Word: ghettoes
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...World Order would be surprised at his old world politics. The democratic regime is simply too far left and Haiti too small to elicit an impassioned response from Bush. Though not a communist, Aristide is a left-wing priest, steeped in liberation theology, known and adored in the ghetto that is most of Port-au-Prince. (His beautiful little book is called In the Precincts of the Poor...
Coles, speaking next, expanded on Kotzlowitz's statements and said the social pathologies of the ghetto were only one part of a broader national problem. "The problems are not only social and economic but moral and spiritual," he said...
Crime and drugs are everywhere in America's inner cities. For Antwan, they were only a few yards away as the youngster floated high above his steamy ghetto playground on a turquoise-and-orange swing set. At the playground's edge two teenagers were selling vials of cocaine from a curbside stash. One dealer cut a score with a passing woman; looking over at Antwan, his partner spotted an opportunity...
...worker sat down beside him. "Are you sorry for what you've done this evening?" he asked the boy. "Yes," mumbled Antwan. "Have you learned a lesson?" he asked. Another soft yes. Alongside the boy stood his mother Syrita, 30, an attractive woman whose soft face belies the rugged ghetto life she has led. The worker decided to let Antwan go home -- he had no prior arrests -- so long as she brought him to court the next...
...During the Reagan years, however, government regulation eased, and most of those shows were canceled or scaled back. Though PBS and cable have added greatly to the diversity of programming for children, network and syndicated fare, which still accounts for the bulk of kids' TV viewing, is largely a ghetto of interchangeable cartoons...