Word: suburbs
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...Newark, where some African-Americans have criticized the new mayor as “not black enough,” offers an interesting case study. Some felt that Cory Booker should not serve as mayor of Newark (54 percent black) because he was raised in a predominantly white suburb of New Jersey. Booker has had to prove his commitment to the city and its residents, especially by trying to decrease the crime rate, since he took office three months...
...Everything your parents wouldn't let you do as a kid," a journalist colleague who had bought a couple of bags of crackers enthused. I joined him and another friend to add to the organized chaos on the street outside his apartment in a well-to-do Delhi suburb. Neighbors on both sides were already well into detonation mode. A couple of kids stood in the next driveway lighting a series of little "bombs" and throwing them out into the road where they would sit for a second and then burst open with a cracking bang. No light, no pretty...
...That's still a problem for McCaskill, who lives with her husband, a wealthy businessman, in a modernist house near the affluent St. Louis suburb of Ladue. But it also happens to be a problem for Talent, who lives in Chesterfield, another upscale St. Louis suburb. Unlike most country voters, Talent talks fast and enunciates every word. In a room of overall-clad pig farmers, Talent's pressed slacks and Oxford shirts often seem too nice by half...
...France pilot and a stay-at-home mother, Huyghe grew up in a comfortable Paris suburb. (He inserted the neat floor plan of his childhood bedroom into an architectural drawing of the Star Wars Death Star to create a 1997 print.) From the time he was a student at Paris' Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, his work has centered around the idea of "image." By that, he doesn't mean simply photographs, posters or films, though lots of Hollywood examples turn up in his conversation. "Image is imaginary," he says, "right?" And to whom does...
...late afternoon in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance, and Renee Tanaka isn't worried about where her teenage son Ryan or his friends are. They're in the backyard, safely gambling the day away...