Word: harlemization
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...purpose, the issues people find they have in common overwhelm what once divided them. "I think people realize that we are one country and we have one goal, and that's to live and survive," says Peter Devonish, 42, a Jamaican-born printer in New York City's West Harlem. "People stop putting first politics and color and rich and poor and just realize that the problem that faces me is the problem that faces you. We see the security guards in the World Trade Center--little people were affected by the terrorist attacks...
...latest issue of the New Yorker reported that Bill Clinton’s Harlem office is searching for an intern. The gig has no salary and requires a work week that lasts 15 hours...
...toxin but also other pathogens, including E. coli O157:H7, salmonella, dysentery, cyclospora and hepatitis. As if to underscore the point, investigators last week identified salmonella in two of several plastic vials of undisclosed substances included in a packet of papers sent to former President Clinton's office in Harlem, though the bacteria apparently grew naturally through fermentation and caused no harm. Still, the concerns of Thompson and his colleagues are understandable. Even without any diabolical intent, U.S. packing houses in recent years have accidentally passed along meat infected with deadly E. coli O157...
...know my way around"). Even beyond the biggies, it?s hard to think of another city that has inspired as many classic tunes - there?s a whole songbook for almost every major street, avenue and neighborhood. Irving Berlin, the man who wrote "God Bless America" also wrote "Harlem on My Mind." George M. Cohan captured the energy of the Great White Way with "Give My Regards to Broadway." (There?s also "On Broadway," and numerous other homages to the area). When it comes to the Big Apple, even the public transportation system has received tribute in song, in the form...
...flyer New York Rep. Charlie Rangel counseled understandably antsy people on his flight last week to hold tight or they?d be touching down in Dulles, 25 miles from Washington and three miles, by mobile-lounge, from the taxi-stand. "I've had it with people-movers," grumbled the Harlem congressman, who, like the rest of Washington, has been relegated to the Virginia airport for three weeks...