Word: descent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Peter H. Alson ’77 is the one member of his graduating class whose autobiographical narrative chronicles his descent into the illicit world of sports gambling...
...criminal tendency but as a result of deplorable conditions in which many black and brown immigrants and citizens are forced to live. Arriving primarily from France’s former colonies and often channeled into low-skilled, low-paying industrial or domestic jobs, these people of African and Arab descent face substandard housing, high unemployment rates, poor schools, inadequate public facilities, police brutality, hate crimes and a host of other obstacles. They are clustered in banlieues, poor working class suburbs that ring the country’s major cities. Constantly faced with anti-immigrant bias and unemployment rates well over...
Most Jordanians would agree. The tiny Hashemite Kingdom has been free of serious violence, but no country is more anxious about the region's descent into conflict. A map will tell you why: Jordan is caught between Israeli-Palestinian clashes to the west and a threatened U.S. attack on Iraq to the east. Those twin crises could wreck the country's trade-driven economy. "We're doing our best to make the situation better," says Hodeib, "but what can we really...
Last month Shamas' husband, a Brooklyn native of Lebanese descent, failed to pick up on a soldier's signals as he crossed the checkpoint and suddenly found the red laser dot of the Israeli's rifle sight dancing on his face. He was saved by his American-accented English and the U.S. passport he slowly pulled out of his pocket. "My God, it hit me," Shamas says. "Nobody is safe. Think of the ease with which that soldier could have decided to kill." Every day her daughter Diala, 17, crosses the checkpoint to go to school. "Not every...
...blocking decision of roommates Kate G. Ward ’05 and Crystal I Chien Farh ’05, who found themselves sometimes at odds over their views on self-segregation. Ward, from upstate New York, is of a mixed European-Catholic background. Farh is of Chinese descent, and was born in the U.S. and raised in Hong Kong. “Probably the biggest thing that bothered me is that she said she feels more comfortable with Asians than whites,” Ward says...