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What does it take for Imus to see a group of distinguished college athletes as something other than "hos"? When two blond teenagers were accused of robbing a bank in suburban Atlanta on Feb. 27, the delighted national media dubbed them the "Barbie Bandits." Read that as "cute and white." But when the Scarlet Knights pushed their Cinderella season all the way to the championship game, Imus trashed them...
...Doug knows whereof he speaks because he's not actually a lawyer. And he is not actually Doug Rich. He is con man Wayne Malloy, who with wife Dahlia (Minnie Driver) and kids have taken over the swellegant life of a man who died en route to his new suburban home. As Wayne tries to scam his way through corporate law, Dahlia adjusts to straight suburban life and the kids try to fit in at private school, the series shows that social mobility isn't as easy as advertised in America and that identity is less a constant than...
Similar tension is evident far beyond Saint-Gilles. In the wake of the 2005 riots in suburban projects and pitched battles between police and immigrant youth last month in Paris' Gare du Nord train station, more French are gravitating toward hard-line positions. Sarkozy, the former Interior Minister, is a natural law-and-order candidate who spent his time in office noisily battling crime and deporting illegal aliens. But even some of his allies have questioned his campaign pledge to create a "Ministry for Immigration and National Identity"--a linkage many decry as a Le Penesque invocation of a creeping...
...perhaps the biggest lesson companies can learn from word of mouthers is that there's an unmet social need among consumers to feel that their opinions matter. "They care what you have to say," says Carol Engels, a Vocalpoint mother in suburban Chicago. "That's what I like most." Smart companies find that when they listen, they also get a shot at steering the conversation...
...Intercultural and Race Relations, Scalise stressed the difficulty of hiring minority coaches. Scalise said it was particularly hard to foster diversity in sports such as alpine and nordic skiing, field hockey, and women’s lacrosse—sports he described as “white middle-class suburban.” “We contact the Black Coaches Association on every search we do,” he said. “But some of the positions were kind of strained.” He said the key to fostering diversity within coaching staffs is doing...