Word: cosmopolitanization
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...idea of a segregated nightlife seems at odds with Atlanta's self-image as the cosmopolitan capital of the "New South." It's the ninth most populous city in the U.S., is home to the world's busiest airport, arrived on the international stage in 1996 when it hosted the Summer Olympics, and ranks third behind New York and Houston in the number of Fortune 500 companies headquartered there. What's more, blacks and whites do sit side-by-side on the city council and school boards. Three consecutive African-American mayors have collectively served 30 years in office...
...Still, after a long day on the job, often in racially and ethnically mixed work environments, most Atlantans choose to spend their leisure time with people who look just like them. Contrary to its cosmopolitan exterior, flashy tourism ads and the rhetoric of local politicians - and despite the fact that it has the fastest growing Latino population of any city in the nation, and a foreign-born population that grew by almost 50% between 2000 and 2005 - there continue to be two distinctly different Atlantas...
...hurdles are meant to be leapt. According to Sassen, Hong Kong's native genius is to continually recalibrate its relationship with China, while still maintaining its status as a cosmopolitan, consummately networked global financial hub. "Hong Kong has to innovate or it sinks," Sassen says. "That's what it's always been so good...
...rising tension also portends an end to the relatively carefree life enjoyed by Americans here. Lebanon is one of the most tolerant and cosmopolitan countries in the Middle East, and arguably the prettiest. But it's a tougher place for U.S. diplomats, who live in a fortified hillside compound just north of the capital that they rarely leave, and never without bodyguards. Top officials travel in convoys of armored vehicles, which sometimes break up into decoy mini-convoys to confuse would-be attackers. One of the rumors floating around the bomb scene this evening was that the target vehicles were...
...Bhutto showed both “extremely young innocence” and a mature, cosmopolitan world view, Fadiman said. She was also a skilled orator, eventually becoming the first Asian female president of the Oxford Union, a prestigious debating forum, during her graduate studies in England...