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Julio ("Chino") Mercado, the narrator of Ernesto Quinonez's fine debut novel, Bodega Dreams (Vintage Books; 213 pages, $12), knows the projects of Spanish Harlem in New York City. So he also knows that the best way to survive them is to get out. He and his pregnant wife Blanca are putting themselves through college at night. Their goals are the usual ones: to get nice jobs, to buy a house...
DIED. GEORGE JACKSON, 42, Harlem native and former head of Motown Records, who co-produced a dozen films, including New Jack City (1991), and helped create Urban Box Office Network, a media company aimed at minorities; of a stroke; in New York City...
Though all four of our main presidential contenders have participated in negative campaigning in the last several months (and Tuesday's Democratic debate in Harlem produced disturbing performances from both candidates), Bradley and McCain are in a particularly difficult position: Having cast themselves as reformers and mavericks, they seem as though they ought to be morally above the fray of down-and-dirty campaigning. Thus, when they've found themselves the object of sustained attack and record-twisting, they have been slow to respond and especially vulnerable to the whistle of the referees in the media and the electorate...
Ostensibly, there was little conventional about Monday night's Democratic presidential debate. Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields announced to the crowd at Harlem's Apollo Theater that it was "the first-ever presidential debate in a predominantly African-American neighborhood." A mezzanine box of Bill Bradley supporters included filmmaker Spike Lee, Harvard philosopher Cornel West, rapper Usher and L.A. Lakers coach Phil Jackson. But while the setting and faces were untraditional, the results were familiar: The candidates appeared ideologically similar - and, as has been the case in recent encounters, emerging alpha male Al Gore seemed to bull...
...Gore supporters - mostly white and college-aged. The Gore group dwarfed the Bradley contingent. And despite the bustle of 125th Street, upper Manhattan's main thoroughfare, the block was dominated by the rhythmic chant "You, you know the story. Tell the whole wide world this is Gore territory." Harlem congressman Charles Rangel, in a thinly veiled rehashing of his Gore endorsement, told the crowd: "We have to make sure that when it's all over we can stand together...