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Residents living along the street where the first family is staying say that, all in all, having the President stay there hasn't been too disruptive. "How many people can actually say that they had the President staying on your street?" says Ember Shinn, a resident of Kailuana Place. "You get to be a minor celebrity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas' Vacation: Not So Low-Key After All | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

Another bonus, Shinn says, is that she gets the advantage of heightened security, with Secret Service agents and two checkpoints on her street. "You do feel safer because hardly anyone can come around," she says. "But I feel sorry for the people living on the canal [that runs through the residential area] because there are gun boats revving up [there] in the mornings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Obamas' Vacation: Not So Low-Key After All | 12/29/2009 | See Source »

...fact that people are staying single for longer but still want to buy homes, and there's a whole new taste afoot - Santa Barbara-based B3 Architects is building a series of 800-square-footers. "The big-box house is no longer the market," says Charles Shinn, principal of the builder consultancy Shinn Consulting in Littleton, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downsizing: Today's Home Buyers Are Thinking Small | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

Since Saturday, residents of Kailuana Place have been dealing with the daily motorcade that leaves sometime after 7 a.m. when Obama heads to the Semper Fit Ultimate Health and Fitness Club located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in nearby Kaneohe. Alan Shinn, who lives a block away from the security checkpoint leading to the Obama compound on Kailuana Place, says all day long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Escape in Hawaii | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

...Embedded, a biting if overwrought send-up of the selling of the war, featuring Administration stand-ins with names like Rum-Rum and Gondola, written and directed by Tim Robbins for his L.A.-based Actors' Gang. The war has been a jumping-off point for psychological family drama (Christopher Shinn's Dying City, about a war widow reunited with the brother of her husband, recently killed in action) and for polemical journalism (George Packer's Betrayed, based on his reportage about the plight of Iraqi citizens who went to work for the Americans early in the war, then were abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stage Fight | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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