Word: ghettoes
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...church has chosen an odd replacement. On Sept. 3, along with John, it plans to beatify Pope PIUS IX. The earlier Pius had the longest reign in history (1846-78), but he plagued Rome's Jews, repealing civil rights and forcing them back into the ghetto. He also had a role in the kidnapping of a Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara, who had been baptized by a Catholic servant. Despite an international outcry, Pius acted as a surrogate father to the child, who later became a priest. Italian Jews are nonplussed. "The beatification of Pius IX exalts a symbol that...
...want the creation of a super-ghetto school," said Douglas Whitlow, a Maynard parent on the steering committee. He said he favors the effort to bring in more white students to the merged school...
...Short, gorgeous bisexual feminist w/hips like a truck, seeks similar for talking, thrifting, wheat pasting, obsessive emailing, drinkin' and china pattern shopping. Must be happily trapped in non-profit ghetto, emotionally available and so small it hurts. No biphobic lesbians, boy crazy bis or diva trainees. Blood curdling sarcasm also completely unacceptable. Quakerism a plus...
Yale University is inferior in every way to Harvard. New Haven is ghetto. Yalies are unattractive, dirty individuals who have low self-esteem...
These are tough times for gangsta rappers. In early December, Jay-Z (a.k.a. Shawn Carter) was charged with assault. Now Puff Daddy (a.k.a. Sean Combs), the Hamptons-partying, Versace-wearing, MTV-approved icon of ghetto-fabulous hip-hop style, is facing a weapons charge after leaving the scene of a shoot-out. And his girlfriend, singer-actor Jennifer Lopez, has been dragged into the mess...