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...other students of the inner city are more pessimistic. "All the basic elements that spawn teenage crime are still in place, and in many cases the indicators are worse," says Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace, an examination of poverty in the South Bronx. "There's a dramatic increase of children in foster care, and that's a very high-risk group of kids. We're not creating new jobs, and we're not improving education to suit poor people for the jobs that exist...
Demographics don't have to be destiny, but other social trends do little to contradict the dire predictions. Nearly all the factors that contribute to youth crime--single-parent households, child abuse, deteriorating inner-city schools--are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without...
...Moor is eventually ejected. But he holds on to its entertaining, eclectic energy in the telling of his sad tale. Puns and allusions--to everything from Shakespeare and Joyce to Bombay "Bollywood" movies--abound on nearly every page. Proper names hide tricks that only sounding them out against the inner ear will reveal; the Moor's businessman father takes over a failing firm called the House of Cashondeliveri...
...EVERY GROWN WOman there is an inner teenage girl--an awkward, dissatisfied someone who longs to be a more alluring someone else. This sadly enduring truth is explored with affecting accuracy in Emerald City (Doubleday; 178 pages; $22.50), a collection of short stories by Jennifer Egan, whose first novel, The Invisible Circus, was published last year to critical praise and encouraging sales...
...Gordon Liddy's wife to a companion. A batch of half-looped Young Turks at the bar cheered as the jukebox played the Eagles' Get Over It, a slam against self-discovery: "Bitch about the present and blame it on the past./ I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little a----." Up at Renaissance, things were running according to form. Despite temperatures in the 30s, many participants dutifully jogged the beach before their 8 a.m. seminar. Two (unacquainted) participants compared the panels to "interactive C-SPAN" and "watching MacNeil/Lehrer from 8 in the morning till...