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...Off” (Dir. John Hughes)—With all apologies to “Joliet” Jake and Elwood Blues, no other film better captures the romantic American Dream that is Chicago. What kid growing up in the Chicago suburbs—or any suburb, for that matter—doesn’t dream of cutting class, catching a Cubs game, visiting the museums, and simply experiencing the wonder of the Windy City...
...general in the Lebanese army was killed early Wednesday when a powerful car bomb exploded beside his vehicle in a residential suburb of Beirut...
Strugnell was born in a suburb of London and had always shown an aptitude for ancient and modern languages. Fresh out of Jesus College at Oxford, Strugnell began working on the Dead Sea Scrolls project...
...gods must be an ironic bunch. When I visited Mumbai, India, this June, the air was thick with humidity and heavy monsoon rains flooded the crowded streets. Yet even in my grandparents’ flat in the upscale suburb of Bandra—home to Bollywood’s glamorous film stars—low water pressure in the public pipeline meant that the plumbing system worked only two or three hours a day, often in the middle of the night. My grandparents have made do for years by adapting their cooking habits and keeping a bucket of water handy...
There's an odd phenomenon being reported in tony enclaves across the country: highly educated, highly compensated couples popping out four or more children--happily and by choice. In Loudoun County, a suburb of Washington, four-packs of siblings rule the playgrounds. In New York City, real estate agents tell of families buying two or three adjacent apartments to create giant spaces for their giant broods. Oradell, N.J., is home to so many sprawling clans that residents call it Fouradell. In a suburb of Chicago, the sibling boomlet is called the Wheaton Four...