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...Academy Awards on one channel, staring at the shimmering people. And then I flipped to another channel where the news was showing some 80 dead bodies swaddled in body bags on the floor of an auditorium. They were the victims of the Happy Land social club fire in the Bronx. Flip: the Academy Awards. Flip: the dead of the Bronx. I wondered how these things fit together in the world. Would there be a movie made of the Happy Land fire? Would it win an Oscar...
...having seen first-hand the circumstances facing children everywhere, from South Central Los Angeles to the Mississippi Delta to the South Bronx, I am only more passionate about our mission...
When a poor, black 13-year-old from the Bronx leaves her newborn to die, we go on about our business, but we are gripped when two affluent white teenagers do the same thing. Yes, there's race and class. But there is also our belief that it is society in its dysfunctional state that yields ruthless behavior, not society when it is working to give our kids the best of everything, including private help when things go wrong. Of course, the dark side of kids who have everything is that they cannot tolerate one blemish on their smooth lives...
BORN: NR EDUCATION: NR FAMILY: NR RELIGION: NR MILITARY: NR OCCUPATION: NR POLITICAL CAREER: NR ADDRESS: 962 East 172nd Street, The Bronx...
ROSE BIRTLEY (R) District 7 (Parts of Queens and The Bronx--Long Island City...