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...alike. This heavy dose of idealism is what the future lawyers who graduate from Harvard Law School may receive when Booker gives the Class Day speech tomorrow. Just one year after graduating from Yale Law School in 1997, Booker moved into a $547 per month apartment in one of Newark??€™s worst public housing projects, a massive, mud-colored, 300-unit building that was demolished in December 2007. Despite the fact that he is staking his political career on turning around the fortunes of a troubled city, Booker himself hails from a predominantly white, neighborhood in suburban Bergen...
...Since entering Newark politics a year out of law school, he has become infamous for using unconventional tactics to draw attention to many of Newark??€™s problems—including living for eight years in public housing and going on a 10-day hunger strike...
...produced public-service announcements urging kids to stay out of gangs, and he participated in anti-violence mentoring programs via telephone. Newark city officials also credited Williams for helping to broker a peace between the rival gangs the Crips and the Bloods, which helped lead to a drop in Newark??€™s murder rate. The killings Williams committed and the crimes his founding of the Crips caused are tragic and horrific. But the work Williams did in prison to help stem gang violence is laudable. Williams could have continued that work if his sentence had been commuted to life...
...closely-fought battle Friday night at The Golden Dome in Newark, N.J., the Crimson dropped a thrilling 3-1 (32-30, 30-26, 29-31, 30-25) contest to EIVA conference rival Rutgers-Newark??€”losing for the first time since...