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...places like Ennis, a town in southwest Ireland, immigrants are beginning to claim those assets for themselves. Like Lucan, the town???s population has also radically diversified over the past decade. Schools have shifted gears accordingly, setting aside a minimum of 5% of places to foreign-born students. The town's Irish language school, Gaelscoil Mhíchíl Cíosóg, surpassed the figure this year, with 10% of its admissions made up of children of immigrant parents - Nigerian, Polish, Dutch, Ghanaian and Spanish among them. Initially, says principal Dónal O hAinif...
Siri Mole, Rua Francisco Otaviano 50 (021-2267-0894), is one of the best Bahian restaurants in town???and it has a very down-to-earth atmosphere. They serve mostly seafood, which is prepared in a traditional Bahian way and is some of the best I have tasted...
...Jacobs vibe, like the brand, is low-key. "It's not by appointment or anything," says Rich. "Usually it's a pop-in kind of thing." Rich makes house calls?he has delivered clothes to model Stephanie Seymour in Connecticut and to Julia Roberts when she is in town???but he has never boarded a plane for a client, and his digs are nothing like the vault-like VIP suites at Louis Vuitton. He doesn't shut down the store for celebrities. "Never, never," he says. "I bring them to the basement...
Or would "O little town??of Nazareth" be more accurate? Strange as it may seem, a majority of scholars now lean in the latter direction. Those sticking with Bethlehem point out, not unreasonably, that both Matthew and Luke place Jesus' birth there. The skeptics note that they reach the town by such extravagantly different means that one has to wonder whether they weren't trying too hard to get there...
Iowa City (pop. 49,000), a faculty town???the University of Iowa is the main industry?with a taxpaying base of prospering middle-class professionals, was in an innovative mood. It approved when Merlin Ludwig, then superintendent of schools, granted West's 1,040 students a nonvoting chair on the board of education in 1970. Ludwig also introduced a more flexible curriculum. Grades were abolished at the elementary-school level, and a pass-fail option was installed at West. As a final gesture, Ludwig declared a new motto for his school district: "Iowa City Puts the Student First." In short...