Word: urbaneness
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Featuring one of the most volatile social and religious dynamics in the country, the area is dotted with Shi'a urban centers surrounded by Sunni farming communities. The Sunni tribes, many of whom were favored under Saddam's regime, became early allies of al-Qaeda in Iraq, while the Shi'as increasingly aligned themselves with Moqtada al-Sadr, his Mahdi Army and its many more extreme offshoots. Two major highways from the south bisect the region, making it a favored way-station for anyone ferrying money, fighters or weapons into or out of Baghdad. Locals were often forced to join...
...says Dilek Turan, a psychology student who volunteers in Sulukule. "They don't want to go to school because they worry that when they come home, it will no longer be there." It's a valid fear: City authorities plan to demolish their homes as part of a controversial urban renewal project to tidy up Istanbul in time for its stint as 2010 European Cultural Capital...
...your former supervisors at The Urban Justice Center said that they all knew that you would be a politician because you were such a charismatic leader—you already had that air about...
...Harvard has signed on in the past for that to be a real dynamic urban center...a real hub of the neighborhood,” Mattison said...
...addition to navigating the politics of higher education, Shalala was assistant secretary for policy development and research in the department of Housing and Urban Development in the late 1980s...