Word: newarkers
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...biggest hurdle yet, and the temptation to smuggle in a rifle from Oregon was overwhelming (federal laws regulating interstate transport of firearms are surprisingly lax; I could have flown from Oregon to Jersey with a rifle as declared luggage and nobody would have blinked an eye at Newark International). I just couldn't stand the fact that I was losing six months of training because of some silly laws that put my single-shot .22 (an unlikely weapon to use in a mob hit) in the same category as an Uzi. Anyway, in the end I refused defeat but stayed...
They moved north and were married in 1965, and 30 years ago, they opened a restaurant that became an institution in downtown Newark, N.J. SOUL OF THE SOUTH, HEART OF THE CITY, say the place mats at Je's Restaurant, where Harry and Diane worked alongside each other. They raised three handsome sons and sent them to college, and all three, despite other pursuits, continued to help their parents run the restaurant that became Newark's kitchen...
...place, and Diane was the soul of it," says David Morton, a police officer. Morton and thousands of others are part of a family of regulars who come for grits and home fries, catfish and okra, smothered chicken and peach cobbler. Je's after Sunday Mass is a sight, Newark all dressed up in finery and extended families marching straight from the hallelujah to the harvest...
...sharecropper's daughter," she would tell Harry Sr., and that said everything. Newark needed to be fed, so she catered free meals to charities, and if someone knocked at the back door hungry and penniless, she couldn't say no. To the very end, that was Diane. "We were at home that night, and she had trouble breathing," Harry says, eyes glistening. "She started coughing, and next thing, she was unconscious." Chad performed CPR on his mother, 58, who had no history of serious illness. Harry called 911 and kept pleading with his wife, who was having a heart attack...
APPOINTED. THEODORE MCCARRICK, 70, Archbishop of Newark, advocate for debt relief in Third World countries and supporter of immigration; to head the high-profile Archdiocese of Washington. McCarrick succeeds retiring Cardinal James Hickey. Like all bishops, McCarrick is expected to resign...