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Once, there was a wider and more deafening metallic overture in town, one that used to rise with the sun, part of the song that Walt Whitman used to "hear America singing...those of mechanics...blithe and strong." The steam trains came around the bend behind the houses and doubled their strokes up the slope, and the sound shook the windowpanes. But in a blink they were extinct. Our creamery went silent. So did the big diesel electric generators that pumped through the cold winter nights. Maybe it all is good. But the memories are so intimate and gratifying...
...their split-level, four-bedroom house. But they can almost hear the bulldozer creeping closer, with bids on the roadway project due this week, and it isn't just Steve Wynn who's behind the wheel. If the bids are within projections, he will have New Jersey Governor Christie Whitman and Atlantic City Mayor James Whelan with him, all of them preaching the gospel of small personal sacrifices for the greater public good. If you build it, suckers will come. As will thousands of jobs, millions of dollars in tax revenues and a rising tide of new prosperity that "will...
School crises just like this one have tripped up their share of Republican Governors in recent years. After a state court tossed out New Jersey's funding system, Governor Christine Whitman tried to fix the imbalance by tying new money to student performance on statewide tests--a bold approach, but one the courts have refused to accept. In April, Illinois Governor Jim Edgar spent leftover campaign funds on TV ads to build support for his solution--raising income taxes. But his own party killed the bill in committee. Having watched these stumbles, Voinovich is aiming at something more modest. Early...
Peninsula editor Bradley E. Whitman '98 called the attack an act of "ideological genocide" and expressed concern over the impact the false posters might have on first-year students who might be unfamiliar with the group...
...Whitman's exuberant optimism and Pase's quiet resignation--these are the cadences that our Highway 50 team is listening for. "We're trying to discover what unites and divides the nation, besides the road," says Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy. That search took our journalists last week to high schools, truck shops, bowling alleys and bars. They explored a 2,000-year-old Indian burial mound, a doll factory, an FBI lab and a two-alarm fire. The first dispatch from the Greyhound appears in this week's issue. Look for our full report next month...