Word: east
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Business. He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City. He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs. Luciano was a tough teenage hoodlum on the Lower East Side when his gang targeted a skinny Jewish kid whose bold defiance won their respect. The encounter led to a merger of Jewish and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship. When Luciano rebuilt the mob, Meyer Lansky was the architect. A ruthless natural ability enabled them to rise through...
...Manhasset, N.Y. And in 1941 the Levitts won a government contract to provide 2,350 housing units for defense workers in Norfolk, Va. Once the fighting ended, they brought the lessons of that experience to 1,000 acres of potato farms on New York's Long Island 25 miles east of Manhattan. On July 1, 1947, Levitt, then 40, broke ground on the first of what would be 17,000 homes...
...hands (a line ripped off from e.e. cummings, no less.) The one character in the entire movie who can be called really humorous is the illegal electronics peddler who accidentally hits Jake with his van (sadly, the movie doesn't end) and remorsefully offers to drive the kid east. Then again, maybe that's just because Andy Lauer fills the role with the same innocent humor he brings to Caroline in the City as an intellectual toddler in a 30-year-old's body...
...Having the prefects there if you don't have anyone else to talk to I think is really important," says Jesse G. Zalatan '02 of Greys Hall East...
...year-old in East St. Louis, we add, to his unfinished self-portrait of a hoop star with a year of college education and six kids by six different women, a suit and an unflinching desire to be the richest man alive, even if undeservedly so. Where once we acknowledged that NBA players could at least teach youngster the value of hard work, we must now worry that they teach instead the value of avarice...