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...That left the nation's pundits gazing on in astonishment at the possibility the divided UMP might still manage to lose this so-called "ghetto of the rich". Because if Neuilly isn't safe for the UMP, no place is. Perched on the capital's western perimeter, with the leafy, sprawling Bois de Boulogne on its southern flank, Neuilly is a kind of Parisian Upper East Side: a quick commute to downtown offices, and a quiet residential enclave whose location gives residents a jump start on the Friday rush to Normandy beach homes. It was here, among the French film...
...though British Islam is known as a religion of protest for alienated youths, it has also been the catalyst of a powerful work ethic. Islam in Britain, writes sociologist Tariq Modood, has been "finely poised between a religion of the ghetto and a religion of social mobility." For Farhan Qureshi, it was watching Woody Allen's films that inspired him to become a movie director. But Islam provided practical and spiritual spurs to success. Waking up on cold English winter mornings to perform Fajr, the dawn prayer, gave him an extra half-hour to write before setting...
...just flash a random card at a random security guard and walk in. In the Cabot Science Library, I like to use my library card from home. It’s blue. The Quad Library sometimes props the door open to get a nice breeze going. Admittedly, the non-ghetto libraries at Harvard have somewhat tighter security. At Lamont and Widener, you have to use a real and valid Harvard ID (presumably your own) to gain access. Fear not—if you don’t have your own ID, you can always just get swiped...
...Christians turned their war-ravaged zoo into a center of resistance against the Nazis and a safe haven for Jewish escapees. The Zabinskis managed to keep their zoo under the guise of running a pig and fur farm to supply German troops, but scores of fugitives from the Warsaw ghetto and other Nazi victims were hidden in the villa, the empty cages, and among the animals. As the Germans took over the grounds for recreation and artillery storage, the zoo’s increasing exposure both endangered and camouflaged its secret occupants. It is a beautiful and intriguing story...
...influence of coffee guru Alfred Peet. Opening his Berkeley, Calif., coffeehouse in 1966 and insisting on dark-roasting a variety of strong beans, the Dutch-born son of a coffee merchant single-handedly started the U.S. gourmet-coffee revolution. Peet, whose original café still thrives in Berkeley's "Gourmet Ghetto," went on to train the founders of Starbucks, for whom he initially supplied coffee beans. Thus he is known as the "grandfather of specialty coffee." Peet...