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Green Lanes is in London's Haringey borough, which has a population of 224,300, almost half of them ethnic minorities. The borough includes South Tottenham, an area researchers at University College London recently proclaimed the most ethnically diverse in Britain - and possibly all of Western Europe - with 113 ethnic groups living in it. Integrating Haringey's residents, who together speak around 193 languages, is too complex for big government to handle from above. Here, getting along is up to the people themselves...
...commuters must feel like they've stumbled into a sci-fi flick. On the platform at Notting Hill Gate underground station, a poster for American singer Jack Johnson doesn't just promote his latest album, In Between Dreams - it plays three of the tracks. On the main escalator at Tottenham Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile-phone...
...street to shout into their cell phones. Some participants claim flash mobs unite strangers and create communities, but not all resort to such high-minded justifications. "We're part of the biggest group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator, sitting in a pub on Tottenham Court Road last week, before he and a friend made their way to a sofa store to join the city's very first flash mob. Along with 200 other Londoners, they gathered in the shop for 10 minutes and then left, to the befuddlement of the manager. No one knows...
...part of the biggest group of losers in London," said a 21-year-old office administrator sitting in the Rising Sun pub on Tottenham Court Road in London. At precisely 6:27 p.m., after picking up a sheet of instructions, he and his friend left the bar, and made their way to the Sofas-UK showroom around the corner. At 6:30 p.m. Derrick Robinson, the manager of Sofas-UK, looked out the window of another pub and saw 200 people gathered outside his locked store. He quickly opened up. Robinson didn't know it yet, but he'd achieved...
...most promising English footballer of his generation, a sublimely gifted mid-fielder with that rarest of abilities?he could control the tempo of the game, making average teammates seem good and good players seem great. There were a few years, as he played his club football for Newcastle, Tottenham and Lazio, and also for England's national side in the 1990 World Cup, when he seemed on the verge of becoming a blond Maradona; the ball stayed glued to his foot even at full pace, his passes found angles that seemed impossible. Through it all, however, he was a notoriously...