Word: suburbanity
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...during a 90-minute interview on Monday. "I'm very much at peace with it." He notified President Bush in the afternoon. DeLay and his wife, Christine, said they had been prepared to fight, but that he decided last Wednesday, after months of prayer and contemplation, to spare his suburban Houston district the mudfest to come. "This had become a referendum on me," he said. "So it's better for me to step aside and let it be a referendum on ideas, Republican values and what's important for this district...
...hotel. He gave White House stenographer Ellen Eckert a hearty, sweaty hug. He was clearly enjoying the break between two of his least favorite activities - sightseeing and chaotic international conclaves. Bush, changing the black Cadillac limousine that had picked him up at the Cancun airport for a hearty black Suburban with the Presidential seal on the side, had spent his Thursday morning touring the Chichen-Itza Mayan archeological ruins, a stop that had been added to his itinerary after his failure to drop by the Taj Mahal had stirred so much comment during his recent trip to India. He sportingly...
...Based on three of the six one-act plays in George F. Walker's Suburban Motel, the story is set on the dark side of the falls, a place that a cheesy voice-over labels "the most romantic place on earth for lovers young and old." The central feature here is a handful of finely wrought performances, beginning with that of Anna Friel. Her edgy portrayal of Denise, an ex-junkie-prostitute trying to reclaim her daughter, is as sharp as a knife. Despite far subtler roles, Wendy Crewson and Peter Keleghan are equally cutting as a middle-aged, middle...
...credible? Sarkozy has built his presidential profile on visions of sweeping economic and labor reform and urges "rupture" with France's social model in favor of the freer-market U.S. and U.K. versions. He's also been a tough law-and-order advocate, promising to "cleanse" the blighted French suburban projects of its young "thugs." "Sarkozy's entire political identity since he made the presidency his obvious objective has been based on tough law-and-order enforcement, and equally radical economic liberalism," says Dominique Reyni?, a political analyst at Sciences-Po in Paris, who says Sarkozy's turn-around...
...Republicans are confident that Hyde's conservative legacy remains very much alive in the west suburban District. And they note that Roskam, while criticized as too far right for a district becoming more diverse, is a loyal Bush supporter running in a district that voted for him in 2004, even as the President handily lost the state as a whole...