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...reputation, but given that Tacony and Mayfair interlock like two Tetris pieces, the report was probably just a mistake. Tacony and Mayfair blend together with dozens of other neighborhoods to make up the sprawling morass of row homes and factories, which we Philadelphians call the “Great Northeast.” And yet the borders between neighborhoods are a source of much contention...
...Northeast Philly is not Northern Ireland. There are no political realities to the boundaries between Mayfair and Tacony. Residents in both neighborhoods pay the same property taxes, send their kids to the same schools and vote in the same elections. But in spite of the boundaries’ irrelevance—or maybe because of it—talk of Tacony’s borders soon leads to shouting...
...Reynaud were released a week after receiving 15-year prison sentences on charges of weapons possession and obstruction of justice, following a two-day trial criticized by international press groups and human-rights organizations as a sham. The two journalists were arrested on June 4 in the country's northeast, where they were reporting on an insurgency by ethnic Hmong guerrillas. A Hmong-American interpreter was also freed, but two Laotian guides remained in prison. Brutal Youth JAPAN A 12-year-old boy admitted murdering 4-year-old Shun Tanemoto by pushing him off the roof of an eight-story...
...hill that has their horses stumbling so badly they are "no more able to stand than if they had been shod on skates," he later recalls. But they talk for hours on end, mutually smitten. Back in Philadelphia, he responds to her first letter with rhapsody and rue: the northeast wind "is the gaiest wind," he writes, because it brought her promised kisses mingled with snowflakes, as "pure as your virgin innocence, white as your lovely bosom...
...Queensland?s Sunshine Coast and 160 kilometers north of Brisbane, Noosa is the antidote to the strip malls, theme parks and gaudy casino- hotels that sprawl, in depressing profusion, along Australia?s northeast coast?just ask rockers Bob Geldof and Mick Jagger, British mogul Sir Richard Branson (who recently bought an island, no less, in the Noosa River upstream from the resort), Austrian tennis ace Thomas Muster or Driving Miss Daisy and Last Dance director Bruce Beresford. Noosa offers a boho lifestyle and an alluring menu of attractions, natural and man-made alike. The geography of the region has conspired...