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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sweet foretaste of summer hangs in the air on this hazy spring morning in the Bronx. The sun shines invitingly; the trees' buds are bursting open -- in short, a perfect day for cutting school. But hooky players beware: New York City police department van No. 5932, piloted by Officers Michael DiAngelo and Walter Krajeski, is on patrol, part of a new, '50s-style anti-truancy program launched by new, '50s-style mayor Rudolph Giuliani...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: Gotham's New Outrage: Truants! | 5/23/1994 | See Source »

Speaking of Boston, it was a joy to see them bums get swept here in the Bronx. It's getting kind of old though. Do these guys ever win a big series, or a game for that matter, against our Yanks? About as often as Scottie Pippen hits a clutch shot...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, | Title: Boy, Do I Really, Really, Love N.Y. | 5/20/1994 | See Source »

Gaines and Churcher interviewed tirelessly to portray Klein's Bronx childhood, spent under the thumb of a domineering mother. Like many designers, little Calvin began sewing as a tyke and was impatient with school. After a couple of dead-end apprenticeships, his future dawned with the opening of an elevator door. In 1968 he had a tiny garment-district office when a Bonwit Teller executive on his way to another floor glimpsed some coats. He ordered his assistant out of the elevator to check them out. Soon the young designer was the star of the store's young line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESIGN: A Tell-All About Calvin | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...such individuals as sources of inspiration and pride for all of us at the College. They see them as charity cases. I imagine that if Mr. Lat, in his dogmatic adherence to the power of test scores, were to see the amazing first-year from the South Bronx strolling through the Yard, he would not consider the depth of intellect and character necessary for that young man to reach Harvard's esteemed confines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lat Denigrates Blacks, Latinos | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs two weeks ago. "Terror we live with always," says settler spokesman Noam Arnon. Rather, they worry about what their own government will do to them to calm the outrage provoked by the killings. Says Shani Horowitz, a native of the Bronx who moved to Hebron 12 years ago: "The left is using this opportunity to lynch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hebron Time Bomb: Settlers Who Provoke | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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