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...Once the neighborhood was deemed safe enough to visit, Faust’s trip itinerary featured the campus—and it was there that she announced last month that Harvard and the University of Johannesburg would embark upon a new initiative to train school principals for some of the poorest areas of the country. With collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Education, the program would seek to attract innovators in education to Soweto, the site of a major student protest during the struggle against apartheid...
Cockrel is aware that much of her potential bid's appeal and challenge lies in her personal narrative. She grew up in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood in the 1950s and '60s - a period when, she recalls, it was populated largely with Irish and Maltese immigrants as well as Puerto Ricans. Her parents managed a soup kitchen. As a student at Wayne State University in the late 1960s, she had a front-row seat to one of the defining moments in Detroit's history: the 1967 riots - or "rebellion," as she recalls it. On the morning of July 23 of that...
...Guardian (UK): "A reply to a question in Notes & Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighborhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch...Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats' urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in fact sell either tiger or lion urine. Many years ago the zoo sold elephant dung, but it no longer does...
...political analyst and political science professor at the University of Houston. Her political journey echoes, to some degree, that of Houston's only other female mayor, Kathy Whitmire. Like Whitmire, Parker used the job of city controller as a jumping-off point, built on her base in the Montrose neighborhood (heart of the city's large gay community) and reached out to vital constituencies, like African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and moderate, affluent Republicans...
...dining, the hotel offers the Spice Market (a branch of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's New York eatery, serving dishes inspired by Asian street food) or W Kitchen (another Vongerichten creation), but the neighborhood is packed with good, cheap eateries. You'll definitely want to skip the overpriced and frugal hotel breakfast and head instead to nearby Besiktas Market where Kaymakci Pando, a popular hole-in-the-wall, has been serving up a traditional Turkish spread of buffalo cream, honey, fresh bread, olives and eggs for nearly as long as the Akaretler Row Houses have been around. It's good...