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...Yorkers to express our opposition to state terrorism in response to our tragedy,” Elfenbein wrote in an e-mail yesterday. “Tomorrow I’m going to a local church to participate in a ceremony where I will help to ring the bell 3,000 times to commemorate the victims of a year...
...humor. In tight strokes he sketches a grimly vivid picture of the depressed Jersey of the early 1980s, a Springsteen vision of darkness at the edge of town. The narrator dreams idly of escaping by becoming an astronaut, but he knows the hotel is his prison, and the service bell is his warden: "BING! BING! BING! That little bell going off put your life on hold. You heard it and you hopped...
...model minorities, but he doesn't want to play the part of the meek Asian kid. We see a teacher congratulating the narrator for receiving the highest marks in class, but we know the boy has just beaten up a racist classmate with a ruler. Ultimately, though, that hotel bell is inescapable, and when a health catastrophe strikes his father and destroys their finances, his family is left with nothing but the ashes of the American dream. Though Lin ends his searing book on a hopeful note, Waylaid is like a nihilistic?but enjoyable?detour on a journey from nothing...
MARK REACHED. By BARRY BONDS, 38, who hit his 600th home run with a 421-ft. shot to center field at Pacific Bell Park. The San Francisco slugger became only the fourth major-leaguer to attain the goal...
Saturday’s rally included speeches by John Bell, an activist from ACT UP’s Philadelphia branch; Brook Baker, a law professor at Northeastern University; Sharonann Lynch, of the Health Global Access Project; and Steven L. Porter, a Princeton University student studying at the Harvard Summer School this summer...