Word: suburbs
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...consisted of six rootless dorks in an office in Mesquite, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Carmack, their programming ringer, was a 23-year-old who had spent a year in juvie and completed exactly two semesters at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Carmack is an odd duck: blond, skinny, with a fixed, unblinking gaze and a curious vocal tic--his sentences often end with an involuntary noise that sounds something like Mn! Despite his otherworldly demeanor, he is artlessly charming, although he does not make anything resembling small talk. It's not because he's too busy...
...respect, with an acknowledgment that the tenacious Senator has learned from the mistakes he has made in Massachusetts. "I'm getting to the point now where I respect the amount that he tries," says Paul Sullivan, a veteran political journalist at the Lowell Sun, the newspaper in the Boston suburb where Kerry got his political start. Kerry is not the most natural politician--in a state where politics is second nature. Says Sullivan: "Every day of his life, he puts on shoes that are too tight and not on the right feet." This is the story of Kerry's political...
...campaign heats up, an old story about Kerry's Massachusetts days has been circulating in the national media--but as it turns out, only half of it has been told. It starts with Kerry arriving at a fund-raising event at the Irish American Association in a Boston suburb in 1996. State representative William Reinstein, the class clown of the statehouse, strode over to Kerry and introduced himself as Butchy Cataldo, a former legislator. Kerry, long mocked by local pols for spending too little time in the state, fell headlong into the trap. "Butchy!" he said, slapping Reinstein's back...
...impressively attended comedy and film festivals. "The whole entertainment industry is looking to Las Vegas," says Trevor Groth, the director of programming of CineVegas, who persuaded Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Dennis Hopper to show up for last month's sixth annual festival. "It's a suburb of Los Angeles...
...employers' association, said the 35-hour week "is not just a slippery slope, it's a toboggan toward economic decline." If that's true, laborers are being forced off the sled. Bosch workers voted overwhelmingly to accept 12% cost savings at the factory in Vénissieux, a Lyons suburb. The company had warned they faced the transfer of 300 jobs to the Czech Republic. The workers accepted a 36-hour workweek (up from 35 hours) at the same pay, as well as agreeing to limit salary increases to 1% annually over the next three years. They also agreed...