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Financial aid awards to students from depressed communities could lead those students to return to their homes to set up practices, according to Fein, but he was skeptical. A graduate who had never seen a ghetto might be less likely to want to establish a practice there, but a someone from a ghetto would be no more likely to return...
...Just take one drive through this city and you'll see how important such a project would be," Kiely says. "We need to convince people that you don't take care of social problems by sticking people below a certain income into some ghetto...
...birth--in a tenement on New York City's Lower East Side--as "the urban equivalent of being born in a log cabin." Like many other second-generation Americans, Jacob Koppel Javits was impelled by his humble origins into a life of public service that carried him from his ghetto "log cabin" to the halls of legislative power. Few made the journey with more confidence and gusto, and fewer still left behind a legacy of greater political achievement. When he died last week at 81, of complications from a degenerative nerve and muscle disease known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Javits...
ADVOCATES OF THE moral regeneration approach believe that the moral fiber of ghetto teenagers is inferior to that of mainstream America. Black leaders and others are now saying that they--from their higher socioeconomic position--have decided that ghetto Blacks must be morally reformed...
After living as a church worker in a Brooklyn black ghetto, Robertson ( eventually landed in Virginia's Tidewater with $70 in cash, an aged De Soto, and a vision of "claiming" a defunct UHF station for Jesus. The price (divinely ordained, as Robertson saw it): $37,000. WYAH went on the air in 1961 with a weak signal, one camera, and a movie projector that frequently jammed. But America's first Christian TV station was afloat, to be followed by others in Atlanta, Dallas and Boston. After overcoming struggles that Robertson attributed to "satanic oppression," the operation developed money- raising...