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...place seemed as unlikely as the coming together of the two principals. In June of this year, Princess Diana went to visit Mother Teresa in New York City's South Bronx, where the founder of the Missionaries of Charity was recuperating from an illness at one of her order's residences. Surrounding the world's two most recognizable women were the dusty tenements and gutted cars of the not yet revived area. The Saint of the Gutters was in her element, which more recently had become Diana's too. That is why the princess came to meet...
Executives of Cablevision were likewise searching for good workers when they hooked up with a community group called the South Bronx Overall Development Corporation. "Our biggest problem is turnover," says Brian Douglas, a spokesman for Cablevision. "We bring someone in and train them, and two months later, they're gone." But of the 130 cable installers that street-savvy SOBRO has placed at starting wages of $8 to $10 an hour over the past four years, 82% are still on the job. As part of its training, SOBRO teaches its charges to change their "street" attitudes--the survival posture...
...native of Bronx, N.Y., she graduated from Brooklyn College...
...metallic gold light of New York's Park Avenue Synagogue, the students approach Jonathan Levin's burnished casket, cluster for a moment, then take their seats. Over 250 come, black and Latino students from the William H. Taft High School in the South Bronx, where Jonathan taught English. The school has a history of assaults and violence; in 1994, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani sent a dozen policemen to patrol the surrounding streets...
Ramos hopes to return to the South Bronx and work at a community health clinic in his old neighborhood...