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...rise to the top without bitterness and without forgetting who he is. Powell praises entrepreneurship and worries about the Demo-crats' tendency to embrace victimhood. Yet he openly acknowledges his own large debt to government activism. The son of hardworking Jamaican immigrants, he grew up poor in the Bronx and benefited from the fine education available in public schools and at City College of New York, to which he commuted on cheap public transport. He graduated in geology in 1958 with a C average, but his real love was the Reserve Officer Training Corps, whose camaraderie and order intrigued...
Ozick also read "A Drugstore in Winter," a memoir of her childhood in the Bronx in the 1930s...
...breaks: "My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee-everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet." Chan broke an ankle while jumping onto a moving Hovercraft in his new film, Rumble in the Bronx, which opened in time for Chinese New Year last week. Fans queued up around the world...
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...still here. (Please hold your applause.) If you haven't been unfortunate enough in the past to read my work, I hail from the Bronx and pull for the Rangers, Giants, Knicks and before the baseball strike, the Yankees...