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...towner. The cabdrivers, of course, hated it ("He likes China so much, he shoulda stood in China"). Some storekeepers hated it. But who complained most bitterly about the bike lanes? The bicyclers. The true New York bicyclers complained that the bike lane was full of pedestrians and garment-center pushcarts and people who schlepped around on Raleigh three- speeds. And slush. "It's October," I said to the bicycler who made that complaint; "there's no slush in October." "When there's slush," he said, "the bike lane will have slush...
...September, but he's wearing the same woolen sweater that he had on last February. The garment has gotten shabbier since then, but its owner has gotten no closer to finishing his dissertation...
...unique among heroes because he is a living embodiment of black liberation. Like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer enjoying their own eulogies from a hiding place in the church, he can bathe in the adulation of a worldwide throng yearning to, if not touch the hem of his garment, at least catch a glimpse of him whirring by in a motorcade...
...Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment. All went smoothly until a border policeman hitched a ride. He sat inches from our costumed journalists for a half-hour trip that seemed like an eternity. "He didn't suspect a thing," says Nachtwey. "Otherwise we would have gone to jail...
...instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate in New York City and Los Angeles alone. "Before IRCA, at least we had the semblance of competition in the workplace," says Muzaffar Chishti, an immigration specialist with the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. "Now, many illegal workers are segregated to sweatshops where employers hold them at their mercy...