Word: lockport
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...grew up in upstate New York and went to school in Lockport, where there was a sizable black contingent of students. They lived-it sounds so awful-in a place called Lower Town. The white people tended to live in Uptown. Quite literally, there was a long hill, a really steep hill. Those kids to me, they were just very fascinating. Very vivid personalities, very strong definite personalities. They were obviously living in a segregated city, and yet I didn't know that. Children don't really know those things...
...Tuchman's book The Guns of August, on the events that led to World War I. He does not realize that a war with Iraq would destabilize the Middle East and, as other countries take sides, set the stage for the possibility of World War III. ROBERT J. POHL Lockport...