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  • Listen, then, to the bravura patter of a street-corner salesman: I've not come here to get money; not I; I've come here merely for the good of the public, and to let you see how you've been imposed upon by a parcel of pompous shopkeepers, who are not content with less than 100 per cent for rubbish.

    Sociology most Dickensian Michael Dirda 2011

  • Rambly, street-corner folk musician Devendra Banhart and his band the Grogs are rolling into town Thursday, with openers Dorothy and the Originals.

    Jogging with Rob McKenna « PubliCola 2010

  • "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" takes 60 years of American songwriting traditions -- from New York street-corner doo-wop and California surf sounds to Southern soul, piano bar ballads, and Brill Building pop -- and turns them inside out.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Oct. 5 Shawn Amos 2010

  • Witness last week's visit to Queens, New York, by New York Fed President William Dudley, who got a street-corner education in the cost of living.

    'I Can't Eat an iPad' 2011

  • "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" takes 60 years of American songwriting traditions -- from New York street-corner doo-wop and California surf sounds to Southern soul, piano bar ballads, and Brill Building pop -- and turns them inside out.

    Shawn Amos: PLAY > SKIP: New Music for Oct. 5 Shawn Amos 2010

  • Mr. Kennedy writes of bringing street-corner drug dealers in for meetings with policemen, prosecutors and community-service workers.

    The Just-Say-No Crime-Busters Daniel Horan 2011

  • He quickly became radicalized and spent the next few years as an agitator, street-corner orator, and union organizer, mostly trying to enlist the support of unemployed immigrant steel workers.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • According to Ayesha Siddiq, author of Military Inc: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy, "the Pakistani military runs thousands of businesses worth tens of billions of dollars, ranging from street-corner petrol pumps to sprawling industrial plants."

    Neetu Mahil: Waking Up to the Awakening Neetu Mahil 2011

  • Our reviewer deemed the book a "sensational" story of how "street-corner commerce and ghetto culture forged a musical legacy that still resonates today."

    The Best Nonfiction of 2011 2011

  • All this can do would limit killing between small-time cholos gangsters for street-corner turf.

    Richard Nixon's 'war on drugs' began 40 years ago, and the battle is still raging 2011

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