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Alewife, in the northwestern end of Cambridge, is, in sports, and industrial ghetto, 350-odd acres of cracking pavement, dead end streets and decaying factories. On the other side of the city, where Simplex Wire and Cable once dominated the Cambridgeport neighborhood, trash collects in vacant lots where giant pools of steel were stored. Crumbling, vacant brick warehouses stand silent; barbed wire fences guard nothing...
...HOLLOW ROOM vibrated with the sounds of the streets of Tehran. His mind walked the streets of Cambridge, footsteps echoing. Perini's boys were digging up the Square, rat tat tat. He heard the brutality inflicted on the helpless pavement, and yelled for them to stop. They wouldn't, so he shivered and screamed at the cranes, "Louder, louder!" The noise persisted. He rolled over to swing apple juice...
...Near by a man had the back of his head and his hands blown off when a bomb he was holding exploded. The air was filled with smoke from the explosives. Hundreds of people hugged any protective cover they could find or lay flat on the pavement. As I was carried along with the crowd pressing into the side door of the cathedral, I saw young militants rolling over on their bodies to make their way across the street, some with small-caliber guns in their hands. The bedlam was horrifying...
...Driving was tricky; a pack of investors had caught a stockbroker at an intersection, and the pavement was slick...
...mountainsides a few hundred yards away from the luxury apartment buildings lining the seashore. Orphans slept and begged on the undulating, black-and-white mosaic sidewalks. Since then, though, the government has erected billboards advertising soft-drinks to hide the slums and has kept the kids off the pavement...