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When he arrived at the Orlando airport Governor Bush patiently walked to the microphones with one of those "tax families" that have become a staple prop used to explain how his tax plan helps real people. Bowing his head almost as in prayer, he read their vital statistics from the prepared briefing book. "Juan and Brenda Hector make $45,000, have two children," read the candidate to the profoundly uninterested press corps. Soon you could hear the clubs coming out of their cases. Nearly the second he'd finished giving the two-minute introduction to what in a perfect world...
Dotcom-driven rents have become a hot-button election issue. Two propositions headed for the November ballot in San Francisco attack the way tech firms have wiggled around strict zoning restrictions on office space by defining their space as anything but an office. The radical Prop L would force live-work lofts to be used as affordable housing and ban dotcom development in areas like the Mission. The much milder Prop K, backed by Mayor Willie Brown and an assortment of business interests, would limit dotcoms in only a couple of neighborhoods--and compensate with a hefty raise...
...these Republicans do have rhythm), critics had taken to comparing the convention to a Utah Jazz home game, where everyone in the stands is white and most of the performers are black. I left a message for Powell asking whether he might have been used as just another prop in this diversity derby. (Did I mention the blind mountain climber and the Hispanic dotcom mogul...
Painters had done still life before. The tradition goes back to Greco-Roman antiquity. Still life cropped up in later painting but usually as an adjunct, a prop. From there it turned into a sort of allegorical fixture--the 17th century peach with its brown spots and wormholes, for instance, warning of the rottenness and transience at the heart of worldly pleasure...
...remote village in Thailand--until she needed money. Then, her mother said, "she came out of the blue and told me that she would give him away." For a price: $260. And that was how two-year-old Phanupong Khaisri ended up in the U.S. He was a prop in the arms of a couple who had to look like a family: the man was part of an international prostitution ring, the woman an indentured servant he was smuggling into the U.S. Caught by the Immigration and Naturalization Service at the Los Angeles International Airport on April 11, the adults...