Word: neighborhooding
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...course, they’d watch Lt. Theo Kojak, the New York City police officer who fought crime in what was then a gritty neighborhood of lower Manhattan...
Iraq After Saddam Hussein's ouster, many local leaders sought to erase part of his legacy. One prominent example: the sprawling, poor Baghdad neighborhood of Saddam City became Sadr City. The name honors Shi'ite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's father, a revered cleric who was killed during Saddam's regime...
...been a general increase in noise complaints from residents over the last few years, the total number has shot upwards this fall, said Thomas J. Lucey, Harvard’s director of community relations for Cambridge. Lucey said he personally received two to three calls from heads of neighborhood organizations and knows of several more placed to HUPD. “While there isn’t a lot of maliciousness” from neighborhood residents, Lucey said, “when there’s several hundred kids walking down the street having a normal conversation, the level...
...Israeli laws are the most tolerant in the Middle East toward gays, and ultra-Orthodox Jews see that as a symptom of a Jewish state rejecting its religious responsibilities. For some, the battle to stop the Gay Pride march has already begun. In the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shea'rim, police clashed over three consecutive nights this week with curly-forelocked youths who burned tires and hurled eggs and tomatoes. One officer said he was stunned "by the level of hatred" he saw in these clashes against Israel's small but vocal gay and lesbian community. Israel's Supreme...
...victim of an ongoing campaign to eliminate academics - on Thursday, gunmen shot dead yet another prominent professor, Jassim al-Asadi, dean of the University of Baghdad's school of administration and economics. Al-Assadi, his wife and son were shot dead as they drove through the mainly Sunni Adhamiya neighborhood. The al-Assadis were Shi'ites...