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...approximately 40 listeners ate dinners of fish and macaroni, Berkowitz said that thought about Jewish law leads inevitably to thought about political philosophy...
...Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst" meditates on Harrison's hometown, the New York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a local girl. Resisting what she calls the "mandolin and macaroni" depiction of Italian-American uraban life, she recalls grimly the casual racism and violence of life in Bensonhurst, and the stifling nature of community life there. "What you don't want known in Bensonhurst you don't do," she writes...
...also because they cannot get enough to eat. The food shortages hardly approach the crisis in Somalia, but for people accustomed to a steady diet, the diminishing supply is a hardship. "On even days we have beans," says Vladimir Pozek, a software analyst in Sarajevo. "On odd days, macaroni." Little relief is in sight. Both the UNHCR and the Red Cross suspended operations in Bosnia two weeks ago after workers were repeatedly threatened and a Red Cross official was killed while leading a convoy of goods...
Although supplies are erratic, cigarettes and bread are practically the only major staples not rationed these days in this industrial center of 1.1 million, situated 700 miles northeast of Moscow on the Trans-Siberian railway line through the Ural Mountains. Salt, sugar, butter, eggs, macaroni and even matches must be bought with ration coupons -- assuming, of course, that state- run stores have the items. At harvest time, a shortage of sugar caused a near panic; without it, fruits and berries from family garden plots could not be made into preserves for the coming winter. In Perm, as elsewhere in provincial...
...Grand Central station. First opened in 1912, the cafeterias served 400,000 customers a day at their peak in the early 1950s. Famous actresses, well-heeled businessmen and just plain folks plunked their coins into glass-and-chrome dispensers to feast on such fare as Boston baked beans, macaroni and cheese and coconut-custard...