Word: block
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...block east on Tremont Street, a stone church tower pierces the fog. The doors of New Hope Baptist Church open and several well-dressed black ladies descend its well-worn concrete steps. An aging but lively woman says a deaconess meeting has just adjourned, and, like a good deaconess, she smiles and adds, "Come back tomorrow, and then you'll really have a story. We have a great service--you should bring your friends...
Back outside, a block down Tremont, the Chickering Piano Factory looms above everything else in the neighborhood. When constructed in 1853, the Chickering was second in size only to the US capitol building in Washington. Jonas Chickering's factory stopped crafting pianos in 1929 and more recently, the building was converted into low-rent apartments for struggling artists...
...American, but because he headed up UNSCOM?s attempts to expose Iraq?s concealment and deception, explains Dowell. ?If the Iraqis let him back in to continue his work, it?s a show of good faith on their part.? Of course, if Saddam decides once again to block Ritter?s efforts, the crisis will rewind to the (by now rather confusing) brink...
...Hispanic" and "black") is not a homogeneous mask. It is a term used for convenience that ought not displace the diversity in the group. While often it is easy to look at our peers and see a representation of a "model minority," Asian-Americans are far from a monolithic block. Filipino-Americans, the second largest Asian American population in the U.S. after those of Chinese descent, are under-represented at Harvard. Hmong-Americans, which constitute the fastest growing Asian-American group in the U.S., have a poverty rate of 64.5 percent--greater than any other racial or ethnic minority...
...stirs you in some primal, half-forgotten place, however vigilant your defenses, throwing up simple human images of panic and delight and loss; and a huge, showy, zillion-dollar model of the family of man that, for all its state-of-the-art grandeur and planning, cannot outswerve a block of ice. It shouldn't work, but it does; things should work, but they don't. As the surprise U.S. silver medalist in the doubles luge, Chris Thorpe, said of his surprise bronze-medalist teammates, "They don't have great lines, they don't have great form. They just...