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Born April 10, 1934 in the Bronx, N.Y., Halberstam followed his brother Michael to Harvard in 1951 and joined the paper that year, eventually rising through the ranks to reach the position of managing editor his junior year...
Twenty-two years ago, a young man named Marion Coakley was convicted of robbing and brutally raping a mother of five. But with eight witnesses and a priest corroborating Coakley's alibi, his South Bronx community believed in his innocence. Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, who had once worked together as public defenders in the Bronx, thought they could help him. The attorneys had just learned about a new technology being tested in England: DNA typing, which compared DNA sequences from crime scene evidence to sequences in the suspect's DNA. With this intriguing defense mechanism potentially available to them...
...light of the recent Imus situation, do you feel that the black community is filled with hypocrisy? Do you still think that it's okay for black people to call their friends the n-word? -Millicent in Bronx, NY Well, I can't speak for the black community given that I am only one member of it and consider myself more a member of the American community. But I don't think it is a question of whether black people should be allowed to use the word or if Don Imus should be allowed to use the word...
...women who want peaceful co-existence with the rest of the world, and asked us to reach out our hands to them. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke of how astronomer Carl Sagan had generously offered his time and advice when Tyson was just a 17-year-old from the Bronx. Richard Branson talked about how the tolerance and humor of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu could help heal the world's divisions...
Most of the same elements are at work at the YABC in Lehmann High School in the Bronx, where Maisonet spends her evenings. There are small classes led by dynamic teachers, a Learning to Work program and close relationships with counselors from a health and social-services group. The atmosphere here is a bit more no-nonsense. The 250 students are all over 17, and many have weighty daytime responsibilities. "They have kids at home. Some are pregnant. Some are homeless," says assistant principal Martin Smallhorne, an energetic young administrator who works hard to create a personalized program inside...