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Until 20 years ago, Vancouver's Main Street - an artery running from Chinatown toward South Vancouver - marked the boundary between the city's smarter West Side and the rough-and-ready section known as East Van. How times have changed. Successive waves of artists, media types and other loft dwellers kicked off a gradual process of gentrification; the day young families started infiltrating its neighborhoods, East Van's journey to respectability was complete. One knock-on effect of this has been the tidying up of Main Street itself. Cafés and galleries have mushroomed there; so have boutiques - particularly...
...Bryna at a Bnei Akiva (a Zionist youth group) meeting in New York City, married her and made aliyah (literally, the ascent) to Israel. Bryna too was reared to Zionism, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Born there in 1950, she went to religious school in her early years. Bryna says her photographer father longed to move to Israel, but his mother, who had fled to a better life in the U.S. from Russia, wouldn't accept it. "They were secular, and when he said he wanted to move to Israel in 1953, my grandmother said, 'You're crazy...
...first time in a week and a half, Blake’s personal cheering section, “The J-Block,” was drowned out rather than augmented by the Arthur Ashe crowd. Even after Blake collected his first two sets in 62 minutes and then notched a third-set break, the stands nearly collapsed every time Agassi won a point...
...Most of my maturity and my different perspective comes from the last year,” Blake said, though he is also encouraged by his loyal cheering section, “The J-Block,” whose T-shirts and chants have become something of a sideshow on the grounds these days...
...whole matching process begins in late March, when the Admissions office stuffs a freshman housing application into the envelopes containing acceptance letters to Harvard College. The application contains three parts—a housing section, an advising section, and a records section...