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Across town, Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston’s Back Bay, resoundingly held off a challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker in that district’s Democratic primary...
...across town another race has shaped up with its own potential to make or break the political career of a homegrown pol. Paul C. Demakis ’75, the incumbent state representative from Boston’s Back Bay, faces a tough challenge from upstart candidate and Cambridge City Councillor Marjorie C. Decker...
...revenge tale whose body count is belied by its simple title, is the 39-year-old American filmmaker's homage to the fight flicks that sparked his lifelong obsession with Asian cinema. The film, due out in the fall of 2003, is something of a departure for the upstart auteur, who is back on the set after a six-year break from directing. His three previous directorial projects?Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction (winner of the top prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival) and Jackie Brown?depicted quintessentially American underworlds and were shot entirely in Hollywood. In Kill Bill, Tarantino...
...going to be stuck on the tarmac by Thanksgiving. But far from all the chatter about bankruptcies and cutbacks, a few enterprising carriers are quietly soaring. Discount pioneer Southwest is readying its first transcontinental flights, from Baltimore, Md., to Los Angeles, starting this fall, while New York City-based upstart JetBlue is adding more flights on the West Coast and in Florida. These and other discount carriers today account for 20% of domestic air travel, up from...
...every road death there are afterquakes, shocks that ripple out through families, offices, friends, public and private purses. Road trauma is also off-road trauma. Here's an example, I suspect a mere variation on the average 110 cases every day in the E.U. When I was an upstart of four, my father was traveling at night on a lonely road in Western Australia, his business colleague driving. A car came over a rise with its lights on high beam. Half-blinded, my father's colleague instinctively pulled off the road. He hit a parked trailer, almost sheering...