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...this political wrangling leaves potential transplant patients in limbo, adding uncertainty to the anguish they already suffer. Like Bryan Lee, Rita May Bolen has had enough. From her home in a New Orleans suburb, she calmly says her husband Leon, 71, is "sitting in a chair dying." They have been waiting 10 months for a liver. In August Leon was second in line for an organ that was about to become available, but it went to a sicker patient, a young father. "It's the fairest way," says Rita May. But watching the debate over regulatory changes--which could have...
...brother, a sign painter, should have made a few early stabs at the Grand Manner; and even less so that he was wholly inept at it. Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly, he set out to record (and idealize) what he knew: the everyday rural life...
...larger and larger, so too did the crowds making pilgrimages across state lines to buy a piece of the dream. Sometimes skipping work, the hopeful drove from Los Angeles to Bullhead City, Ariz., from Chicago to Kenosha County, Wis., from Brooklyn and Queens to the posh New York City suburb of Greenwich, Conn., where residents (many already in possession of millions of dollars) grew frustrated by the hordes that gathered daily in ticket lines that snaked around whole village blocks. Greenwich police ran up $50,000 in overtime costs...
...panel, my friend Page, attempting to prove racism was still rampant, told of black teenagers being hassled by white cops in his Chicago suburb. Had I thought to say it then, I would have suggested that 40 years ago, Page's family would not have been living in that suburb...
This takes some getting used to. The big company I work for shall remain nameless, but it is a software manufacturer located in a suburb of Seattle. (Hint: the Janet Reno fan club has been disbanded.) This company prides itself on being different from other big companies, and it probably is in some ways. (Are there bare feet in the cafeteria at Procter & Gamble?) But maybe it is less different than it thinks...