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...Levon Hailey, a panhandler on Church Street, says that although some Harvard students are kind, others shun the homeless because of their upperclass backgrounds...
...Their parents had money," Hailey says. "They've never experienced life on the street...
...people calling me out in my name, my race's name," Hailey says. "Boston is a racist town...
...small subjects for Arthur Hailey. Others may write about a double room or a 747; he takes on the entire Hotel and Airport. In his tenth novel, Hailey, 70, offers every sound bite of The Evening News (Doubleday; 564 pages; $21.95), plus executive-suite skirmishes between an anchorman and a correspondent, rivalries for beautiful and ambitious women, and a global sweep, from Vietnam to Peru -- with requisite stops in Washington, Los Angeles and New York. The characters are familiar, and the insights strictly keyhole. But Rather, Brokaw and Jennings could learn a lot about pace and timing from...
...from their Philadelphia Street home. With the violence among drug dealers and the frequent police raids on local crack houses, explains Arrington, "we didn't feel safe." During a recent late-night shootout, she says, "one of the bullets ricocheted and came through the bedroom window." According to Kevin Hailey, an autoworker who moved into the C.O.T.S. shelter last week, crack is an omnipresent fact of life in Detroit. "Drugs have taken over," says Hailey. "It has ruined the schools. You've got teachers doing it now. Every place is a dope exchange...