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...Join the club, Charles. Folks with no visible trace of their roots are fast multiplying. Teardowns, once the province of the exceptionally rich and developers rehabbing crumbling neighborhoods, have gone mainstream. Today well-kept homes are being knocked down by the thousands so that builders can get at the valuable ground beneath. "There's a certain sadness about what's happening to those great little cottages," Brit Fennell, a Coldwell Banker broker, says of Levan's old neighborhood, known as Brentwood Flats. "But the mansionization trend is consumer demand at work...
Although Corker originally planned to join the Peace Corps after this academic term, he said he was drawn in by the opportunity to make a lasting mark on Harvard and decided to defer his enlistment for another year...
...sake of your own families and children, for the honor and satisfaction of doing right, I bid you, the stewards of this great institution of higher learning and research, to join me in this essential effort,” he told the HMS crowd...
...made even more perilous by the venom directed at faculty members by students themselves. Across the country, Shi'ite students have demanded the ouster of Sunni teachers, especially those who were senior members of the Baath Party during Saddam's rule. Many professors protest that they were forced to join the party, but some students suspect they remain loyal to Saddam and favor like-minded pupils. "There are still professors here who openly praise the previous regime and encourage [Sunni] students to sing songs about Saddam," says Haider, a Shi'ite pharmacy student at the University of Baghdad. "Such people...
...days away from the playoffs working with the Miami Beach police to bust online sexual predators. Shaq became a U.S. deputy marshal this spring and is training to be a reserve police officer. Shaq says he will probably give his day job three more years but will then join the force full time: "I'm definitely running for sheriff in Broward or Orange County, Florida." Game on, bad guys...