Word: suburb
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easy to root for the home team. If dreams come true, and it comes down to Tiger vs. Sergio on Sunday, mano a mano for the Cup-winning point, it would not be surprising to hear a foreign cry rise above the lush arborvitaes of a tony Boston suburb...
...unbelievable, and Rowling makes it easy and great good fun for them to do so. How pleasant to be persuaded that an orphan named Harry Potter, who has lived for 10 years with the Dursleys, his cruel aunt and uncle and their hateful son Dudley, in a faceless English suburb--specifically 4 Privet Drive, Little Whinging--learns shortly after his 11th birthday that he is really a wizard. What's more, he is famous throughout the wizard world; although his parents were murdered by the evil Lord Voldemort (so feared that he is referred to only as "He-Who-Must...
...First Family announced Thursday they?d paid $1.7 million to acquire a five-bedroom house built in 1889, giving Hillary Rodham Clinton a place to unpack her carpetbag and get busy on her bid for New York?s Senate seat. But residents of the tranquil New York City suburb needn?t fear being turned into an extension of Pennsylvania Avenue. "As long as Bill Clinton is in the White House, this house will remain strictly an occasional weekend getaway," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And once he?s out of office, Clinton has made clear that he plans...
...chose a nice assisted-care facility with a spacious one-room apartment overlooking a courtyard in the Los Angeles suburb of Tarzana. But after just a month there, Round Two of elder-care hell began. While taking a walk around the block, he fell. I was out of town on assignment. By the time I got back to the city, 12 hours later, the local emergency-room doctors had doped him to keep him calm. He had gone crazy, they said, when they strapped him to the hospital bed. (I'd fight too!) He'd had three beers, they said...
Maples and his two vanloads of kids were hardly alone. Since the April 20 massacre, sightseers and sympathizers have streamed to the Denver suburb of Littleton, turning Columbine into a tourist attraction. The attention will only increase this week as the school prepares to open on Monday for the fall semester. Last week the press was finally allowed to tour the interior, repaired for $1.2 million. Says principal Frank DeAngelis: "The kids wanted a promise that they would be able to return. Now we are ready to take back the school...