Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of corny," says Khentov proudly, "but my neighborhood is unique...There is total harmony, from Puerto Ricans to an expanding China town, as well as Orthodox Jews, African Americans...
...Khentov's neighborhood one routinely hears at least 10 different languages, and the casual passer-by will smell an array of ethnic foods including tacos, five varieties of noodles and maybe even a little gefilte fish. For Khentov, even the long return trip to Cambridge could not erase thoughts of such casual beauty, of his racially and ethnically diverse neighborhood...
Tomes--or "Brother Bill," as he has come to be known--has seen some of his best friends murdered on this field. The victims are not pals from his college days at Notre Dame or buddies from the well-to-do Evanston neighborhood where he grew up. They are mostly the hardened souls of the Gangster Disciples, their Vice Lord rivals and a tally of cross-fire casualties who lived in the wretched Cabrini-Green housing projects just a mile or so from Chicago's gleaming downtown...
That year Tomes was asked to take on the role of youth minister for a parish and work with the street gangs in the surrounding projects of Henry Horner Homes and Rockwell Gardens. At the time, the neighborhood was rife with killing between the Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples. On Tomes' first day in the projects, he was snubbed. Some gangsters threw rocks at him. On his second day, the gang voted in council whether Tomes should be killed, but decided that his intentions were only positive and that he should be protected rather than removed. The gangsters also accepted...
...neighborhoods grew quickly and without any zoning ordinances to speak of. "Our only rule was that your home page had to be consistent with the neighborhood," says Bohnett. In other words, if your site is in the "Pines" section of "Silicon Valley"--which happens to be dedicated to software browsers--your page is supposed to be about software browsers. Volunteer police squads and GeoCities staff members try to root out the occasional pirates, hate-mongers and pornographers, with modest success...