Word: suburb
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...Cinderella started out by sweeping the floor. The price for Hughes' invitation to the Games? Being a mule for Russian rival and reigning world champion IRINA SLUTSKAYA, inset. The two share a New York City dressmaker, and when the seamstress found out that Hughes--who lives in a Manhattan suburb--was traveling to Torino, she asked the skater to pack Slutskaya's dress too. After the family arrived in Italy, Hughes' father John confirmed that they had the Russian's dress and joked, "I tried it on." I guess we'll know whom to question if another big sporting event...
...take the class, he would move the midterm. Courses other than economics are addressing midterms that conflict with a senior thesis. Neil Levine, Gleason professor of history of art and architecture, who teaches Literature and Arts B-34, “Frank Lloyd Wright and the Modern City and Suburb,” said he will allow seniors who are writing theses to miss the midterm. “The midterm is only worth fifteen percent. I think it is only fair for seniors to have that option. The kind of work that goes into a senior thesis...
...material for send-ups by a rising young comic named Chevy Chase, who was one of Saturday Night Live?s stars. SNL went after Ford so many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase he was a "a very funny... suburb." Jimmy Carter was stalked by the "killer rabbit." In 1979, out fishing near his home in Plains, Georgia, Carter's dinghy was besieged by a "swamp rabbit" familiar in those parts. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell told the story to a reporter and it became immortalized in a front...
...Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice, won a hard-fought race in the Toronto suburb of Etobicoke, and former Tory Belinda Stronach, who, if she ran, would earn the distinction of having contended for the leadership of two parties. Some, meanwhile, have dramatically stepped aside. Former Deputy Prime Minister John Manley bowed out publicly in a Jan. 26 Globe and Mail Op-Ed piece, while...
...part of the reason it is so hard to reach an equilibrium is that they are seen as what sociologists call "forever foreigners." Their looks lead to a lifetime of questions like "No, where are you really from?" As a teenager in the affluent and overwhelmingly white Chicago suburb of Riverwoods, Ill, Vanessa DeGuia, now 26, endured incident after incident that made her aware that others regarded her as foreign, despite how her birth certificate read. One classmate told her, "You're my brown friend. You're so exotic." Another came over for dinner, took a bite of a Filipino...