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...Though the subculture is met with derision in wider society, hipsters have been able to eke out enclaves across the country, chief among them the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Williamsburg. But now even that is threatened. The hip have been hit with a double whammy of economic reality (more are struggling to pay rent as parental support dries up) and population changes (the carefully gentrified neighborhood is gradually being infiltrated by squatters inhabiting Williamsburg's stalled building projects). Hipsterdom's largest natural habitat, it seems, is under threat. (See pictures of Steve Jobs...
...Mongolian capital Ulan Bator, "Shoot the Chinese" is spray-painted on a brick wall near a movie theater. A pair of swastikas and the words "Killer Boys ...! Danger!" can be read on a fence in an outlying neighborhood of yurt dwellings. Graffiti like this, which can be found all over the city, is the work of Mongolia's neo-Nazis, an admittedly implausible but often intimidating, and occasionally violent, movement...
...Israel and pledges to destroy the Jewish state [July 13]. Hamas consistently liquidates Palestinian moderates who would coexist with Israel. And Lieberman is the obstacle to peace? In 60-plus years of Israeli statehood, there has yet to be a serious Palestinian negotiator who wants to "share the neighborhood." Until there is, let's stop the disingenuous Israel-bashing. Rubin Guttman, CLEVELAND...
...YORK, N.Y.—Last week, as Bronx native Sonia Sotomayor testified before the Senate and President Barack H. Obama visited New York to commemorate the centennial of the NAACP, I sat on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that has been home to immigrants for generations. I work at Henry Street Settlement, founded by Lillian Wald, an early supporter of the NAACP. She hosted the informal reception that kicked off the 1909 National Negro Conference that helped launch the century-old organization. In a stuffy office across from housing projects, I read drafts of college essays written...
...dominical yoke of labor. Where will the next Renoir get his inspiration for another Bal du Moulin de la Galette? What would Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte be without the Sunday bit? And how to defend the colors against the neighborhood rival if your goalkeeper and best center forward are down at the mall selling garden furniture...