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...heard the stories about the Bronx. Mean streets. Gangs. Mobsters. Certainly not the kind of place for a group of Ivy Leaguers to spend their weekend...
...what happens next? Well, Harry hides out in the Bronx for a year, writing up the account of this momentous night, and then takes off for Moscow, where he rents a hotel room and reads the 2,000 microfilmed pages of the typed manuscript he has been composing for years about his life and the CIA. While Harry does this, so must everyone else who has been lured into his predicament, since there is now nothing else but this history going on in Harlot's Ghost...
...York City parents are usually arrested for trying to kill their children, not for trying to save them. So when police were tipped off that a couple in the Bronx were keeping their daughter chained to a radiator, they moved in, figuring that they would be rescuing the girl and preventing a tragedy. Maria and Eliezer Marrero were hauled off in handcuffs; bail was set at $100,000, a sum fit for a murderer; and their daughter Linda, 15, landed in a foster-care center in Queens...
...high as 40%, the closing days of summer produced an outbreak of "hotting" -- the teenage sport of racing stolen cars. Last week, during four nights of disturbances, one full-scale riot raged for five hours on an estate in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that is locally known as "the Bronx." Hundreds of youngsters fire-bombed buildings, wrecked and looted shops and stoned the police...
...hospitals altogether. Black women report a prevalent attitude among gynecologists that anything wrong might be the patient's own fault. "Back a few years ago, I was having excruciating abdominal pain, and I wound up at a hospital in my area," says Alicia Georges, who lives in the Bronx and is a professor of nursing at Lehman College. "The first thing they began to ask me was how many sexual partners I'd had. I was married and owned my own house. But immediately, in looking at me, they said, 'Oh, she just has pelvic inflammatory disease...