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...treats Jeff Woodberry, interview 20 prospective clients for every one they have room to take in. Only the most seriously addicted are admitted. Even the graduates of the best programs have a 50% chance of relapse. Says Ray Diaz, director of youth treatment at the Promesa center in the Bronx: "They need out-programs, often for the rest of their lives...
...hours." Eisner dabbled in premed studies as a freshman at Ohio's Denison University, but eventually found better chemistry in the literature and theater departments. The first time he saw a Disney film was several years after college, when he went with his wife Jane to a Bronx drive-in to see the richly hued Pinocchio. "I just couldn't believe the difference between that film and all the other animation I'd watched," he recalls. Starting his career as a page at NBC in 1963, he eventually became a top executive at ABC, before moving to Paramount. Still, when...
...trade deficit, it is neither abstruse nor abstract. It is a backyard issue. It is also one with wide appeal: it allows a candidate to sound tough in both domestic and foreign affairs while arousing passions among all economic groups, from the mean streets of the South Bronx to the manicured lawns of Westchester County. A recent New York Times/CBS News poll showed that Americans believed, 3 to 1, that fighting the flow of drugs into the country was more important than fighting Communism...
...remember my greatest day as a whiffle ball hitter-pitcher. It was a day when Jim and I went down to challenge two other guys from my grammar school, Matt and Kevin. Matt and Kevin lived far away, speaking in relative Bronx terms. Their houses were at least 10 blocks away. It was like the Yankees traveling to Tiger Stadium in Detroit...
Winfield has led this year's Yankee Chorus Line, a team that has averaged seven runs per game. So far this season, he has been the Fred Astaire of the Bronx...