Word: slumming
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...debt, it gave up the city hall to settle a lawsuit. Garbage lay uncollected in the streets. Businesses fled. Today half the 40,000 residents, in a town that used to be integrated but is now 98% black, qualify for public assistance. Drugs are rampant. Where better than this slum on the Mississippi River to build a glittering $45 million floating casino...
MICHAEL JACKSON spent only six hours in the Santa Marta shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, but the visit made headlines for weeks. First a judge temporarily barred his film crew, headed by Spike Lee, from shooting the video for They Don't Care About Us in the slum. That resolved, Jackson arrived by helicopter and was swept into a newly painted house for two hours of makeup before being filmed singing and dancing on and around cinder-block shacks. Finally came revelations that the film company had unknowingly paid off local drug lords for permission to shoot. "Producers have...
...life is still perilous on Haiti's mean streets, where the poor are growing impatient and predatory. Near the National Palace, a woman who cadges $1 secretes it for safekeeping in her underpants. A gang of thugs dubbed the Red Army ravages Cite Soleil, a Port-au-Prince slum that police are afraid to enter: the last time they did, a shoot-out claimed the lives of several innocent bystanders. In La Saline members of a local vigilante patrol discover the dead body of their leader. They swiftly select four suspected "robbers" and beat them to death. Then they...
...neighborhood--qualities due in no small part to the existence of Harvard. Perhaps they might consider the rationale behind expensive apartments: people want to live here. I'm sure that none of them would protest for cheap housing in New Haven. Cambridge, in fact, might have been a similar slum had the University not purchased and improved upon a great deal of the city over the past century...
Bobby, however, did not lack the machismo to rise up from the slum in Brooklyn where he grew up. Bobby is known today as one of the best recruiters (if not the best game coaches) in college basketball, and one of the hardest workers. He has sent a countless number of players to the NBA, including Mark Price, John Salley, Tom Hammonds, Dennis Scott, Travis Best and Kenny Anderson, among others...