Word: newark
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Many residents of newark, N.J., long one of America's most troubled cities and favorite punch lines, would love to hop on the next bus down the Turnpike and never look back. Sure, the city has made strides since its devastating race riots in 1967 - there's a sparkling-new downtown arena, some bright residential complexes, the gestation of a hipster scene. But Newark is still a drug-infested, poverty-stricken place where rubble piles up on Park Avenue and the shabby Hotel Riviera sits across the street from an auto-parts joint, around the corner from an abandoned five...
...Shane, who spent 17 years as a police officer in hardscrabble Newark, N.J., said that had he been the cop called to Gates' house, he would have left Gates and his huffy comments alone once he was sure Gates was the homeowner. He admits he may well have been offended by the professor's alleged bluster, but that's just part of the job, so much so that there's a term in police vernacular devoted to situations like this: contempt...
...looks bad for my home state of New Jersey, but critics are failing to see the beauty in this bust. First of all, it shows how wonderfully diverse New Jersey has become. When I was kid, the Irish ran Hudson County and Jersey City, the Italians had Hoboken and Newark, and in later years Hispanics muscled into West New York and Union City. They did not share. Look at the names on yesterday's arrest list, and it's a beautiful rainbow of wretchedness. Italians, Jews and Irish; Hispanics, blacks and whites. Democrats and (one) Republicans. Men and women. People...
...Israel – Every so often, there’s an article—most frequently, to confirm the collegiate stereotype, in The New York Times—that everyone’s been talking about and that I, as usual, have missed. But on the flight from Newark to Tel Aviv, when the attendant passed through the aisle offering up a selection of newspapers to suit any American political orientation—Ha’aretz for the liberals, The Jerusalem Post for the conservatives, or the Times for those who didn’t know the difference...
...After that weekend [against Penn State], we beat Rutgers-Newark in five, which really showed them that we could come together and compete with the best in our division,” Weissbourd added...