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...fellow office worker, Georgie Haggerty, will vote for Edwards. "He's crooked," she says, "but he's an honest crook." "We don't ask for free things because we're white or Catholic or have blue eyes," contends Robert Fruge, 29, of Metairie, the predominantly white New Orleans suburb that is Duke's stronghold. "Why should anyone else ask for them...
...hear Ice utter such gems of dialogue as: "It ain't where you're from. It's where you're at," and "If you ain't true to yourself, you ain't true to nobody." Draw your own conclusions, but the Ice I know grew up in a suburb of Dallas, and his name was Robbie Van Winkle...
Even Hollywood understands this. The movie bosses -- transplanted Easterners, many of them -- know that Los Angeles is no city, just a desert suburb with lawn sprinklers, a Disneyland where all the rides are bumper cars, where you can smell a man's exhaust fumes but not his breath on the back of your neck. They may figure, too, that old-city competition and corruption are the best metaphor for their mode of doing business. So in between crafting fantasies of L.A. dolce vita, they make occasional fantasies about the towns they left behind...
Well, the abduction was apparently a retaliation for the death of a Sikh extremist and the arrest of two others in the attempted assassination of Julio Ribeiro, 62, the Indian ambassador to Romania, in Bucharest two months ago. Ribeiro, who was shot while walking with his wife in a suburb of the Romanian capital, has long been a target because of his get-tough "bullet-for-bullet" policy toward Sikh separatists during his two-year tenure as police chief of Punjab. The kidnappers' current demands, however, strike much closer to home. They are seeking the release of three Sikhs...
...pupil, vs. $3,086 in the state's poorest jurisdiction. "The point of reform was to make all schools quality schools. But I fear that everything will settle into mediocrity." The belief even extends to children. Kozol spoke to a student in a wealthy New York City suburb whose family had moved from the problem-plagued Bronx. "There's no point in coming to a place like this, where schools are good," she said, "and then your taxes go back to the place where you began...