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...pattern of residential segregation is clearly present around Holy Cross. Its pupils come from Ardoyne, a Catholic area where the row houses are filled by a young and growing population. The residents would like to expand into the Protestant areas nearby, including Glenbryn, where the school is located. There the people tend to be aging or moving to the suburbs, so public housing often lies empty. But the remaining residents don't want to give up those houses to Catholics and see their territory gradually swallowed...
...pattern of residential segregation is certainly present around Holy Cross. Its pupils come from Ardoyne, a Catholic area where the terraced houses that line its long streets are filled by a young and growing population. They would like to expand into the Protestant areas nearby, including Glenbryn, where the school itself is located, built a few months before the Troubles erupted in 1969. There the people tend to be aging or moving to the suburbs, meaning that public housing often lies empty. But the remaining residents don't want to give up those houses to Catholics and see their...
...appointment was seen in the context of Harvard’s entrance into a new phase of physical development. With the large Capital Campaign completed, Rowe pointed out, Harvard was looking to expand...
...process. More than 3 million undocumented Mexicans currently work in the U.S., and Fox wants their status legalized. His reasons are partly economic, and partly political. Granting them legal status would free Mexican migrants from the exploitation of the low-wage off-the-books economy, and therefore expand the earning potential of an expatriate community that will send home an estimated $9 billion this year alone. It would also allow these workers to travel back and forth, which is far too dangerous right now for most of those lucky enough to have eluded the Border Patrol once - and that cements...
...line versions of the best-known national news organizations, Andrew Kohut, the head of the Pew Research Center in Washington was quoted as saying: "Online, people tell us they go to look for what they are interested in, which tends to narrow people's horizons, not expand them...