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...Tigers, garnering him the Ivy Player of the Week honor. Hanson went 6-for-6 in the second game, hitting for the cycle in a 16-6 win. His seven runs batted in tied the school record, as did the two home runs he put in the Harlem river...
...align himself with Cuban-American voters may have helped his chances of carrying Florida, but the move has Gore's black allies shaking their heads. "This was purely a political decision catering to the Cuban Americans in Miami," says Congressman Charles Rangel, the New York Democrat who represents Harlem...
...have ever been stopped by the police. Six hands shoot up. "Usually," says a student, "they just come out right off the bat and ask you, 'Do you have any drugs?'" The comment is a typical one for the 10-session course called Conflicts with Cops, run by the Harlem-based Neighborhood Defender Service. Its goal: to train African-American teens to make it through a police encounter safely...
...profits from the trade to renovate condemned apartment buildings, finance scholarships and provide seed money for business ventures, Bodega is working hard to enter the mainstream. "I'm talking about owning the neighborhood legally," he says. "The way the Kennedys own Boston." He and his acolytes envision a Spanish Harlem populated by professionals born and bred in the neighborhood--and beholden to Bodega's largesse...
Quinonez knows this 'hood--readers may have to remind themselves that this is a work of fiction and not a memoir. His prose, detailed and passionate, brings the tale to life. Though operating from different moral bases, Chino and Bodega share the same dream: to make Spanish Harlem a neighborhood where moving up doesn't have to mean moving...