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...youths wielding guns or knives. All but a handful of the dead teenagers were black or Asian. More than half of all black Britons live in London, many in hardscrabble housing projects such as the Moorlands Estate in Brixton, south London, where Solomon Wilson, 23, and his friend Nathan Foster grew up. Wilson says he was "no saint" when younger, but he benefited from a happy home life. "I take my hat off to my mum," he says. As he saunters along Brixton's Coldharbour Lane, he's trailed by a posse of local girls and boys who just want...
...Still, the exuberance for House pride transcends Harvard, and it may point to something entirely generational. Just as the housing system to which we all submit was born out of a concern for preserving diversity, undergraduates’ impulse to foster House pride is the product of our diversity-conscious culture. Diversity is ultimately a positive societal goal—there seems to be little doubt about that. Yet it also makes for strange behavior. When people are lumped together with those with whom they may not have much in common, there’s an impulse to find some...
With five partners and a payroll of about 70 people, SHoP Architects doesn't quite qualify as a small firm. All the same, it doesn't compare to design-world immensities like Norman Foster's sprawling operation in London or just about any branch of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. But last summer, this medium-size Manhattan-based company won a very big project?the new headquarters for Google, the virtual-world behemoth based in Mountain View, Calif...
...place of comfort and trust. Today, upperclassmen welcome freshmen into their House communities—communities that should be built on mutual respect between the College, House administrators, and students. By encouraging student input in residential decision-making and respecting unofficial promises made to undergrads, the College will foster healthier residential life—which might just make up for the bunk beds...
...Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said that a Catholic parish in this key Islamic country would be "a historic achievement" in the push to expand religious freedom and foster a positive interfaith rapport. Under Benedict, the Catholic hierarchy has stepped up calls from its Muslim counterparts for "reciprocity," demanding that the same religious freedom enjoyed by Muslims in the West should be granted to Christian minorities in the Islamic world. They note that Europe's biggest mosque, built with Saudi funds, was opened in 1995 in Rome, just across the river from the Vatican...