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...their problem. A successful gastroenterologist who didn't wear his skullcap on the job, he looked and acted much like them. It was the ultra-Orthodox Hasids they despised, with their side curls and apparent self-righteousness. Neighbors warned that the Orthodox wanted to turn Beachwood into a medieval "ghetto...
That's the thesis of Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America--that the lagging academic performance of African-American students isn't caused by the residual effects of prejudice or poor schools but by a "cult of anti-intellectualism" that has infected black America from the ghetto to the middle class. Black students, including those at elite universities, he says, "are really disinclined to think that hard" about subjects other than their own victimization. This dubious insight came to McWhorter in the days before California's Proposition 209 outlawed the use of race in admissions. After noticing that...
...lady's back again, and this time she looks a lot like a ghetto cowgirl. MADONNA, 41, releases her first single from her 14th album--both titled Music--on Tuesday, and Borderline it ain't. Although most of the record-buying public has said heck no to techno, Music, partly produced by Frenchman Mirwais Ahmadzai, revels in the heretofore ignored world of Gallic dance-club music. The video for Music, also due out this week, places Madonna on more familiar ground, vamping around with girl pals DEBI MAZAR, right, and backup singer NIKKI HARRIS in the back of a limo...
...presidency the Depression struck, sending the poor into shantytowns which they dubbed "Hoovervilles" out of contempt for the president. With both sides hoping to avoid any ugliness, KWRU lawyers and police officials negotiated a minute-to-minute truce as the march moved slowly from Bushville's Northern Philadelphia ghetto toward the main downtown thoroughfares connecting Center City to the First Union Center, where the convention would begin that night...
...late '80s, Ping's stature had grown so large that she was probably the best-known and most revered figure in Chinatown. Almost everyone in the Fujianese ghetto owed her something. She and her husband Cheung Yick-tak contributed $10,000 to buy the building that would house the Fujianese association, which police say soon became the center for human smuggling. He sat on the board. Both continued to work each day in the store or restaurant. There were no big cars or flashy clothes. When she traveled she took the subway, seemingly unafraid of the reach...