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...medical care. Doug Heilman, a Lutheran minister, established Discipleship House in 1981, a sort of Boys Town for teenagers in trouble. Heilman's work with street kids is praised everywhere in Sunset Park; wherever he walks he is greeted warmly by young men, many of whom are former gang members. The help he provides takes the form of moral encouragement or simple solace. Heilman corresponds with a young man from the neighborhood now in prison for murdering his six-month-old child in a fit of rage. Before Heilman took to the streets, no one in Sunset Park recognized such...
...McKinney (our green-thumb friend, Larry) Too bad of your scheme Harvard found itself wary. For ghost-ridden common room dwellers a wink, And for all autumn-lovers a pumpkin-filled sink. For upperclass prefects a few good cold showers, And a few common rooms for the Mather gang's towers. An off-campus shelter for each Cabot dweller--And a quick painless end to the noise in the cellar. Some new ideas for the House Committees Who can't hold keg parties in such a strict city, And for all those upholding the laws against drink A gallon...
Punk rock and its musical variations ad infinitum brought harsher and smugger critiques into the arena of commercial bashing. Social commentating punkers, The Gang of Four, made their point quick: "He fills his head with culture. He gives himself an ulcer...
Palermo's men of honor had long since abandoned their ideals by the late '70s, when savage gang wars broke out over control of the U.S. heroin trade. Two of Buscetta's sons, a brother and four other relatives were killed during the bloodletting in Sicily. Buscetta, by then a Mafia chieftain, fled to Brazil, where he was arrested in 1983 on a fugitive warrant from Italy. He was talking now, he explained, because he wanted "security for my family." Some undisclosed survivors in his family (which includes his Brazilian-born third wife) are under U.S. protection...
...same with the gang at [the] Barry's Corner [reunion] as he is with Mrs. Thatcher," says congressional aide Leo Deal. Many of O'Neill's friends and associates say that he still remembers everyone's names, even people he hasn't seen for years...