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...book concludes with two interviews conducted by Reed--one with Vaclav Havel, the playwright-president of Czechoslovakia. The other is with Hubert Selby, author of Last Exit to Brooklyn and similarly gritty urban prose...
...Real estate appreciation ran at 3% a month, and most listings attracted multiple offers within 72 hours. Today 8,700 homes (median price: $226,500) languish on the market. "In Santa Clara County, it's a sacred thing: property values go up," says San Jose Realtor John Pinto, a Brooklyn native who came to the Valley believing it was the best place in the U.S. to live. He stops to wave at the lone pedestrian he can see through one of his plate-glass windows facing a main street. Though it is rush hour, the boulevard is eerily quiet. "This...
...gets me away from the phone," the law professor says. "I play because it is fun. It reminds me of my youth. Basketball was my life when I was growing up in Brooklyn...
OBJECTS OF MYTH AND MEMORY, AMERICAN INDIAN ART AT THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, New York City. A rich and vibrant collection of some 250 Western and Plains Indian objects, including polychromed ceramics, kachina dolls, God-impersonator masks and fetishes that were acquired by the museum's insightful turn-of-the-century curator. Through...
...About three or four years ago, I was visiting Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. The school is largely black, a few Hispanic and a few white kids. I sat in on a group of blacks trying to come to grips with the name of the school, Thomas Jefferson. There were some who thought Jefferson was probably one of the greatest Americans; they ought to be very proud to be part of a school that bears his name. Others said, Thomas Jefferson kept slaves. How can you have any pride in yourself as a young black American while being part...