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...professor at what was once the training ground for the nation's privileged elite. He witnessed four murders while growing up in a tenement building in the South Bronx...
David was born in Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx in 1948 and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a community that included blacks, whites, Asians, Jews, Catholics, Buddhists and other groups...
After his brother's death, his father became an alcoholic, leaving his mother to scramble to pay the rent and raise her son and daughter. They were forced to move to the South Bronx, where they lived in a series of tenement buildings...
...nuclear engineer by training, the Bronx-born Carnesale's research and teaching focused on issues of nuclear weapons and national security policy...
Rubin's other domestic priority is unusual for a Treasury Secretary: lifting the blight from America's desperate inner cities. He has made a point of visiting New York City's troubled South Bronx and crumbling areas of Chicago and Los Angeles to underscore his belief that extra capital and market incentives can bring rejuvenation. "It's sort of a Nixon-going-to-China approach," he explains. Specifically, Rubin wants to increase funding to a network of community-development banks across the nation, expand their inner-city small-loan programs and reach out to roughly 10 million low-income Americans...