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...hundi), European and U.S. officials have cracked down on them. That has shifted payments to easier-to-track official channels. Some migrants, however, still use methods that elude the bean counters. In Hong Kong, Endang Muna Saroh, 35, works as a nanny to two children in a comfortable residential neighborhood, and sends $200 home every month to her mother and 10-year-old son in Surabaya, Indonesia, wiring the money to her brother-in-law's bank account. The country receives recorded remittances such as this worth a total of $1.8 billion a year. Yet like many migrants, Endang also...
...Tommy, when he's not doing time at Rahway Correctional Facility, sings with neighborhood pal Nick (J. Robert Spencer) and looks out for a guy, one year younger, whom he calls "kid": Frankie Castelluccio (John Lloyd Young). Frankie's wife Mary (Jennifer Naimo) warns him: Mary: "With friends like these, maybe you should change your name to Sinatra." But he goes for Valli. Then Tommy's pesty friend Joe Pesci, yes, that one, hooks him up with Bob Gaudio (Daniel Reichard), a teenager who a few years before had a novelty hit called "Short Shorts." He wants music...
Sampson, who is also Ford Professor of Social Sciences, said these environmental factors are the marital status of the youths’ parents, their immigrant generation, and the socioeconomic makeup of their neighborhood...
...from Lakeview. Today marks 14 weeks which have passed since we evacuated, Aug. 28th. We have heard many terrible accounts of various tales of destruction, but even though we lost everything, my wife, daughter, two cats, and I are alive and well. The "New Orleans Blues" article shows our neighborhood and details the story that we have been through. However, it does not do justice to the emptyness that our neighborhood, Lakeview, is going through...
...those not familar with the neighborhood, picture a place where families, churchs, schools, businesses, all coexist with each other in an area where it takes only 10 minutes to get "anywhere." We hear of people determined to return to the area, but zip code 70124 is still wiped out. When the rebuilding can take place is anybody's guess. My house has been gutted and sits empty down to the beams. Many of our treasured belongings sit on the street being observed by the occasional passerby...