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...competitors are not. That used to be small towns or underserved suburbs. Chicago's 37th Ward, with its scant retail options, is an urban village, a first cousin to the sorts of communities Wal-Mart had always targeted. Combine the lack of jobs and stores with a strong antiunion streak, and the West Side is perfect for Wal-Mart. "If you're going to pick a spot, why wouldn't you go to the West Side?" asked Ronald Powell, president of the UFCW Local 881, which opposed Wal-Mart's entry into Chicago. "I don't think that there...
...confess. I'm desperate for a Nats winning streak. But if I can't get that, and I can't get therapy, what I need is fall: cool air, falling leaves, oral arguments at the Supreme Court. And no baseball. Hurry...
...appeared as the quiet lieutenant in the documentary Gunner Palace, long before a Baghdad bomb took Ben's life on Nov. 1, 2003, the elder Colgan, of Kent, Wash., was an antiwar activist, a member of the Catholic peace group Pax Christi. But Ben's independent streak led him to join the Army just out of high school. His death has made Colgan's personal pacifism surprisingly divisive. While Colgan and his wife Pat remain opposed to the war, Ben's widow Jill and other family members are equally ardent supporters. "I didn't think this would be so difficult...
That change is moving forward despite privacy concerns that arose after a streak of telemarketing calls targeted students this past spring...
...going to release my movie?" He needles the moguls, yet he needs them--and he hates that. "Hollywood," he says, "is run by small-minded people who like chopping the legs off creative people. All they want to do is say no." Yet he acknowledges his wayward streak: "I'm so perverse that I go the opposite direction of whatever's going on at the moment...