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...cutter housing complex in Mesa, Ariz., a rugged desert city that sprouted into a Phoenix suburb two decades ago. But the academy sits on an ideological edge as well: Paramount is a charter school, a publicly funded enterprise that's privately run--in this case, primarily by a former shoe-repair-shop owner who never graduated from college--and free of the bureaucracy that bogs down so much of public education...
...Recession Chic Bowl America If you thought those unemployment figures were bad, here's a new set of depressing numbers, written in big red numerals on the backs of one's heels. Bowling shoes are back in style?not the kind Prada and Donna Karan sell, but the kind bowling alleys rent out by the hour and lose to petty thieves. The last time rental bowling shoes were hot was in the early '90s, the grunge era and the depths of the downsizing of America's corporations. Now, as the U.S. economy slides, lane operators from Phoenix to Milwaukee have...
...every time I wanted to fast-forward through the sad parts in On Golden Pond, but the SL-8000 had my VCR begging for mercy in just under 10 seconds. That did it. I swept all my now superfluous remotes off the coffee table and threw them into a shoe box in the back of the hall closet...
DIED. BOOZOO CHAVIS, 70, Louisiana-born King of Zydeco who helped popularize the genre with his 1954 Paper in My Shoe; in Austin, Texas. He packed dance halls with his rhythmic sounds till the late '50s when he began a long hiatus. But upon hearing about an impersonator in 1984, he returned to launch a renaissance of button-accordion zydeco...
...affect his lifestyle. His lavish habits continued; he kept his Ferrari, vintage red Rolls Royce Silver Cloud, his condominiums by the sea in Miura. Driving his Ferrari around Roppongi, he was a curious figure with his droopy mustache and surgically altered, Westernized eyes. At 1.7 m tall, he wore shoe lifts and took regular doses of human growth hormone under the mistaken belief it would make him taller...