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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...main street, stores that once sold everything from household staples to electronics and jewelry are now outnumbered by pawnbrokers. During lunchtime on a crisp Monday at Albemarle & Bond, Nicola - she doesn't wish to give her surname - 26, white and unemployed, holds a fistful of rings. "Can I get 10 quid for this?" she asks. After haggling with the assistant, she leaves with half that sum, passing a display case of trinkets earlier customers failed to redeem, including a clutch of diamanté rings spelling out the word Mum. Sentimentality is an indulgence nobody in Dagenham can afford. (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Funk: Why Britain is Feeling Bleak | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...says people will vote for the BNP "not because they like them but because we're so pissed off." Her own grouse: she has three children, and thus her one-bedroom public-housing apartment is too small. Her companion, who has turned his back, growling that he doesn't wish to discuss politics, suddenly interrupts. "She's been trying to get a decent place for 12 years, but they're giving the houses to them," he says, jabbing his finger in the direction of a black passerby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deep Funk: Why Britain is Feeling Bleak | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...decent play when the ball’s hit to your backhand and you have to make the long throw,” Walsh said, “but it got [Reynolds] out of sync, and he’s gotta throw the ball across the diamond. You wish you played on turf all the time, because then you would have known to one-hop it over there...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bats Quiet As Harvard Splits Doubleheader | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

...Crimson probably wish this one was rained...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Comeback Falls Short At Home | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Shinagel added that regardless of the eventual name, the school’s mission to provide students with a “first-class education” and, if they wish, a degree, has not changed...

Author: By Noah S. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Extension School Reviews Dated Name | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

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