Word: ghettoes
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...estimated 5 million people, it's one of the biggest cities in South Africa. And yet if people want to buy good clothes or furniture or electrical appliances, they have to get a taxi or train into Johannesburg." Those who fail to spot Soweto's nascent transformation from ghetto to the cradle of a new black middle class, says Maponya, are guilty of the same black-or-white short-sightedness that once held that "a black man was not capable of running a business...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night. The battle was like “American Idol” but with a hell of a lot more street cred. Six contestants took part in the veritable verbal skirmishes before an excitable crowd in three rounds. The contestants went head-to-head exchanging heated personal attacks...
...divide the show into four segments, each representing different parts of the Asian-American identity: “Inspirations,” which featured standard runway fashion, “East Meets West,” “Chinatown” and the “Golden Ghetto,” which focused on the San Franciso Bay Area Asian-American community...
...topic was too taboo for the competitors in Tuesday Magazine’s freestyle rap battle “Outwit.” The event, which was co-sponsored by WHRB’s The Darker Side, drew both the ghetto fabulous and the desperate wannabes to convene in Ticknor last Saturday night...
...that in the second round," predicts Pierre Moscovici, a Socialist Party heavyweight and vice-president of the European Parliament. While mainstream conservatives backing Sarkozy's tax-cutting, market-friendly economic polices may overlook his repeated pledges to help Le Pen voters "out of their ghetto" and into his camp, Moscovici warns that the hard-right lean will repel most people who supported Bayrou. "Sarkozy reminds me of Berlusconi," Moscovici comments. "The Italian right forgave him every excess, the Italian center fled...