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...other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. "All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
...family. The eccentric and marvelously fractious Da Gamas trace their lineage, perhaps incorrectly, to the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, who was the first European to reach India, thereby launching the spice trade that made the Moor's forebears wealthy. "Mine is the story of the fall from grace of a high-born cross-breed," the Moor notes, although the past "grace" he mentions consists largely of Da Gama insanities, grudges and general bad behavior. "What an epidemic of getting-even runs through my tale, what a malaria cholera typhoid of eye-for-tooth and tit-for-tat! No wonder...
...more melodramatically satisfying than this. It is a measure of its complexity--and of the forces Penn and Sarandon have held in reserve during their hypnotic struggle for his soul--that its final moments leave us awash in emotion. How hard it is to achieve even modest states of grace in this world. How patiently we must work to achieve them. How easy, absent a Sister Helen, it is to miss them entirely...
...FIGURE-SKATING FAN, I WAS DEEPLY saddened by the sudden death of Grinkov. I had tears in my eyes as I read in your story of his wife Ekaterina's sad final farewell to him. On ice, they performed with such grace, precision and unison that it was simply spellbinding. The deep love they had for each other was so evident that sometimes I felt I was intruding by watching them.What a devastating loss this is. JASMINE KUNG Anaheim, California...
...IRON AGE REVISITED Ripken was also responsible for bringing back the hallowed memory of the "Iron Horse," Lou Gehrig. By playing in 2,131--and counting--consecutive games for the Baltimore Orioles, the Iron Bird has channeled not only Gehrig's incredible work ethic but his grace and humility as well...