Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clarinetist and longtime resident Stan Strickland and his band Ascension for a block party on Mass. Ave. outside City Hall. The celebration will conclude September 28 with Family Day, a day of sports events, children's games, dancing lessons and arts-and-crafts shows at Mayor Thomas W. Danehy Park...
Quote: "When I got lost at the amusement park, he found me. When I was scared on the roller coaster, he was behind me yelling 'Yippee...
Even without Gaddafi's largesse, Farrakhan has a good deal of familiarity with the life-styles of the rich and famous. He has big houses in Chicago's Hyde Park and the Arizona desert, a chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz and a killer wardrobe. And if his ego ever needs a boost, there are plenty of sycophants around to give in to his demands. Two weeks ago, several hundred of my fellow members of the National Association of Black Journalists meekly permitted Farrakhan's Fruit of Islam to frisk them before they entered the hall where he was speaking--an indignity...
...Coalition-controlled Republican Party reminds me of the early Puritans. All that's missing are the wooden stocks and the burning of the witches. I've been a dyed-in-the-wool Republican since 1928, when I voted for Herbert Hoover, but no longer. ROBERT R. HELMERICHS St. Louis Park, Minnesota...
...well-heeled diners, Shorr in 1992 decided to serve those scuffling along as well. Every other week he feeds homeless people who are making an effort to turn their lives around. More than 500 have dined gratis on everything from lasagna al forno to chicken Vesuvio at his Lincoln Park restaurant. "This is a first step in helping the homeless reassimilate into society," says Shorr. "The experience can be an incentive for them...