Word: urban
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...understand the complex political and theoretical ideas that govern public policy. However, they are not conversant in hip hop dialogue and are not familiar with its cultural dimensions (partly as a result of not being raised in hip hop culture). Hip hop artists serve as spokespersons of the urban generation, often exposing the effects of racial inequality and social injustice on the black experience. Yet, most artists are largely divorced from black history and are not in conversation with the most innovative thinkers of our time. Black politicians and entrepreneurs have the ability to institutionalize hip hop through political summits...
...about the Kremlin's crackdown on the media by pointing out that reporters from TV network cbs had been fired in the U.S., too. The accusation - no American reporters have been fired by the White House - confused Bush and reinforced the Administration view that Putin sometimes acts based on urban myths about the U.S. fed to him by ill-informed aides...
...Novogratz prefers the phrase "private equity for the poor." What that means is that a small company in India gets a $185,000 loan to make and sell affordable water filters. And that a Pakistani firm receives more than $260,000 in grants and loans to develop housing for urban squatters. All told, since its start in 2001, Acumen has raised more than $24 million from private donors and corporations and has invested in 16 projects in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt and Tanzania...
...drop. Later, during the leaders' joint press conference, one of the questioners Putin called on asked Bush about the very same firings, a coincidence the White House assumed had been orchestrated. The odd episode reinforced the Administration's view that Putin's impressions of America are often based on urban myths fed to him by ill-informed aides. (At a past summit, according to Administration aides, Putin asked Bush whether it was true that chicken producers split their production into plants that serve the U.S. and lower-quality ones that process substandard chicken for Russia.) U.S. aides say that...
...character Neo fights to rescue humanity from its unwitting enslavement to parasitic forms of artificial intelligence. Now Reeves returns with a new name but suspiciously similar storyline and character: laconic loner John Constantine fights an epic battle of good-versus-evil while brooding at the fringe of American urban society...