Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mystery remains. The unpalatable graffiti and tastless toys didn't wreck my vacation, but they did rein in my tendency to describe Barcelona as an urban Magic Kingdom with the Sagrada Familia as its bizarro Space Mountain. I couldn't conduct a poll of city residents and ask them whether they felt more whimsical than other Spaniards, but I'm convinced that Barcelona's smirky attitude is more than mere packaging. Yet it's mixed in with something ugly, and nothing! observed gave me any means of teasing the swagger apart from the dark cloud...
...huge percentage of the minority students in this country attend poorly funded, understaffed urban public schools. No college counselors tell them where and when to apply. The network of alumni that links so many high schools to Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard is largely absent. And, although the admissions office has gotten better, Harvard does not automatically send recruiters to these schools in the way that they do to St. Grottlesex. Recognizing this, Harvard made the January I deadline flexible for those students found in the later, second-round search. This...
...BOTTOM LINE: Vivid vignettes of racial and sexual violence among the urban poor announce the arrival of a gifted writer...
Kinsey, a former Xerox executive, said competition is the solution to the economic difficulties and broader social problems that plague urban areas...
Despite the movement's anti-Western rhetoric, fundamentalists are more concerned about instigating change in their own countries than in the outside world. In nations from Algeria to Pakistan, the desire for an Islamic society stems largely from the failures of corrupt and ineffectual secular governments to give burgeoning urban populations the jobs, housing and basic services they need. Most of the faithful are looking for justice at home, not war abroad. Yet many who decry the ills of the modern world would flinch at imposing religious rule by violent means. "The most important thing to remember is that...