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...fact that people are staying single for longer but still want to buy homes, and there's a whole new taste afoot - Santa Barbara-based B3 Architects is building a series of 800-square-footers. "The big-box house is no longer the market," says Charles Shinn, principal of the builder consultancy Shinn Consulting in Littleton, Colo...
Since Saturday, residents of Kailuana Place have been dealing with the daily motorcade that leaves sometime after 7 a.m. when Obama heads to the Semper Fit Ultimate Health and Fitness Club located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in nearby Kaneohe. Alan Shinn, who lives a block away from the security checkpoint leading to the Obama compound on Kailuana Place, says all day long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people...
...Embedded, a biting if overwrought send-up of the selling of the war, featuring Administration stand-ins with names like Rum-Rum and Gondola, written and directed by Tim Robbins for his L.A.-based Actors' Gang. The war has been a jumping-off point for psychological family drama (Christopher Shinn's Dying City, about a war widow reunited with the brother of her husband, recently killed in action) and for polemical journalism (George Packer's Betrayed, based on his reportage about the plight of Iraqi citizens who went to work for the Americans early in the war, then were abandoned...
...from Dec. 1, 2007, through the end of the 2009 season. If the Hornets miss that threshold, the team has an option to leave New Orleans for a more attractive market - there are plenty, including St. Louis and Seattle, which will likely lose the Sonics - though it will cost Shinn a $100 million penalty...
...Shinn planning his escape? "I'm already hearing that," he says. "My goal is to make this thing work. I can't work any miracles, I just can't do that. People just have to take my word for it." The Hornets have moved four times in the last six years; Shinn insists he wouldn't relish more U-Hauls. "I'm 66, I'm tired of moving." But if more residents of the Big Easy don't start making the move to see the Hornets, he may have to start packing again...