Word: urbanely
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...least Soweto and other townships have schools and additional basic services. They are the envy of the country's worst off: the estimated 7 million blacks -- 18% of the population of 38 million -- living in urban shanty towns. Like Crossroads, the notorious squatter camp on the edge of Cape Town, these settlements are mostly populated by impoverished peasants from the countryside seeking jobs. The squatter camps are a breeding ground for black extremists who will make life difficult for a Mandela-led government unable to work economic miracles overnight...
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Henry Cisneros, who was a candidate for the seat before joining the Cabinet, offered a different spin. The race might have been much closer, said Cisneros, but "Krueger ran away from his President and his party." He added, "His campaign was almost a blunt rejection of the President. The President could not campaign where he was not invited and not welcome...
That revolution was taken over in July 1989 by the Siberian coal miners when they began a strike that shook the economy and the communist bosses. The grimy miners, Remnick reports, were forging a link between the urban intellectuals, the nationalist movements in non-Russian republics, and "the political uprising of workers across the country...
...absence of Harvard, as well as many other elite institutions, at many urban college fairs also misses a large Black population that largely remains untapped by college recruiters, says Burtnett, whose association organizes college fairs at 29 metropolitan areas across the country...
...still worry about job loss, educational decay, the poor, crumbling public schools. We still worry about racial division, urban blight and anti-gay attitudes. And now we worry about paying the bills, too. We worry about the long-term economics ability of the nation and its ability to finance the programs we want. We worry about crime and drugs. In the end, it is Bill Clinton who seems to understand these worries best. At base, we know we share Clinton's principles...