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...derived from Telese -- from a Greek word meaning "to initiate to mysteries" -- a town in Italy's lower boot that had been partly destroyed by the Romans in 214 B.C. because its inhabitants were too friendly to Hannibal's Carthaginians. His family, however, was rooted in Maida, 65 miles northeast of the Strait of Messina, which separates Sicily from the rest of Italy. This is a craggy, nearly treeless countryside that has seen more than its share of history, good and bad. Maida was plundered frequently in pre-Christian times. The rebel slave Spartacus led his ragtag army through...
...this city's abandoned row houses, gutted factories and boarded shops, a failed cosmetic for a busted-up prizefighter of a town that crumpled along with its industries. The forces that flattened Camden may be the same ones that have pounded scores of other industrial centers throughout the Northeast in the past 20 years, but a particular sorrow attends the destruction here. Camden is a city of children; nearly half its population is under 21. This is a town that, with fewer than 100,000 residents, has more than 200 liquor stores and bars and not a single movie theater...
...city's white middle class headed for the suburbs, drawn by visions of power mowers and the PTA. Left behind were blacks, Hispanics and poor whites, who found themselves pauperized as the town's industries -- and jobs -- slowly disappeared. Similar stories were repeated over much of the Northeast and Midwest, but in many inner cities pockets of prosperity somehow managed to persevere. In Camden everything was hit, and almost nothing survived...
...allowed Americans to take national culture for granted, the waves of radio spun together people who had little in common. Radio, more than anything else, made discussion of a singular "Midwest" possible, allowing for common ground between Minnesota and Ohio just as it wove together the states of the Northeast...
...Meanwhile, some rural Cambodians will probably remain susceptible to Khmer Rouge populist appeals as Pol Pot's men cultivate votes. Their propaganda, though crude, can be effective. Near an abandoned pagoda about 50 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, a wall is inscribed with the caricature of an urban intellectual. His fat tongue bears the message, THE RICH MAN HAS POWER. THE POOR ARE SCARED...