Word: urbanely
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...membership, putting it at 8.5 million rather than the more likely 500,000, then selling companies the inflated mailing lists. Globe Life and Accident Insurance Co., for example, received a list that included an Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Meanwhile, after the 1996 church burnings, the National Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith gave Lyons and the convention $244,500 for rebuilding. Only $30,000 made it to the churches; the rest allegedly went to Lyons and Edwards...
...capitalist democracy. There are some common lessons here that any African nation can learn: free-market economics works, including privatization, entrepreneurship and often the stern measures of wholesale reform to jump-start failed economies. So does agricultural self-sufficiency, starting from the bottom up. And decentralization, spreading development outside urban capitals to the vast rural majority. And women's empowerment...
...rebel movement called Renamo that was trained, armed and supplied mostly from sources in South Africa. Sixteen years of guerrilla warfare devastated the country. A million men, women and children died. Two million people fled across the borders; 3 million more moved off their farms into safer urban enclaves. When hostilities ceased, some 2 million unmapped mines laid waste the nation's arable lands...
Deborah Garrison's A Working Girl Can't Win (Random House; 61 pages; $15) is an airy, appealing first book, much of which has already been published in the New Yorker, where Garrison, 33, is an editor. It follows a young urban professional in her confusing emotional commute from home to office, heart to head, the world of feeling to the world of work. Sweet and refreshing, though at times so light the lines dissolve on the page--"I'm never going to sleep/ with Martin Amis/ or anyone famous."--the verses go down easy, like frosty cocktails. Some...
Elisabeth A. Tomlinson '99, president of PBHA pointed out her organization's track-record in advancing the cause of diversity through programs such as Stride-Rite and its Summer Urban Program--both programs which attempt to match the diversity PBHA encounters in the outside world with their own diversity...