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Koné represents the all-too-rare success story of a young black man from one of France's blighted suburban housing projects using his smarts and business flair to come out on top. (Those banlieues erupted in riots earlier this year.) But Koné's dramatic tale goes deeper. Born in the southern Malian village of Niéna, which even today has no electricity, Koné left for France at age 10 unable to speak French. He went on to obtain a prelaw degree in the hopes of becoming a police inspector. A talent for boxing earned him two French amateur titles...
...Crime was rising, white citizens were fleeing, conditions deteriorated in the public schools and hospitals, garbage littered the streets and the economy and tax base were beginning to falter. Our family trips became far less frequent, limited to the pursuit of necessities that couldn't be obtained in suburban shopping malls, medical appointments at the downtown offices of specialists and our annual trek to the Superdome for the Bayou Classic football game. When asked, my father declined to articulate precisely what made him grow so uneasy about the Big Easy, beyond his stock response: "New Orleans is changing...
...Upon a Weinstein,” in 2000, presumably because some of the jokes could be viewed as anti-Semitic. The network finally aired the episode in December 2004. MacFarlane’s other cartoon show, “American Dad,” tells the story of stereotypical suburban father who works for the CIA. Last year’s Class Day speaker, NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, marked a break from a string of three comedians who graced the Tercentenary Theatre stage, starting in 2002. That year...
...that money in the pockets of mortgage belt-families is needed right now. Petrol prices are high (by the standards to which Australians see as their birth right) and are not expected to ease for some time. The Reserve Bank's move on interest rates last week has made suburban families in the south-eastern States uneasy, particularly as the market value of their McMansions has been stagnant (or worse...
MacFarlane’s other cartoon show, “American Dad,” tells the story of stereotypical suburban father who works...