American poet, critic, and educator Louis Aston Marantz Simpson (born 1923) was widely recognized for the elegance of his verse.Louis Simpson was born on March 27, 1923, in Kingston, Jamaica, in the B...
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In Coldwater Creek, a middle-class housing development outside Atlanta, the neighbors mind their own business and respect each other's privacy _ ideal conditions, it turns out, for growing marijuan...
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ONTARIO, Calif. (Reuters) - Between railroad tracks
and beneath the roar of departing planes sits "tent city," a
terminus for homeless people. It is not, as might be expected,
in a blighted city c...
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Bands of soldiers patrolled Guinea's capital and residents said shooting continued in the suburbs on Thursday, the third day of martial law following days of clashes between protesters and security...
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Paris (dpa) - One year after minority youths in French suburban
ghettoes rioted for three weeks, the situation in these poor
neighbourhoods remains very tense, the security ...
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Conservative presidential front-runner Nicolas Sarkozy made good on promises to visit troubled suburbs that were wracked by rioting more than a year ago, attending a citizenship ceremony east of Pa...
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