Word: metropolitanism
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Five Americans, dressed in the flowing cotton shirts and pants of the region, burst through the door: Jimmie Carter, second-in-command at the FBI's Washington metropolitan field office, agent Brad Garrett, and three members of the bureau's hostage rescue team. They shoved the slight, bearded, Pakistani-born Kansi, 33, to the floor, cuffed his hands behind his back and identified themselves as FBI agents. "Who are you?" one of them demanded. "F___ you," Kansi snapped in his lightly accented English, and began screaming for help in his native Pashto language. Garrett knelt beside Kansi and took...
...after the premiere performance Thursday night in the city's Civic Theater. "We are back in the international arena and able to host world-famous theater groups like this. It gives us pride after what we fought for all these years." Calling the tour "an inspiration for the whole metropolitan area," Johannesburg Mayor Isaac Mogase proclaimed June 18 as Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
...MWRA's steps come as part of a major new effort to re-think the waste-water treatment process in the entire Boston Metropolitan area...
...children. Nearly 40% of today's owners are in the 35-to-54 age range, double the percentage of a decade ago. And while the words hip and Winnebago are unlikely to appear next to each other soon, some 42% of all owners are college-educated and live in metropolitan areas...
...eight weeks, beginning the last day of June, 1,400 children from the greater metropolitan area of New York City who feel a kinship for the arts will leave their neighborhoods each morning for the sylvan campus of the Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts in Huntington, Long Island. Make no mistake. These aren't privileged children, and this day camp isn't "laboring under the pretense of being a preprofessional training school in the arts," says Dale Lewis, executive director of Usdan. "Society just doesn't make room to accommodate 1,400 new stars every year...