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...residents of London may come from all walks of life, but early childhood is one of the few times when the classes mix. The free neighborhood baby-massage courses I attended saw migrant mothers and American corporate types bonding over lavender oil and breast-feeding. At our local northwest London playground, my kids share the swing set with Kosovar refugees and the children of hedge-fund millionaires. Government vouchers for day care broke down class stratifications during Nicola's toddler years. Her classmates were the children of cash-strapped single mothers, middle-class professionals and the rich - a few arriving...
...Year by year, the embrace of one's class grows tighter. Now six, Julia plays less in the local park, busy as she is with homework, ballet and violin. When Nicola was at nursery, she went to birthday parties in tony private clubs. Uniformed staff served her in a stately ballroom at the Dorchester Hotel. By the time she was three, she had attended probably the most lavish parties she'll ever see, at least while living with...
...time. He also recounted reports of illegal behavior, specifically from store owners who have told him there is prostitution in the area. In April, the city announced that the 2008 homelessness census showed a 10 percent increase in the number of people without homes in Cambridge. The upswing in local homelessness coincides with a wider state trend. The Associated Press reports that there are about 1,800 families currently in Massachussetts homeless shelters and that the number of homeless families living in motels in the state jumped from 17 last September to 588 at the beginning of this month. Beginning...
After exposure to months of campaigning, debating, and television ads, most voters will be familiar with the major presidential tickets this election day. But when it comes to the vast rosters of local and state candidates running for office in November, few people are as knowledgeable—a fact that Harvard Business School student Summer M. Nemeth intends to change,.Nemeth’s project, a new Web site called Imagine Election, allows Massachusetts residents to find personalized information about their local candidates by typing in their home address.The site is aimed particularly at students, who often...
...chief, General Habibullah, sold his Corolla in order to pay the 150,000 Afghanis ($3000) bribe he thought he needed to secure a lucrative post in the northern province of Takhar, only to learn his mistake a day later: the request for 150,000 referred to dollars, not the local currency. "One hundred and fifty thousand Afghanis didn't seem like a lot of money, and I thought I could help my people at the same time," he says...