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Maybe the midterm election was just about Iraq, and maybe by 2008 that will be over and forgotten, and the conservative long march to hegemony will resume. Or maybe American voters are sorry they ran away from home and are ready to return to liberalism. But neither of these seems likely, does it? Americans want something new. But what...
...those graduates is Verone Kennedy. Although coincidentally we have the same last name, our lives could not have been more different. Verone was born in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, a tough neighborhood best known for its racial tension in the early 1990s. His father ran a dry-cleaning store and struggled to break even. His mother was the director of a social-services center. "Lots of people had guns or knives," he says. "You had to think twice about where you were going and what you were wearing." All he will say about the schools of his youth is that they...
...started to talk to women who were successful in every area of their lives, and they just couldn't seem to get it when it came to skiing," says Claudia Carbone, a Denver writer whose groundbreaking book Women Ski was first published in 1994. "It ran from skiing on poor equipment or equipment designed for the male body to classes taught by men who didn't understand a woman's approach to sports...
...carouser off field, but he was also a disciplined team leader whose skills were strongly evidenced in the last minutes of many games. His strategies helped develop what was later known as the two-minute drill. "Bobby Layne never lost a game," said Teammate Doak Walker. "Sometimes time just ran...
Hunkered down in their apartments decorated like shrines, cinder-block walls adorned with pictures of children, Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus, the mothers of Cabrini-Green feel fear every time their children go out. The other night, Diana's son Charles ran home crying in terror after missing his ride from class. When he arrived, Diana had already phoned the police. "I was crying my heart out. A child has to be home at a certain time," Diana recalled. Even before nightfall, when radio rhythms are punctuated by gunshots, children cannot play outside. A neighbor child, Angela Grant...