Word: slumming
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...meters Length of a banner depicting Thailand's Grand Palace set up to screen a Bangkok slum from the view of APEC summiteers...
...High on any itinerary will be the Lanes, a onetime slum now gentrified into an area of New Age shops, funky restaurants and painfully hip boutiques. Nearby Kemptown, a gay quarter, offers a similar mix but with hot pink accents. Meanwhile, gourmands will make for the award-winning Terre ? Terre, tel: (44-1273) 729051, reputed to be the best vegetarian restaurant in Britain, or the superlative French restaurant, One Paston Place, tel: (44-1273) 606960. And if you can't face catching the last train back to London, you have an array of hotels to choose from. Foremost among...
...most troubling recent development is the emergence of a Shiite challenge to the U.S. The firebrand young cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose followers are particularly powerful in the slums of eastern Baghdad, is increasingly basing his own bid for power and influence among the Shiites on a strategy of confrontation with the U.S. Last Friday he declared his intention to form his own government, and he has called for the formation of a religious army - his forces clashed violently with U.S. soldiers in Baghdad last weekend, after which his supporters warned the U.S. to keep its troops...
...multi-volume version of the months he and Kidder spent together, including such installments as Cry, the Beloved Tracy. Playing on the titles of Kidder’s most laurelled works, he joked that he would publish more books about Haiti: Hut for Kidder’s House and Slum for his Hometown...
...search for Islamic terrorists in the city's Muslim-dominated suburbs, such as Mahim or Jogeshwari. Though it has a larger-than-average Muslim population, Chimatpada is a mixed neighborhood; just a few doors down from the Hanifs' home hangs a portrait of Jesus. Yet here in this congested slum, nobody appears to have noticed anything amiss as the Hanifs allegedly amassed their massive cache of explosives. "We mind our own business," says Mohammad Faisal, a tailor who lives close to the Hanifs' house. "Once the doors are closed, we have no idea what happens here." Now that...