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...edition of the Colebrook, N.H., weekly newspaper, the News and Sentinel ("Independent but Not Neutral"), is filled with the details and delights of North Country life and small-town journalism. A piece on the upcoming Moose Festival invites "moose-minded people" to come forward for the Mock Moose Parade on Friday night. There is a captivating photograph of a boy who won the Kids Fishing Derby. Among the many stories written by Dennis Joos is a feature on the discovery of a vintage sign that puts neighboring Clarksville on the 45th parallel, halfway between the North Pole and the equator...
...crimes go, this one could have simply been folded into the sordid caseload of juvenile violence in America. Youth are killed on urban streets every day. Yet this crime, cloaked sensationally in black-on-white, is quickly escalating into a small-town version of the O.J. Simpson case. During a preliminary hearing last week, as Nicole testified against a row of handcuffed suspects, one of her supporters yelled, "Hang 'em!" Meanwhile, the defendants' families are murmuring about conspiracies against their boys. Flint Mayor Woodrow Stanley is struggling to manage a crisis that threatens to further damage the city's image...
...says. So why is Chasing Amy raunchy in the extreme, crudely anticlerical and sexually flamboyant ("Archie was the bitch, and Jughead was the butch," insists one character)? Only a boomer fixated on the Brady Bunch would find it puzzling. "I'm a jaded optimist looking behind the doors of small-town America," says Smith. "My generation believes we can do almost anything. My characters are free: no social mores keep them in check." View Askew's Website invites fans for a chat: "Feel the power of communication, as you can actually interact with the losers who hit it big with...
...immigrant clothing salesman, Jerry worked on Mad Ave. before meeting Simpson, who had been the "house hippie" at Warner Bros. "Don was a brother as well as a partner," says Bruckheimer. "He was a small-town boy who grew up in the studio system; I was the city boy who was always the outsider." Their first film together, the Jazzercise tape called Flashdance, earned $95 million at the U.S. box office in 1983, back when that was real money...
...murder by extremist groups. He and his wife Elizabeth do not socialize much, and, apparently to avoid conflicts of interest, he often eats alone at law conventions. However, he is devoted to at least two things: his alma mater, the University of Michigan, and his hero, Atticus Finch, the small-town white lawyer assigned the unpopular task of defending a black man against rape charges in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Finch does so fervently but loses the case. Matsch describes Finch as "the opponent of oppression, the paradigm of propriety, the dean of decent citizens and the core...