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...place that's preparing these young Americans for life in their own country, "from crayons to college," as its slogan promises, is the Universal School, an Islamic institution teaching 638 students in pre-K through 12th grades in Bridgeview, Ill. The suburb, 16 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown Loop, lies in the heart of one of the U.S.'s largest Arab communities, where an estimated 25,000 Islamic residents pursue an uneasy assimilation into secular, suburban life. The school's goal is to give its students such a solid grounding in their religion and education that they will...
...program, which also helped launch the career of its star, Will Smith, centered around the difficult transition that Smith’s character experienced when he moved to the wealthy Los Angeles suburb...
...while eating lots of grilled meat. The prices had tripled in my absence, and so had the line for a table. As we wait, I chat with a waiter named Vali Joodi, who tells me he wakes up at 5 a.m. each day to commute from the working-class suburb of Shahriar. Four years ago, he asked his girlfriend to marry him. Once he started tallying what they would need for rent, food and a ceremony, however, he realized he didn't earn enough to support two. Then he discovered that the government offers low-interest marriage loans that...
...collecting less in rent than they are paying in mortgage expense. Their bet is that in the end, rising values will make up for their losses. And it may work out for them. But for now their gamble is giving tenants the upper hand. In the San Francisco suburb of Menlo Park, Patrick Killelea, 39, rents a two-bedroom house for $2,350 a month--a 13% cut from the $2,700 he paid when he moved in five years ago. "I asked for a rent reduction," he says. "Everyone gets a reduction...
...because the role is not like me at all. It is a stretch. But I just felt like the stars were lined up for me to do this." "? eight, nine, ten. The cat is in the house? " Despite its waterways, Vancouver is a world away from the Sydney harborside suburb of Hunters Hill where McKenzie grew up. Its leafy, conservative environs might have contained the lawyer's daughter, had not drama pushed her over the bridge to nida straight out of Presbyterian Ladies' College. At acting school, the most useful tool learned was phonetics, she says, "which basically means...