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...United deal is only the latest -- and most spectacular -- to send hearts fluttering in city halls and statehouses across America. From Seattle to Boca Raton, Fla., government officials are gunning for the economic growth that new companies can bring. Local officials have long poached upon sister cities and states, of course, by snatching away their businesses. But now, with most local governments caught in a crunch between rising costs and shrinking federal subsidies, the practice has become a heated struggle...
...Globe is a supermarket scandal sheet published in Boca Raton, Fla. Its editor is Wendy Henry, who was fired by a London newspaper for running photographs of young Prince William urinating in a park. Since the tabloid's pages are mainly devoted to lurid tales of purported affairs and the diets of various celebrities, its stories are rarely picked up by the mainstream media. But on the day after the Globe printed the victim's name and high school yearbook photo, NBC Nightly News broadcast a report on the disclosure...
Shakespearian scholar and Professor of English Marjorie Garber will also be going south. "I'm going to Boca Raton, Florida, where my mother now lives," she said, adding that she hopes to spend some time...
...FOOD OR THE COMPANY? Ever since the U.S. flew tottering Haitian President Prosper Avril into exile in March, the former leader's whereabouts have been a well-kept secret. Rumors targeted Boca Raton, Fla., New Orleans and the Washington area. Now the wife of a prominent Haitian businessman claims a close encounter. Leaving a restaurant in Miami Lakes, Fla., she suddenly screamed, "There is Avril!" Says her husband: "I went home and took a Maalox and a tranquilizer...
Recently admitted high school seniors HeidiSiedlecki of Boca Raton, Fla., and Daniel J.Sharfstein of Potomac, Md., both said a Januaryweekend would help convince unsure students toattend Harvard...