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...jury may also hear about another case in which Colono alledgedly assaulted two people on a subway and then spit on the police officers who arrested him, according to the Associated Press...
...past from the defense, including an incident in which Colono was arrested after throwing money in the face of a cashier at a pizzeria and shattering the glass in the front door. The jury may also hear about another case in which Colono alledgedly assaulted two people on a subway and then spit on the police officers who arrested him, according to the Associated Press. In the original trial, the jury was only allowed to hear about Colono’s arrest and conviction for possession of a controlled substance...
...often talks about the “achievement gap,” a term that describes the poor academic performance found in disadvantaged communities. In Boston, it was easy to see the achievement gap as a physical fissure, the distance from the Harvard T stop to the less pampered subway stations on the other end of the Red Line. Crossing that fissure cost about two dollars, and no matter how often I visited Dorchester, I remained a citizen of Harvard’s side...
...swipe of a Charlie Card. The divide here could more aptly be called an “Achievement Abyss”: it’s really deep, and there is no foreseeable edge. Unlike its urban counterpart, rural poverty does not see six-figure salaries every day on the subway. It does not understand how education is a means to success because it sees neither. It does not perceive its own strangeness because it so rarely travels away from the abandoned storefronts and dilapidated streets of Helena...
...described as taking crown jewels and indeed entire kingdoms as mortgage for loans, and they maintained major branches in France, Portugal, England, Aragon, Hungary and various Mid-Eastern capitals. The group controlled as many as 9,000 estates, and left behind hundreds of buildings great and small. (The London subway stop Temple is named after one of them...