Word: slumming
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...look around at the peeling lead paint on the walls in your tiny apartment, waiting for the slum lord to turn the electricity back on so you can cook a bite-sized dinner for your malnourished kids when they get back from their overcrowded, dilapidated public school--cheer up! We, the Republicans, are concerned about all of the American people. And we've got an extra special plan just...
DIED. HENRY ROTH, 89, author of the acclaimed 1934 novel Call It Sleep, about a Jewish immigrant boy's life in a New York City slum; in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Despite his youthful success, he failed to publish another novel for 60 years...
...Asia's fastest-growing city and India's answer to the Silicon Valley. Business leaders told us this success depended on deregulation, investment in human capital and internationalization--like the daily video conferences between some Bangalore firms and their corporate brethren in the U.S. Our visit to a slum vividly demonstrated how unevenly the benefits of growth are distributed, but India's dynamic Commerce Minister, P. Chidambaram, emphasized that his generation of Indian leaders, unlike the country's founders, believe only economic growth spurred by further liberalization can eradicate poverty. He was sure that goal could be substantially reached...
Which is where Sid's brothers--the Unstrung Heroes of this movie's title--come in. They live behind multilocked doors, surrounded by tons of old newspapers, in a downtown slum. Danny (Michael Richards of Seinfeld) is a wild-eyed, left-wing paranoid, certain that every knock on the door heralds the arrival of the FBI; Arthur (Maury Chaykin) is a soft-spoken collector of wedding-cake figures, snow domes and rubber balls that he teaches Steven to listen to, convinced the voices of the children who once bounced them still echo faintly inside...
...especially satisfying at games like ours at Wellesley last year. The immaculately groomed Wellesley players, in their perfectly pressed white (of course) uniforms, came out talking a big game against our rag-tag, culturally and ethnically diverse Cambridge team, peppering their trash talk with racial epithets and words like "slum kids." That didn't last long as our "slum kids" handed them their first loss of the season, a shut-out, and went on to beat them again to clinch the league championship...