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...drawn there by the comforting presence of a large Arab-American community. A third of Dearborn's 100,000 residents are of Middle Eastern origin; they trace their ancestry to over a dozen Arab nations, but the largest groups are Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi-Chaldean. In areas like the Southend and eastern Dearborn, the language you're most likely to hear in the streets is Arabic. There are mosques, grocery stores that sell Arabic goods and restaurants that serve Arabic food. Two-thirds of all schoolkids are of Arab heritage, and many schools routinely close for Muslim holidays. (The majority...
...sent to the Norwich School in Norfolk, England. "There were racial problems, discrimination," he says. "But I made friends there. And on weekends I'd go see my relatives in Southend-on-Sea, where they ran a restaurant. I was a bartender, and I'd do amateur singing." By this time he had chosen his English name. "I love the film Gone with the Wind. And I like Leslie Howard. The name can be a man's or woman's, it's very unisex, so I like...
...Garment District is your shopping venueof choice, this Bostonian retro fashionshow is making styles from the '50s and '70snouvelle and hip again. Proceeds go toward AIDScauses. 4 to 6 p.m., 1721 Washington St./ SouthEnd, Boston. $5 in advance, $7 at door...
Besides the fact that it is surrounded on foursides by areas of questionable safety, the SouthEnd boasts the highest doggie-doo per sidewalkarea ratio of any other neighborhood in the city.While the numerous trendy restaurants are fun tolook at, the hero of the studentbudget-McDonald's-is nowhere to be seen. Evenworse, the whole area is only marginallyaccessible by T and on the orange line (Yuck...
According to James Simmons, 21, of the SouthEnd, Segal praised City Year and elaborated uponsuggestions that the urban service program beexpanded nationally...