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...Harlem's City College, day one of Professor Leonard Jeffries' spring semester class, African Heritage 101, begins meekly -- no sign of the brouhaha that surrounded Jeffries' dismissal in 1992 from his post as chairman of the college's Black Studies department for having allegedly made anti-Semitic statements; no sign of the uproar that greeted Jeffries' court-ordered reinstatement (and $400,000 damages award) last August; no sign of the outraged editorials that have made Jeffries a national figure. And no sign of Jeffries. Forty-five minutes after class was scheduled to start in a windowless, first-floor lecture hall...
...headline "Minister Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam claim they are moving toward moderation . . . you decide." Feeling the heat, black leaders began the ritual of condemnation and racial correctness. Jesse Jackson called Muhammad's words reprehensible, "antipapist and inane." But Farrakhan, defiant, gave a speech in Harlem during which he embraced his controversial aide onstage...
...least an introductory answer. The first installment of Mercy of a Rude Stream displays documentary rather than novelistic ambitions. It takes its young hero, Ira Stigman, from his eighth year, in 1914, after he and his parents have moved from the Lower East Side to an apartment in Harlem, up to age 14. It also offers interpolated passages in which Ira as an aging man conducts imagined conversations with the computer on which he is writing his life story. Late in this novel, Ira taps out some musings on his own literary approach: "Best thing he could do -- maybe -- would...
...Roth's as well -- takes the reader through a pretty grim, no-frills narrative. The order is relentlessly chronological. Ira, devastated by the loss of his East Side haunts and friends and upset by the anti-Semitic taunts he hears in heterogeneous Harlem, ages predictably year by year. He adores his mother and fears his irritable father. He changes schools. He develops a nascent interest in girls and feels ashamed of himself for doing so. The outbreak of World War I is noted on the first page; the armistice is mentioned on page 153. Transitions are utilitarian in the extreme...
...represent a sharp decrease from two years ago, when the daily census of abandoned babies ran as high as 25. "We used to have them in four or five rooms," says D.C. General's communications director, Linda Ivey, proudly. "Now there's only one nursery." New York City's Harlem Hospital Center reports that its daily count has plunged from 20 to three. At Grady Memorial in Atlanta, the annual total of boarder children fell from 52 in 1990 to 22 last year. The improvements reflect a courageous willingness to identify -- and tackle -- root causes. All three hospitals practice early...