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...prestigious in town, has a full tank of old money and gray suits, which is to say, oil has been very, very good to Dallas. The place crawls with bankers and lawyers and investment drones, and the ones with the biggest spurs can take the elevator up to the 39th floor and sip Jack Daniels at the Petroleum Club...
...Afewerki and other new-era African leaders understand the need for Africans to shape their own destinies, creating self-sustaining countries. The bipartisan African Growth and Opportunity Act promises to further this progress by encouraging economic reforms and promoting mutually beneficial trade with the U.S. ED ROYCE, U.S. Representative 39th District, California Washington...
Blondie was transferred to the 39th District in 1984. at its north end, the 39th is home to Philadelphia's elite. Large, expensive houses with well-manicured lawns are owned by business tycoons and politicians. But closer to downtown is an area of about 1 sq. mi. that is still home to the predatory crime common in America's inner cities. "It's the kind of place where if you saw a big TV satellite dish, you knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal...
...hard to spot the ready-to-rumble officers. In Philadelphia's 39th, it became known quickly that Blondie was such a cop--a man who could do you in even if you had done no wrong. Other officers might cruise through the area and have debris or even rocks thrown at them. When Blondie drove by with his cohort, silence fell on the bleak streets. "Cross those guys, and they'd whack you upside the head," says Cory Brown, who now lives in the house where Arthur Colbert was beaten in 1991. "We had our times, Blondie and me," says...
...away in that federal prison, Blondie doesn't remember Brown, but he takes his point. "You've got to show who's boss on a daily basis," he says in the deadpan, laconic manner that became legend in the 39th. "That wasn't and isn't the kind of area where you walk a beat and make nice with the residents...