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...always been a Yankees fan, but my real love affair with the Bronx Bombers began during the 1996 World Series. I remember watching Wade Boggs ride around Yankee stadium on the back of a horse to the cheers of 57,000 screaming fans after the Yankees beat Atlanta in Game 6 to win their first World Series since 1979. I was hooked...
...could not fail to be inspired by Majora Carter?s efforts to bring green space for exercise to the South Bronx. Or by Lance Morgan?s efforts to create an ?active living? community for his fellow Winnebago tribe members, so many of whom die young from obesity. We need more ideas like these to bring solutions to minority communities, where obesity rates are sky-high and poverty is an obstacle to healthy eating. We also heard ideas for using more funds from the Transportation Bill for paths for walking and biking...
...dirty Channel water and managed somehow not to pass out. I got rid of most of my equipment. Here I was happy that I did not wear the invasion jacket. I wore a regular Army zippered field jacket, with a Star of David drawn on the back and THE BRONX, NEW YORK written on it. Had I worn the invasion jacket, I probably would have drowned...
...that’s easy—if you get mugged in the South Bronx I’m the guy who tries to help you. As a writer, I’m not too big on writerly responsibilities. I think a writer’s only responsibility is telling the truth as they see it, and even then that’s only for non-fiction writing. I wrote Blue Blood for myself as a way to remember what we do as cops in a bad neighborhood in a big city—it’s a personal...
...while the Sox are missing Nomar and the Bronx Bombers are still waiting for A-Rod to wake up, Harvard seems to have finally rounded out its lineup...