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...fame -- and her reputation in some quarters as a "guerrilla preservationist" -- originated with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...
...hammer on another; Belknap had stolen money and a van and exposed himself to women; both talked of leaving their hometown of Sparks, Nev. (pop. 41,000), to become mercenaries. This time, however, the youths hit a new low. They grabbed a shotgun and hurried to a nearby church playground, where Belknap tucked the barrels under his chin and blew his head away. Vance imitated his friend but survived, literally defaced. Three years later, he apparently overdosed on drugs prescribed because of the injury and died...
...industrial average trying to break through 3000, how come we're not getting rich? For you, it's just irritating. For me, it's embarrassing. It's my job to get rich (or so I interpret the responsibility). Who wants financial advice from a flounder? I go to the playground after the market closes, and the other kids make fun of me. "How's your Nike?" they laugh, knowing I shorted it at 70, betting it would go down. (It's 89.) "How's ol' Crappy?" they squeal, referring by nickname to a small auto- parts rebuilder I started buying...
...excitable ones who have to be closely watched. He is small, with a sturdy chest and spindly legs. In his shorts and faded Mickey Mouse T shirt, he looks as if he has just come from a playground. Khi Ha Won's parents live in a Thai refugee camp, but he kept nagging to join the soldiers. Eventually they let him. The last time he was rotated forward, he could plainly see two Burmese soldiers on the other side of the minefield reinforcing their bunkers with mud and wood. He lifted his carbine to shoot but was sharply ordered...
...fellow advocates, including his brother Cesare and the business consortium, argue that the fair would transform Venice into the "new capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious development plan, De Michelis claims, "Venice will become a Disneyland made for tourists only." He charges that opponents are unrealistic -- more concerned with saving churches than creating jobs. "They campaign against the death of Venice," he says, "but Venice...