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...after all, Jewish. That's particularly true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves to be, richer. But--and this may be the most poignant thing about Liberty Heights--these kids are ahead of a time that is still waiting to happen, a time when people will be sympathetically supported when they try to speak gently, lovingly across the color line...
...entire nation's interest, from the poorest member of society to Bill Gates. However, the desire to maintain the current economic boom should not supersede concern for the welfare of the less fortunate members of society. During the ongoing seven-year bull market, our nation's rich have gotten richer at the expense of the poorer half of the population. When yearly income is adjusted for inflation, the bottom half of wage-earners earn less than they did in the '70s. While the country's wealth has risen dramatically, the working class is actually worse off, disproving the theory that...
...changed our lives," Delaney-Smith said. "It is amazing at how the rich get richer because they are on TV or they have the media. I just think a lot of people were amazed that we were that competitive...I cannot even tell you how many people and emails and letters and comments we got about the work ethic, the team chemistry...
...corruption of the last decades, in which some leaders became richer than their countries, is slowly giving way to free government, he said...
...than the statewide average. Comparing Newton's wealthy and less-well-off areas, the Massachusetts-based Silent Spring Institute found higher rates of breast cancer in Newton's tonier neighborhoods. The researchers, taking into account known risk factors for breast cancer - such as delayed childbearing and ethnicity - noted that richer people tend to have more of their clothes dry-cleaned and hire pesticide-wielding professionals to manicure their lawns...