Word: urban
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According to Lou Dinatale, a senior fellow at UMass Boston's McCormack Institute of Public Policy, the state's Democratic party sits on two separate foundations: suburban liberals (usually fiscally conservative but socially liberal) and ethnic urban Democrats (usually fiscally liberal and socially conservative...
Over the past six years, the popular Republican governor William F. Weld '66 consistently won votes in urban areas known for their democratic roots...
...placing them in their own rooms. He estimates that only 15 of more than 300 undergrads moving in before Sept. 10 will qualify, but he says he is pleased to do what what he can. Among the early Leverett arrivals are students leaders of the First-Year Outdoor and Urban Programs and the Phillips Brooks House Association...
...will help," says Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke. "It will have to be well targeted, because $25 million is both a lot and a little. A lot if you focus on a limited number of problems; a little if you try and go after all the problems of urban America...
...cost of another. In short, is America's crackdown on crime bringing with it an increase in police brutality? The best answer, in most cities, is probably not--though harassment and violence against minorities remains endemic in some quarters. "This is a major problem in this country, particularly in urban areas," says Norman Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. In truth, no one keeps reliable national statistics. And local claims are suspect. A decline in complaints to local police review boards doesn't necessarily prove that there are fewer occurrences; critics say that such complaints...