Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 100 Yale workers and their families have taken advantage of the school's home-buying program, which encourages them to live in the urban wasteland known as New Haven. The program gives $20,000 over a 10-year period to any employee who buys and lives in a home in New Haven by the end of this year...
...project "focuses on minority students in urban city high schools," she said. After running a pilot program in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Coleman is now introducing ACCESS to her alma mater, J.F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx...
...cadre of black radicals that incited and attracted much of the '60s edgiest violence-Panther is more than a movie. It's the cause of raucous dispute, a chance for opening and licking old wounds about the party, an excuse for debating both the sorry condition of today's urban blacks and the responsibility, if any, of filmmakers to get the facts straight...
...that so many first-years at Harvard dye their hair? Maybe it's the urge to rebel against years of studious restraint. Or against the monotony of Harvard style, replete with J. Crew corduroys, Urban Outfitter sweaters and dirty-white Cornell Lacrosse baseball caps. Whatever it is, the Yard abounds with colorful coiffures...
...good faith," that is, if they believed they were acting properly. This measure is perverse even by conservative standards. Instead of constraining police with the strict provisions of search warrants and the Fourth Amendment, a plea of "good faith" could excuse egregious behavior. It is pretty clear that Black urban communities will be jeopardized most if search and seizure regulations are relaxed, since these neighborhoods are already under siege by the police...