Word: jay
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Cory is looking out lots of windows these days. As a tenant organizer, he acts as a liaison between renters, police and building managers to improve security and make repairs. At the South Bronx's Spofford detention facility, he provides leadership training to juveniles awaiting trial. At John Jay High School in affluent Westchester County recently, Cory introduced "Busting Stereotypes," a series of skits that show how one can make false assumptions about people. A homeless kid from the South Bronx, Cory himself is as powerful a symbol of misplaced assumptions as anyone is likely to find. --Reported by Megan...
...source close to Holbrooke: "When someone tells you about something that happened to them, do you say, 'Excuse me, could I see documentary evidence?'" The source continues: "The question is whether he was who he said he was, or was he just another one of the endless versions of Jay Gatsby that fill American life...
...Jay W. Coveney, superintendent of Lowell House, said he does not generally lift up coats or towels as part of his room search...
...legislative mandate of this commission to...give recommendations to contain and cut those costs. It was not their legislative mandate to debate whether there was a crisis or not," said Jay A. Diskey, director of communication for the House Education and Workforce Committee, which oversees the commission and is chaired by Goodling...
...thought it was a joke," says Jay C. Pil '00. "There's bigger issues than grapes...