Word: poorest
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...York, Mexico or El Salvador, Vietnam or Korea. Few Angelenos have ever seen a movie star. Many have never even seen Rodeo Drive, much less shopped there. Black, white, brown and yellow, they have created little communities that frequently resemble the places they left behind. In the poorest of those communities, the streets may not be as mean as those in, say, the South Bronx, but they are every bit as tough...
Lawyers who know their way around death row argue that such an opinion could only have been written by someone seriously out of touch with the way justice is served up at the state level. Often those most in need of help -- the poorest and the least educated -- get the shoddiest representation. They may be defended by court-appointed lawyers who are either young and inexperienced or old and broken down; either way, these attorneys rarely have experience with the intricacies of habeas law -- perhaps the most complex part of criminal procedure. Where once the Supreme Court protected defendants from...
...very important in terms of planning are your contacts with community people. These people are your best front line of communication. I don't care whether it is the poorest, the most crime-ridden and downtrodden neighborhood or the most successful neighborhood. The contacts can be church leaders, they can be businesspeople or a neighbor who is out there every day washing off the steps and sidewalk. Part of a commander's job is to be able to pick up the phone at 3 o'clock in the morning and say, "Bob, Mary, I need you out here," and know...
...just in Los Angeles. The high expectations that greeted the election of thousands of African Americans to local, state and federal offices over the past three decades have been displaced by frustration. By every statistical measure from joblessness to out-of-wedlock births, the plight of the poorest blacks has deteriorated in nearly all the cities that blacks control politically. Black elected officials and black voters alike have discovered the harsh limits of their power. As the violence in L.A. showed, many of them remain as alienated from the political process as they were a generation...
...other words, no students--not even the poorest--should be able to say that because Harvard opposes bias against homosexuals (or anyone else) by ending discriminatory scholarships, the University effectively prevents them from attending...