross branch of Banuestra, an alternative financial institution aimed at serving the estimated 40 million adults in the U.S. without bank accounts. For him, every dollar counts, and compared with the 24-hour Atlanta Check Cashers outlet down the road, which charges a 3% fee to cash a payroll check, Banuestra...
...youth vote is not a hard sell to Republicans," says David Norcross, a former RNC counsel who has been pressing the youth vote to Republican leaders in Washington. Norcross sits on the board of George Washington University, which partially funds Smith's organization. After he learned that Republicans were in danger of losing young voters, Norcross connected Smith with GOP leadership, who "have been very receptive to the need to reach young voters," he says...
...then again, so are the Democrats. Adds Norcross, "Nobody in either party thinks that the youth vote is not worth paying serious attention to and spending money on programs to get them registered and turned...
...Parker Norcross, her buddy J. Z. Crowther, and friend (who she actually dislikes) Neesa Barnett are all generally unlikable but strange enough to enjoy for a brief while—sort of like real live Harvard students...