Word: urban
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Lori Kluender, a manager at Urban Outfitters, said she has “a stronger outlook overall...
...them couldn't be more different. "It bugs me how in his movies everyone has to love each other, how the moral is always so clear," says Kon. Miyazaki assembles fairy tales from a grab bag of myth and sorcery; Kon's creativity is grounded in the concrete of urban Japan...
...serial crimes, law-enforcement officials have tried to improve their technology and methodology. They have created a national computer network that registers suspects from across the country. It helped police catch the suspected Hebei killer, who was detained outside a nightclub before a check was run on his name. Urban police forces can also tap into the registries of upscale hotels. Four forensics labs in major cities now run ballistics tests and check the DNA of suspects and victims, and one such lab reportedly identified the decomposed bodies of the Shenzhen women. Closer to street level, the Ministry of Public...
...Takenori Kanzaki, the New Komeito leader, says his party's support for the LDP won't change?for now. But the alliance is an uneasy one. The New Komeito has always wrapped itself in righteousness (its name means "clean government"). Its core principles include support for urban nonunion employees of small and medium-size companies, pacifism, and social welfare even at the cost of economic growth?planks that have never been the LDP's priorities. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi insists that though the LDP and the New Komeito "might have different views over certain issues, we'll coordinate over policies...
...it’s infuriating to hear New Haven written off as “the ghetto” by privileged, clueless students, be they from Harvard or Yale. The label is racially tinged and exceedingly unfair. New Haven—with its diversity, its postindustrial economy, its regenerating urban life—is increasingly what America looks like...