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...Booker has proved an exception to almost every rule of Newark politics. Although he grew up in a cushy, mostly white suburb 20 miles away, he beat a 16-year incumbent in Newark. Through a series of grandiose gestures, he earned the contempt of almost every other Newark politico. But he won attention, and loyalty, from many locals who had given up on the city's notoriously corrupt political machine. "He is the most exciting elected official in Newark in the past generation," says Clement Price, a Rutgers University history professor. "He's fearless, if not reckless...
...else can be expected from a town whose subway system shuts down at night and takes you to a fake "Broadway" when it's running, a town whose one major sporting event, the Boston Marathon, takes place largely outside of Boston, a town that's basically a very distant suburb of New York...
Courtney Love, the Jackie O. of grunge, who grew up outside Eugene, shoplifted a Kiss T shirt at 12 and landed in reform school. Tonya Harding, troublesome Olympic ice skater who hails from Milwaukie, a Portland suburb, got into a scuffle at age 15 with her half brother, 26, hitting him with a curling iron and a hockey stick. Meanwhile, Shorb has already appeared on Good Morning America and hired Harding's former agent...
...generation of cross-border, or more correctly, borderless crimes - after all, the Love Bug was a sharp and painful reminder that if the concept "place" exists at all on the Internet, then cyberspace allows us to be everywhere at once, and a nasty little worm freed in a suburb of Manila can within hours crash the computer systems of some of the world's most powerful conglomerates...
Katie Tarbox, the very picture of affluent teen normality, shows off her family?s two-story house in the plush Connecticut suburb of New Canaan. The 18-year-old stops only to look briefly in a mirror and smooth down her already well-coiffed, highlighted blond hair. Then she takes me to her room, where a Gateway computer and a Sony Vaio vie with her Laura Ashley bedspread set and wicker furnishings. "The Vaio is such a beautiful thing," she sighs. We go back downstairs and say hello to cockatoo Agidore and Katie?s older sister ? also blond and round...