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Whitehead understood that presiding over one of the largest urban redevelopment projects the nation has ever seen would provide an interesting challenge...
Thornberry plans to research the effects of apartheid and post-apartheid government on young urban women in South Africa who have returned to rural homes from which they were previously displaced...
...People who are frustrated wish that Harvard would solve all of their problems,” Clippinger said. “If you’re living in an urban area, chances are parking is going to be tight...
...major study to be released in December in The Urban Review journal squarely shows the opposite. Russell Skiba, an associate professor of educational psychology at Indiana University, charted the discipline patterns of 11,000 middle-school students in a major urban district in Indiana, in which black students were more than twice as likely as their white peers to be sent to the principal's office or suspended--and four times as likely to be expelled. When Skiba factored in the financial status of the students and their families, the discipline gap did not budge. But a second finding smacks...
...morally educable side. This talent helps to ground a comedy that includes, among other things, a carelessly murdered duck, a funnily murdered rendition of Killing Me Softly With His Song and a distinctly unmerry vegetarian Christmas party. But the film is always true to the lonesome realities of modern urban--in this case, London--life, which means its humor never seems forced or merely frivolous...