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...parable showing that America was still the land of opportunity. The story began in New York City in 1965, when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. The firm, then known as Welbilt Electronics, struggled to survive, winning only a few small contracts...
...company, which changed its name to Wedtech in 1983, moved to a large, low-slung red brick factory in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. Expanding quickly, it hired more than 1,000 black and Hispanic workers from the neighborhood, a blighted area that had lost 40% of its manufacturing business during the previous decade. Wedtech's profits jumped from $8 million in 1981 to more than $72 million for the first six months of 1986, and the company became a potent symbol of minority achievement. On a 1984 visit to New York City, Ronald Reagan lauded Wedtech's success. "People...
Former Marines like McCloskey point out that Marine guards held back a brick-throwing mob when the embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, was burned in 1979. But some say embassy guard duty, which the Marines shouldered in 1949, is unsuited for a group that is supposed to be a well-honed fighting force. Indeed, perhaps the most fundamental problem faced by the Marines, one that affects both their morale and their effectiveness, is that their mission has become murky...
...Gross could not have found a worse actress to play Henry than Garmire, who becomes part of the brick wall she leans against in each of her scenes. Even if her performance had had any life in it at all, and even if there had been any chemistry between her and Urso, it is still unlikely, in the wake of Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week, that lesbianism would shock a Harvard audience...
...again from Holworthy's laundry room, someone wrote on the wall, "This brick loves me. It can love you too--for $50,00." Someone wrote back "someone is paying $60,000 to educate...