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...applicants on his list-poor, illiterate and desperate-have later been approached by traffickers. There have been suggestions that some Amerasians took money for their part in the scheme, but most say they were tricked. "The Amerasians are preyed upon," says one U.S. official familiar with Phuong's trafficking ring. "They were clearly victims...
...prank began on St. Patrick’s Day, the day MIT was to unveil the design for the 2004 class ring. On hand for the ceremony was their mascot...
...think I’ll send my ring to the doctor who told me I’d never play again,” he said, alluding to the freshman-year eye injury that threatened to end his career...
...often channeled into low-skilled, low-paying industrial or domestic jobs, these people of African and Arab descent face substandard housing, high unemployment rates, poor schools, inadequate public facilities, police brutality, hate crimes and a host of other obstacles. They are clustered in banlieues, poor working class suburbs that ring the country’s major cities. Constantly faced with anti-immigrant bias and unemployment rates well over 50 percent, many young Africans and Arabs of the younger generation often feel alienated from the larger society and the country of their parent’s origin. Consequently, the problems...
...neighborhoods that ring Harvard’s Cambridge campus, few have suffered from the University’s ugly and misguided building schemes more than Riverside. It has been forced to bear such architectural atrocities as Mather House and Peabody Terrace, which tower over the low-set homes of the neighborhood and block any view of the Charles...