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...During production months Miyazaki occupies a corner desk at Studio Ghibli, a vine-covered cluster of buildings he designed in a Tokyo suburb for himself and a full-time staff of 150. The light-filled floors buzz quietly with jeans-clad artists in their 20s, hunched over tilted wooden desks. They far outnumber the computer-graphics specialists on a lower floor, employed only to speed up the production process...
...clerks with 40, 50, 60 funerals to attend; their wedding albums are full of smiling pictures of dead people. St. Mary's in Middletown, N.J., lost more parishioners in one day than the whole town did during all of World War II. At a home in a bucolic suburb of New York City, a mother of three school-age children mourns both her husband and her brother; 2,000 people attended her husband's memorial last week, spilling out onto the streets. The house is draped in a full-size flag, with bouquets at the window. Her daughter in sixth...
...Tusk 05, people are more likely to call him by another moniker: Tusk will often introduce himself as Vincent, Malachi or Charon to passersby who want to inquire about his antiquated dress. Tuskit is less complicated to refer to him by his last namehails from Briar Cliff, a suburb of New York. He is one of the first students to go to Harvard from his school, Briar Cliff High School, creating his immense talent, good looks and desirability...
...Pleasant Grove, a suburb of Dallas, Waqar Hassan Choudhry—a Pakistani-American—was shot dead at a convenience store on Saturday night. There was no evidence of a robbery, and local detectives told Choudhry’s family they believed his killing was motivated by “revenge...
Mount Kisco is 54 minutes on the train from New York City, and something less than thoroughly in the city's grasp. It used to be, not so long ago, "the country." Now it's certainly a commuter suburb, but in its hilliness and leafiness and in its sense of self as the center of Northern Westchester, it keeps a psychic arm's length...