Word: neighborhood
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...comforting them in their sorrow. She does not judge others, even if they have hurt her in the past. To Sherri, every day is a clean slate, a fresh opportunity to laugh, share and learn from one another. And Sherri has never given up. Even when teased by the neighborhood girls, her long ago-playmates, when rejected by her best friend Amy because she was not up to Amy's middle school standards of cool, or when cast aside by the piercing looks of waiters and store clerks--Sherri has never cracked her positive attitude. She never loses hope that...
Leaving the Old Neighborhood...
...example of CPD's proactive approach was a special anti-drug effort in Area 4--a neighborhood northeast of Central Square--where plainclothes patrol officers and Special Investigations detectives targeted street dealers over the summer, resulting in 61 arrests, over a third of the total narcotics arrests for the city...
...Agassiz [the neighborhood which encompasses Harvard] has a significantly lower-than-average rate for almost every measured crime," the police report reads...
Liberty Heights is the fourth in Barry Levinson's "trilogy" about his hometown of Baltimore, Md. After Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987) and Avalon (1990), he felt he had finished with tales about growing up in the city's Jewish neighborhood in the 1950s. But then an ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY review of his 1998 movie, Sphere, referred to Dustin Hoffman as a "noodgey and menschlike" Jewish psychologist. The racial stereotyping annoyed Levinson ("Nobody would say Mel Gibson was playing a Catholic industrialist in Ransom"), but it also got him thinking about his youth again. Rather than fume, he sat down...