Word: urbanity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there are the worrying and very tangible costs the U.S. will have to pay if it bombs Iraq. Because many of the key targets in urban areas and elsewhere will be packed with "human shields," the attacks will kill civilians, including women and children. Saddam will lose no time laying out their bodies for the world's press to photograph. The Arab world is already disapproving, and could explode into anti-American demonstrations once the bloody corpses appear on television...
...entrants. With the crisis in health-care costs, even the stability of medicine as a career seems in doubt. And the perverse outcome of America's obsession with higher education has resulted in a race among all for post-baccalaureate credentials while primary and secondary schools in urban communities stagnate, restricting the pool of students qualified to apply to Harvard...
...hoping to keep it in Boston because welike the urban setting, but there are costs," saidPoussaint, noting that it can be substantiallycheaper to film in Canada...
This semester, Wilson is teaching two seminars in the Afro-American Studies department, including the popular "Afro-Am 197: Race, Class and Poverty in Urban America...
...back together. But the narration is chaotic, scattered, raisined with fathomless almanac entries ("February 3, 1874--Gertrude Stein born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania"). Coherence rarely proceeds more than a few pages in any direction. This fragmented account, however, fits the fragmented love affair. The result is a brilliant and convincing urban mindscape, despite the irrelevant happenstance of the new year's numbing zeroes...