Word: urbanism
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...reasons he was drawn to the program was because his father once led an eight-year charge to save the historic Pike Place Market in Seattle—a project very much in keeping with the Loeb fellowship’s emphasis on maintaining and improving urban areas...
...more than 40 now have mortgage-fraud task forces. In Florida's Tampa-based Middle District, as many as 50 agents have been incorporated into new task forces that include more than 10 other federal agencies, such as the Secret Service, the U.S. Postal Service, the Department of Housing & Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. (Watch TIME's video "Facing Foreclosure in Tampa...
...Sondhi's "yellow shirts," as PAD members are known because of the color of their attire, are a movement of royalists, big businessmen and urban middle class Thais who are opposed to the return of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. Thaksin was ousted in a 2006 coup, convicted of conflict of interest charges by Thai courts last year and is now living in self-imposed exile. Sondhi's firebrand speeches full of demagoguery rallied crowds of supporters in prolonged, occasionally violent, protests last year against Thaksin, but he has been accused by critics of stoking hatred against rural people...
...Extension School’s Intermediate Fiction Writing course. Indeed, many of his creative writing colleagues at the Extension School share a similar pedigree—splitting their time between their responsibilities at the Extension School and Expository Writing program at the College. Like Weitzel, Dr. Ken Urban, a professional playwright and director, is an instructor of playwriting at the Extension School who also teaches Expository Writing to undergraduates.Before enrolling in Urban’s playwriting class, Chris Hayes, a student at the Extension School, was required to take Expository Writing to fulfill his degree requirements. He explains that although...
...almost as if he were fishing for an invitation. "If the Iraqi government wants us to stay, we will stay," said Volesky, commander of the U.S. combat brigade currently in Mosul. Volesky spoke with reporters via a teleconference from the main U.S. base in Mosul, which remains the last urban stronghold of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi commanders, Volesky said, are assessing whether U.S. troops should stay in Mosul past June, which would conflict with a standing U.S.-Iraq agreement calling for all U.S. forces to withdraw from Iraqi cities by July...