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...reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools just didn't have extra space. This year Olivero sent her only son to live with his uncle in suburban Greenwich, Conn., and attend school there. "I wish he could have stayed in the Bronx and just walked to school," Olivero says. "But there was nothing else I could do. The transfer system is hopeless...
Sussman, who still lives in the Washington D.C. area, was an editor at the Washington Post from 1965 to 1987, first as the suburban editor, and then the city editor, a post he held during the initial Watergate break...
...misread the Dean voter. We are not all young, white, upper-middle-class, suburban, East Coast--educated liberals. Some of us--like me--are black, middle-age, urban and politically pragmatic. We understand that Dean is not the flaming leftist some say he is. We support him because he did not cynically back President Bush's Iraq-war gambit. Dean speaks out for what he believes; he's willing to tackle difficult problems and try innovative approaches to solving them. He's not perfect, he has his rough edges, and we supporters may not agree with him on some issues...
...while celebrity labels often begin as niche markets, their growing profits owe much to their skyrocketing popularity in suburban as well as urban markets. "There's a new young generation optimistic about diversity. They want to buy new America as well as old America," says Simmons, who recently teamed up with Kellwood to launch the sportswear line Def Jam University. "People look around and say, 'Where's the next Polo?' There isn't a new Polo. It's Phat Farm and JLO and Sean John. These companies are all new America...
Pharrell Williams the idiot, it turns out, is the ironic creation of Pharrell Williams the geek. "I'm no rapper," he says sheepishly. "I'm, like, a suburban kid." Ever since Williams, 30, and Hugo met in seventh grade at a school for gifted children in Virginia Beach, Va., they have been masking their insecurities beneath the brashness of hip-hop. The key to their success is that while fantasizing about being tougher than leather, they never forgot that they were softer than puppies. "A lot of people get caught up with making music into their identity," says Williams...