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...first killing of a sitting Australian politician since 1921 -- presumably by Vietnamese gangsters -- prompted government leaders to warn against a backlash against the country's Asian communities. Last night, New South Wales state legislator John Newman, 47, was gunned down in front of his suburban Sydney home. Newman, who had received death threats while campaigning for years against Asian gang violence, recently asked police to lift surveillance on his home. Newman was shot twice in the chest and died on the steps of his house as his Chinese-born fiancee looked...
...Upshaw is driven, she doesn't show it. She lives with her husband Michael, a musicologist, and their two children (she gave birth to a boy this summer) in a comfortable house near New York City. Sitting in her living room she might be any suburban woman discussing what it's like to keep everything in balance. "I know I should be giving more thought to shaping my career," she says. "But every morning still feels like a fresh start. My four-year-old daughter Sadie has the same spirit. The first thing she says when she gets...
...Howard Dean himself journeyed to Arkansas last October to make the case for building near Main Street and attracting shoppers there. "If you want to come into Vermont, our growth areas are downtown," says Steve Bradish, a leader of the statewide group Vermonters Against the Wal. "They are not suburban sites and cornfields...
...temporary. A lot of Vermonters think of the battle in symbolic terms, referring to the store chain as "Sprawl-Mart," a term conveniently supplied last year by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wal-Mart opponents vow to fight the retailer's efforts to build stores in the more suburban locations of St. Albans and Williston, where Wal- Mart has unsuccessfully sought permits for the past four years. As the company surely knows by now, Vermonters give ground grudgingly when they give...
Television: Ten teen epics revisit the sordid suburban...