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Here you will learn: how your porn-star name is chosen (your first pet's name plus the name of the first street you lived on), how a boss can intimidate an employee (by telling him to stand on one leg on a chair while listing African countries) and whether a black man will ever be able to kiss a white woman onscreen (we won't say). All this local intelligence supports the view that people make a mess of their lives, then try to clean up by sweeping that mess under a rug of propriety, hostility or banter...
...often, these supposedly populist voter initiatives are actually pushed by a particular special interest group. Wealthy individuals or issue advocacy organizations start a "grassroots" movement for their pet cause, dumping tons of money into the bottomless pit of campaigning. As initiatives have taken on new prominence, a cottage industry of campaign consultants, advertising firms and signature gathering groups has arisen. In 1998, California voters saw the most expensive initiative fight ever over a proposal to allow casinos on Indian reservations. Indian groups spent a lot of money pushing the idea, while Las Vegas casinos (which draw a lot of Californians...
...PET-ROCK BOARDS...
...proposal to build a new modern art museum—widely considered Cuno’s pet project—has been held up for years due to objections from the Riverside community...
...little girl and a teddy-bear-size monster face two big challenges. One is for the girl (Lilo) to tame her angry new pet from outer space (Stitch) while persuading a social worker to let her stay with her big sister. The other is that the Disney movie they are in, Lilo & Stitch, must make a bundle--or Hollywood could hear a death knell for the traditional animated feature. Disney's beleaguered boss, Michael Eisner, has to hope there is still profit in the hand-drawn cartoons that made Disney's name and fortune but have faded as computer-generated...