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...this family's core are the members of Marjinal, a punk band that has helped over a thousand street kids earn cash by teaching them how to busk. "Music gives these kids a way to survive, to make some kind of living," says Mike, Marjinal's lead singer. "Punk, to me, is addressing the things that are rotten in society. It tells us that we have the ability to be independent and take care of each other...
Hatchets and bludgeons won't do the job of remaking Jerusalem into two capitals--for though the city is crisscrossed by a thousand invisible lines that separate the lives of Arabs and Israelis, those lines can be porous, allowing a current of people and influences to flow back and forth. Upper-class Arab women cross westward for Pilates classes or to go shopping, and Israelis venture into the Old City for tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into...
...Square" incorrectly stated that it cost Harvard University several million dollars to rent space at the corner of Brattle Street and Church Street for the last year and a half while it searched for a grocer to fill the space. In fact, the cost was estimated at several hundred thousand dollars...
...trailed by double digits in the polls. But then the Old Silvio kicked into gear: he made unrealistic but enticing promises to eliminate the housing tax, at a small meeting of business leaders, he used a vulgar expression to describe his opponents - then he repeated the same word to thousands at a basketball arena in Naples. Instead of losing by 10 percentage points, he lost by a few thousand votes. Now he must again find a way to reconnect with the People beyond naming a party after them...
...they have to call that armpit of the nation “home.” We, on the other hand, gleefully escaped as quickly as possible, knowing we would not have to return for another two years. In short, Yale was left dejected, demoralized, and dismantled. As ten thousand men of Harvard rushed the field, the few remaining Yalies stood clutching to their pathetic college flags, the only banners without a “Y”—and all that could give them pride...