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...earth. At times, the streets and souks can become a suffocating crush of human congestion. And the task of finding a lost soul is made more hazardous by the long-held air of suspicion and gangs of gunmen ready to open fire on outsiders who tread on their turf...
...promised Monday to send National Guardsmen and state police to patrol the city's hurricane-ravaged streets yet again - nearly 10 months after Hurricane Katrina. She also warned parents in the city to keep their teenagers off the streets and "out of trouble" as gangs return to reestablish their turf...
...more and be expanding the brand everywhere," says Mulgan. Other schools are doing just that (see box). Now 5-7% of Eton students are foreign, and the boys' range of nationalities and ethnicities is increasing. But Eton's leaders do not aspire to build an empire. On their own turf, their goal is to preserve quality, reform slowly, and set an example others will want to follow. That 1,300 boys can swim in Eton's bounty when millions of British teenagers cannot is in some sense unfair. Nevertheless, Little says that his friends who are state-school headmasters "tend...
...seven-mile circle." That circle was the Bronx, an economically ravaged borough of New York City that was home to such nascent cultural heroes as DJ Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash, who were busily rewiring turntables and re-engineering the powder-keg racial politics of their home turf and in the process creating the future of American popular culture. Obsessively researched, beautifully written, Chang's book is the funky, bootleg, B-side remix of late--20th century American history...
...Harvard split its six conference games. The Crimson’s regular-season road record of 5-2 was a vast improvement over its 1-6 record away from Jordan Field a year ago, but most of Harvard’s trouble this season was on its own turf, where the team went just 1-4.Still, despite the difficulties in friendly territory, the Crimson did what it set out to do at the beginning of the season.“I think it’s about meeting goals,” Harvard coach Scott Anderson said...