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...days a week, Shannon Rogers kisses his wife and two young kids goodbye and wheels his battered 1989 Chevy Cavalier out of the driveway of his suburban Nevada home. The houses here are cookie cutter, done in beige stucco. Like most of the other dads and some moms in this traditional middle-class community, Rogers heads down Interstate 215, toward his job near Las Vegas, using the 30-minute drive to make the mental transition from family man to workplace professional. But Rogers will end up in a place far different from that of his fellow commuters: when he arrives...
...hard to push Cusack’s classic cool delivery on the sullen, nihilistic Charlie. Another failing of this film is its dreary, comedy-sucking location. “The Ice Harvest” takes place in Wichita, Kan., specifically either in or in front of strip clubs or suburban houses. The lack of visual diversity of the scenes makes the 88-minute movie feel as if it will never end. The most artistically developed sequence involves Charlie and Vic dragging a trunk, which is filled with an overweight hit man, across a dilapidated bridge in the dead of night...
...urban warfare that erupted throughout the French Republic” happened in about 300 neighborhoods, which are mostly suburban. It is an appalling number; this is unquestionable. But how many more neighborhoods did not burn? Thirteen million people live in these suburban projects, which represent 4.5 million apartments or houses. As of Nov. 17, 597 persons have been arrested throughout the whole country. Among those, 108 are under the age of 18. France is not at “war” with its younger population from African origins. It clearly has serious problems of social integration and economic inequality...
...some regions. Yet GM relied for years on its SUV sales for profits--and underinvested in cars--which seemed smart until the bottom fell out. Says Meyers: "They made a mistake to go with the big guys." Goldman Sachs cites GM's launch of models like the 2007 Chevy Suburban as a "key negative" in Wagoner's turnaround plan, with the market for large SUVs expected to slump 8% next year. GM promises that the new models will be 10% more fuel efficient, be laden with more luxurious interiors and feature a smoother ride...
...straight-up fight on abortion. Congressman Tom Davis of Virginia, whose previous leadership job was to raise money for Republican House members up for re-election, broke with the White House message and declared last week that overturning Roe v. Wade could "produce a political backlash" among crucial suburban voters. As for a general attack on Alito, the numbers seem to break the Democrats' way. Pollster Garin, in a survey conducted before the 1985 memo came out, found that only 43% of those polled said they thought the Senate should vote in favor of Alito, compared to 59% for Roberts...