Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professionals spoke in panels focused on public policy and public health, international development and outreach, community organizing and technology and neighborhood outreach...
...nearly his entire life, Dervis Audaja, 54, lived on the same block in the Kosovo city of Pec, developing close friendships with his neighbors, a mix of ethnic Albanians and Serbs. Now all that is gone forever. Early last week Serb paramilitary units drove into his neighborhood, went to the door of every Albanian home and gave the residents 10 minutes to pack their belongings and go to the Korza, the city's main square. From there most of the crowd of 15,000 were herded into the local sports stadium, where they spent the night in silent fear, half...
...next door and asked his Serb neighbors for protection. "I asked them, 'What have I ever done in 50 years that would make you burn my house?' They told me it was outsiders." But by Tuesday, more Albanian homes were burning, and Serb soldiers lined the hills surrounding the neighborhood. Audaja, his trust shattered and his possessions gone, put his paralyzed daughter into a wheelchair and began walking away from Pec. He pushed his daughter for 13 hours before a truck stopped to offer them a ride. "In a place where your neighbors burn your houses, there...
...should acknowledge that Pat, a friend of mine from Kansas City who was in the flour business, regularly had ideas that some people, particularly his wife, did not take completely seriously. For instance, the deterioration of his boyhood neighborhood gave him the idea that, for a modest sum, he could buy the house he was born in and turn it into a national shrine...
LeBow handled the puzzled questions--" I thought a nail was the type of a finger?"--like a pro (which her impressive teaching resume confirms). LeBow has taught cello lessons through PBHA's HARMONY (Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth) and Latin with the Summerbridge Program. This summer, she will teach English literature to disadvantaged sixth and seventh graders in Cambridge...