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Stories for May 21, 2008
The newcomer name game
The Chinese have a saying: "One move is like two house fires." It's very disorienting to be in a new place, even if you moved within the U.S. and can therefore depend on the cultural differences between your previous burg and Seattle to be, relatively speaking, minimal. I've lived in the Northwest for nearly six years and Seattle for almost three, and I'm still doing double-takes over little things, such as proper nouns.
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The real battle in Seattle was one of futility
A fictional film account of the 1999 World Trade Organization protests opens the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival this week. Battle in Seattle might be spectacular for the action and drama it portrays, but the historical legacy of the actual events is something short of momentous. In the end, the anti-globalization movement went nowhere.
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How the Blethen family lost 49.5 percent of the Seattle Times Co.
Last week, minority shareholder McClatchy, the Sacramento newspaper chain, said it was willing to sell its not-quite-half slice of the Seattle Times. So how did a locally controlled Northwest newspaper company wind up with a national partner to begin with? The story starts in the 1920s.
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