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...Chicago house for dozens of times the $10,500 she and her late husband paid in 1952. But as homes she has known for decades are being razed to build million-dollar-plus yuppie warrens, her street--once home to working-class Polish-American families--is losing its tight-knit character. But at least Kovarek owns her home. Writer Michael Glynn, 49, his wife and two kids rent an 850-sq.-ft. apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. There is barely enough space to shoehorn a tree in at Christmas, and Glynn's office doubles as his daughter's bedroom. Glynn...
...People think the Asian-American community is close-knit, but there are so many different groups,” said honoree Joy C. Lin ’05, who is also a Crimson editor...
...fellowship, being a lout, having done some playwriting/directing and trying to do more,” says Jarcho. “Harry is building stuff all over NYC. Zeke and Mike are being brilliant as always…” Although temporarily apart, this group remains tightly-knit...
...skilled technician in a profitable machine shop. Like millions of other Vietnamese, the Lus are ethnic Chinese, and were residents of a part of Saigon known as Cholon, where many Vietnamese of Chinese descent had settled. Like Chinese diaspora the world over, the one in Saigon was tight knit, industrious and relatively prosperous. Even as the war in Vietnam intensified in the late '60s, Lu says, he was able to make a decent living. "We just tried to live, make the best of it," he says. "What else could...
Levitt has published most of this material before in academic journals. But Freakonomics is accessible to people who don't understand regression analysis, the procedure statisticians use to sort through data. And its authors knit in research by other scholars. Each chapter is an enlightening field trip, like the investigations into human nature in Malcolm Gladwell's books, The Tipping Point and Blink. But in Freakonomics, attempts to link the chapters together fall flat. There is no unifying theory here, which is a shame...