Word: brentwood
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...Angeles native, hailing from the part of the city most people know as South Central. When he was in sixth grade, he became a “better chance” scholar, participating in a national program that prepares minority students for admissions to elite schools. He attended the Brentwood School, a private school on Sunset Boulevard, where he was elected head prefect—student body president. He was also a Ron Brown scholar, a Riordan scholar, and first violin in the Pasadena Youth Orchestra...
...Today well-kept homes are being knocked down by the thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...
...Brentwood Flats is a microcosm. In one case, a buyer paid $745,000 for a humble 70-year-old, three-bedroom house in 2003. It was promptly ripped down, and 18 months later the two-story, five-bedroom Italian villa erected in its place sold for $2.7 million. Around the corner, one lot has changed hands three times in four years. Its original two-bedroom Southern Colonial went for $567,000 in 2000; the four-bedroom traditional that replaced it brought more than $2 million last August...
...capitol in Sacramento, shouting, "Arnold, Arnold, you can't hide--we can see your corporate side!" Nurses have buzzed his fund raisers with "Air Arnold" planes that drag banners reading DON'T BE BIG BUSINESS'S BULLY! They picketed a celebrity-studded party the Governor threw at his Brentwood home for retired NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. When the A&E channel ran a biopic called See Arnold Run, the California Nurses Association punctuated it with commercials of R.N.s denouncing him as "driven by greed and profits," part of a $100,000 TV campaign. Their full-page ads in Washington...
Brianna Nascimiento and Jianna Garcia of suburban Brentwood, N.Y., had just flown halfway across the country to drum up interest in their burgeoning handcrafted jewelry business. The partners wore tailored black pantsuits befitting the successful entrepreneur. But they weren't in Chicago to meet with potential investors or customers. Standing in front of an impressive display of their bracelets, chokers and belts, the founders of Bead Bonanza prepared to be judged by a panel of home-economics teachers and students. "We taught our employees to interact with people, be creative and excel yourself and stuff," said Jianna, clutching notecards during...