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...Paea says gangs are everywhere. "Every street corner has one," he says. "A lot of kids we deal with have no direction, no activities, nothing whatsoever. You've got some who have grown up without a dad-just a mum-and the only role model they've got is the older guys in the neighborhood who are gang connected. They are connected into the wrong environment, and it's the same in school: they connect with the wrong child...
...probably bring his total receipts above $20 million. The Romney campaign is also saying its report will show it has been spending heavily, building an operation that now totals around 200 employees and investing more than any other on early advertising. Meanwhile, frontrunner Rudy Giuliani's operation has been mum on its finances, though its competitors say they expect the former New York mayor to have pulled in something around $20 million for the quarter...
...great charm of Greetings from Bury Park lies in the everyday details of Manzoor's coming of age in a home that will never be home for his mum and dad. His mother, when he was young, cut the grass with a pair of scissors, while his brother slept on a hospital trolley bed, and the others all slept on the floor. His father got up at 7 a.m. and dressed for work even after he had been laid off by the local Vauxhall car plant. As for Saf, we meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn...
...people murdered elsewhere in the world, amidst the engineered rage that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. By most indications, it was a remarkable cultural phenomenon, warranting a great blossoming of teach-ins and town-hall meetings—but the campus remained inauspiciously mum...
...Thus, I’ve always honestly wondered what element of grace led the admissions committee at Harvard to smile on me. I have no alumni connections, wunderkind gifts, or national prizes to my name. I dislike competition, athletic or otherwise. My mum describes me as the “most sensible” of my siblings. (My siblings, when asked, described me as “shortest,” “most ugly,” and “solipsistic...