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...dinner with a couple of guys who have lived their entire lives in the North End. They have been best friends for 30 years. It was a great dinner--pizza at Regina's--but what really made me think was a comment my friend made as we rode the Red Line back to Harvard Square. She told me that what was so special about the evening was that they didn't see us as Harvard students. They weren't intimidated by us and didn't treat us as if we were somehow different. They weren't impressed by our education...
...always been accused of fragility. Its success, some say, rode on the shoulders of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the 80s and Michael Jordan in the 90s, and the presence of these superstars kept a veil over deeper structural problems...
...four years in the House pushing legislation that mixes self-reliance and a helping hand. He has offered a plan to revive low-income areas with tax breaks for investment, school vouchers and federal funding for church-sponsored social services. A member of the upstart class of 1994, Watts rode to Washington on a promise to reform welfare, arguing that "race-hustling poverty pimps" in the Democratic Party had used it and other social programs to hook blacks on government checks. But he has also defended affirmative action. The G.O.P. cannot move to dismantle it, Watts has argued, without offering...
Except the prose. "I rode towards Inkerman with my chin buried in my shirt, smelling myself for warmth," Dr. Potter recalls as the novel marches toward its final, appalling snapshot. "Midst the dirt and the staleness I detected the frail scent of cornflowers." Like the unblinking young Myrtle, forced to pose for a picture with a dead man, Bainbridge faces the most shadowy aspects of human nature head on, and demands that her readers do the same...
...rode back to Harvard on the T, not feeling as though I'd been a "Jew for a day." Rather, I felt that I, as an Italian and African-American Catholic, had been included in the Jewish community, not ephemerally, but permanently--not in spite of my own background, but because of it. Cultural isolation is often defended with the cliche that there is "safety in numbers." Perhaps the Boston Jewish Film Festival demonstrated that those numbers need not be limited to a certain ethnic group, and as we being to call ourselves members of a plurality of cultures, perhaps...